Michael Kosta
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I can say that.
I've spent my life studying this stuff.
Ice tells us not just climate, things like temperature from the isotopes in the ice and precipitation by the annual layer thickness.
Meaning in those years.
So you can go all the way down to this glacier and know what it was like 1,000 years ago.
We have records from Antarctica that go back over 800,000.
Get the out of here right now.
What did you guys do at your job today, huh?
Fill out a little Microsoft Excel sheet?
So we know the temperature.
We know if it rained that year.
And we also know the composition of the atmosphere and the bubbles trapped in the ice.
Wow.
So we can look at CO2 and methane, those things we're concerned about today.
What's the natural?
And where are we today?
Right, I was going to say, so knowing that history then allows us to analyze where we are today.
That is the purpose.
And we'll get to that in a second.
And the movie's called Canary, and it is a beautiful documentary of your life's work.