![]() ![]() The delicate balance of Earth’s climate was upset.Īs research mounted, scientists around the world from fields as diverse as chemistry and astronomy were coming to grips with a newfound truth: Carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel burning and other greenhouse gases were warming the world at an alarming rate, potentially threatening the health and livelihoods of millions of people. Mammoth glaciers were disappearing at unprecedented rates and withering to the smallest sizes in millennia. Rising temperatures were melting ancient titans of ice and snow. It was 1978, and high in the rugged Andes, Thompson and fellow scientists were witnessing the first glimpses of a pending worldwide disaster. ![]() More than 25 years before the star-studded Los Angeles premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson was about as far away from the red carpet as possible.
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