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Related: About this forumGlaciologist Jason Box on Bill Maher
Dark Snow Project Chief Scientist Dr. Jason Box was the guest on last weeks RealTime with Bill Maher.
Its difficult to keep up with, much less steer, an interview with someone as mercurial as Bill Maher, but Dr. Box does a decent job.
He gives a good description of the dark snow albedo problem with Greenland ice, the basis of the first Dark Snow expedition, and theres some nice video from the new drone now in operation on the ice.
for more on Dr Box's comments on sea level rise, see
http://climatecrocks.com/2014/07/14/dr-jason-box-the-bill-maher-interview/
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Glaciologist Jason Box on Bill Maher (Original Post)
greenman3610
Jul 2014
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When I was younger I never thought I would see a glaciologist as a talk show guest.
tclambert
Jul 2014
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Unmenacing Dennis
(50 posts)1. DURec
But I couldn't resist "Box. Box. BOX!"
tclambert
(11,080 posts)4. Nice clip. "Protein from the sea!"
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)2. Kicked and recommended!
Eventually deniers should somehow have to answer for their intransigence. I guess they will be dead before the chickens come home to roost.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)3. When I was younger I never thought I would see a glaciologist as a talk show guest.
Well, I didn't actually think much about glaciologists back then at all. If I did, it was probably, "How boring is that job? Watching glaciers? The big drama is when the glacier moves 1 millimeter in a week."
And then this stuff happens:
It turns out glaciology may be important.
valerief
(53,235 posts)5. Interesting stuff about dark snow, its cause and how it's accelerating climate change. nt
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)6. Box has moved to Denmark.
He thinks about the droughts, the heat waves, and the guns in the States- and doesn't want his daughter here when it all comes apart.
Not if...when.
nilram
(2,879 posts)7. Yup, and we're learning about more data that should be in our climate models
so those models are just a minimum of what will happen.
K&R, totally recommended, totally depressing tho. Sigh.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)8. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, greenman.