>>> But melting ice in the world at large drives researchers like Steffensen to continue the arduous work of both drilling ice and investigating what secrets li

>>> But melting ice in the world at large drives researchers like Steffensen to continue the arduous work of both drilling ice and investigating what secrets lie within. With global average temperatures climbing toward 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels in the next decade, melting polar ice caps and resultant sea level rise will unleash a cascade of catastrophic effects that threaten to upend ecosystems, economies, and livelihoods. Jørgen Peder Steffensen aka "the librarian": Temperature has increased, but the problem is that we have started to measure it in the lowest point we have had in that last ten thousand years, so it will very hard to tell whether this increase in man-made or natural [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0zHZPQJzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0zHZPQJzA