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About an eighth of a University of Alberta collection of ice cores has melted due to a freezer malfunction:
A precious collection of ice cores from the Canadian Arctic has suffered a catastrophic meltdown. A freezer failure at a cold storage facility in Edmonton run by the University of Alberta (UA) caused 180 of the meter-long ice cylinders to melt, depriving scientists of some of the oldest records of climate change in Canada's far north.
The 2 April failure left "pools of water all over the floor and steam in the room," UA glaciologist Martin Sharp told ScienceInsider. "It was like a changing room in a swimming pool."
The melted cores represented 12.8% of the collection, which held 1408 samples taken from across the Canadian Arctic. The cores hold air bubbles, dust grains, pollen, and other evidence that can provide crucial information about past climates and environments, and inform predictions about the future.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:58AM (2 children)
I want to know where khallow was when this "accident" occurred! We have already had the Harperpocalypse with scientific records, it is too much to imagine that some oil interests in (((Calgary))) might have made a very (((lucrutive))) offer to a certain ((unemployed)) code monkey (no, not you TMB, you are too much of a security risk because of your rather large and unrestrained beak; you talk too much) to destroy the evidence that might actually prove Anthropogenic Global Warming? He who controls the refridgerators, controls the past. And he who controls the past, controls the future. Orwell, I believe. Where was khallow? Or maybe it was that Bradley#randomnumber guy? So many petro-shills on SoylentNews. I grow tired trying to sort them out. But this, this is a bad thing. Next I expect an attack on Dante's Death Mask, to hide the fact that CO2 levels in hell have gone down since the Republicans came back into power. Or was that a Dan Brown novel?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 11 2017, @11:18AM (1 child)
Just so you know, putting things in triple parens is something the alt-reich does when they're trying to point out some Jewish conspiracy. Unless you're attempting a form of Bayesian poisoning attack on the technique, it doesn't make sense to use it in this context. Though if you are, that's rather clever.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:46PM
The triple parens thing is mostly useful as a sign that the poster can be safely ignored :)
I'd just like to know what are the double parens around "unemployed" supposed to mean. Was it a mistake, or is there some new signalling that I can disappointingly shake my head at?