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University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown"

posted by n1 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @03:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the historical-slushies dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:25AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:25AM (#492155)

    Maybe global warming is fake and they know trump, unlike obama is going to grill them on it. So instead of admitting that they made convenient "adjustments" to the data, they melt the data.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:29AM (4 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:29AM (#492157) Journal

    Yep, that is what they want us to think! It's just like that increase in violet stroms, tornados and such, when it is only that now we have "sensors" that can sense much more activity, and we know damn well that there used to be at least as much activity in the past, because we do not have any data on how much activity there was in the past. This is Jeff Foxworthy territory! You might be a redneck, if you are not smarter than a Fifth Grader!

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:48PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:48PM (#492250)

      Why do you insist on inserting insults, faggotry, or both, into every post you make?

      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:01PM (#492385)

        He's Greek, where do you expect him to insert his faggotry?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @03:57PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @03:57PM (#492318)

      It's just like that increase in violet stroms

      violet stroms are much worse than blue stroms

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:24PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:24PM (#492438) Journal

        violet stroms are much worse than blue stroms

        Just wait until the Global Warming gets really severe, and we start having Ultra-violet stroms!!!