Drilling Back to the Future: Climate Clues from Ancient Ice on Greenland from ice core samples can provide data on what Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 75 sec
✓ Published: 09-Oct-2009

Description:
In July of 2009, Climate Central senior research scientist Heidi Cullen traveled to Greenland with a production team from StormCenter Communications to visit the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project, or NEEM. Scientists from 14 nations gather together each summer in northern Greenland, where they work to drill a core of solid ice, looking into the past for clues to future climate change.nnThe NEEM scientists are focused on a period known as the Eemian, which began about 130,000 years ago