Daring to seek Earth's history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Dr. Lonnie Thompson found | dG1fX3hhQzJWVWpnZWc
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00:00 In the old days, you took a canary into the mine.
00:04 If it dies, then it's time for you to flee the mine.
00:08 My first encounter with Lonnie, it was like I was meeting a real-life Indiana Jones.
00:16 Lonnie is a visionary. He saw our global climate history captured in these glaciers.
00:23 Lonnie was going where no scientist had gone before. It seemed to be impossible.
00:28 It's too high for human beings.
00:30 It's dangerous.
00:31 There's no way you're going to drill in this remote part of the world.
00:34 You're wasting your time.
00:36 Science can only advance when you do things other people think can't be done.
00:44 He was on a mission to find his place in this world.
00:49 I had no idea what I was getting into. I had never climbed a mountain.
00:53 I had no idea what it would take.
00:55 This was a huge departure from usual.
00:58 There was something wrong.
01:00 My doctor said, "You have one option and one option only, and that is to have a heart transplant."
01:06 You just keep going.
01:10 He was in denial.
01:14 I remember watching him struggle to breathe, thinking to myself, "You're not going to survive this."
01:20 Having gone through these near-death experiences, my message was to help bring together the world.
01:27 This glacier started disappearing before Lonnie's eyes.
01:33 He thought he could change something.
01:35 If he doesn't do it, nobody would.
01:38 Lonnie didn't come to climate change. Climate change came to him.
01:42 Humans can create it. Humans can solve it.
01:47 I don't believe there's anything that we cannot achieve.
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