The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change

Almost a decade ago, Paul Andrew Mayewski, an internationally recognized leader in climate change research, was chosen to lead the National Science Foundation's Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2). The Ice Chronicles tells the story behind GISP2 and its product, 100,000 years of climate history. These frozen records document major environmental events such as volcanoes and forest fires. They also reveal the dramatic influence that humans have had on the chemistry of the atmosphere and climate change through major additions of greenhouse gases, acid rain, and stratospheric ozone depletion.