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Source<\/a><\/p>\n World-famous OSU researcher Lonnie G. Thompson<\/strong><\/a> is coming to Delaware this October.<\/p>\n Source World-famous OSU researcher Lonnie G. Thompson is coming to Delaware this October. He will\u00a0speak on \u201cPast and Contemporary Climate Change: The Evidence, People, and Our Options\u201d on Thurs., Oct. 25 (7-9 pm) at the Andrews House, 39 W. Winter St.\u00a0The event is sponsored by the Central Ohio Communities Project, Sustainable Delaware Ohio & the … Continue reading “Talk: Thurs., Oct. 25 (7-9 pm): Lonnie Thompson \u201cPast and Contemporary Climate Change: The Evidence, People, and Our Options\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":1774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-opportunities","category-special-events"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}He will\u00a0speak on \u201cPast and Contemporary Climate Change: The Evidence, People, and Our Options\u201d on Thurs., Oct. 25 (7-9 pm) at the Andrews House, 39 W. Winter St.<\/b>\u00a0The event is sponsored by the Central Ohio Communities Project, Sustainable Delaware Ohio & the Delaware Chapter of the Citizens\u2019 Climate Lobby.<\/div>\n\nPaleoclimatologist Thompson is best known for drilling and analyzing ice cores from ice caps and mountain glaciers in all continents, including in the\u00a0tropical areas. Miles of his ice cores are stored at OSU where Thompson works at the Byrd Polar Research Center.<\/strong> Closely observing and measuring ice caps and\u00a0glaciers around the world, Thompson noticed they were steadily retreating and even vanishing. Ice that was thousands of years old has now disappeared. These\u00a0variations were far outside normal weather and climate variability and served as proof that the world\u2019s climate is indeed warming.<\/div>\n\nThompson has written 165 papers (according to Wikipedia) and received countless grants, awards, and honors. In 2008, Time Magazine named him as\u00a0one of the \u201cHeroes of the Environment.\u201d A fellow researcher, Mark Bowen, published a book on Lonnie Thompson in 2005, called Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets\u00a0of Climate in the World\u2019s Highest Mountains.<\/em><\/div>\n\nBorn in 1948, Thompson is now 70. After a successful heart transplant in 2012, which was national front-page news, he appears to be healthy and active\u00a0again. He and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, also a paleoclimatologist, live in Clintonville.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"