Charleston Gazette: A major scientist from West Virginia is rushing to finish his landmark research before global warming wipes out his evidence. Dr. Lonnie Gene Thompson, born on a farm near Gassaway, went to Ohio State University to become a coal geologist -- but instead became intrigued by glacier ice that contains a frozen record of climate conditions dating back as far as 800,000 years. Since the 1970s, he has collected huge numbers of deep core drill ice samples containing dust, volcanic ash, water chemistry...
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