Catching Air: Scientists Trek High into the Rockies to Measure Earth’s Rising Greenhouse Gases
Featured on the front page of the Denver Post,ÌýClimate researchers sayÌýthe weekly climb to gather air samples has become more of a mission than a job.
Jennifer Morse, a climate technician at the Mountain Research Station (MSR) in Roosevelt National Forest, gets ready to return to her base after checking recent precipitation levels and taking air samples at the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research site on March 28, 2017 near Nederland.
"As federal government-funded scientist Jen Morse skis through blowing snow at 11,500 feet to measure heat-trapping greenhouse gas air pollution, she wrestles with the question that’s been bothering her all week: How humans can know thatÌýÌýis happening yet balk at trying to stop it....."
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