Carbon Briefly: Jason Box
People working on climate or energy give Carbon Brief a sense of their lives beyond the nine-to-five…
Dr Jason Box is a professor at the Glaciological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. With more than 23 expeditions to Greenland and a year spent living on the ice sheet, his work specialises in understanding how the Arctic is responding to weather and climate change. Box coordinates Dark Snow, a crowd-sourced project examining how wildfires and industrial soot are darkening the surface of the ice.
Book
The Changing Atmosphere: A Global Challenge, 1990, by J. Firor. Here my career was launched seeing the Keeling curve and doing the math in the back cover (see right!) that in 1991 were at *350* ppm CO2. Now we’re another 50 ppm higher!
Place
Boulder, Colorado, (where I spent 12 years earning 5 degrees at University of Colorado), view up to mountains where geology and the atmosphere are on dramatic display.
Film
Repo Man – a satire of the modern world.
Activity
Skiing.
Music
Right now it’s the album Atlas by Real Estate. A longer term favorite the UK audience will be more into is Spiritualized – Laser Guided Melodies.
Food
Mexican, check out the molé Amarillo at Red Iguana in Salt Lake City, Utah.
TV
Sanford and Son – hilarious 1970s TV sitcom.
Role model
Carl Sagan, David Attenborough, Albert Einstein.
Luxury
Scotch whisky.
Essential
Stable climate.