Caving Insights and Climate Revelations

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This chapter explores the stability and safety of limestone caves while highlighting the hazards associated with caving, including statistics on injuries and fatalities. It delves into paleoclimatology, examining how stalagmites and calcite formations can reveal historical climate data and environmental changes. The conversation emphasizes the importance of modern research techniques in understanding past climate conditions, aiding predictions for future climate scenarios.

Caves! Caverns! Grottos! Crystals! Let's get down and dirty with Speleology with explorer, researcher, professor, and paleoclimatologist Dr. Gina Moseley. She shares what it’s like to spend a week straight in a cave, safety tips, climate research breakthroughs, and the deepest and darkest caves. Also: stalactites, stalagmites, cave clouds, show caves, who counts as a spelunker, what ancient climate science can tell us about our current sticky situation, cave diving, cave rescues, creepy caves, gated caves, old school versus new school cave mapping, if cavers ever lose their damn minds down there, and why nothing beats the longing for the underground. Grab a friend and wear a helmet. We’re goin’ in.

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