All the evidence from his “amateur” record-keeping is recognised by science — climate change is real!
This piece belongs to a series of 100 posts written in memory of Thom's grandmother, published on her Facebook.
billy barr (his name is not capitalised, by his own choice) is an independent American scientist, known for a collection of more than forty years of data on changes in the snow, in the temperature and in animal migration in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA. All the evidence from his “amateur” record-keeping is recognised by the scientific community — climate change is real!
His story was made into a short documentary by National Geographic; you can watch it at the link below.
It is one of the videos on a list of mine called “the earthquakes”, one I think about again and again. Once more, I find myself remembering the passage from The Man Who Planted Trees:
“To see the greatness of a person’s character, you must have the chance to watch how they act over many years. If that person acts selflessly and nobly, and brings about a clear and considerable good without asking for anything in return, such a person is hard to forget.”
https://youtu.be/L72G8TLtTCk?si=hZelSnae5PcE9CrR
Those two weeks in their house were the loveliest thing I had in Athens.
The only thing I want to do with them: read together.
She told me that only that English video really worked, and that she has been able to go back to work.