Colorado has a giant freezer filled with polar ice
Welcome to the US National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where there’s a giant freezer filled with 20km of ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic. Here’s why.
Thanks to everyone at the US National Ice Core Laboratory! You can find out more about them here: http://icecores.org/
The Ice Core Laboratory is supported by the National Science Foundation: https://www.nsf.gov/
Edited by Michelle Martin, https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux
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@TomScottGo
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
This was really cool.
…I'm sorry.
@droppit7533
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
I've been watching a lot of Tom Scott videos lately and any time it mentions US Government-run operations I get a little sad because of the current state of affairs. I don't know what cool science thing has already been shut down or heavily defunded or will be in the near future 🙁
@TornadoTy
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
im gonna start calling snow "meteoric ice"
@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeu
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
is that Jens Bergensten
@therealtastyturnip
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
"No shirt, no shoes, no ice core." Is a great sign.
@liam_hurlburt
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
1:57 no shirt, no shoes, no ice core….
@seriousspikesam7770
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
Ice Ice Baby.
I would pick working in a freezer over working in the tropic any day of the week.
@Somerandom1922
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
The thumbnail for this video looks like the cover photo for a hard af indie rap album.
@theworm7156
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
0:25 oh wow didn’t know Jeb also works here
@Dant3sWasteland
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
No one gonna talk about the thumbnail looking like a rap album cover? 🎤
@SubhojitDey
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
Also Americans: Climate change isn't real.
@TWeaK819
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
Dude, keep your neck covered.
@Shadow__X
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
Is that an original iMac keyboard at 1:24?
@hemlockp
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
looking at the thumbnail. thought he was gonna rap
@riner9
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
really cool
@jasonschmidt777
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
Ryobi ice smoother! Nice
DeWalt y’all need to step it up
@Matrix80302
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
I live in Denver XD
@judith4361
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
why dose this guy look like jeb???
@UrBasicGuy
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
a serious waste of space, time and money
@sergio-179
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
This is where Cody from Cody's lab morcs?
@exampleDOTslangwhanger
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
i didnt know Jeb_ worked at a big freezer
@rrock2025
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
Ryobi? Seriously!!?
@gamingcookiereal
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
do they get to crunch on some of the ice as a treat
@nayandhir5910
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 am
This is where all the glishers went it wasn't global warming..