Mammoth glaciers were disappearing at unprecedented rates and withering to the smallest sizes in millennia. ![]() Rising temperatures were melting ancient titans of ice and snow. It was 1978, and high in the rugged Andes, Thompson and fellow scientists were witnessing the first glimpses of a pending worldwide disaster. More than 25 years before the star-studded Los Angeles premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson was about as far away from the red carpet as possible.
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