Jason Box
Jason Box is a professor in Glaciology at The Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)
Box has been on over 20 expeditions to Greenland to study the relationship between ice and climate change.
He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, and also taught university courses for 7 years on atmosphere-surface interactions, local and global physical climatology, and environmental issues.
He also contributed to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. NASA has awarded Box with a grant to survey ice in Greenland, which measures changes in glacial speed, and studying glacier flow sensitivity to climate.
Box also contributes articles to The Huffington Post and the New Yorker. In his August 2015 “Earth’s Ice Is Melting Much Faster Than Forecast. Here’s Why That’s Worrying” piece for The Huffington Post, Box warns that, as the title states, warming is happening at ever-increase speed, far out-pacing what had been projected.
In Greenland summers from 2007-2012 and also in 2015, the ice melt produced was at levels not expected to be reached until 2100 in climate models.
Box calls ocean warming “arguably the climate change story”, as warm waves of subtropical waters cause rapid glacial melt. The warming is caused by the enhanced greenhouse effect, a problem caused by the world’s increasing industrial growth.
His article "Why a Climate Deal is the Best Hope for Peace", co-authored with Naomi Klein in November 2015 notes that in the “currently overloaded CO2 climate” it will not be long before people are ousted from coastal regions due to agricultural land and groundwater destruction from increased saltwater levels.
Box believes we will continue to see a faster than expected rise in sea level due to climate change.
Dr. Jason E. Box - professor Jason E. Box (no date) Available at: http://jasonbox.net/ (Accessed: 6 December 2016).
Huffington Post (2015) Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-e-box/ice-melt-fast_b_7927186.html (Accessed: 6 December 2016)
