Climate activist Greta Thunberg, left, and John Pomeroy, director of the Global Water Futures program, are shown during a visit to the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park in this recent handout photo. Mark Ferguson / THE CANADIAN PRESS
JASPER, Alta. — Climate change activist Greta Thunberg braved a blizzard on a snow-covered glacier in Jasper National Park to learn from the scientists who study the ice.
In a tweet to her followers, the Swedish teenager thanked scientist John Pomeroy of the University of Saskatchewan and Parks Canada ecologist Brenda Shepherd for educating her “on the effects of the climate and ecological crisis on stunning Jasper National Park.”
Pomeroy, director of the Global Water Futures program, said his team from the Cold Regions Laboratory in Canmore, Alta., was asked to talk about glaciers with the 16-year-old and her father, Svante Thunberg.
They spent about six hours on the Athabasca Glacier — one of the most visited in North America — in the Columbia Icefield.
She was very brave to go up on a snow-covered glacier in a blizzard in October. She’s clearly utterly fearless for a teenager.