Larry Hinzman: The changes that are occurring in the Arctic and Antarctic regions are so huge and so complex that it really takes collaboration across many nations, across many institutions to try and understand it and really to gather the data that we need to be able to build the models that we need to project into the future.
Larry Hinzman is director of the International Arctic Research Center. Hinzman spoke with EarthSky about the challenge of doing research in Earth’s polar regions. It’s important research, he said, because changes in the Arctic and Antarctic – such as glacial melting and fluctuations in sea ice – affect life all across the planet. But doing research at the poles is not easy, he said.
Larry Hinzman: It is a very remote area, very difficult to get to, and it’s also an expensive place to work. It takes icebreakers, it takes large equipment and it’s remote, it’s difficult and it’s a harsh environment.
Increasingly, over the past two centuries, nations have worked together to study changes in Earth’s polar regions and their potential consequences – often by necessity.
Larry Hinzman: Essentially the environment has forced those collaborations over all those many years. And that collaboration has actually led us to more achievements than we would have been able to do by any single nation working independently.
Our thanks to:
Larry Hinzman
Director
International Arctic Research Center
Fairbanks, Alaska
Why does Canada spend more on new ice breakers than Kyoto?
Why does Canada issue hunting permits for the poor little helpless polar bears?
Why has the arctic not melted after 19 years of IPCC predictions?
Why have snowmobile sales increased every year for the past 8 years?
Why have ski resorts done so well during 19 years of IPCC predictions?
Why was 2008 the coldest year of the 21rst century 23 years after the theory predicted escalating warming?
Why do paid consultants call themselves scientists?
Regarding polar bears, it’s hardly open season on them as Canadian polar bears are protected by what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls the Polar Bear Treaty , that prohibits hunting except for subsistence native hunters.
Sport hunters get ahold of these permits, however, according to Polar Bears International , from native holders who sometimes sell them off.
The poor little helpless polar bears were indigenous to as far south as Minnesota 350 years ago but were called yellow bears because of the summer coat they retained longer, but still the same bear.
Looking at picture of polar bears drowning on google is for glowbull whiners who are scaring our kids to death. If anything is endangered, it’s civilized humans. Global warming is modern day witch burning. History will laugh, and cry.
The poor little helpless polar bears were indigenous to as far south as Minnesota 350 years ago but were called yellow bears because of the summer coat they retained longer, but still the same bear.
Looking at pictures of polar bears drowning on google is for glowbull whiners who are scaring our kids to death. If anything is endangered, it’s civilized humans. Global warming is modern day witch burning. History will laugh, and cry.
folks, the climate will be getting cooler and man will have nothing to do with it. in the last few months we have had more activity from the waning solar cycle 23 than from the supposedly huge cycle 24. what seemes likely to blame?? Planetary alignments which affect the solar dynamo with angular momentum / gravitational force.
http://landscheidt.auditblogs.com/
http://www.schulphysik.de/klima/landscheidt/iceage.htm
http://penoflight.com/climatebuzz/
How can anybody work there and not freeze to death?
Cooperation from government will do, remote areas like arctic and antarctic was also need to be visited. To find out what would be the effect for us if this hard to reach area will not be given an attention.