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Expedition Witnesses Major Break-Off Of Arctic Ice Shelf
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Climate change and global warming are buzz words right now. They got thrown around a lot without much consideration as to what they really mean. I think not a lot of people can grasp what climate change is, and its effect on our planet because its very abstract. The effects can be gradual and only be realized years from now. What is out of sight is sometimes out of mind. Well that’s not the case for a select group of international children who witnessed climate change first hand. On July 22nd, a huge chuck of ice drifted off the Ward Hunt Island main ice self, forming two ice islands. A group of children known as the “Young Ambassadors of the Artic, were at the sight when it happened.
Climate change and global warming are buzz words right now. They got thrown around a lot without much consideration as to what they really mean. I think not a lot of people can grasp what climate change is, and its effect on our planet because its very abstract. The effects can be gradual and only be realized years from now. What is out of sight is sometimes out of mind. Well that’s not the case for a select group of international children who witnessed climate change first hand. On July 22nd, a huge chuck of ice drifted off the Ward Hunt Island main ice self, forming two ice islands. A group of children known as the “Young Ambassadors of the Artic, were at the sight when it happened.
The group, part of the Global Green USA and Green Cross Pax Arctica ’08 expedition, was in the middle of a trip to observe the stat of the Ward Hunt ice shelf when they came across a large crack in the ice. “Nothing could have prepared us for the extent of our findings, “ said Sebastian Copeland co-leader of the expedition. “After a 4-hour hike in slushy ice, we stumbled upon a major break in the shelf. It was so large that we could not have imagined the crack to be in fact developin gbefore our very eyes. We were essentially the first to witness this dramatic development from up close.”
According to the group, the crack represents another threat to the Ward Hunt Ice shelf, which is the oldest and thickest remaining ice shelf in the artic.
The other expedition leader, Luc Hardy, points out that “in a way, the fissures on the ice shelf are the fault lines of global warming.”
This is truly first hand exploration and an important one-as the effect of global warming begin to be seen and become more than an abstract theory.
Pax Arctica is a multi-year mission to study and educate the public about theeffects of climate change to the Arctic. Pax Arctica is a joint effort by GlobalGreen USA, Green Cross France (members of Green Cross International, the environmental organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev) and Sagax Expeditions
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