The Catlin Arctic Expedition

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http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2010/03/26/catlin-arctic-expedition

The Americas Blog


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The international team of researchers have already spent the past month enduring even colder conditions living and working on floating sea ice, some 750 miles from the North Pole.

They are investigating what’s been dubbed “Climate Change’s evil twin” – the the acidification of the oceans caused by growing emissions of carbon dioxide.

While much research and debate has gone on in regards to Climate Change, very little has been done on this other carbon issue. With cold water absorbing CO2 faster, it’s believed that within 10 years, some waters around the North pole could reach such corrosive levels that it could dissolve the shells of mussels, shellfish and plankton, impacting the entire food chain.

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To measure this impact, Catlin’s scientists have set up an ice base off Canada’s Ellef Rignes island – it will be the most northerly point reached by scientists during the winter.

Over a landscape of snow and ice, cameraman Emmanuel “Manu” Leus from our Moscow bureau and myself touch down in Resolute, a small hamlet with a population of a little over 200 residents.

Resolute is the final stop before the Ice base, and the crucial lifeline for the science team. From here, relief supplies - everything from spare tent poles to repair equipment for stoves and new stashes of chocolate - are ferried northward.

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it appears Aljazeera's reporters go where US media doesn't.

read Aljazeera for further reports on the horrors of acidification.

[Robb]

1. Yeah, everyone's avoiding this story

...except the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, AP, and the Podunk Weekly Shitrag. Google is your friend. :D

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2. sorry, I haven't seen their articles - did they send reporters there?

(I don't use google. I've always used Metacrawler. and no I did not use Metacrawler to see if US reporters have gone there. satisfied?)