By Ed Struzik
"Traveling in time and area around the Arctic, within the huge Thaw Ed Struzik describes before everything hand the main alarming environmental hindrance of our times,. it is a land that Struzik is enthusiastic about, and he writes of its frozen good looks with an splendor of prose now not noticeable considering the fact that Barry Lopez' Arctic Dreams." - Tim Flannery, writer of the elements Makers
"The most sensible of the realm is profoundly diversified than ever earlier than in human background. weather swap is already influencing the lives of the locals, from Inuit to polar bears. yet it really is poised to make lifestyles tough for the remainder of us, too. Ed Struzik offers a canny and compelling travel of an international in risky and speedy flux." - Bill McKibben, author of Deep financial system
"An impossible to resist mixture of lyrical writing, adventurous feet-on-the-ground trip, good reporting and acute statement of the dire issues which are taking place within the Arctic. we should always lock each baby-kisser and company govt right into a room and hold them there until eventually they've got learn and understood the message Struzik is brining us. it truly is that important." - Marq De Villiers, writer of the top: traditional failures, artifical Castastrophes, and the way forward for Human Survival
"All-embracing, luminous and provocative, the massive Thaw is an engaging chronicle of an enormous, threatened Canadian Arctic. Struzik expertly melds prior and current right into a thought-provoking tale approximately what the present worldwide warming skill to Canada and the area. He combines the human and clinical narratives right into a incredible synthesis amplified via his received huge travels in the course of the North. every person drawn to the consequences of a warming planet may still learn this extraordinary book." - Brian Fagan, archeologist, historian and writer of the nice Warming and The Little Ice Age
"Ed Struzik, a type of infrequent reporters who can paddle a canoe and revel in a meal of whale blubber, has written an incredible and stunning ebook that reads like a few new style of experience and horror tale. because the Arctic melts and unravels swifter than the worldwide banking procedure, the large Thaw increases a few stark questions: simply what's going to Canada be with no ice and snow? and what's a state with no its dreams?" - Andrew Nikiforuk, writer of Tar Sands: soiled Oil and the way forward for the Continent
"An vital publication. pressing, well timed, heartfelt." - Will Ferguson, writer of attractiveness guidance Moose Jaw: Travels looking for Canada
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If that turns out to be the case—as more and more scientific data suggests—then those in the very small minority who insist that climate change is no threat to polar bears are plainly wrong. It also suggests that there needs to be a fundamental rethinking about how 30 CHAPTER ONE polar bears are hunted and managed and how much greenhouse gas we’re pumping into the atmosphere. “We’ve documented a 22 percent decline in the western Hudson Bay population between 1987 and 2004,” noted Stirling. “The animals that we see there now are younger and thinner than the typical bear you’d see twenty or thirty years ago.
Hidden in the layers of ice, he often tells people, is a record of every atmospheric event of the past—summer melts, cooling trends, volcanic activity, indus trial emissions, even bomb testings. The deeper you go down, the farther you go back in time. The more sophisticated the technology you use to interpret the cores, the more detailed the information you retrieve. 5 m) long, scientists have been drilling deeper and deeper into glaciers in the hopes of extrapolating an ice core record that will place the present climate, warmed by the burning of fossil fuels, into an historical context.
Not only would the drilling team have to spend weeks climb ing to get that high, they would need pilots that were experienced and 44 CHAPTER TWO daring enough to fly in on oxygen and pick up their core samples. Six years later, Holdsworth led a team up the mountain and drilled the first ice core. When he returned the following year to finish the job, Demuth, just twenty years old at the time, was there to assist. With his bleach-blond hair, blue eyes and baseball cap, Demuth looks very much like the climber that he is.