Hazardous conditions caused by climate change put Arctic research study on ice
An Arctic climate change study has been cancelled because warming temperatures have filled the sea off northern Newfoundland with hazardous ice up to eight metres thick.
Instead of cruising north with a team of scientists, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen has been busy freeing fishing boats and helping other ships surrounded in ice that usually doesn’t travel so far south at this time of year.
David Barber, the expedition’s chief scientist, says the irony is that climate change itself has put the climate change research project on ice.
“I have been in the Arctic for 35 years and this is one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had,” he said Monday.