Paul Mayewski on the fate of Antarctica
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Paul Mayewski is the director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. He also leads an international expedition to reconstruct the past 200 years of Antarctic climate.
Over the past two decades, Mayewski has traversed over 8,000 kilometers across Antarctica to collect ice cores, which he describes as remarkable archives of past climate.
In this 5-minute podcast, Paul Mayewski speaks about what the changing climate means for Antarctica’s future.
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Completely refuse air travelling. Don’t use planes at all. It’s
difficult to imagine our hasty days without this transport but we
and our children could survive. It’s not too late yet… Such actions can cause decreasing money left at the airports. And this, in turn, in the long run, can make air companies bankrupts. And the less air companies in the world, the less new planes being produced all round the world for them. And the less new planes, the less new aluminium and green house gas emissions into our precious atmosphere. It’s not so difficult to use trains while travelling in a continent. And we’ve got everything for vacations in our own countries, especially, in the States. These are severe measures, but we are forced to do this by our changing climate being at its tipping point.