Kim Holmén is a Professor of local weather and surroundings at UiT, the Arctic College of Norway and in addition a particular advisor on the Norwegian Polar Institute, the place he has labored because the Worldwide director for a decade.
Professor Holmén met with the Ocean filming crew in Longyearbyen - Svalbard's de-facto capital. The city and its 2300 residents are feeling the complete disruptive power of local weather change.
The Norwegian archipelago, situated some 1300 km away from the North Pole, has been the main focus of Kim Holmén's work for 35 years. He says the modifications happening within the Arctic right this moment ought to concern folks in every single place, insisting that solely by way of concerted joint efforts can this fragile area be protected.
"Few folks have the privilege to see a polar bear within the wild. Nevertheless, I believe many would suppose the world is poorer if the polar bear didn't exist.
"A lot of the greenhouse fuel emissions, many of the modifications are attributable to folks not dwelling within the Arctic. However the modifications within the Arctic don't remain within the Arctic. They arrive again to the people who have made the emissions."
Explaining among the modifications we'll face, Professor Holmén provides: "The melting glaciers give sea degree rise. Locations just like the Netherlands, Bangladesh, are laborious struck. It additionally influences climate techniques, in order that the ice-free Barents Sea area will affect the cyclones coming into Europe. Will probably be drier across the Mediterranean, which in fact creates rigidity in Europe. The modifications right here affect climate in Japan and Korea, China as nicely, due to the jet stream and the way it's influenced by the floor right here."
Professor Holmén concludes by saying: "If we hand over, then we'll lose all of it for certain. I believe we're intelligent beings — we should, we will, we'll discover methods ahead. Not solely to consider that know-how will repair it, we should additionally repair it inside ourselves. How can I, how can we make modifications which might be good for ourselves, for our kids, and for the planet?"
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