Hurricane!

This blogger reports on climate change in the arctic.

It was not that hot. there was still ice as one would imagine. But it is, thanks to climate change, a lot warmer than it has been since well before the last Ice Age. The permafrost is melting. We could see great collapses of coastal shoreline. Erosion, not due to wave action, but due to the changing climate and permafrost collapse. On Herschell Island, a Yukon Territorial Park, scientists from all around the world come to study the obvious effects of our fossil fuel addiction. On our brief stop at this lonely outpost and former whaling station in the Beaufort Sea, we ran into permafrost scientists from the Potsdam Institute in Germany and the Northern Studies Department at Carleton. They come to measure the rate of warming and the rate of permafrost collapse.