Pen Hadow helps the world plan for polar meltdown.
World leading polar explorer and environmentalist, Pen Hadow, has announced an international scientific endeavour to predict the meltdown date of the North Pole permanent ice cap more accurately, thereby helping governments around the world to prepare for the significant consequences.
Pen is leading the Vanco Arctic Survey to capture the most detailed and accurate data ever recorded on the thickness of the North Pole ice cap which floats on the Arctic Ocean. Setting out next February, 2008, the Vanco Arctic Survey team will undertake a 120 day, 2000km crossing of the ice cap in temperatures as low as minus 50ºC. The survey team will depart from Point Barrow, Alaska, pulling ‘sledge-boats’, and on occasions even swimming across stretches of open water, reaching the North Geographic Pole in June.
“If we discover the central region of the North Pole ice cap really is thinning as fast as some experts fear, this survey will provide the decisive wake-up call for political leaders everywhere to take the urgent steps needed to prepare us all for the global consequences of North Pole ice cap meltdown,” claims Pen.
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