«Soil organic carbon pools in
the northern circumpolar permafrost region» (PDF).
And with Arctic ice cover shrinking more than ever this past summer, the Inuit of
the northern circumpolar region say their way of life is disappearing.
Not exact matches
«The government is walking away from its key environmental and health research program in
northern Canada,» asserts Terry Fenge, research director for the Inuit
Circumpolar Conference, which promotes indigenous interests.
Similar trends are reported in Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, and across the
circumpolar north — the principal nursery for
Northern Hemisphere marine birds.
Laakkuluk is a co-creator and actor of Tulugak — a
circumpolar theatre piece studying the relationship between Inuit and ravens.Tulugak was a first of its kind and the flagship performance of the
Northern Scene Festival at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2013.
And for a little historical perspective: «It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the
Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high
northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.
«They found that the increase in surface temperature is very small in the
Circumpolar Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere in contrast to high latitudes of the
Northern Hemisphere where the increase is relatively large.»
Extra Cold water in the
Circumpolar current, low Solar activity [10.7 cm Flux - > 100 — 110], and Sun still in
Northern Hemisphere these combine to accelerate the Cold / Cooling increasing the Sea Ice Extent.
The Royal Society ``... a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the
Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high
northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated....
It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge that a considerable change of climate inexplicable at present to us must have taken place in the
Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past inclosed (sic) the seas in the high
northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years greatly abated.
The polewards energy transport of the ocean is smaller in the Southern Hemisphere than in the
Northern Hemisphere; this arises because of the effects of a
circumpolar channel on the deep overturning circulation.