Dispatches From The Arctic: The Science And Geopolitics Of A Warming Arctic
The Tromso waterfront Susan Moran"Let's face it. Sea level (rise) is going to eat our lunch." Dispatches From The Arctic is a mini-series on the science and implications of global warming in the North Atlantic Arctic. Boulder-based writer Susan Moran is filing live reports from the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromso, Norway. In this coastal Arctic city of Tromso, Norway, where sunrise and sunset merge into a multi-hour winter glow, and where twenty-something women proudly roam the ice-coated streets under the sub-freezing black sky wearing stiletto heels and little else, nothing seems too bizarre. But I was still struck to see uniformed Navy generals, politicians and bureaucrats (from Russia, China, Norway, the United States, and many other countries), scientists, energy and fisheries industry executives, and environmentalists all converging at a university here to attend a conference called the Arctic Frontiers. Perhaps no other topic is more politicized than climate change, so...