‘Largest polar expedition in history’ to probe Arctic climate

breitbart.com ^ | 9/20/2019 | unknown

[rktman]

A team of scientists from 19 countries will set off for the Arctic on Friday, aiming to freeze their ship into the polar ice for a year to research the changing climate.

Aboard the massive icebreaker Polarstern, belonging to Germany’s Alfred Wegener polar and marine research institute, researchers hope to glean new understanding of the region.

The 140 million-euro ($155 million) mission will study the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, ecosystem and natural processes — looking to build a picture of how climate change is affecting the region and the entire world.

“No other region of the world has warmed as quickly as the Arctic in the past decades,” mission leader and atmospheric scientist Markus Rex said on the “Mosaic” (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) website.

[Svartalfiar]

A team of scientists from 19 countries will set off for the Arctic on Friday, aiming to freeze their ship into the polar ice for a year to research the changing climate.

Um, how do they expect to get their ship stuck for a year? They're gonna go there this weekend, sail around until they get stuck in what, October/November, but then what? They'll unfreeze in spring! They're only gonna get maybe five months frozen in the ice, not a whole year...

[rktman]

LOL! Well yeah, that would kind of be contrary to their goal wouldn’t it. To succeed they would have to declare that despite their best efforts, they were unable to become stuck. :-)