2016

Every year we look ahead and with enthusiasm forecast possible events and changing conditions. This year I will keep to a few of my favourite concerns. For years I have been concerned about living conditions in the high Arctic with both climate change and global warming. Most of the high Arctic is rock with a layer of tundra on top of perma frost. Perma frost freezes the area of the tundra to a depth of hundreds of feet in some cases. The very thin surface  allows a variety of vegetation to survive and this sustains life in the form of animals and birds as well as a variety of bugs and insects.

With rising temperatures and warmer and longer summers the perma frost melts to a greater depth each year and the result is catastrophic . The tundra no longer is able to accept travel in many areas and as time passes there will be huge areas of the North uninhibited. The thousands of ponds will disappear and the birds who depend on these will disappear as well. This is only a small peak at the results of global warming and climate change in one area of this planet.

My hope for this year is that every country, every industry, every person who has a concern for life on this planet for their children and grand children support the plans for a greener and healthier environment . This wish was stated by the Paris Convention and signed on by over two hundred countries to keep our carbon emissions below a level acceptable to the health of our planet. We must do our part if we are to survive.