Pandemic Delays Return Of Arctic Researchers

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The COVID-19 crisis is throwing off the complex logistics of a year-long research expedition to study Arctic climate change.

, they may now have to remain in the ice until June, essentially doubling their shift. Five such rotations were planned for the expedition over the course of the year.

Shupe says the default plan is for the team on the ice to come home on the exchange that was already scheduled for June, though other options are being considered to get them back sooner.

 

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Plant a couple remote thermometers and save millions. We're going to need the money.

Global warming is real, climate change is real. If you get mad at people studying things to get a better understanding of it, with your opinion you didn't research, that you were given by non-experts, you are stupid just like your handlers wanted you to be. Stay woke jokes!

The ice being back to normal also would be a problem. Wait....how did that happen?

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