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So 200 years ago, you would have Arctic explorers writing about polar bears leaping into their boats and trying to devour them, even if they lit the bear on fire, but these kids don't see the polar bear that way, and actually they don't even see the polar bear the way that I did back in the '80s.
I've been leading polar expeditions for most of my adult life, and last month, my teammate Tarka L'Herpiniere and I finished the most ambitious expedition I've ever attempted.
In the process, we broke the record for the longest human-powered polar journey in history by more than 400 miles.
["Two Explorers Just Completed A Polar Expedition That Killed Everyone The Last Time It Was Attempted"] Chris Hadfield talked so eloquently about fear and about the odds of success, and indeed the odds of survival.
We'd made the longest ever polar journey on foot, something I'd been dreaming of doing for a decade.
I found it incredibly inspiring that the idea of becoming a polar traveler went down pretty well with girls at parties when I was at university.
So light and oxygen are polar opposites from one another from a chemical point of view, and if we can control spatially the light and oxygen, we could control this process.
And, I think, if we look around the world, as well as the polar ice caps melting, human rights, which have been fought for, for many hundreds of years in some cases, are, also, eroding very fast, and that is something that we need to take a look at and, maybe, start campaigning for.
I came to climate change not as a scientist or an environmental lawyer, and I wasn't really impressed by the images of polar bears or melting glaciers.
The headlines called them savages and barbarians, because the image of one man overpowering another, killing him with a knife to the throat, conforms to our idea of ancient, primitive practices, the polar opposite of our urban, civilized ways.
The polar regions are cold because there's less sunlight.
If you plunge deep into the sea, or even put your toes in the sea, you know it gets colder as you go down, and that's mostly because the deep waters that fill the abyss of the ocean come from the cold polar regions where the waters are dense.
So the earth was probably about three to five degrees colder overall, and much, much colder in the polar regions.
It was different in the two polar regions, and CO2 also increased in jumps.
On our planet, we have two polar regions: the Arctic, whose name comes from the Greek Arktikos, of the North, and the Antarctic from Antarktikos, opposite of the North.
So, the Arctic has polar bears but no penguins, and the Antarctic has penguins but no polar bears.
Both of our polar regions are very important climate controllers.
Speaking of the North Pole, last December 29, the same storm that caused historic flooding in the American Midwest, raised temperatures at the North Pole 50 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal, causing the thawing of the North Pole in the middle of the long, dark, winter, polar night.
Like, this is, temperature-wise, the polar opposite of the Sahara.
I've traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story of polar melt, and south to the Equator to document the subsequent rising seas.
That energy is conducted along magnetic field lines down into the polar regions, resulting in incredibly beautiful aurora.
We have sailed all the way to the polar ice shelf.
The images that more readily come to mind are things like retreating glaciers and polar bears adrift on icebergs.
Now, you may well have heard that a decrease in seasonal sea ice is causing a loss of habitat for animals that rely on sea ice, such as ice seals, or walrus, or polar bears.
Headline: [Women in miniskirt attacked at taxi rank] How do I comment on such polar opposites?
In the spring of 1911, after waiting out the long polar night, both parties began the journey south.
A polar bear swimming in the Arctic, by Paul Nicklen.
So I'd like to tell you a story about climate and change, but it's really a story about people and not polar bears.
It is also, by virtue of its geography, a place where you can control every single polar orbiting satellite on every orbit.
It has polar caps.
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