CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH Research & Arctic Travel For The International Polar Year: Climate Change Is the Number One Planetary Issue of the 21st Century; With Drastic Effects on Local and Global Economics, Causing Unpredictable Weather Patterns, Ecological Nightmares and Changes In Everything from Lifestyles to Landscapes Across the Planet. SME is developing partnerships and working in cooperation with: Scott Polar Research Centre at Cambridge University, British Antarctic Survey, NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration),RPM Nautical Foundation and the International Polar Year (IPY.org) The Associated Press reports that, "Children in Norway plead for snow. Polar researchers describe melting glaciers. Some experts say that within this century, the Arctic might no longer be ice-locked. Facing this prospect, 50,000 scientists from 63 nations launched a study Thursday called the International Polar Year, to investigate how global warming is affecting the Earth's poles and what that means for all those living in between. It's been 50 years since international researchers last pooled research on the polar world. Since then, the world's temperature has risen slowly but steadily. An authoritative report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last month said humans were very likely to blame for this warming." - source: AP March 02, 2007 The popular independent film featuring former Vice President Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth" has alerted the public to the present crisis. Food chains are being disrupted and even the well established Polar Bears and Penguins are perishing by the hundreds of thousands. (image source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

The Society of Marine Explorers Recognizes the Need For Quick Action  Climate Change in polar regions has accelerated far beyond many of the worst-case scenarios projected for 30 years from now. Scientific evidence from many disciplines converges on the fact that it is worsening at an unpredictable rate. Any debate on "if" climate change is real is over - the emphasis now is on research, damage control and adaptation. The Society of Marine Explorers is committed to helping researchers & governments around the world who are working on the Polar Year Project.

PERFECT TIMING - The Arctic is Changing FAST

The International Polar Year Project Establishes a well funded International Coalition of Concerned Groups to send 50,000 Scientists to the Polar Regions, this is critical, otherwise the arctic may literally be gone before we know what happened. •Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" has been a wake-up call for millions in America and around the planet that global warming is real and is here to stay. •Arctic research and the study of climate-change dynamics has emerged as the most important political, economic, technological, social and humanitarian issue of the dawning 21st century. •Climate Change has accelerated far beyond the worst-case scenarios scientists projected for 30 years from now ... in the last 8 years! •Dec 28th 2006 news reports of another city-sized ice-sheet breaking off from the Canadian Arctic. This ice-sheet may fracture and cause travel & shipping hazards. •Polar Bears (just added to the Endangered Species List) are drowning or becoming isolated on melting ice-sheets. Something incredibly creative must be done to save them. Penguins are facing a similar fate with numbers diminishing 25% PER-YEAR in some places. •Ecological surveys, Bio-diversity assessments and Genetic samples need to be gathered & preserved quickly in irreplaceable niche-habitats that will severely disrupted.

SOCIETY OF MARINE EXPLORERS PRESERVE ECOLOGY - DISCOVER HISTORY