🗣️ How A Journalist Divided A City (A free, 38-minute podcast from 2023)
Tags: #Journalism #Mind #Society #Polarization #Arctic
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As the leaders of the major parties make election promises about Arctic security, CBC chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault goes North, where a history of unfulfilled government promises has left strong opinions about what needs to happen next.
This talk is quite old, but I remember it being very interesting to see in Berlin at the 24c3 in 2007.
The topic about the access to resources in the arctic is now even more relevant and shows why the USA are interested in Grönland.
Russia, Canada, the United States and Denmark are each pushing for more control and access to the resources of the Arctic. In the balance...
I've added a new visualization of #Antarctic sea ice thickness averaged by year, which parallels my version for the #Arctic by design. However, unlike the Arctic, there aren't any obvious long-term trends (annual mean).
➡️ Graphic will be updated yearly at https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-figures/. GIOMAS data.
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 7th lowest on record (JAXA data)...
• about 250,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 540,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,000,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,560,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More plots: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
"Murder in the Arctic" would also be a suitable sitle. The #book focuses on C.F. Hall's last expedition. Richard Parry goes into the details of the expedition, the shortsighted way in which the expedition members were chosen, showing that Hall was murdered, who did it, and how.
"Trial by Ice"