Wednesday, June 14, 2017

U of M climate change study postponed due to climate change - Winnipeg Free Press

Image may contain: textU of M climate change study postponed due to climate change - Winnipeg Free Press: "The University of Manitoba's multi-year, multi-million dollar climate change study has been put on ice for a year -- because of climate change itself.
David Barber, the university's renowned Arctic researcher, and chief scientist of the BaySys project, said 40 scientists on the Canadian icebreaker CCGS Amundsen made the decision to postpone the $17 million project until next year after two weeks onboard because they realized the ship was needed elsewhere due to the continued extreme ice conditions in southern waters around Newfoundland and Labrador.
..."It's the second most powerful icebreaker in the country and we had trouble getting through the sea ice," Barber, the Canada Research Chair in Arctic Systems Science at the university, said on Monday..."

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