Follow Professor Dalton's Antarctica expedition
 | Defra's Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Howard Dalton has now arrived in Antarctica to see first hand the evidence for climate change. |
Everyone in the UK will be able to follow Professor Dalton's trip, as he records his progress, live on Defra's public website:
www.defra.gov.uk/science/news/bas/default.htm
This is the first time that blogging has been used to share information within Defra and will enable all staff to see how the expedition progresses.
During the expedition, funded and organised by the British Antarctic Survey, Professor Dalton will:
· Consider at first hand research being done to assess the stability of the ice sheets
· Examine the effects of climate change on animal life
· Find out about the BAS's sustainable operations and minimum waste strategy, which leaves nothing behind except human waste.
· Explore an ice crevasse and witness the latest research on ice cores, which shows that levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere responsible for global warming are higher now than at any time in the past 650,000 years.
· Discover how the sustainability of fishing in the South Atlantic is affected by climate change.
He said:
"As Chief Scientific Adviser in the government department responsible for tackling climate change and sustainability, I want to see for myself the impact that we are all having on this most isolated place on Earth.
"But it seems that I'm not the only one - almost everyone I've met recently has said they'd like to come too. Sadly I can't take everyone to Antarctica, but I can bring Antarctica to everyone through the Iinternet."
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