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Here I write about climate change and Polar Regions - but also about anything else that strikes my fancy.

I'll try to post here as often as I can. But keep in mind I'm a very busy guy, so please cut me some slack if you don't hear from me for a while!

  • The Mary Arctica blocked in the ice for seven days already

    Critical situation at the PEA

    Posted on the 31.12.2011 by Michel Brent

    The Ice Class vessel Mary Arctica, which has to bring all the material (food and equipment) at the PEA station for the rest of the season, is blocked by the ice. She should have arrived on 24 December. The situation is more than serious...

  • The convoy left the station Thursday 1 December at 10 am

    The Convoy of Happiness

    Posted on the 17.12.2011 by Alain Hubert

    I would like to return to the unfolding of our last scientific mission to the Princess Ragnild coast. Simply because it typifies so well the very essence of my commitment in the Antarctic : to help the people to better understand the importance of scientific researches in the polar regions.

  • Taking ocean waters measurements at the coast

    Two missions : two successes

    Posted on the 16.12.2011 by Alain Hubert

    The new BELARE season of the Belgian PEA Station in Utsteinen/Antarctica has been opened on 16 November 2011 with 11 people disembarking on the site. Since then, we have conducted two important missions. Both were completely successful.

  • A snow melter in action the second day of the team arrival

    Seasonal Reopening of the PEA - Princess Elisabeth Antarctica

    Posted on the 20.11.2011 by Michel Brent

    Alain Hubert and a first team of ten have arrived at Utsteinen. Like every autumn, at this period of the year, they have re-opened the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica belgian station. Except for a gigantic amount of snow accumulated during the austral winter, everything was OK.

  • Since 1979 the nations of the world get together regularly to analyse what the roads should be to reduce the CO2 emissions

    Limiting the increase in global temperature to less than 2°C : it’s too late !

    Posted on the 07.11.2011 by Alain Hubert

    Since a few years that I give speeches all over, I do not stop saying that we the people and the countries of the world will not be able to limit the increase in global earth temperature to less than 2°C like the agrement reached at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Cancun 2010 had foreseen.

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