Thanks for posting on this seminar. When I attended I was as impressed with the effort to share information (though I wonder how diverse an audience he was speaking to) and by the magnitude of the problem they are dealing with. The arctic truly is a canary in the coal mine for global climate change, and the work of Ouranos/ArcticNet/Centre d’études nordiques is impressive indeed.

I was especially interested in how changes have already taken place, and how their work deals a lot with adaptation to climate change as well as understanding what’s happening in the first place. We (Canadian society in general – the southerners!) may yet pay attention to the reactions and traditions of northern communities when they blaze a new path in adapting their societies to their changing environment.

Of course we’ve dropped the ball in the past…