Will Steger Quotes
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
He was the curator of the Museum’s exhibit on the effect of global warming on the life and culture of Alaskan Eskimos. Entire villages have been washed away as water levels have risen as the result of melting polar ice.
It was Bruckner who first started serious discussion about human behavior affecting the climate of the earth. So the polarizing political issue really began in 1890.
Less than an average of 5 feet above sea level, Maldives is the lowest country in the world. It’s highest point is less than 8 feet high. The small increase in the world sea level resulting from climate change has already affected Maldives, and an increase of only a foot would wipe out a large part of the country.
This was his last House debate and whereas almost all scientists had agreed that climate change was a serious challenge to the nation, an ideologically driven majority of his Republican Party denied that that there was any climate change that was different from the usual vicissitudes of nature, he tried to persuade his anti-scientific, conservative colleagues to face reality.
Storms and other weather events are occurring much more frequently as a result of the climate changes that have been taking place in the last decades. And many of the natural barriers and/or protections have been removed in favor of more “productive” utilizations of the land. Finally, in the last century Americans have had a penchant for rebuilding in dangerous flood and shoreline areas and so when there is a serious storm, the number of people, buildings, and infrastructure that is at risk is much larger than in the past.
Will Steger is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some of the most significant feats in the field of dogsled expeditions; such as the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole (without re-supply) in 1986, the 1,600-mile south–north traverse of Greenland - the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history at that time in 1988, the historic 3,471-mile International Trans-Antarctic Expedition - the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica (1989–90), and the International Arctic Project - the first and only dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Ellesmere Island in Canada during 1995.
