Scientist blogs evidence for climate change

Professor Howard Dalton, Chief Scientific Adviser To the UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has been invited to the Antarctic by the British Antarctic Survey to discover firsthand the evidence for climate change.

Prof Dalton will record and share his 10-day expedition through a live blog, which will be updated daily as he visits the sites of some of the most dramatic evidence of climate change on the planet.

During the trip he 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.

You can follow Howard's adventures in the Antarctic, which will include camping overnight and exploring ice crevasses here.