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Preparing to sail for the Arctic
One thing I want to try and do on the expedition is to somehow capture that glacier’s speed. I have some kit to do that but all will depend on weather and terrain. But the main point of the expedition is to look, ...
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Discussing white balance with Lemn Sissay
On the chartered plane on the way to Kangerlussuac to meet the boat I am sitting next to the Lemn Sissay, who writes witty and beautiful poetry amazingly quickly. He is reading poetry and I am reading my new ...
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Thinking about geo-engineering
The participants on the Cape Farewell voyage were asked to respond to a talk by David Keith at Ted.com about geo engineering. Sunand's response was as follows. What do the Cape Farewell crew think of Geo-Engineering as ...
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Fantastic fjords and cool conversations
The science team is also measuring the salinity related to temperature and depth for a similar purpose. The ocean-floor mapping provides data on historical climate conditions going back well over 50 million ...
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Beautiful icebergs and a history lesson
The project I initially envisaged is definitely not going to be feasible. The plan was: two or three helium balloons would be placed on a glacier with battery-powered electro-luminescent wire attached to the ...
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Fjord heaven
Lemn Sissay, Marcus Brigstock, Martha Wainwright, Shlomo, Leslie Feist, Jarvis Cocker, KT Tunstall, Robyn Hitchcock, Vanessa Carlton and Ryuichi Sakomoto – is beyond any pop superlative cliché. Halfway through we look out of the ...
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Successful landing
There is plenty of material to convey the intention of the piece – a tonne of CO2, the amount each one of us on the UK emits on average on one month, visualised in front of a glacier retreating because of greenhouse gas ...
