Polar Bears and Ice

It’s complicated

Bear tracks in soft ice, photo credit Paul Greenberg

The money shot of climate change is without doubt that of a polar bear stranded on a tiny island of ice, seemingly hopelessly adrift while the world around melts into oblivion. But as the month of May arrives and the northern spring starts to break up the frozen Arctic Ocean after the world’s warmest winter on record, I’m reminded of a trip I took a few years back to Svalbard Island where I came to…