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Letters to the editor.

Publication: Arctic
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)

Article Excerpt
Dear Editor:

After dismissing the doubts of climate change skeptics as ravings, Ryan Brook (InfoNorth, June 2009) embarks on a rambling discourse on the carbon footprint left by field research in the Arctic, which, he alleges, is large and should be reduced. The few suggestions Dr. Brook offers for its mitigation are largely limited to recommendations buried in figure captions, ranging from the vague (use of solar and wind power in field camps) to the specious (the pistonengined Robinson 44 and turbine-powered Bell Jet Ranger helicopters are not comparable, as the latter far outperforms the former).

During my career as...

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