The Copenhagen climate conference is in full swing, and if you wonder why it matters, we’ve got evidence of a changing world to share with you. On the following pages is a series of arresting photographs and captions contributed by Alun Anderson, an Xconomy board member and former editor-in-chief and publishing director at New Scientist. Anderson is the author of After the Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic, which is being published this month by HarperCollins-Smithsonian in North America and Virgin Books in the United Kingdom.
Anderson made several trips to the Arctic while researching the book. His photographs and personal stories provide a stark demonstration that greenhouse warming is changing the planet’s climate—and altering both human and animal communities—at a rate few could have imagined just a few years ago.
Whatever your opinion about the “Climategate” controversy sweeping the media this week, a trip to the Arctic in summer is all it would take to convince you of the urgent need for measures to control greenhouse gas emissions. “That is where Xconomy and its readers have their connection to the Arctic,” Anderson comments. “You are the people who can help develop the technology that will slash greenhouse gas emissions cost effectively.”
Author: Wade Roush
Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco.
Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.)
I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
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