Climatic Change and Northern Development

Abstract

My approach to this subject is that of an oceanographer, not a meteorologist; but since much northern development, past, present, and future is closely related to the sea, it is not an inappropriate approach. The Eskimos, or Inuit, are fundamentally a coastal people, living largely on the products of the sea; whalers have used the northern waters extensively, traders have bought, and buy, sea mammal skins and oils, and the present industrial thrust is in part concerned with oil and gas from the northern sea floor or with mining close to the shore. ...