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A London teenager is making a 60-mile trek across an Arctic wilderness to make a film teaching children about climate change.
Louise Biddle, 19, faces freezing temperatures, 24-hour sunlight and 100mph winds during the trip organised by explorer Antony Jinman, 28. The pair, who will be joined by 22-year-old filmmaker Josie Beynon, plan to chart the changes in a glacier on Baffin Island in northern Canada.
A film of their adventures will then be given to schools around the country. Miss Biddle, who is in her first year of an Earth Sciences degree at Oxford, said: "It will be the ultimate adventure with a powerful message attached."
Mr Jinman, who regularly takes groups to Mount Kilimanjaro, said he hoped their film would be "an eye-opener". The group will trek through a national park named Auyuittuq, which translates as "the land that never melts".
They will negotiate fjords, glaciers, and ice fields around Mount Thor and Mount Asgard, a 2,600ft ice face which featured in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Mr Jinman said: "Last year there was a flood because of ice which melted off the glacier and walkers had to be airlifted out." They are funding next month's trip but are seeking sponsorship.
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This is part of a trillion-dollar worldwide scam to raise wealth of the few by taxation on the many. In order to avoid a civil uprising, the population has to be tricked into believing that they are saving the planet by paying green taxes and introducing a sub-scam in the form of carbon credit trading and indulgence selling. If left unchecked this will lead to economic disaster.
Another sub-scam is protecting Doncaster from the sea to prevent it becoming a coastal resort. This is being done by tricking schoolchildren into believing it.
Some how Mencken's hobgoblins (all of them imaginary) are still running amok.
- Roy Everett, Suffolk, UK, 03/05/2010 11:04
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No doubt she'll be travelling there by plane, car, and other eco-unfriendly forms of transport.
It's time something was done to pull the plug on the "climate change" brainwashing of gullible souls. There's been "climate change" on Mars. Was that a direct result of little green men jetting off on holiday, using their cars too much, and burning coal fires? I think not.
- Jock, London, 17/07/2009 14:49
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Im going to make a film lying on a beach in Cyprus to prove its getting hotter. Any sponsors?
- Dac - Ealing, London, 17/07/2009 09:53
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"The problem with climate change is far from simple and unfortunately will not be solved over night." Anthony Jinman, the "problem" isn't going to be solved at all, it's been going on for 4.5 billion years!
Climate change is not going to be stopped by taxation, travelling teenage eco-warriors or reducing our "carbon footprint" (because CO2 has nothing to do with it, it is a by-product of it). Get over it, and get on with your life.
- Keith Lonsdale, Doncaster, 16/07/2009 17:42
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"I'd rather the planet burns up and explodes as long as it saves me a few quid."
Ha Ha Nice one Steve!
- Steve King, Brentford, 16/07/2009 14:41
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Anything as fashionable as this carbon footprint business arouses my suspicions. Add to that it's this rapacious government's excuse for yet more taxation. As for this particular "expedition", how long before it's a mandatory part of the "gap year" for well-off teenagers? Sorry, I don't buy any of it.
- Js, Shere, Surrey, 16/07/2009 14:27
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At least she'll be safe from polar bears.
- Steve, London, 16/07/2009 13:49
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These are all very valid points and I do agree that we all need to reduce our carbon footprint. This expedition is one of a continual program I have run on Baffin Island with the Inuit people. My expeditions use technology that make the expeditions fully interactive for school children around the world to actively take part. Students are able to ask questions free of charge directly to my satellite phone, where upon I can reply via blog and photos reporting back credible eye witness accounts of the world around us. This I know is a fantastic educational tool for students as young as 5 to use and incredibly inspiring, teachers from schools who take part all say the same. My follow up talks in schools are also free as I believe that all schools can hear my talks and help bring classrooms alive through photography and film.
The problem with climate change is far from simple and unfortunately will not be solved over night. I believe that inspiring and educating our future generations on 'mans' impact on habitats and the environment around the world will bring about a greener way of living for the future.
The only way we will know about the changes taking place in remote parts of the world, is by going there and documenting these issues. If you would like to read my blogs of previous expeditions please do visit my web site www.antonyjinman.com.
Everything is non profit and money raised from the expeditions goes to the continual work of the Princes Trust.
- Antony Jinman, Plymouth, 16/07/2009 11:52
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I suppose they are walking to the coast then swimmming to the Arctic? Otherwise their carbon emissions will be huge. Rather the opposite of their actual message. Like Al Gore's inconveniently huge mansion consuming VAST amounts of energy (and him jetting all over the globe) whilst he lectures us peasants about using by comparison virtually bu66er all energy.
Hypocrisy thats his real message. Inconvenient and Truthful.
Message to Louise...leave the Arctic be, if you want to see it try Google Earth instead. Much less carbon emissions.
- Ethan, UK, 16/07/2009 09:51
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At the moment I think climate change is the least of our worries.At the end of the day it's another form of taxation so I'd rather the planet burns up and explodes as long as it saves me a few quid.
- Steve, London, 16/07/2009 08:39
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