or vacation days despair not because environmental journalists are renowned boxing commentator karen mulvaney made the trip so we don't have to they're going to weigh in on the pros and cons of eco tourism the state of our polar ice caps and the intersection of climate change and politics of any joined our show or earlier take us you know it's really really interesting to talk to because this fifty years of victory there isn't a cruise ship it's a working ship that works in the arctic and much of the year it is trying to carve a path through the ice for container vassals and cargo vessels and just for a couple of months a year it does this north pole trip for passengers and so these are pretty hardened mariners right there russians are not very sort of emotional about these things but the captain himself did say to the cops and i mean you've been doing this an awfully long time i think. twenty five years or so he's been sailing in the arctic and he's not a man who's completely convinced of the causes of climate change he did say look it's very different now than when i started there's a lot m

travelers every year on board a nuclear powered russian icebreaker and among them scientific writer karen mulvaney who joined us earlier to reflect on his experience. getting back to the polaroid well i want to for those watching at home you know i think it's one thing to address the problem and recognize the problem is that you know what is the solutions to what can we do at least we know anyone who's followed this knows long term solutions to climate change obviously but you know reducing our c o two but what is there any short term changes or short term solutions that we can throw in act. to help hold back this ice melt or is it just something about this boy. well look there's a very real concern specifically with the arctic. that it is in arctic sea ice is in what some experts have called a death spiral that walk happens as the ice melts so more water becomes more water becomes exposed that absorbs heat which makes it much easier to melt the ice the ice becomes thinner and that's more susceptible to melting and so that feeds in on itself so. under present scenarios it seems as if in the mid to

reports of contacted peoples being brutally murdered finally we welcome journalist and author karen mulvaney into the hocks us to discuss his recent travels to the top of the world in the dangerous polar ice melt that's taking place there it's all part of our environmental edition of watching the hot sex week they don't want to miss that sounds very interesting thank you so much tom thanks the data well does it for now for more of the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america and check out our web site or to dot com slash america and of course you can follow me on twitter at the top this week's question more. well the world. and all the news companies nearly players but what kind of part is already america play r t america. our team america and. many ways to use it just like you do you really use a good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear all. of the park in the world of the world all the world's a stage we are definitely a player. but. i do not know if the russian state packed into john podesta e-mails and gave them to we but i do know barack obama