Acknowledgements ............................................... ix
Acronyms ....................................................... xi
1 Personal Beginnings .......................................... 1
PART i: THE CHANGING ARCTIC ..................................... 9
2 The Arctic Messenger ........................................ 11
PART II: WORKING TOGETHER ...................................... 21
3 The Arctic Messenger Gains a Voice: The Arctic Monitoring
and Assessment Programme .................................... 23
PART III: WHAT IS THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE? .............. 41
4 Radioactivity ............................................... 43
5 Heroic Efforts .............................................. 70
6 Acidification and Arctic Haze ............................... 76
7 Stratospheric Ozone Depletion ............................... 85
8 Persistent Organic Pollutants and Heavy Metals (Including
Mercury) ................................................... 106
9 Conducting Marine Science in the Arctic .................... 181
10 Climate Change in the Arctic ............................... 194
PART IV: WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN? ............................. 265
11 Thoughts on Education, the Training of Arctic Scientists,
and Arctic Research ........................................ 267
12 The Long and the Short of It: Has the Arctic Messenger
Been Noticed? What Can Be Done? ............................ 279
13 Epilogue: Keeping the Rovaniemi Flame Alive ................ 300
Appendix I: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) ..................................................... 307
Appendix II: What Will Happen in the Future If We Do Nothing
or If We Try Very Hard to Aggressively Reduce GHG
Emissions: Projected Change Under Different Emission
Scenarios .................................................. 309
Appendix III: Some Geophysical Background Notes Related to
Climate and Weather ........................................ 314
Appendix IУ: Orbital Forting .................................. 318
Appendix V: The Concept of Commitment ......................... 320
Bibliography .................................................. 323
Credits ....................................................... 351
Index ......................................................... 355
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