Jon Waterman Documents Arctic Climate Crisis in 'Into the Thaw'

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mountaineer Jon Waterman first journeyed to the High Arctic in 1983, intent on learning all he could about the strange land with grizzlies and caribou, sea fossil-filled mountains and night skies with “saffron clouds and beams of viridescence.” Waterman has returned more than 20 times since then, and in a new book he documents the environmental changes he witnessed. We talk to him about the world above the Arctic Circle and how the climate crisis is transforming it. His book is “Into the Thaw.” http://jonathanwaterman.com Guests: Jon Waterman, author, “Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis”; former Denali National Park ranger. His other books include National Geographic’s “Atlas of the National Parks" and "In the Shadow of Denali." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.3	Music from KQED.com. From KQED. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. John Waterman first journeyed to the Arctic in 1983,
1:41.2	intent on learning all he could about the strange land with grizzlies and caribou and sea fossil-filled mountains. Waterman has returned more than 20 times since then,
1:45.2	and in a new book documents the radical environmental changes he's witnessed.
1:50.0	We talked to him about how the climate crisis is transforming the world above the Arctic Circle.
1:55.2	His book is called Into the Thaw. Join us.
2:20.5	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. For John Waterman, the Arctic, with its immense landscape and sky,
2:28.1	captured his soul the first time he ventured there in 1983. The Arctic now, he says, warms nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, bringing with it transformation and consequences.
2:35.5	Waterman's new book,
2:40.8	Into the Thaw, documents his journey back to the same place he first visited, among other places along a 500-mile track, giving us a clear sense of what those transformations look and feel like.
2:47.5	And he joins me now. John, welcome to Forum. Thanks for having me, Mina.
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