Are all human residents of Antarctica green freaks?
I want to know if all of the scientists and people living in Antarctica are eco friendly. Do they use Hairspray? do they use those green swirly light bulbs? Or is it just the Greenpeace base?
I want to know if all of the scientists and people living in Antarctica are eco friendly. Do they use Hairspray? do they use those green swirly light bulbs? Or is it just the Greenpeace base?
As someone else said, no one "lives" there, think of it more like the space shuttle. There is a small number of scientists and support staff who go there to study the environment and the earth in general they do things like take ice core samples to take readings of CO2 levels from thousands or millions of years ago. Much of what we know about the earths climate before recorded history comes from those ice samples. They are almost in a closed ecosystem. Everything they have has to be flown in and during their winter they have several months that they are isolated, so it is important to conserve what they have. The shows I’ve seen most of the lighting in fluorescent tubes, not CFL’s. Most of the women wore hats or pony tails, so I didn’t see a need for hairspray, since they spend so much time indoors and don’t really have windows to open I’m sure they have rules against aerosol sprays. The same rules they have in high school PE class, if you had people in tight quarters spraying deodorant everyone would be breathing it.
I don’t think Greenpeace has a base at either pole, there are very few animals there and the climate is so challenging there aren’t many hunters. They spend more time in the water than on the land in super cold regions.
i wouldn’t know … i don’t live in Antarctica
Ask Sarah Palin….Green Freaks are trying to save your ass idiot. Not that they’ve got a hope in hell with people like you around.
I have been to Antarctica several times for the summer, several things you should know first off there are no residents of Antarctica people going they stay for periods ranging from a few weeks to a year or so, British expeditioners have one of the longest periods for a ‘winterer’s’ of two years. Those staying have range of skills as well as scientists there are Doctors, trades peoples like carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, pilots, and assistants to help with field work.
Many of the people going there are interested in the environment, but being green in Antarctica is also for financial reasons as much of the power for stations comes from diesel generators and it costs large amounts of money to ship in this fuel, one of my countries bases have installed 2 wind turbines to try and reduce this cost.
http://www.aad.gov.au/apps/operations/electrical.asp
At the time I posted this they are not producing power but on average they produce ~29% of the stations power as the basic cost of the 50 thousand liters of fuel to last the station per year is hugely increased by the cost of shipping it to Antarctica these turbines will pay for themselves in a few years.
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=22390