Jethro + Keith Brindle’s QA
By Jethro // Friday 21 Sep // 08:59:00 // 90 Comments
Jethro and Keith Brindle’s Live Arctic QA Session
Friday 21st Sept, 9.30am GMT (10.30am UK)
Following the new video diary from Jethro, he and Keith Brindle will both be online live from the Arctic for 30 minutes to hear your responses and answer questions. The live QA will take place on this page on Friday 21st September at 9.30am GMT. To take part check back and follow the instructions below.
Watch Jethro’s latest video diary »
Watch Jethro’s first video diary »
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How to take part in the Arctic QA
This Arctic QA session will open at 9.30am GMT (10.30am UK). For 30 minutes following this Jethro and Keith will log in and be available to hear your response to the video and answer any more questions you have.
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*IMPORTANT* During the session you need to “Refresh” or “Reload” this page every few minutes to see new comments and follow the discussion. If you can’t see anything happening refresh the page!
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Hi all, Jethro’s live QA is now open. We’ve opened a bit early so Jethro can let you know what’s happened to his video!
Hi Frome, I’m online a little bit early, I’ve just shot my final video and that will be up shortly so please fire away
whats happened to the video?
we canrt see it
Hey Jethro, how’s everything going? Just to let you know, I’ve left messages with Mr. Bate’s secretary, Sue and Ms. Emms to let them know you’re online early -so hopefully we should get some questions through shortly! How are things with the guitar? Have you been playing it lots?
we haven’t put it up yet, i’s just been made, it will be up in 5 minutes
Hi Frome – the video is being beamed directly from the arctic as we speak – we’d thought we’d ask Jethro online before the ‘premiere’
Hannah, Cape Farewell
jethro,were all in media arts waiting for you! Has keiths hair frozen yet?
how do we get to the live video,if there is any
Dr B here also. Jethro and I went swimming in near zero sea waters yesterday. it is very refreshing to swim with a glacier in the background.
I take it you dodged the polar bears..This is Will on the computer by the way
Refreshing is one way of putting it! Was everyone brave enough to get in the water?
the video is being put up at the moment, if you just keep refreshing you should see it at the top of the page soon
excellent thanks
refresh now and click the latest reports link
It’s about 2 minutes long so watch it now
We just watched it,thanks
Hi all, the video is now live. Click here to watch it if you haven’t found it yet! http://voyage4.capefarewell.com/2007/09/21/video2-keith/
how many people are watching it now then?
1st question.What else have you been doing besides swimming,playing music,and “stuff”…From Hattie
about 40 people here jethro
we’ve been doing our art and science projects and taking in the scenery
we’ve been up the glaciers and we were sailing the Noorderlicht on the way up here aswell
2nd-from Sam..Have you had to go to the toilet in a bag(Im not making this up)
no, there’s toilets on the boat, it’s pretty kitted out on there
3rd-How close have you gotten to a polar bear?-from Mark
when we were on the boat we were sailing up a Fjord and one was following our tracks on the coast, we were there 20 minutes before
4th-is the climate difficult to live in–andrew w.
it was a few hundred metres
Who won the football match yesterday?
Dr B here. I took 3 students who have done research on air quality up to the Zeppelin atmospheric monitoring station 2 days ago. This is one of the sites that is used to show the global impact of greenhouse gases. There is no local pollution contribution and the station is over 400 m high so is above inversion layer…. which means all the pollutants measured are from the rest of the world. We’ve seen some very dramatic CO2 data…. the sort of stuff Al Gore mentions in his film….. but we saw it first hand, with the data coming fresh off the instruments.
it’s changed, its not that cold, between 0 and -5 but the wind is freezing
5th-How many hours of daylight?-from you tutor–also,someone wants to know what the girls are like
my team won, were playing some people tomrrow at the school in Longyearbyen
Thanks Keith,depressing data..
the daylight is changing a lot, it didn’t really get dark at first but it’s getting darker and darker every night and most of the girls here have beards
6th- Are there any inuits there?- from Joanne–
Wahey! Well done. So have you done a lot of sing-songs with your guitar? (And Joe’s, and Akash’s Indian instrument?)
there’s one inuit on the trip but anyone who lives here has either moved here to make money or is a scientist
7th-have you seen any whales or other wildlife-from Cassie and mars
yes, mostly mine, Joe is a bit shy when it comes to playing the guitar, we did a massive sing a long the other day
we havent seen any whales, we’ve seen a polar bear, a puffin, some seals and lots of other birds
8th-How do you get around?-from sharlin
and keith
Because of the global weather system a significant amount of the world’s pollutants head towards the poles. That means that pollutants that were banned are still being measured at high levels here – including the ozone depleting CFC. More worryingly the CFC replacements such as HCFC are increasing rapidly; the concentration has more than doubled in the last 5 years. The problem with these replacement pollutants is that they are 20,000 times more powerful greenhouse gases than CO2… and very stable in the atmosphere. Dr B
Hattie and sophie- Has the trip made you more passionate about climate change?
That’s cool. Do you think you’ll use your guitar for song-making when you get back -as in to ’spread the word’?
we get around on the boat if were going far away, we got ashore by getting on a Zodiac (a little dingy) and we’ve done a lot of walking, we sail quite a lot but if there’s no wind we go on the engine (we try not to do this)
i will use my guitar very much, it’s really inspiring up here
I farted in the Zeppelin monitoring station and it registered on the very sensitive methane monitoring equipment…. so there are some sources of local pollution… until we leave that is! Dr B
The trip has made me more passionate about climate change, seeing the glacier breaking up was really eye opening
do you have any huskie dogs ?- laurel
there is huskies, there was one outside the hotel it Longyearbyen, it was very fun
Josh asks- Are you worried that the way you are getting around is more damage to the climate
there’s more huskies out here, there really loud!!!
Keith…nice standard to set there. And they say that cows are the culprits …Hmmm.
it’s not bad, it’s windy most of the time so we sail and we’re doing it for the greater good!
Answer to Hattie and Sophie’s question. The trip has made me very aware of the complexity of climate change. The scientists here are right at the cutting edge of what is being done and they are very cautious about making sure that all the factors are considered…. including the natural cycles of the earth and sun. Dr B
Becca and lizzie ask-what have you been eating?
the chef is GREAT! lots of star quality soups and really nice food, i want to hire her as my personal chef
and there’s lots of food!
The traditional roles of the huskies have changed. We saw a couple pulling scientists on their push-bikes. Seriously, they us the dogs to get them to the different weather station around Ny-Alesund.
I have a question(Will the typist here) Have you seen any northern lights?And keith,are you taking care of my camera,Howards laptop…oh..and jethro
what’s been happening in the school?
Oh you know..a bit of learning,a sea of blue polo shirts,and Mrs Love is keeping track of all of the work you need to catch up on….
we haven’t seen the northern lights unfortunately
Josh wants to know what you have done so far to help the climate
I’m staying here if there’s work to do when i get back
I think Jethro means, have you guys been doing anything related to Climate Change whilst he’s been up in the Arctic? (We’d like to see pictures, if you have!)
scientific experiments, we’re learning more and more about the way climate change works and ways to reduce emissions and we’re going to be spreading the word on this when we get back using arts
sorry about the tone setting there Jess. Just to take things to another level though I did have a near cacking myself moment when a huge piece of glacier (60 m high) came crashing down 200 m away from the ship. none of the kids were on board and was therefore free to let a couple of expletives rip as a mini-tsunami rocked the ship a couple of times.
HA,I see. The FEW afre running around school with Jethro masks and a megaphone.Weve been filmed by creative partnerships and we have our first eco meeting
Hattie-are you carbon offsetting the trip?
great, keep it all up, thanks for the support from everyone, you’ve all been great, im going to be on T4 at the end of october when its the 25th anniversary of channel 4
We’ve been under the scrutiny of the cameras for most of the time we’ve been here. T4 have been filming what we’ve been doing and are putting together a short piece for some time around the end of October (as part of Channel 4’s 25th anniversary).
we’re hoping to make a difference in the communities that everyone comes from and we’re all handing out energy efficient light bulbs to help family and friends lower their emissions
I suppose, Keith, when one’s life is at threat one might be allowed to exclaim in less than proper way. So long as no children are around. And what did this incident teach you (about climate change, because all things must be relative in life).
Jethro masks?!?!?! Ok… What’s this eco meeting thing, then? Explain, please, Frome!
Andrew wants to know if you could,would you stay there?
Capre Farewell have calcultated that if each member of the trip hands out 5 energy efficient light bulbs to someone who’s not using them then we can cancel out the impact of our trip CO2 wise
I would stay for longer, definately but there’s not much night life here so I wouldn’t live here
And finally,everyone is missing you and loves you(especially Hattie,in a friendly way….)Get home safe,and see you monday.Good work
thanks for everything, it’s been great being here and I can’t wait to tell you all of my stories, it’s going to be wierd going back to normal life though, it’s completely different up here
And if you recycle the boxes that the bulbs came in, well then, you’re probably just showing off! No, I’m joking, that’s a very good idea.
I’ll see you next week
I’ve written some bangin’ arctic tunes to whoever asked
Bye Jethro! Bye Keith! Bye Frome! Bye Everbody!
tally pip guys
Tomorrow we go to UNIS, the international university in Longyearbyrn, where a significant amount of polar and climate research is being carried out. We’ll get a chance to go around the labs and speak to the researchers.
After that we playing a game of footy with pupils from the local secondary school. Bizarrely, when went to the school earlier in the week and did some workshops, a significant number of the pupils were not interested in climate change…. even though it’s happening on their doorstep and a lot of their parents are working at the university. This puts the job of being an advocate for the climate into stark perspective. On this I END.
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