The Maine Question(part 2)What's it like living and doing research in the world's remote locations?

In this episode we continue our conversation with Paul Mayewski- director of UMaine’s Climate ChangeInstitute. During the past 50 years or so he has led several dozen research trips to the world’s most remote places-Antarctica, the Himalayas, the arctic among them. In part two he shares more tales of his adventures. He discusses the unexpected parts of his work- namely dealing with media coverage and politics of the topic of climate change, what he sees as the future for this highly charged topic and how the human race will cope with it or not.