By Charles P. Wohlforth
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The best way to understand this is to model it with a ball and a lamp. The earth spins on its axis, the North and South poles, once a day. When the axis is upright, one spin of the ball puts light on each point on the ball equally—that’s the spring and fall equinox, March 21 and September 21, when the day is 12 hours long everywhere. In the summer, the North Pole leans toward the light and the Northern Hemisphere gets more light than darkness, so during the course of one rotation, each northern spot is lighted more than half the time.
The ship finally came upon an island that the men thought might be part of Kamchatka. The ship would soon be inoperable because too many sailors were ill or dead to sail it. They landed there, then lost the ship upon the beach. Bering died. The survivors scratched out an existence over the winter by eating marine mammals. The next summer they built a new ship out of part from the old one and sailed on. When they arrived back in a Russian port, they were rich men. The sea otters they had eaten to survive yielded 700 pelts that were worth enormous sums in China.
On the other hand, we may all need to adjust our plans. The amount of carbon dioxide each of us is responsible for emitting relates directly to the nonrenewable energy we use. You can help save Alaska by carpooling or turning off an extra light. 29 I’ve written a book on this subject, The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $14), which tells the story of how Alaska’s Iñupiat and scientists are experiencing and learning about the changing climate.