Back in the summer of 1989 I visited the Arctic for the first time. In the 3 weeks I was stationed in Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, I watched the Pang Fjord slowly open up and melt and I was having great fun painting the ever changing ice floes. I was not at all aware of the climate change then. On the 2006 Arctic Quest trip to the High Arctic and Greenland I learned first hand that the ice is disappearing. In Resolute some of the Locals told me that they are enjoying the longer and warmer summer, but I know that the polar bears need the solid ice so they can hunt for seals. There was no solid ice and there were no seals. We have to realize that Global Warming is here and it will get worse if we don’t do anything about it.