Oil companies face a potentially existential crisis. The world wants to move away from oil and other emission-producing energy sources. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which falls under the United Nations, has set an aggressive "net zero" target for carbon emissions by the year 2050. Net zero refers to a situation where the amount of greenhouse gasses entering the atmosphere matches the amount of greenhouse gasses being removed. This target is deemed necessary for the global tempe
Their work near the South Pole means camping on the ice without showers or flushing toilets for seven weeks — but what we can learn about climate change there is essential to science.