UK's new polar research ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, makes her London debut
The Attenborough, named after the TV naturalist and BBC presenter Sir David, is the ship the public wanted to call "Boaty McBoatface" in an online poll but were overruled by ministers.International senior scientific advisers are using the Attenborough as a platform to issue a statement about the urgent need to address the climate crisis.
"I think the first thing to say is sticking to 1.5 is both important and achievable," Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, told BBC News. The Attenborough was the product of lessons learned after decades of operations in the frozen south and north, said Dr Rob Larter. The Attenborough will be at the forefront of understanding how Earth's atmosphere and oceans are warming, and the impacts the temperature rise will have, in particular, on the ice-covered waters and lands of the Arctic and Antarctic.BAS scientists have already established, for example, how the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, actually helps to shield us from the worst effects of global heating.
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