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...farewell party. As it warms, we'll probably lose more, but the hope is that through projects like NEEM, we will finally understand our climatic past before meeting our uncertain future. The scientists here think we're running out of time--a concept that loses all meaning through the nightless arctic summer. I force myself to go to bed at about 11:30 and try to sleep despite the light. I wake up once to use the bathroom and stagger outside my tent. It's 2 a.m. The sun is bright and getting brighter...
Today, under nightless July skies, the Colorado trees are growing in Iceland's valleys, fenced off from sheep and guarded by rangers on ponies. The seeds were sent unofficially, as from one forester (Jauch) to another (Bjarnason). They are irrelevant to U.S. defense: the marines will have to stay in Iceland 50 years before the fir or spruce look like respectable forests...
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