Article on Will Steger dated April '07, at about the peak of CO2 hysteria

Polar Explorer Will Steger | Outside Online

...Theo Ikummaq, a 52-year-old Inuit hunter and guide from the Canadian Arctic, sits quietly in the backseat, paying no heed whatsoever to his new Swiss Army watch as the hands creep toward two o'clock.

Theo is more interested in the hot-pink bougainvillea outside the car window. Where he lives, it's mostly dark this time of year, and he's loving the subtropical sunshine and flora...

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This is Steger's third trip to L.A. in five months, and he's finding the SoCal lifestyle agreeable.
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Steger has pressed flesh before—in the eighties and nineties, he spent a lot of time in Washington, D.C., working with Al Gore and the Wilderness Society on issues like Arctic preservation—but Hollywood is a different world. The fact that he's here, eating steak with the stars, involves a curious convergence of events, starting in 2002 with the breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf, which he'd traversed in 1989.
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"Will eats, breathes, and sleeps global warming," says Buettner. "He's hardwired to thrive with a sense of purpose. His resurgence has been like Lazarus rising from the grave."