Using old weather to inform Arctic climate change work today
November 26, 1863. A whaling vessel named Milo catches the wind of a chilled morning in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and heads north toward the hazardous waters of the Bering Sea. At the helm is Master John Capen Hawes, whose keen eye is not just on the lookout for whales, but a far more dangerous adversary: the CSS Shenandoah. A fearsome Confederate cruiser, Shenandoah had become well-known for destroying many Union whale ships and merchant vessels during the course of the American Civil War.
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