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We will be able to fore-
cast what you can expect
in the future. We also
have a very optimistic

view about the natural
resources in the Arctic.
An assessment has shown
that there are a lot of nat-
riral resources in these
areas, but it is not easy to
exploit them. However, as
scientists we hope that
this International Polar
Year will provide a lot of
answers to questions and
how to exploit these
resorirces, but not damage

a fragile polar environ-
ment. Secondly, we also
have to look to the future:
what will it be like for
people living there? We
are also concei'ned about
leaving a kind of IPY
legacy, tliat is to say, the
systems we establish
should enable us to pro-
duce information for a
decade or more concern-
ing climate change, eco-
logical changes and so on.
We are cui'rently trying to
put this in place-polar
monitoring for decades.
We will provide knowl-
edge about the polar areas
tliat forms scientific basis
for climate prediction and
hydrometeoro lo gical
services for social and
economic activities in the
Arctic. For this reason a
lot of National
Meteorological and
Hydrological Services
intent to actively paitici-
brate World Q: If you had a wish

pate in IPY That's what
Meteorological Day, 23 wliat would it be?
we can do for people like
Marcli 2007, and tl'ie good way of facing tlie
YOII . ..
theme will be "Polar I remember when I sei'ved liarshness of nature. I

M e t e o r o l o g y : at tlie ice-drifting station would also like them to

Q: Are you planning
Understanding Global "North Pole 19" we look at the results of our
some events for tlie gen-
Impacts". received lots of letters Polar Year. No matter
eral public?
from young people, what they do later on in
Q: How can people get schools girls and boys. their professional lives,
Official international
information about the They told ris that they they should tliink about
lunch of IPY is planned to
IPY? would like to come and the way tl'ie polar areas
be in Paris on l Marcli
spend some time with us. affect orir daily lives in
2007 and will be done by
Yori can visit the So I wish that one day the rest of the globe. And
ICSU and WMO. There
Intei'national Polar Year they could come and visit of course, I wisli to peo-
will be also national
website <www.ipy.org> Noitli Pole; not all, of ple to look after orir plan-
events taking place all
where people can find course! The polar areas et, our wonderful liome
over the world. In
information regarding are always clianging. If for future generations.
Geneva, WMO will cele-
projects and news. you want to test yorir
endurance, tlien it is a
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