1. What is the Polar Star? Be specific.

2. Why is the Polar Star being deployed to the Antartic?

3. Why is this rescue needed?

4. What was the purpose of the Akademik Shokalskiy's journey?

5. Two weeks into a five-week excursion, climate change professor Chris Turney's venture to retrace a 1912 research expedition in Antarctica and gauge how climate change has affected the continent saw its ship get trapped in ice. Those who disagree with the belief that catastrophic global warming is upon us and it is caused by man's use of fossil fuels say this is the ultimate irony. What do you think?