it is a really precarious future. and the the warming effect is happening much faster there, isn't it, than in other places? absolutely. six times more in svalbard than the global average. and this is of real concern to the scientists who've been studying this place for years now. there's a number of factors behind it, the main one being that with all the ice that disappears, it means there's less white stuff to reflect the heat. and, of course, the more exposed ocean absorbs that heat, and so it's a vicious circle, really. and the level of warming is very alarming to the scientists we talked to, who have looked over 50 years at what's been happening. they say that maybe a four—degree rise is what they're looking at in this place, and the reason they're concerned is because they say what happens in the arctic is a sign of things to come, so all the melting of the ice there will affect sea levels in the future. so, whether that's bangladesh, other parts of the world, so all the time