DULUTH, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) - Will Steger has climbed mountains, traversed the Mississippi and dog sledded across Antarctica, but his message to Duluthians Wednesday was not about what he has done, but what he has seen.
Steger spoke tonight about his 40 years of travel at the poles and his eyewitness account of melting ice.

He says most of the routes he's traveled in those regions are no longer accessible by dogsled because of open water.
The adventurer says people need to look more seriously into solutions to prevent climate change.
Steger says although human caused climate changes are widely accepted in other places in the world, the issue remains politicized in the US.

"We have to look at the science. We have to look at what 97 percent of all scientists are saying. In Europe, they're 10,15 years ahead of us economically on moving away from fossil fuels, and we should be doing the same."
Steger started the non profit Will Steger Foundation to study climate literacy and climate policies.

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