The Robson Expedition
The Climate Discussion Nexus Seeks a Northwest Passage Through Canada’s Frozen Arctic to Understanding
Who
Dr. John Robson and his Calgary-based film crew from VEK Labs.
What
A Canadian documentary film, professionally produced for wide distribution, exploring the myths and realities of the climate issue.
When
Filming Spring 2026. Production through summer. Release September 2026.
Why
To explore what we really know about Arctic ice and climate — and what we don't — furnishing an antidote to hysteria and false certainty.
The expedition begins with a specific focus on whether Arctic ice really is melting — filmed in part on Victoria Island, near the King William Island site of the Franklin Expedition wreckage. It then pans out to the larger question of how to detect statistically reliable trends, navigating the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans back through Hudson to Eric the Red, and through the whole Pleistocene "Ice Age" and well beyond.
The film broadens its focus even further — covering tens and hundreds of millions of years — to explore alternative explanations for climatic change: ocean currents, continental drift, orbital cycles, and more. It closes by stressing the overwhelming scale of geological phenomena and the often sudden, dramatic fluctuations within those trends that refute notions that current changes are "unprecedented," and discusses the fundamental difficulty of understanding and predicting climate, let alone influencing it.
"The Arctic, the oceans and the biosphere generally, are a lot bigger than many people seem to realize — and their processes are more massive, inexorable, and immune to human action."
Dr. John Robson
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