A tour guide from Labrador who brings visitors to visit the Arctic and Antarctica says he’s seen first-hand the rapid and dramatic impact of climate change.

Wayne Broomfield of Makkovik says he’s always had the itch to travel and as luck would have it, ended up as a tour guide with Quark Expeditions which operates tours to the Arctic and Antarctic.

Broomfield says he’s lucky to have seen both poles, calling the penguins of Antarctica some of his most treasured experiences—but he’s taken aback by the dramatic changes he’s seen and experienced.

One of the destinations he regularly takes guests to see walrus and polar bears is Svalbard; part of an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean off Norway. He says the changes there this spring were dramatic.

He says temperatures there in May and June were in the 16-degree range, temperatures that are normally seen in July and August. He says with those temperatures, he would return to an area where there was ice only four days before, to find no fast ice at all. “It’s very scary,” says Broomfield.

Broomfield, who is Inuit, says while it’s important for people to see and understand the dramatic changes taking place often reflects on his role in climate change.

“Should we be here? Should we be doing what we’re doing? Are we contributing anything to this cause?” asks Broomfield, “I still struggle with that one, to be honest with you” he says frankly.