I think the most bizarre part about it is the structure of this as a report of 'things Ed Blockley said' (or 'added', or 'continued' - I was surprised not to learn that he 'exclaimed' or 'averred' anything), mixed in with a different set of additional facts and figures and context provided by the 'narrator'. It seems we might have been better served to have just had Ed Blockley's contribution unedited and in its entirety, without the contextualizing and narration provided by the reporter. It is possible to copy/paste out all the reported paragraphs attributed to Dr Blockley from the text and get a well written overview of current Arctic climatology.