04-21-2006, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by WarChild
The temperature of the planet has changed by what, 1 degree over 100 years? Less? That doesn't seem like much in the grand scheme of things. I mean, this planet has had an ice age, and other radical events. Surely the difference in temperature has varied by greater than 1 degree over a period of 100 years before without the intervention of humans?
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Sure... Thank god you are there to shed light on the made-up situation ... 
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Updated: 9:48 a.m. ET April 20, 2006
Arctic natives see culture of cold melt away
Inuits in Resolute Bay notice softer wind and less ice
RESOLUTE BAY, Canada - Even in one of the remotest, coldest and most inhospitable parts of Canada?s High Arctic, you cannot escape the signs of global warming.
Polar bears hang around on land longer than they used to, waiting for ice to freeze. The eternal night which blankets the region for three months is less dark, thanks to warmer air reflecting more sunlight from the south. Animal species that the local Inuit aboriginal population had never heard of are now appearing.
?Last year someone saw a mosquito,? said a bemused Paul Attagootak, a hunter living in the hamlet of Resolute Bay some 2,100 miles northwest of Ottawa and 555 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
?Things getting warmer is not good for the animals, which are our food. We still eat them. We worry about them,? he told Reuters as temperatures hovered around zero degrees Fahrenheit, well above the seasonal average.
The entire life of the Inuit -- formerly called Eskimos -- is based on the cold. A rapid increase in temperatures could be cataclysmic as prey disappears and ice becomes treacherous.
In recent years there have been drastic signs of climate change in the southern part of Canada?s Arctic, where melting ice in Hudson Bay threatens the survival of local polar bears.
Buildings in the port town of Tuktoyaktuk -- on the Arctic Ocean, close to Canada?s northern border with Alaska -- are crumbling into the sea as the permafrost dissolves. Remote aboriginal communities are in distress because winter ice roads, needed to truck in supplies, are turning to water.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12389598/
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probably the INUITS also have tinfoil hats .... WTF they know about global warming ...
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I know that Asspimple is stoopid ... As he says, it is a FACT !
But I can't figure out how he can breathe or type , at the same time ....
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