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Topic: Global Warming Hits Nunavut
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drgoodword
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posted 24 April 2006 12:06 PM
quote: RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - April 24, 2006 - 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 3,400 km (2,100 miles) northwest of Ottawa and 893 km (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 (minus 18 degrees Celsius) 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.
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From: Toronto | Registered: Oct 2002
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Fear-ah
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posted 24 April 2006 06:25 PM
Is it a problem?Couldn't be...in the last election all 4 Canadian parties in Canada, a country with the most to lose, didn't mention it... So it can't be a problem--I was raised to believe all the important questions would answered during an election...I guess it wasn't an important question? (being scarcastic of course) I guess I got no choice but to go and start kicking out the headlights of SUVs--at least you can be sure the owner will be able to only be a 'pig' for part of the day. :-)
From: Vancouver | Registered: Jul 2004
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clersal
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posted 26 April 2006 11:43 PM
Here they talk about the Ozone layer and not to go in the sun.The West Nile virus that has nicely got the villagers in a panic and they want to use some kind of lethal spray to kill the female mosquitoes, the sexist pigs. Naturally the Birdie virus that seems to be a real killer. People are probably madly slaughtering every bird they see. Of course there is the irritated cow disease, fish full of mercury, snails that are taking over the waterways. Nah it has nothing to do with global warming.
From: Canton Marchand, Québec | Registered: Apr 2001
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