If you knew ANYTHING about the Inuit (and I didn't until I took Tom's advice and looked up some facts), you wouldn't be getting so indignant and offended on their behalf. They haven't lived a traditional lifestyle for at least 40 years, but that mythology surrounding them like a new-age eco-aura is more attractive than harsh reality, isn't it? Whatever their representatives are saying at this climate conference, it's a load. For example, consider this:
The same worsening climate that spelled the end of the Norse colonies in Greenland also put severe strains on the Inuit economy. After about 1300, temperatures became progressively colder culminating in a so-called Little Ice Age around 1500. Rich and important whaling areas in the High Arctic were abandoned and people shifted southward.
As the Earth is still not as warm as at the height of the Medieval Warm Period, whatever warming occurring where the Induit reside can be considered a return to a natural and more favourable norm and these particular Inuit posers can presumably move north again to hunt whales.
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Not what Tom meant
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- It hits the fan
- We could always relocate them and the polar bears to Antartica.
- You might be surprised
- Speaking of polar bears in Antarctica
- Careful Lee - Scott is giving you a run for your money (n/t)
- Since lawsuits against governments seldom get anywhere
- "Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at about twice the global average"
- Yeah, I've heard about that.
- We could always relocate them and the polar bears to Antartica.