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Inuit village blames climate change for strange events
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| 5 hours ago
| Alexander Panetta
Posted on 06/04/2009 8:27:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut — The fish changed colour. New bird species were spotted. Two bridges were wiped out by a once-in-a-lifetime flood that forced villagers to dump sewage into their pristine waters. The locals say strange things happened last year in this snow-peaked, sapphire-watered hamlet by the Arctic circle. And they have a message for city-dwellers who might normally be indifferent to the bizarre weather in an Inuit village 1,000 kilometres north of Labrador: This is what climate change looks like. "Climate change is real," says Ron Mongeau, the town manager of Pangnirtung, a postcard-pretty spot girded by mountains and glacial fjords. "It's not happening tomorrow or next week. It's happening here and it's affecting the life of everybody in the Arctic - every day."
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TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; inuit
An Inuit village in 1575 AD
To: JoeProBono
It's happening here and it's affecting the life of everybody in the Arctic - every day.Are the Polar Bears' testicles shrinking too?
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:29:02 PM PDT
by
John123
(Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
To: JoeProBono
This is what climate change looks like. "Climate change is real," says Ron Mongeau, the town manager of Pangnirtung, a postcard-pretty spot girded by mountains and glacial fjordsMongeau only pawn in cap-and-trade, carbon-credit game of life.
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:29:25 PM PDT
by
ikka
(Brother, you asked for it!)
To: JoeProBono
"Pangnirtung, a village on Canada's Baffin Island, had rain and temperatures in the 40s last month, when minus-20 degrees is normal."
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:29:34 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: ikka
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:31:01 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FreeRepublic. Monthly Donors Wanted.)
To: ikka
‘”Climate change is real,”’
Of course it’s real and thank god for it. The debate isn’t about climate change, but about man made changes.
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:31:04 PM PDT
by
BGHater
(It's easy to be a Conservative now.)
To: John123
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:31:46 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: John123
Are the Polar Bears' testicles shrinking too?Mine have shrunk....I blame it on al gore.
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:31:50 PM PDT
by
Snurple
(VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
To: John123
NO..
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:36:32 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
To: ikka
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:38:41 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 136 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: JoeProBono; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Delacon; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; ...
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:45:08 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Lady Thatcher)
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
06/04/2009 8:52:53 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
I’ve noticed everyone has been turning gay, but am not sure if it’s related.
To: kaehurowing
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posted on
06/04/2009 10:03:07 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
They shouldn’t have pissed off the gods by building all of those wooden houses...
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posted on
06/04/2009 10:05:26 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Axenolith
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posted on
06/04/2009 10:29:54 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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