Inuit
Climate Collapse
2023 Heatwave
Past Predictions
In 2004 a report, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), presented at the fourth World Conference of Science Journalists in Montreal and stated:
... continued depletion of sea ice could push many marine species—walrus, polar bear, and seals—to extinction by 2070-2090. "To hunt, catch and share these foods is the essence of Inuit culture," the report preview states. "A decline in ringed seals and polar bears therefore threatens not only the dietary requirements of Inuit, but also their very way of life."
The report also says that many Inuit are experiencing growing difficulty in predicting environmental conditions, resulting, for example, in the deaths of hunters who have fallen through thinning sea ice in formerly safe hunting areas. "Our traditional wisdom on how to survive and thrive on the land is becoming useless because everything is changing and changing fast," Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), told Inter Press Service News.
The scientists involved in the assessment deliberately made moderate projections about climate change in order to avoid controversy. Nevertheless, as the Resource Center for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reports, one of the ACIA's key findings shows that some Arctic areas are exhibiting warming trends between five and 10 times the global average, rising as much as four degrees Celsius over the last few decades. Globally during this time, the climate has warmed by an average of 0.6 degrees Celsius. ...[1]