WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines:
How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt.
These circumstances are the current results of global climate change, according to Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit born inside the Canadian Arctic, who maintains this constitutes a violation of human rights for indigenous people in low-lying areas throughout the world.
Yesterday, my mother mentioned to me that she has a friend who still does not believe in global warming. Sometimes, I wish these "flat earth" theorists had to experience the effects of global warming first hand. Perhaps if they had to live like the Inuit people, they would know global warming is real, but somehow I think it would not make a difference because, to them, their ideology is more important than science or truth.
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