How Environment Change Effects the Inuit People.

By Tonweya MMyriah GGoliah EHeidi E

Team Leader Mateo Reyes

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What is global warming?• Global warming is an increase of the average temperature of the lower

atmosphere. The suns raise hit the stratosphere and warm up the earth. Some of the sunrays are intended to bounce back into the atmosphere. Due to the increased amount of carbon dioxide the sunrays are remaining in the atmosphere. The extra heat is melting ice pack in the arctic causing a variety of problems.

Global Warming

Inuit People The Inuit people have been living their resourceful lifestyle for many

of thousands of years. They feed and are completely dependent on seals, whale, walrus and other marine mammals. Due to the drastic loss of ice and climate change the aboriginal animals are leaving and foreign animals are migrating into the Inuit's homeland.

Permafrost Melting

• Ice cellars are filling with water and collapsing

• Infrastructure damage to buildings, roads, and pipelines

• Repair costs for damage

• Landscape is changing

Permafrost Chako Chuck• Cole chuck cellars are mamook pahtl kunamokst pe collapsing.• Infrastructure damage kopa houses, ooahut pe la peep.• Mamook kloshe costs kopa damages.• Illahee mitlite huyhuy.

Erosion and Ice Melting

• Land eroding beneath villages

• Less habitat for polar bears, seals

Erosion damaging a village.

Erosion pe chako chuck• Illahee eroding keekwulee tenas town.• Tenas habitat kopa itchwoot, olhiyu.

Shorter Winters, Longer Summers

• Less hunting time in the winter

• Hotter summers, more thawing

• Foreign animals invade

• Less native animals

• Changing traditions

Changing climate calls for changing traditions

“We used to stay in igloos most of the winters those days, these days we mostly stay in tents…. [During] winter the tents get cold due to not

enough insulation.” Inuk elder from Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, Canada