Vaclav Klaus | The Real Danger of Global Warming

PRAGUE - I am surprised at how so many people nowadays in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere have come to support policies underpinned by hysteria over global warming, particularly cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and subsidies for "green" energy sources. I am convinced that this is a misguided strategy - not only because of the uncertainty about the dangers that global warming might pose, but also because of the certainty of the damage that these proposed policies aimed at mitigation will impose.

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[See the 4/28/09 show here] Global Warming Climate Change Disinformation

CNN suggests that carbon dioxide forces Eskimos to abandon village

(CNN) -- The indigenous people of Alaska have stood firm against some of the most extreme weather conditions on Earth for thousands of years. But now, flooding blamed on climate change is forcing at least one Eskimo village to move to safer ground.

World Climate Report, Oct '07 » Settling on an unstable Alaskan shore: A warning unheeded

...Nowadays, we hear story after story describing the plight of the native Alaskans as their villages, which were constructed on the unstable bluffs along the Alaskan coast, are being undermined by the retreating shoreline (see this New York Times article, for example). Understandably, as the native Alaskans began a transition from their traditional nomadic lifestyles to more permanent villages, replacing snowhouses with tin and plywood buildings, dogsleds with snowmobiles, and seal oil lamps with electric lights, many of these settlements were located very near (the already-receding) shoreline to provide ready access to the oceans, a primary source of the coastal Inuit’s sustenance. But as the processes leading to shoreline erosion have continued and perhaps even intensified, the ocean has begun encroaching on the Inuit settlements—a situation which today has become a rallying cry for global warming alarmists, but a situation which was by and large avoidable had the advice given by Hume and Schalk, some 40 years ago, been followed.

In earlier times, when the Inuit were more nomadic, they simply would have broken camp and moved to a more suitable location. In fact, the historical scientific literature contains references to abandoned Inuit camps located on the precipices of an eroding coast. For instance, Gerald MacCarthy, in an article published in Arctic in 1953 entitled “Recent Change in the Shoreline Near Point Barrow, Alaska” wrote:

At ‘Nuwuk’ [Point Barrow] the evidence of rapid retreat is especially striking. The abandoned native village of the same name, which formerly occupied most of the area immediately surrounding the station site, is being rapidly eaten away by the retreat of the bluff and in October 1949 the remains of four old pit dwellings, then partially collapsed and filled with solid ice, were exposed in cross section in the face of the bluff. In 1951 these four dwellings had been completely eroded away and several more exposed.