Powerboats and forklifts and bulldozers and extended-cab trucks, oh my: The Eskimos at global warming's Ground Zero aren't behaving as if they believe in the global warming hoax

With Powerboat and Forklift, a Sacred Whale Hunt Endures | BlueRidgeNow.com

BARROW, Alaska — The ancient whale hunt here is not so ancient anymore.
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“Ah, the traditional loader,” one man mumbled irreverently. “Ah, the traditional forklift.”
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Blood seeped through its baleen as a bulldozer dragged all 28 feet of it across the rocky beach.
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When a second whale is landed that evening, the middle-aged captain whose crew killed it, a descendant of men who have hunted whales here for thousands of years (subtract the outboard motors, the Caterpillar D7H and the Carhartt foul-weather gear), climbs the sea mammal in waterproof boots and bibs, raises his arms to the people who are sending celebratory text messages and shining the headlights of their extended-cab trucks on the scene, and says “Ah ah ha!”
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Asked whether this is a good place to pursue his work, Hans Thewissen, a whale expert who travels here regularly from his job at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy, said, “This is the only place.”
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Before Arctic Alaska began being pulled into the developed world in the 19th century, before Pepe’s North of the Border, a Mexican restaurant, opened in Barrow in 1978, before Oscar Mayer Lunchables reached the impulse aisles at the big-box store next to the museum, bowheads provided the central food, energy and spiritual sustenance for Eskimo villages. 

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