Begley blames CO2 for coastal erosion in Alaska

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The effect of global climate change is so dramatic upon the Inupiat Eskimo village of Shishmaref, on the island of Sarichef near the Arctic Circle in Alaska that houses are falling into the sea...Not only has Shishmaref raised funds to erect seawalls to protect the shoreline, but the village also has plans to move several miles south, at a reported cost of $180 million.

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The population was 562 at the 2000 census.

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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.