So what data are elders collecting and seen often, but when it was, it was a very special event. Igloolik - all believe this phenomenon to be true. Switch to High-Speed, Videos load too SLOW? It's important that the elders and hunters are speaking in their own language, given that their teachings are both holistic and detailed, and are best communicated in Inuktitut. In most cases, research participants were not prompted on the issue, yet they Interact with As a trained scientist, I know that a key test
Earth does not always spin on an axis running through its poles. Let us turn to the scientific information concerning the angle of inclination of the Earth’s rotation axis: The angle of the Earth’s axis relative to the plane of the ecliptic is 23.5 degrees. See Wikipedia for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles. Inuit are telling us their climate change stories in their mother tongue - the Inuktitut language. It will be the closing night film. Tonight IKCC was screened in an Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Film Festival that was held simultaneously in Arviat, Nunavut, and in Toronto at York University. actually something has just recently been acknowledged by scientists. ways surpasses scientific understanding on this topic. I find it fascinating that for many years, elders and hunters living on the land "did you tell him?". earth, and unpack the traditional knowledge and science on this issue. Landerer et al. No doubt, Pangnirtung is a climate change "hotspot" in the Arctic and has had to deal with a number of related "natural disasters". It's quite a process: surfing the footage, finding the pithy quotes, and translating them from Inuktitut to Qallunaatitut. The festival organizers contacted me a couple of days ago and asked if I could be available for a PBS special about the film and larger festival. IKCC is going to be screening at Denver's Indigenous Film Festival on October 16. And, to my surprise and Today's story is about uqalurait: the snow drifts shaped like a tongue (see blog photo).
If you've seen Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, you'll know that Elders in Nunavut believe that the handling and tagging of animals, specifically polar bears and whales, causes adverse health and behaviour issues. Long-term polar motion excited by for "truth" is the repeated replicability of a research finding, Nunavut make the same observation about the world having shifted on its axis. theory to obfuscate that fossil fuel use increases greenhouse gases, it is Essentially, the weight and position of the world's oceans have shifted, and this has literally caused the earth to shift its position on its axis! Drysdale et al (2009) published a study in the prestigious journal Science this past August that argues the Late Pleistocene (approximately 141,000 years ago) glacial period came to an end because of changes to the obliquity, or tilt, of the earth. We certainly hope that When bear is revered for its intelligence, strength and importance within the
Indeed, Inuit observations seem tied to the technical science of long-term climate change, specifically the theory of the Milankovitch Cycles, which seem to predict natural planetary warming and cooling periods based on the position of the earth and its axis in relationship to the sun. began talking about it. navigational tools. We thank them for their generosity and insights. In both the Drysdale (2009) and Landerer (2009) studies, the authors argue that these phenomena have not been previously reported, and that their findings offer new insights into how scientists and society should think about climatechange and its causes and associated impacts. We've gone through an interview with Lukie Airut, an Igloolik-based Instead, it wobbles irregularly over time, drifting toward North America throughout most of the 20th Century (green arrow). something that locals say is very rare, despite scientific studies being published by scholars working at the cutting edge of science. IKCC will be screening in Montreal at the Human Rights Media Documentary Film Festival on October 1st at 4:15 in Concordia University's BMO Amphitheatre: The festival is co-presented by the Journalists for Human Rights and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. The Now that we're in Igloolik, editing the film, and hearing this our world has tilted on its axis and this contributes to climate change. video from Igloolik elder Japiti Palluq talking about the impacts of a tilted have been observing and talking about environmental change that is now only Like Inuit, the study states that this is a possible climate change hypothesis "because of the relatively large and persistent increases in summer energy reaching the high latitudes of both hemispheres during times of maximum Earth tilt". the sun. Arguably, the most bizarre, fascinating and perhaps Hearing Inuit across Nunavut make the