for thousands of years the inuit people lived off the land. now that weather patterns in the arctic have irreversibly shifted, inuit women are trying to hold theirfamilies together through it all. life on thin ice follows three generations of inuit women to see the impact that climate change has had on their community. banging drum. #ayayayayayayay.# climate change came along and it changed everything. due to the ice melting, we ve seen all of these changes. it s affecting us up here in the arctic circle. i am worried about the future. we have lagoon on one side, sound on the other. -
but we weren t able to do that this year. due to the ice melting, there are a lot of new waterways opening up. this will be used for a lot of shipping vessels to make their routes easier, but the problem with this is that there s a lot of noise that the ships make and this can have a lot. a big effect on our animals, our marine wildlife. it s just if like we were trying to have a conversation and then there s like this construction happening outside, we re going to want to move to a different room to have our conversation. so that s what the animals are doing. a lot of them are relocating. in a few years, i m afraid that we won t have the subsistence lifestyle. we won t have the connection to the land like we used to, and my children in the future
According to recent research, deep beneath the Arctic's permafrost hides Cold War-era nuclear waste and deadly viruses that might soon be exposed to the surface due to rapid-melting ice.
it is a great climate debate at this hour world leaders are gathering to hash out a new deal regulating greenhouse gases. what does it mean to you? ice melting, ocean temperatures rise. climate change is happening. this is the first year on record the continental united states had two consecutive category four hurricane landfalls. food could be scarcer. the u.s. economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars, and thousands more americans quite frankly could die. we re already seeing evidence that this country is being hurt by climate change. the past five years have all been the warmest on record for our planet and 18 of the hottest 19 years have occurred since 2001. those are the facts. weather, climate change, two different things. the facts.
reporting it for years. it is a great climate debate at this hour world leaders are gathering to hash out a new deal regulating greenhouse gases. what does it mean to you? ice melting, ocean temperatures rise. climate change is happening. this is the first year on record the continental united states had two consecutive category four hurricane landfalls. food could be scarcer. the u.s. economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars, and thousands more americans quite frankly could die. we re already seeing evidence that this country is being hurt by climate change. the past five years have all been the warmest on record for our planet and 18 of the hottest 19 years have occurred since 2001. those are the facts.