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366W0619_hunting.jpg For the Inuit residents of Shishmaref, a tiny island between Alaska and siberia, global warming is a double whammy. Firstly sea ice that used to envelop the island around late September is now not forming until December. this leaves the island vulnerable to storms that have already washed 10 houses into the sea, leading to them being referred to as the worlds first refugees from global warming. Other houses have had to be moved back from the edge. Secondly the animals they rely on as part of their subsistance existance are becoming harder to find, as they migrate further north, away from the island. A Moose head killed by an Inuit hunter
 
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366W0763_climate change_ice sculpture.jpg Ice sulptures at Kilopaa Northern Finland. Climate change has already raised average temperatures by 0.7 oC over the last century. Winters are getting both warmer and wetter and in Southern Finland winters are becoming increasingly snow free. As permafrost melts across the Arctic huge quantities of carbon dioxide and methane could be released leading to even further warming. Such iconic winter scenes could in a relatively short space of time become a thing of the past.
 
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366W0770_global warming_ice sculpture.jpg Ice sulptures at Kilopaa Northern Finland. Climate change has already raised average temperatures by 0.7 oC over the last century. Winters are getting both warmer and wetter and in Southern Finland winters are becoming increasingly snow free. As permafrost melts across the Arctic huge quantities of carbon dioxide and methane could be released leading to even further warming. Such iconic winter scenes could in a relatively short space of time become a thing of the past.
 
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366W077Climate change_ice.jpg Ice sulptures at Kilopaa Northern Finland. Climate change has already raised average temperatures by 0.7 oC over the last century. Winters are getting both warmer and wetter and in Southern Finland winters are becoming increasingly snow free. As permafrost melts across the Arctic huge quantities of carbon dioxide and methane could be released leading to even further warming. Such iconic winter scenes could in a relatively short space of time become a thing of the past.
 
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366W0785_global warming_ice.jpg Ice sulptures at Kilopaa Northern Finland. Climate change has already raised average temperatures by 0.7 oC over the last century. Winters are getting both warmer and wetter and in Southern Finland winters are becoming increasingly snow free. As permafrost melts across the Arctic huge quantities of carbon dioxide and methane could be released leading to even further warming. Such iconic winter scenes could in a relatively short space of time become a thing of the past.
 
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366W0024.jpg Caribou in Denali National Park, Alaska, their migration is being affected by rising temperatures.
 
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366W0667_climate change_caribou.jpg Reindeer foraging in Northern Finland in winter near Saariselka. The future for this Arctic species is looking uncertain. Increased winter rain falling on snow percolates down and creates a freezing layer between snow and soil restricting their food supply. Higher summer temperatures will adversely effect them as they have few sweat glands and keep their heavy pelt in summer. Studies have shown that the warmer the winter prior to the rut the fewer live calves are born the following year. Reindeer or Caribou are already declining across much of the Arctic.
 
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366W0619.jpg For the Inuit residents of Shishmaref, a tiny island between Alaska and siberia, global warming is a double whammy. Firstly sea ice that used to envelop the island around late September is now not forming until December. this leaves the island vulnerable to storms that have already washed 10 houses into the sea, leading to them being referred to as the worlds first refugees from global warming. Other houses have had to be moved back from the edge. Secondly the animals they rely on as part of their subsistance existance are becoming harder to find, as they migrate further north, away from the island. A Moose head killed by an Inuit hunter
 
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