Hollywood stars, Inuit protest global warming

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Hollywood stars, Inuit protest global warming

By CATHERINE CULLEN

Saturday, April 23, 2005 Page A13

MONTREAL -- Film stars such as Salma Hayek and Jake Gyllenhaal descended on the Nunavut capital of Iqaluit yesterday to take part in an art project to draw attention to global warming.

About 700 Inuit dressed in traditional clothing, along with U.S. celebrities, businessmen and politicians, gathered on the Iqaluit ice in -21 weather. The group stood in the shape of an Inuit drum dancer, accompanied by the words "Arctic" and "Warning" in English and "Listen" in Inuktitut.

Ariel photographs of the event will be distributed around the world to raise awareness.

While the focus of the event is the environment, the presence of celebrities was the talk of the town of 6,200
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and Salma to do this for our Planet. Thank you for caring and raising awareness for Earth's Sake!

The Inuits are always trying to jump in front of the cameras, where ever there are camera lights, there they are! Ambulance chasers, they are! They feign concern for something like global warming that will never affect them whatsoever. They will find good company with the trial lawyers and Hollyweirdos.

Global warming won't affect them whatsoever? Inuits in good company with trial lawyers and Hollyweirdos? Must be sarcasm without the sarcasm smiley.

good sarcasm!

Like global warming is an entity? Maybe I'm just being a grammar nazi. ;)

Some of the scientists I worked with were active in global warming research back in the 1980s -- travelling in the North, they would mention the greenhouse effect and the local people, even the elders, weren't very interested in it. (They did, and still do, have a lot of other issues to worry about, e.g. being deprived of their land, and all the things that happened in the residential schools.)

Anyway, over the past few years, the Inuit have been leading the charge when it comes to noticing things that are happening in the environment. One of the elders on the news last night commented, "When those scientists talked to us we didn't think anything of it -- but they turned out to be right! So people should listen to them."

I cannot imagine George W. ever saying that.

they say, 'if someone doesn't believe that climate change is real, we invite them to come and see for themselves'