Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Technical Report
- Author
- Alan Parker, Zoltán Grossman, Edward Whitesell, Brett Stephenson, Terry Williams, Preston Hardison, Laural Ballew, Brad Burnham, Jill Bushnell, Renée Klosterman
- Year
- 2006
- Publisher / Organisation
- Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute (NIARI)
- Month
- October
- Pages
- 79
- Keywords
- indigenous, native, Pacific Rim, climate change, Arctic, South Pacific
- Summary
- Indigenous peoples are the “miner’s canary” of global climate change for the rest of humanity. Native nations of the Arctic and Subarctic are already feeling catastrophic effects of warmer temperatures, in the melting of sea ice, permafrost, and glaciers, and increase in fires, insects, flooding and drought patterns. South Pacific Indigenous peoples are finding their islands inundated by rising sea levels, erosion from intense storms, and saltwater intrusion into freshwater supplies.