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December 17, 2004
Genocide
by Global Warming
The
Inuit Strike Back
By
RUPERT CORNWELL
The Independent
Their ancient way of life is in unprecedented
peril. Their very land is melting beneath their feet. Even the
endless night of the Arctic winter, which should be one of nature's
most immutable constants, may be changing. It too appears to
have fallen victim of the abrupt warming of the global climate
which almost every one on earth - apart from the government of
the United States - believes is exacerbated by the polluting
industries of the modern world.
But now the 155,000 Inuit,
also known as Eskimoes, scattered along the northern rim of Canada,
Greenland, Alaska and Siberia, say the climate change that threatens
their existence is also a violation of their human rights, and
that the US, responsible for 25 per cent of the planet's greenhouse
gases, is largely responsible.
The human rights, say the Inuit
are the most basic ones, the rights to life, health and property.
"We're an adaptable people, but adaptability has its limits,"
says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the head of the Inuit Circumpolar
Conference, the group recognised by the United Nations as representing
the Inuit people. "Something is bound to give, and it's
starting to give in the Arctic, and we're sending that early
warning signal to the rest of the world."
Yesterday, at the international
climate change conference in Buenos Aires, the Inuit were to
make their move by announcing they would demand a ruling from
the the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that as the
prime source of greenhouse gas pollution, is in violation of
the commission's own norms.
The prospects for success are
unclear. A Washington environmental lawyer here close to the
case, says: "The question is, does what the US government
is doing, or rather what it is not doing, constitutes a deprivation
of human rights for the Inuit. You can argue that these deprivations
are already occurring because of global warming, the loss of
sea ice, the erosion of coast-lines, and the loss of hunting
grounds. That raises the issue of whether there is a causal link
with the activities of the US, responsible for 25 per cent of
the emissions held to blame for climate change."
The feasibility of anyone suing
over global warming was raised this month by scientists who made
a fresh analysis of the summer heatwave of 2003, when there was
20,000 extra deaths across Europe, many from heat-stroke and
heart attacks. In a study in the journal Nature, scientists from
Oxford University and the Met Office's Hadley Centre estimated
that such a heatwave is now four times more likely as a result
of man-made influences on the climate. They also calculated that
these human influences - carbon dioxide emissions from the burning
of fossil fuels - were to blame for 75 per cent of the increased
risk of a repeat of such a heatwave.
This means the dice has been
loaded in favour of more extreme events of this kind, opening
up the possibility of litigation against those who have loaded
the dice, say Myles Allen of Oxford and Richard Lord, QC. "If
a dice is loaded to come up six, and it comes up six, there is
a clear sense in which the loading 'helped cause' the result,"
they wrote in Nature. "If the loading doubles the chances
of a six, it follows that half the sixes you get are caused by
the loading.
If emissions of greenhouses
gases have been found to increase the risk of a particular climate
disaster by loading the dice, these might be grounds to claim
compensation in a court against those deemed responsible for
the emissions, they say.
The Inter-American Human Rights
Commission (IAHRC) is an agency of the Organisation for American
States, of which the US is a member. The headquarters are in
Washington, a couple of blocks from the White House.
The Inuits have a voice in
the OAS - and thus the commission - through Canada, where they
have their own immense and partly autonomous territory of Nunavut,
covering 1.9 million square kilometres, or 742,000 square miles,
a fifth of Canada. But although the IAHRC can issue findings,
recommendations, and rulings, it is not a court, and the US has
predictably indicated it will not consider itself bound by anything
that emerges.
But a ruling could be the basis
for lawsuits. Already, a dozen US states, the city of New York
and several NGOs have a tort case pending from 2002 against the
federal government, charging that the Environmental Protection
Agency has failed to discharge its duty to regulate emissions
of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
If the Inuit gain a ruling
that their human rights have been violated, it could form the
basis of a case against the US government in an international
court, or class-action suits here against the government or US
energy companies, akin to the suits which have led to multibillion-dollar
judgments against the tobacco companies.
Until the Iraq war, no deed
of the Bush administration has caused greater international anger
than the refusal of the US, the world's largest economy and its
largest polluter, to acknowledge that global warming is a problem,
still less that it might be caused by human industrial activities.
But though Mr Bush quickly
rejected the Kyoto treaty, his country did sign it, in the closing
days of the Clinton administration. What is more, Washington
also subscribed to the original 1992 framework convention on
climate change. Though this latter requires no cuts in greenhouse
gas emissions, the very act of signing it constitutes a recognition
of climate change as a problem, legal experts contend.
And, at last month's meeting
in Reykjavik of the Arctic Council, grouping the eight countries
with Arctic territory, the US agreed to a final document that
called for "effective measures" to tackle a crisis
which scientists, including US ones, said was predominantly caused
by "human influences". No sudden change of heart by
the US is expected. Tony Blair wants the G8 summit hosted by
Britain to focus on the environment in general as well as climate
change, and is already trying to cajole the US into some commitment
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But he is unlikely to elicit
anything much more than words.
The State Department has said
it will not react until the Inuits formally set out their case.
"When they do, we will look at what they have to say,"
was the cool reaction of a US spokesman in Buenos Aires, "We
will consider it and respond." But in human rights, the
Inuit may have hit upon a particularly sensitive spot, where
the US considers itself the global champion, bent on delivering
democracy and freedom to the Islamic world and beyond. The Arctic
peoples hope to make common cause with low-lying island countries
in the Pacific and Indian oceans at risk from rising sea levels,
caused by the melting of the polar icecaps.
Nowhere on earth is feeling
the impact of global warming more directly than the Arctic. One
study found that the Arctic is warming at a rate eight times
faster than at any time in the past century. In Alaska, western
Canada and eastern Russia, average winter temperatures have risen
by 3C or 4C in the past 50 years, and they are projected to increase
to between 7C and 13C over the next 100 years.
The area of the Arctic sea
covered by ice naturally expands and retreats with the seasons
but all the evidence indicates this floating cap of ice has gone
into permanent retreat. A warmer climate has extended the period
of summer melting by an extra five days every decade. Average
temperatures in the Arctic are rising at 1.2C each decade. On
present trends, the Arctic will have ice-free summers by the
end of the century.
Measurements of the sea ice
taken by sonar instruments on British and American submarines
between the 1950s and 1990s have shown it has thinned by more
than 40 per cent in that period. The latest estimates suggest
the Arctic sea-ice has reduced from an average thickness of four
metres to about 2.7 metres in just 30 years.
Satellite pictures show the
surface area covered by Arctic sea ice has reduced by 4 per cent
per decade. Much of the ice that remains is far thinner than
it was and is liable to disappear more rapidly as temperatures
rise.
Five years ago, at a conference
on the Arctic organised by Greenpeace, Inuit elders told of problems
caused by retreating ice and the difficulty of finding seals
to hunt for food and clothing.
Benjamin Neakok, who lives
in the northern Alaskan outpost of Point Lay, said the end of
summer was a difficult time. "It makes it hard to hunt in
fall time when the ice starts forming," he says. "It's
kind of dangerous to be out. It's not really sturdy. And after
it freezes there's always some open spots. Sometimes it doesn't
freeze up until January."
Chief Gary Harrison of the
Arctic Athabaskan Council, said: "Our homes are threatened
by storms and melting permafrost, our livelihoods are threatened
by changes to the plants and animals we harvest. Even our lives
are threatened, as traditional travel routes become more dangerous."
One Inuit community of nearly
600 people in the Alaskan barrier island of Shishmaref is faces
becoming the world's first "global warming refugees".
The permafrost on which their homes were built has melted and
the ice that used to stop waves reaching the shore has nearly
disappeared. Joe Braach, the headteacher of Shishmaref school,
says: "When I moved here, the sea was 40ft from the house.
Now it's about 10ft."
Storms have destroyed some
of the homes and the community now has little option but to move
to the mainland, at a cost of $400m (£210m).
And global warming has raised
the prospect of developing the Arctic's vast resources of oil
and natural gas. It threatens to make a reality of the ancient
dream of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
By 2100, scientists have warned, species including the polar
bear could be extinct.
Rupert Cornwell writes for the Independent.
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