Arctic voice drowning in climatic shift (BBC)

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VIEWPOINT
Glenn Morris

It is time for the industrialised world to wake up and change its behaviour before the Arctic, its people and its wildlife are lost forever, argues explorer Glenn Morris. In this week's Green Room, he shares his experiences of travelling by kayak along part of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic.

"It's so hot," an Inuit elder said, fanning herself while sitting on a bench outside the Northern Stores in Paulatuk. Her face, etched with lines, hinted at a past life that would be alien to the young people of the hamlet today.

Her complaints about the heat were said in a way that might have been comical if it were not for the sinister underlying reasons. I later learned that she had been born in a snow house.
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The summers, too, seem much warmer. Before our journey, we had consulted the Admiralty Arctic Pilot manual, which gave the upper summer temperature for the part of the Canadian Arctic we were traversing as 21C.

Yet we experienced temperatures of 34C, and it was almost impossible to sleep.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7041913.stm

34°C = 93°F

There are also some "comments" by readers at the end of the article. Some of them just left me shaking my head.