Global warming is human rights issue-Nobel nominee

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By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines:

How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt.

These circumstances are the current results of global climate change, according to Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit born inside the Canadian Arctic, who maintains this constitutes a violation of human rights for indigenous people in low-lying areas throughout the world.

Watt-Cloutier and Martin Wagner, an attorney with the environmental law firm Earthjustice, argued this case on Thursday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States in Washington.

"We weren't going to go to court," Watt-Cloutier said in a telephone interview after her testimony to the commission. "It wasn't about lawsuits and suing for damage or compensation.

"It was more about really trying to get the world to pay attention and see this as a human rights issue."
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1. I'm telling you, global warming deniers should be JAILED

This isn't a matter of freedom-of-speech. Global warming deniers are engaging in activity that can have a very real and deadly effect on this planet and billions of humans around the globe.

[YankeyMCC]

2. The Righ to Life

But yeah, the point and truth of the story is that like so many things the climate crisis is hurting those with the least voice and influence in the global economy first and hardest.

[Jcrowley]

3. Yes

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