The impact of global warming on the Inuit community

Baffin Island: LS Inuit village PULL OUT Canadian flag blowing in snowscape GV Crosses of gravestones in cemetery covered in snow (2 SHOTS) INT Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference) interview SOT - The ice goes out around end of June, but sometimes it goes out earlier now because of climate change ??? Rugman stood with Watt-Cloutier looking out of window PAN to scene from window Watt-Cloutier at Inuit Circumpolar Conference (2 SHOTS) EXT Inuit man next to polar bear skin hung out on wooden frame Man helping child down playslide in the snow (2 SHOTS) CMS Young girl with pink coat and fur hood INT Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference) interview SOT - 25% of the entire emissions come from the USA/ There has been no human face to this issue and by connecting climate change to human rights we are putting a human face on this debate Man speaking at public hearing on climate change SOT - The polar bear is already in trouble SIDE Man arriving at public hearing with poster in f/g 'The Northern Strategy' Public hearing on climate change (2 SHOTS) Watt-Cloutier along to embrace Dr Robert Corell (American Meteorological Society) Dr Watt speaking at public hearing Audience at hearing applauding EXT Dr Robert Corell (American Meteorological Society) interview SOT - There is good evidence that the rest of the world is creating change up here to which they have had no fundamental role in/ I do support their freedom to express their opinions INT Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference) interview SOT - We have hunters falling thru the ice/ We can't predict the conditions of the ice anymore Pangnirtung: EXT Inuit hunter holding reindeer antlers Hunter holding broken part from his skido having lost it after it fell thru the melting ice CMS Hunter down from steps of wooden hut TLS Village with small plane taking off from the road PAN INT Inusiq Nasalik (Elder of Pangnirtung) along in ...