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Disappearing Alaskan Village Appeals Ruling, Fights Climate Change Corporations

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/kivalina-appeals-eroding-_n_441420.html

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One of Alaska's most eroded villages wants to revive a lawsuit that claims greenhouse gasses from oil, power and coal companies are to blame for the climate change endangering the tiny community.

The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, filed the case in federal court in San Francisco in 2008, but it was dismissed in October. Now they're appealing to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with their opening brief due March 11.

Oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP PLC are among two dozen defendants named in the lawsuit. Representatives for the two companies declined to comment Thursday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/kivalina-appeals-eroding-_n_441420.html
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5 comments // Disappearing Alaskan Village Appeals Ruling, Fights Climate Change Corporations

  • aid616
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      aid616  

    • In response to your comment about what Danny Glover said. There are actually several articles that suggest global warming could be responsible for an increase in earthquakes and volcanoes. When the ice sheets retreat a lot of weight is taken off of the tectonic plates and allows them to move more freely. If you don't know how tectonic plates work, they make up the earth's crust and they are constantly moving. When they collide they create earthquakes and volcanoes. Scientists have also found that at the end of the last ice age earth quake and volcano eruptions did rise.

    • 2 years ago
  • Dagum
  • aid616
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      aid616  
    • Dagum:

      Prostitutions isn't a word. It's either prostitutes or prostitution. I haven't read that report but I could see how climate change could affect jobs they once had especially if they worked on a farm and the crops don't grow as well as they used to due to changes in weather. It is the oldest profession :-) And as far as religion goes I would much rather believe in something real than in some guy who lives in the clouds.

    • 2 years ago
  • aid616
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      aid616  

    • Florida is also a peninsula surrounded by water. When the sea level rises far enough to flood miami are you going to react the same way? The peninsula they lived on (they have had to move) has always been surrounded by sea ice thus keeping the waves from eroding its shores. Now that global warming has taken effect all the sea ice has melted and their land has become inhabitable.

    • 2 years ago
  • Dagum
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      Dagum  

    • Look at where that village is! It’s on a peninsula surrounded by water. NO shit its going to lose land to the sea. It’s called erosion. It's natural process that’s been happening for millions of years. Linking it to climate change is as idiotic as Danny Glover linking the earthquakes in Haiti to global warming.

    • 2 years ago
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