Alaskan Native Elders Tell Their Climate Change Story | After the Ice

[@Snowstar837]

It's tragic that, since most people are so distanced from these areas and communities, they disregard the warning signs. Losing our sea ice affects the whole planet, not just the places near the poles.

[@dudepool7530]

3:19 Wow, dude looks like one of the elders of my tribe, though it's the opposite coast. Bumped into him this morning, always good to see him doing well.

[@AniFam]

The Alaskan Native elders’ concerns about the future generations are significant. I’m glad that (some) scientists listen to the indigenous people, and I hope it is not too late to recover the environments…✨🌎💜 Thank you for sharing this video with many important issues! 👍 🔆AniFam〽️

[@AniFam]

@ Yes, I hope the awareness and findings can facilitate a meaningful and collaborative movement, which we may need for the future...

[@spottedtime]

@ I definitely agree, especially since one of college biology professors had a friend who is a scientist that’s supposed to provide scientific evidence to help politicians decides that effect the environment. Unfortunately those politicians rarely to never even asked the scientists how these decisions would effect the environment, like the surrounding area’s animals and people.

[@ianianianianian]

genuinely, thank you for this video and for every participant’s perspective. may we cause a change before it’s too late. from colonization to environmental destruction, the toll is unconscionable

[@crowlsyong]

This channel needs more attention. You're helping shed light on, in my opinion, the most important issues in the world.

[@infinitespace8313]

It’s so sad seeing how much an impact climate change has had on the Arctic. As a 19 year old who grew up in Colorado, I’ve definitely noticed changes in our climate. I hope that people will come together for our planet and halt the worst effects of climate change before it’s too late. I would love to be able to ski with my children someday and teach them how to like my dad did with us when I was 3. I wish people would recognize the severity of climate change and its impacts, especially for those who depend on the cold weather.

[@thefreshest2379]

Can you make a playlist of the After the Ice vids?

[@fergalfarrelly8545]

Finally some native voices are being heard.

[@lamegoldfish6736]

These are the people we need to listen too.

[@channel.17955]

I grew up in the gulf of Alaska, this breaks my heart :(

[@sarge420]

We need to listen to our Native Americans who were grounded to earth. I grew up with the Siletz Tribe in Oregon and they respected Mother Nature. Greed will kill us all. Disgusting.

[@RayT70]

"I feel very positive that our voices are finally being heard" I wonder what he expects the scientists to do about it. When was the last time a politician listened to a scientist about protecting the environment?

[@trouthuntingni]

Good to see the real experts getting a voice

[@matthewmann8969]

Note when I say Eskimo it is a blanket term for both Inuits And Yupiks it is not meant to be in a derogatory manner like how many rival Aleuts, Amerindians, Europeans, Alaskan Creoles also known as Metis also known as Mestizos also known as Mixed Bloods used to use in the past and some still even to the present and some may use it in the future in that context or and concepts

[@ShiningGalaxy01]

@matthew mann Yupiks, and Inuits both belong to Mongolia, they have no rights to call themselves indigenous.

[@andydutton455]

I never knew there was an arctic report card.

[@LaDyFlabiA]

So interesting

[@riannevanrossum2912]

Nobody on earth is só old to know how many times the earth has heated and cooled down

[@obes8]

Indigenious Nations will help Mitigate Climate Change

[@commonsense1907]

Ice melted during the Medieval Warm Period. Then advanced during the Little Ice Age. There were no gasoline cars back then.

[@sirdante9702]

So the commercial hunter/fishermen that only "hunt and fish to put food on the table" are complaining that all the game and fish are disappearing? How about you STOP SELLING ALL THE FOOD??? The only reason the fish and animals are disappearing is precisely BECAUSE OF commercial hunters and fishers. The general populace has daily bag limits on what they can kill for themselves. These "commercial" people hunt and fish all day long catching 10x-100x a single bag limit every day and sell it all off to markets. They wipe out the local wildlife population, and now they've got the audacity to complain that it's other people's "climate change" that's causing the problems? Bullshit.

[@bheanfhiain218]

The indigenous people in these communities aren't commercial fishermen or hunters. And there is no such thing as a commercial hunter. They only hunt for themselves, not to sell to people elsewhere. And indigenous people use traditional techniques to hunt, which doesn't bring in large catches. You missed the big take away - the ocean temperatures are warming. Less sea ice means lower populations of walrus and seals because they use the ice for resting, allowing them to stay out on the ocean to hunt. Without sea ice, these animals lose access to hunting grounds. Same with polar bears, who also have high drowning incidents as the sea ice becomes thinner and more patchy. Warmer ocean water also has negative impacts on salmon and other fish who did not evolve to live in the warmer water. As a professional wildlife biologist who works with endangered species directly impacted by climate change it is so annoying the most people don't want to open their eyes and see the warning signs because they like driving around their big trucks and eating hamburgers everyday or they are too busy posting on Facebook and Instagram to care. A massive die-off of millions of oysters, sea stars, and other wildlife on the Oregon coast during an unprecedented heat wave; 30,000 square miles of tundra and taiga burnt in Siberia just this year; fires raging out west and in Hawaii have burnt over 800000 acres so far; reservoirs at half capacity; drastic increases in daytime flooding in coastal cities across the world; and this is just the stuff that happened THIS YEAR. If we don't curb our emissions, we will get to a point where the permafrost in Canada and Russia will start melting, which will trigger a massive carbon/methane release since the permafrost is 20-40 ft deep. If that happens, we've won't be talking about a few degrees of warming, but an additional 6-9 C of warming. All of these things will trigger political unrest and mass migrations, especially from drought stricken regions in the Middle East and Africa. And the likelihood that will happen in my lifetime (I'm 37) is much higher than it was 10-20 years ago. This shit is scary and its happening much faster than the scientific community had projected. Its only going to get worse and no one, not even folks in the US, will be safe. There is a reason that climate change is considered a major national security issue by the US military, an issue they started taking seriously over a decade ago.

[@sirdante9702]

@@bheanfhiain218 0:22 .... also: http :// norton sound guide service. net/ You have no idea what you're talking about. I can pay money right now to go shoot a bear just outside of this guy's town on that website. What rock have you been living under that you think there's no commercial hunters? The African safari hunts are literally a global business. You can pay to go shoot whatever you want wherever you want, as long as it's not a recognized endangered species. And even then you could probably find a guy. Guided hunters and fishers take their bag limit in a single outing along with all of their paying customers, and can schedule multiple outings in a single day. They may not be taking more than bag limit in one outing, but with multiple bag fills in a single day they are certainly pulling down the population faster than the ideal "indigenous [person]" you're describing. I have no idea what you mean by "traditional techniques". Whether it's net or rod, rifle or bow, the animals are still removed from the population. Stuff like this video are created to pull at heartstrings to allow governments to seize control of private rights on private lands. If you want to contribute to that end, then keep cherry-picking catastrophes around the world and blaming them on everybody else. If you're so worried about it then stop being a biologist and go live in the wilderness somewhere. Every piece of equipment you own to perform studies is created from oil products, mined, or cut from trees. Stop being a hypocrite. Climate change is natural, and people that claim it's highly anthropogenic are idiots. Everything that we're burning came from the ground, meaning it was already in the environment many years ago, and for many years. Forest fires are natural. Without humans cleaning out brush, they would rampage across most of the earth on a regular basis. The fires are also highly beneficial for the forests because they remove the rotting, accumulating junk and return vital nutrients to the soil (and the air) and promote new growth. You people are so obsessed with fighting the natural order and maintaining the status quo, but completely skipped the entire subject of the cyclical nature of Earth's environment. For Christ's sake, the majority of the studies you researched in college were probably performed less than a century ago. The fact that our climate has changed since then just shows how limited our history is. A history that your own ilk claims had a CO2 concentration well above 3,000 ppm with a climate that supported the largest land animals in known history. How does that jive with "The world's going to burn if we get over 450 ppm!"

[@ddwalker3744]

Sad, I know the earth would probably cool and get hotter and go back and forth even without people here but we speed the process up w all our crap and we need to work on slowing it down

[@k.k8791]

Scientists and people who care have been saying the climate is changing and there are a significant consequences for so long but still there's no serious response from the people in charge

[@Inafish0120]

Hi

[@graphixkillzzz]

it's sad. it's also ironic. it's not over, but it's probably close.

[@ADVENTURESOFBZ]

What can humans really do about it tho? Serious question. I'm not being negative or dismissive. We can't make it colder, we can't make thousands of miles of ice. It's fantastic to actually talk to the people who know and who it affects but what can WE do?? What can I do?? The earth changes. Ice ages, stone ages, temperature changes throughout history.

[@miguelangelcifuentescruz689]

destroy corporations hoorah

[@edgeeffect]

Considering the opinions of the idiots that make the important decisions in our societies... including the thoughts of native people on top of results from scientists is just going to make recommendations even more "file under ignore". If only you could find a way to show a simple direct correlation between personal financial wealth and climate change... then you might see some action.

[@skybluskyblueify]

"I feel very positive our voices are finally being heard." What kind of positive effects can be obtained by being heard by scientists? Besides psychological?

As many people doesn't believe the scientists when they present carefully obtained data about climate change because "weather is here as it always has been," they might be interested in other old people whose livelihood has depended on weather for millennia telling them: "climate has changed here." It's not for their benefit only. It's for all of us.

[@t.vinters3128]

Paying attention to indigenous knowledge can contribute a lot to our base of knowledge and data, on which we depend on for [hopefully] making policy. Given that this source of data that was and is usually ignored, it means policies and decisions are made without taking it into consideration, often resulting in missing important details, alarms or impacts.

[@dabunnybadass]

Plz do rabbits next

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

I see the denialists in the comments have been triggered 😁

[@godfreypigott]

They are triggered before visiting these videos. Being triggered is their reason for seeking conflict.

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

@@godfreypigott You're probably right lol

[@penguinuprighter6231]

They didn't listen to one word.

[@SolaceEasy]

To often, only the illusion of inclusion in the process.

[@penguinuprighter6231]

The Alaskan tribes are some of the the more powerful indigenous groups in the world.

[@jeffgold3091]

from 1790 to 1900 the glacier in glacier bay Alaska shrank 60 miles ; since then much less . from 1900 to 1940 the arctic was generally warm ; after 1950 was a cold period . now it has been warming ( not last winter ) . the arctic is characterized by a large amount of variability .

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

An ocean disliked this video

[@Libbidybibbidy]

We’re fucked.

[@sameerapatel9470]

We all gona extinct

[@John-ry7ec]

Maybe John kerry "the champion of climate change" can fly there in his tax payer funded private jet and help them out.

[@spillarge]

Well he should go to the southern hemisphere where the Antarctic Climate is not changing and there is plenty of ice which has been increasing for the past seventy years. He can always move or change his life accordingly. That's what every species has done for hundreds of millions of years, because climates dont stop changing. Climates will always change and species will always have to adapt to change. That is the natural world. Get over it.

[@spillarge]

@Ir liz OK, if you actually think you know about the subject and not just regurgitating garbage you picked up in the media.....What changes have you seen taking place in your lifetime that you think should only take place over thousands or millions of years?

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

I'm sure you'll remember that when the climate refugees arrive in your town lmao

[@spillarge]

@@LisaBeergutHolst really? so how do you identify a climate refugee from the millions of immigrants who currently desperately want to come to the UK Sherlock?

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

@@spillarge Indeed, how do you know climate change isn't already causing a mass migration? #AccidentallyLeftWing

[@spillarge]

@Ir liz please say where you are talking about

[@PhysicsPolice]

I'm crying more for the whales, not so much for the whale killers.

[@PhysicsPolice]

@@maksimatic It sounds like I value these traditions more than you do. I want to live in a world where hunter gatherer cultures are kept alive. But not at the expense of endangered species.

[@maksimatic]

Finally, someone who gets how petty their particular grievances are compared to entire issue of climate change as a whole. “I can no longer do something the same way my ancestors have been doing for hundreds of years!” (Nevermind it being illegal for ANYone else) “Whahhh”

[@PhysicsPolice]

@@maksimatic ?

[@cbir4830]

@@PhysicsPolice You two are acting ridiculous. Crying about the fact that these people have been harvesting sustainably from the sea for thousnads of year. You bring up "endangered species" as some kind of trump card to their way of life, but who made those species endangered? Was it the tiny ass indigenous tribes at the top of the world? Hell no! It was greedy western whalers who killed thousands and thousands of these animals to make oil and then threw the rest away. It was the Japanese whalers who sold the meat at markets. You act like these people contributed to the problem but they did not. We go to a place, strip it of its resources, then get mad at locals because they want to continue to survive? Dishonorable.

[@cbir4830]

@@maksimatic blow it out your ass, Maksim. We annihilated their populations, cultures, and traditions, and now you're getting mad at them because we endangered the whales? All they want to do is exist. Is that so fucking hard?

[@notyou1877]

I have a news for you! The natives around Alaska have names for every bay, river, fjord, island, mountain range and everything covered by snow and ice right now. Wanna know why? Because those are their hunting lands that were ice free before and they lived on them. Quit pushing obvious bullshit!

[@penguinuprighter6231]

Did you even watch the fucking video?

[@notyou1877]

@@penguinuprighter6231 I don't watch fucking videos. I do watch educational videos. I watched this one by mistake. I'm not much into science fiction stuff.

[@penguinuprighter6231]

@@notyou1877 Watch again and pay attention to what the people are saying.

[@notyou1877]

@@penguinuprighter6231 why? I don't like fakery.

[@penguinuprighter6231]

@@notyou1877 Grow up.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

God bless you Sir you are so right. The KJV bible tells it like it is. I'm so sorry that this is happening before your eyes. Prayers for Gods hand of protection for you all. 💖💪🙏

[@penguinuprighter6231]

Oh shut up with that guff.

[@Xavier-uknonada]

Get rid of your bad habits and politicians.

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

No u lol

[@ittybitbobo7657]

Public bull shit news

[@BanBiofuels]

*The climate of the USA has not changed since I was a little boy in the 1950s. Today, hysterical people keep screaming that the world is burning up, but that is just not true.* They suffer from *cognitive dissonance,* which means there is a conflict between what people think and what actually is happening right in front of their own eyes. An example of this is people protesting “global warming” during snowstorms, and President Joe Biden declaring a global warming climate emergency when Washington DC was experiencing an exceptionally cold April with freezing temperatures. From 1930 to 1936, America suffered heat waves and droughts that created the Dust Bowl disaster, so our climate has not always been so great. During the Medieval Warm Period (800 to 1400 AD), Europe prospered with mild temperatures and currently frigid and barren Greenland had forests. The Earth was many degrees warmer back then, but today our politicians have become hysterical over a tiny 0.8 degree Celsius increase in temperature since 1880. 16th century European environmentalists killed thousands of suspected “weather witches” for creating storms that ruined crops and killed farm animals. Government officials tortured suspects to gain confessions, then publicly burned them alive. Two independent groups of scientists, Dr. Michael Connolly and Dr. Ronan Connolly in Ireland, and Dr. Karl Zeller and Dr. Ned Nikolov in Colorado, have discovered conclusive evidence and proof that there is no greenhouse gas effect. Our politicians and media are censoring this embarrassing good news. For scientific details, please Google *The Renewable Energy Disaster + Christopher Calder + 50webs*

[@1hanagima]

What state do you live in? Here in Michigan you feel and see the change in the climate, you see how the plants, insects and animals are effected every spring. Yes the USA has experienced some serious environmental disasters in the past but that was not as constant as it is today- you expect devastating hurricanes and earthquakes, you expect deadly blizzards and heat waves EVERY YEAR its expected now. That wasn’t how it was 50 years ago.

[@search895]

Yeah, this is the comprehensive bible of negationism

[@search895]

I live in Northern Spain. Do you know here should be like Ireland or Scotia most of the time? Yeah, here the landscape is green and the music is celtic and celtoid. When I was a kid it was normal that it was raining for weeks nonstop. For the last 20 years that is rare. There have been some of the years in these two last decades in which we had no winter. Like a non stop spring.

[@BanBiofuels]

@@search895 Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get. A 0.8 degree temperature rise since 1880 at hitting peak value in 1998-1999 was not the end of the world. We are past that peak and cooler than 1998-1999 today. What is the perfect average baseline temperature for planet Earth? When did the Earth have a more pleasant climate than we have today? The honest answer is probably NEVER. The only time when our climate could possibly be considered better was during the Medieval Warm Period (800 to 1400 AD). Europe prospered with mild temperatures, and food was plentiful. Even frigid Greenland was green with vegetation. The Earth was many degrees warmer back then, but today we have become hysterical over a tiny 0.8 degree Celsius increase in temperature.

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

@@BanBiofuels Speaking of cognitive dissonance, you're the perfect example lol

[@edfox1453]

First

[@michaelmayhem350]

Your comment got cut off I think you meant to say "first loser crying for attention"

[@coolguy20000000]

@@michaelmayhem350 no need to be rude

[@garymitg7727]

@@michaelmayhem350 did you laugh this much when your dad left

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

@@michaelmayhem350 HAHAHAHAAAAA! WELL SAID! LOVE IT!!! 🙃👍😋👍😏🙃😖😖🤣🤣

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

@@coolguy20000000 He was not being rude. People who comment these types of things...? Here is a cut and paste from my clipblard: Really? No one cares who is first, 10th, first 100th, first 10,000th. Really? YUP. 😖

[@joshuaa.kennedy8837]

I wonder is Antarctica would be better for them? More ice

[@davidschwartz8125]

Why? It is a completely different environment.

[@joshuaa.kennedy8837]

@@davidschwartz8125 did you watch the video they are complaining about change. Antarctica has more ice. Problem solved right. Also Antarctica has land no country clams so they can be free.

[@joshuaa.kennedy8837]

@@sub-vibes their are leopard seals in Antarctica they also have orcas in both poles. The ocean is very similar.

[@joshuaa.kennedy8837]

What I'm hearing in the comments section is the Alaskan Native's are not badass enough to survive Antarctica. Prove them wrong and build your own country in Antarctica!!!

[@ianianianianian]

@@joshuaa.kennedy8837 surely, you’re either a troll or completely unwilling to engage in any sort of learning and sympathy. regardless, find some compassion within yourself and/or something better to do with your life