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“We had a litany of scientists come back to us, responding after seeing this news, saying, ‘This was great to be speaking to indigenous people about their views, but if you continue to perpetuate this fallacy that the Earth had tilted on its axis, [the Inuit] .... would lose all credibility.
The scientific explanation is that the warming Arctic air is causing temperature inversions, which in turn cause the light of the sunset to refract so that the sun appears to be setting a few kilometres off-kilter. “There is so much garbage in the air, it’s refraction that’s causing our elders to think our world has tilted,” Kunuk says.
Originally posted by solsticks
reply to post by incrediblelousminds
I am the least racist person I know. I live off of the land and the seasons as well. Stop judging people. And, I don't need to go back to school, what a stupid statement! I'm a college grad who farms full time. I know more about seasons and changes than you could imagine.
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"The position of Earth's figure axis also changes all the time, by about 3.3 feet over the course of a year, or about six times more than the change that should have been caused by the Japan quake."
Originally posted by iBleedSovietR3D I only assumed that since Inuits are a primitive living peoples that they would notice even minute changes of the suns position, although I didn't watch the video.