Camping in the rainy and foggy community of Salluit last weekend, Michael Cameron saw yet another mudslide.
A lifelong resident of the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec, he’s used to witnessing landslides over the past few decades as his town of about 1,600 slowly warms.
“It’s all got to do with the Earth actually warming up,” Cameron said. “Even if it’s 0.2 of a degree. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s a lot up here.”
“Like today, right now we’re at 17 C. In normal times, [it’s] usually around 11 C to 15 C.”
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Cameron says those changing temperatures, causing winters to be