Canadian musher David Daley's dogs stand next to their kennels in Churchill, northern Canada, Aug. 10, 2022. (AFP Photo) | Article Credit: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - AFP - Churchill, Canada 
Frontseats to apocalypse: Watching climate change unfold at Arctic
Climate change has long been the subject of science-fiction films, or rather disaster flicks, with the phenomenon bringing armageddon to Earth. Today, though, the plots of science fiction have become the reality of our world. Today, without fiction, science suggests armageddon truly is headed our way if we do nothing. A sled dog breeder senses that calamity ahead, having occupied a front-row seat to the march of global warming.
"For all the devastation that we're doing to her, she's not going to sit still, our planet Mother Earth will punish us," David Daley who lives at the gateway to the Canadian Arctic said.
Daley's hometown of Churchill is an isolated settlement at the edge of Hudson Bay where global warming unfolds at triple the pace of much of the rest of the world, causing the Arctic ice to gradually disappear.
A member of the Metis people, one of three Indigenous groups in Canada, the 59-year-old grandfather lives close to nature, surrounded by his 46 dogs, at the point where the tundra ends and the boreal forest begins.
But every year, he fears that the snow will arrive late, and the impact that has on his sled dogs.
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