No climate change?

[Blue_In_AK]

After a very late spring and the longest snow season on record (following last year's record-breaking amount of snow), Anchorage has been in the 70s for two weeks (more 70-degree days than all last summer) and is predicted to be in the 80s next week. I've been here since 1975 and I think I can count the number of 80-degree days on one hand. While I'm not really complaining, this weather is just flat WEIRD. I lost a bunch of perennials because it was so cold last fall before there was a good blanket of snow, but my vegetable garden is going nuts even though I had to wait two weeks beyond my usual planting time because it was so cold in May. Our last snowfall, six inches, was May 18.


Crazy times we live in.

[Electric Monk]

1. If you haven't seen it already, check out Chasing Ice

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1579361/

Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Yes, we saw it a few months ago,

a night out at the theater. One of the few movies I've seen on the big screen this year, and it was really amazing. We like to complain about the cold and drizzle up here, and the 55-degree summers, but I'm not sure I'm happy with this alternative knowing what it means for the ice pack.

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. Good news... The actual scientists we employ through our evil, wasteful government are not

debating this at all and have been very busy making and testing all kinds of plans for ameliorating the inevitable effects of this inevitable and ongoing disaster.

The bad news is that the tipping point is well behind us (there's no stopping it) and that we and they are at the mercy of completely corrupt politicians for funding and building the plans.