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Botany

(70,508 posts)
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 07:57 AM Jun 2013

Global warming is a hoax part 2 ..... It is going to be 95 degrees in Fairbanks, AK today

Warm up the planet and melt off the arctic ice packs and the jet stream does all kinds of
crazy things. We have really screwed the pooch with our burning of fossil fuels.

a link to weather underground's forecast for Fairbanks, AK (90s and upper 80s for the next 5 days)

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=99701

The average high for Fairbanks this time of year is 72 and the average low is 48.


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57590963/record-heat-wave-hits-alaska/ Good read



BTW Fairbanks is less then 200 miles from the arctic circle.

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Global warming is a hoax part 2 ..... It is going to be 95 degrees in Fairbanks, AK today (Original Post) Botany Jun 2013 OP
Time to corner the real estate market in Kamchatka. Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #1
All that methane-rich tundra thawing... htuttle Jun 2013 #2
and that methane which will be and is now being released will add more greenhouse gases ... Botany Jun 2013 #3
How far to the nearest AC unit? Downwinder Jun 2013 #4
It is hotter this summer in anchorage. bravenak Jun 2013 #5

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)
1. Time to corner the real estate market in Kamchatka.
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 08:01 AM
Jun 2013

Or Alaska.

The only question that remains: Is that a long-term investment? mid-term? short-term?

Botany

(70,508 posts)
3. and that methane which will be and is now being released will add more greenhouse gases ...
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 08:14 AM
Jun 2013

... to atmosphere which in turn will add to global warming.

We are really screwed unless we can find a way to harvest and sequester millions
of tons of carbon from our atmosphere.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
5. It is hotter this summer in anchorage.
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 09:09 AM
Jun 2013

And Fairbanks is north but usually hotter in the summer. And the snow is mostly gone from the mountains.

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