Alaska warming at three times the rate of the lower 48

[kpete]

Thawing permafrost is triggering mudslides onto a key road traveled by busloads of sightseers. Tall bushes newly sprouted on the tundra are blocking panoramic views. And glaciers are receding from convenient viewing areas, while their rapid summer melt poses new flood risks.

These are just a few of the ways that a rapidly warming climate is reshaping Denali, Kenai Fjords and other national parks comprising the crown jewels of Alaska's heritage as America's last frontier.

These and some better-known impacts -- proliferation of invasive plants and fish, greater frequency and intensity of wildfires, and declines in wildlife populations that depend on sea ice and glaciers -- are outlined in a recent National Park Service report.

Since the mid-1970s, Alaska has warmed at three times the rate of the Lower 48 states, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And with nearly two-thirds of U.S. national parkland located in Alaska, the issue of climate change is especially pressing there, officials say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_alaska_climate
http://www.americablog.com/2011/02/alaska-warming-at-three-times-rate-of.html

[yourout]

1. It's all the hot air coming from the Palin camp.

[Fuddnik]

2. Sara Palin is not real.

She is a liberal hoax.

[stuntcat]

10. that could be true

Considering how hard she's clowning the "conservatives"

[northofdenali]

19. See? Just that ONE simple remark -

gets you some DU Valentine's Day Lovin'! Ask any real Alaskan - and Sarah ain't one - she is about as "real" as her "Thanksgiving Turkey" commercials and ability to caribou hunt.

As for hunting "spruce hens" (ptarmigan who live on spruce needles) - you hunt those dumb bird by dropping a rock on their heads. Yep, they're that dumb. Sarah Palin has about 1/3 the brain power of a spruce hen..............

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. When will we wake up?

K and R



:hi:

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Unusual methane release patterns around Wasilla suspected, nt.

[malaise]

11. I told you all that Palin is toxic

:evilgrin:

[stuntcat]

12. methane. Yes, we were warned.

oh but "the 'alarmist' doomy-gloomy scientists don't know anything" :eyes:

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Anchorage only got 3" of snow this winter.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. That's not correct.

There have been three inches of snow this month -- which is down about an inch and a half from the norm. Snowfall this season has been 46 inches, normal is 48.6.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Thank you for the correction.

I thought it sounded awfully low, but hey, you never know.

[northofdenali]

18. And Fairbanks (the great Interior) has been WARM.

We have had hardly any really cold weather for a few years (when I say cold, Blue, you and others who know the state know I mean at least 40 below in the Interior) that has lasted more than a week. This year has been the warmest I remember in forever - thank the Higher Power because our fuel is at $3.55 per gallon and at 40 below, it's easy to use 10 gallons a day. Yeah, folks, a DAY.

But anyone who isn't familiar with, or doesn't believe in, global warming should have lived here for a few years back in the 60's - and compare it with the 80's and 90's............

We can even grow fruit trees here in the Interior now.

Happy Valentine's Day, one and all! LUVU DU!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. That doesn't surprise me.

I've lived here since 1975, and with few exceptions our winters have been getting milder and shorter. We did have a couple of really cold ones within the last five years, but I'm sure the trend is toward warmth. This winter while everyone has been suffering in the Lower 48, we've had really mild temperatures (at least here in Anchorage) and not a whole lot of snow.

[Confusious]

9. I've noticed that happen a couple times over the past 20 years

Warm in the lower 48, cold in Alaska.

Cold in the lower 48, warm in Alaska.

[daggahead]

7. But it was cold here in Michigan today. Therefore, global warming is a hoax. n/t

[RandomThoughts]

14. It was taught in 1970s text books in school.

So if it is a hoax, it has been around for years.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. That was what we call a joke

Take my wife... Please!

[RandomThoughts]

17. I don't take.

Although have I mentioned I am due beer and travel money.

All the crap about power, or status, don't mean anything never has.

It is simple.

I am due beer and travel money and somebody going to pay that.


On a side note, the only coordinated media attempts has been to drive people insane or crazy. How it is done is caterpillar.

But the real secret is that it doesn't have to mean anything just keep correlating, and each mind will give it meaning based on who they are.


Once you learn enough of the correlating items and their meanings, then you can see the comments different writers make, but you have to hold the paradox, and not let it make you crazy, because it only means what you see in it.


But anyways, I am due beer and travel money, and really how could the world exist if something as simple as that was not corrected by those that smeared me.

Twilight Zone TV explains much of it, although they don't give the answers out of the traps, in many episodes.

On a side note, it is actually all real, and people are in trouble, I am due beer and travel money, and that is not a metaphor.

[northofdenali]

15. Now, I just wish someone would relay that

to whoever ordered the 32 below outside my house today............