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Alaska smashes record for temperature, braces for biblical rains

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  • Alaska broke records the day after Christmas with its abnormally warm temperatures.
  • The temperature broke Alaska’s December record by 9 degrees.
  • It set a daily temperature record for the warmest temperature on record between Oct. 5 and April 21 by 20 degrees.

Alaska smashes record for temperature, braces for biblical rains

“In addition to setting a statewide record, #Kodiak obliterated the daily record by TWENTY degrees.”
thehill.com



Report: Alaska warming twice as fast as global average​

“Annual average near-surface air temperatures across Alaska and the Arctic have increased over the last 50 years at a rate more than twice as fast as the global average temperature (Very high confidence.)” [pg 443]”

Report: Alaska warming twice as fast as global average

Researched by more than a dozen federal agencies and authored by nearly 50 scientists, the fourth National Climate Assessment said Alaska is warming twice as fast as the global average temperature.
www.alaskasnewssource.com

And here is how deniers react: Glitch is living in these results of AGW, and yet continues to deny it. As with most every denier, he puts his personal (wrong) opinions over than of the scientific data and effects. It would be amazing if it wasn’t so absolutely pathetic.
 
What I always think of is, what buried evidence of long lost peoples will we discover when the glaciers melt? It's been in the deep freeze a long time. Could be good stuff!
 
MaryP said:
What I always think of is, what buried evidence of long lost peoples will we discover when the glaciers melt? It's been in the deep freeze a long time. Could be good stuff!
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Might be a virus or two, too. Same with the melting permafrost. And cutting down the Amazon forest, exposing stuff to sunlight that's been in the shadows for centuries.
 
Grand Mal said:
Might be a virus or two, too. Same with the melting permafrost. And cutting down the Amazon forest, exposing stuff to sunlight that's been in the shadows for centuries.
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The future is bad.
 
Grand Mal said:
Might be a virus or two, too. Same with the melting permafrost. And cutting down the Amazon forest, exposing stuff to sunlight that's been in the shadows for centuries.
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A little too much sci fi?

Years ago, there was a show on cable about jewel miners in newly uncovered areas of Greenland. Or was it Iceland? Anyway, it got me thinking. They say most of Alaska's glaciers are only 4,000 years old, tops.
 

Glitch could be legitimately pleased that his freezing cold home state is a little less freezing cold now. I wouldn't consider that hypocritical, though it would be callous.
 
Spirit of The Millennium said:
Glitch could be legitimately pleased that his freezing cold home state is a little less freezing cold now. I wouldn't consider that hypocritical, though it would be callous.
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He is a climate change denier. All he ever does is repeats the standard denier talking points, never anything original.
 
watsup said:
He is a climate change denier. All he ever does is repeats the standard denier talking points, never anything original.
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Denying something which he and maybe 1% of people benefit from, isn't a good look I agree.
 
MaryP said:
A little too much sci fi?

Years ago, there was a show on cable about jewel miners in newly uncovered areas of Greenland. Or was it Iceland? Anyway, it got me thinking. They say most of Alaska's glaciers are only 4,000 years old, tops.
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Some Alaskan glaciers are 30,000 years old.
 
Is this a call out thread to a specific member?
 
MamboDervish said:
Some Alaskan glaciers are 30,000 years old.
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I read that about one. But they now believe people may have been arriving since before then. Never mind. It was just a thought.
 
Artymoon said:
Is this a call out thread to a specific member?
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It’s a generalized thread as to why and how the deniers can completely overlook all of the evidence for global warming/climate change even when it is all around them and right in front of their eyes. Glitch just happens to be a prime example.
 
watsup said:
It’s a generalized thread as to why and how the deniers can completely overlook all of the evidence for global warming/climate change even when it is all around them and right in front of their eyes. Glitch just happens to be a prime example.
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Lol. So pretty much calling him out. If you were my son, I'd tell you to put down the latte, man up and let him know.
 
MaryP said:
What I always think of is, what buried evidence of long lost peoples will we discover when the glaciers melt? It's been in the deep freeze a long time. Could be good stuff!
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In the Italian Alps, retreating ice packs are revealing the bodies of climbers lost 30-40+ years ago. A bit more grisly than lost peoples,
 
venice_ca said:
In the Italian Alps, retreating ice packs are revealing the bodies of climbers lost 30-40+ years ago. A bit more grisly than lost peoples,
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Oh, yuck. I mean, I suppose to the families it's good, but being the person to stumble upon one must be pretty unnerving.
 
MaryP said:
Oh, yuck. I mean, I suppose to the families it's good, but being the person to stumble upon one must be pretty unnerving.
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The first reports that I read were about sightings of bodies of climbers who had fallen and landed in crevasses. Rescuers were able to make identification through contents of wallets. I was struck at the time by the number of Germans who had died trekking and climbing in the Italian Alps.
 
watsup said:

Report: Alaska warming twice as fast as global average​

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Lots of methane and CO2 coming out of that thawing permafrost and out of the ocean mud off of the coast.
 
MaryP said:
A little too much sci fi?

Years ago, there was a show on cable about jewel miners in newly uncovered areas of Greenland. Or was it Iceland? Anyway, it got me thinking. They say most of Alaska's glaciers are only 4,000 years old, tops.
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Sure. There'd be all sorts of that from the Hiawatha impactor. (It was Greenland)
 
They're neighbors.
 
MaryP said:
Of course, I'm picturing The Sound of Music and Heidi, which is all I know about it. LOL
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The Sound of Music was shot partly in Salzburg, Austria. Quite unpatriotic I say!
 
venice_ca said:
I’m well acquainted with the geography of Western Europe. So why all German tourists and no French or Swiss or Austrian?
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Well, excuse me. It didn't seem like such a leap that they might be there. Like me going to Quebec.
 
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