Alaska 2018
April 2018, Guardian UK :
"Across Alaska, dozens of coastal towns are at risk of becoming uninhabitable, with a handful actively seeking to relocate. Melting permafrost is buckling roads into potentially deadlybig dipper rollercoasters, as well as threatening to dislodge doses of locked-up mercury. Glaciers near Denali, the tallest mountain in the US, are disappearing faster than at any time in the past 400 years." www.theguardian.com/...
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Native ways of life:
Guardian:
"Other heritage is already being lost, with archaeological sites along the coast being washed away at a quickening rate. In September, a major storm crunched into the coast and threatened Birnirk, a village that was inhabited for 1,000 years and is a national historic landmark "
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Guardian:
"Otherworldly temperatures were felt across the region, with the weather station closest to the North Pole spending more than 60 hours above freezing in February, around 25C (45F) warmer than normal, which is equivalent to Washington DC spending a February day at 35C (95F) or Miami baking at 51C (124F). The Arctic was, in spells, warmer than much of Europe
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called the incident an “ironic exclamation point” to the climate change gripping the:
"Arctic, which is warming at twice the rate of the global average. This winter’s extreme warmth was, in part, driven by an unusual number of storms in the Atlantic that brought balmier air to the Arctic. But scientists warned that 2017 and 2018 should not be dismissed as mere outliers"
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Other Threats:
Dec 2017
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last intact wild landscapes on Earth – and the largest wilderness left in the US. The 19.6m-acre swath of mountains and tundra is publicly owned and ecologically unique. Now, thanks to the Republican tax bill making its way through Congress, a part of the refuge we’ve long fought to protect risks being transferred to the hands of the fossil fuel industry.www.theguardian.com/...
“Alaska is on the frontlines of climate change,” Bill Walker, the state’s governor, warned last year. Walker, an independent, has convened a panel to come up with some sort of climate change strategy by September.www.theguardian.com/...
Read more:
Guardian:
What happened to winter?
Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of life
Arctic Dispatches, part 1: The past winter was the warmest on record in the Arctic, putting a lifestyle that has endured for millennia at risk: ‘The magnitude of change is utterly unprecedentedwww.theguardian.com/...
wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/what_we_do/climate/
- Climate change is faster and more severe in the Arctic than in most of the rest of the world. The Arctic is warming at a rate of almost twice the global average.wwf.panda.org/...
Average daily temperatures in the Arctic this year have been up to 20C higher than average:
(Arctic animals like polar bear,and many other species,are endangered):
Earth Day 2018
earthday.org
Links
Climate Change & Suicide
End Plastics Pollution at the Source dailykos
Eco-Aware Green stories and news
Nasa
climate.nasa.gov
Guardian stories
Arctic Dispatches, part 2:'
Amazing but also concerning': weird wildlife ventures to northern Alaska
As the Arctic heats up, residents of Utqiaġvik are experiencing first contact with unusual species that are making their way polewardswww.theguardian.com/…
Arctic Dispatches, part 3: A pilot project at a lake in northern Alaska is one of a number aiming to slow climate change with geoengineering – but some worry about unintended consequenceswww.theguardian.com/...