In the past 50 years, Alaska’s average temperature has increased at a rite twice that of the Continental United States.. images from Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park, then and now, will be a stark reminder of the climate change occurring..
There are more than 100,000 glaciers in Alaska, and 95 percent of them are thinning, stagnating or retreating. Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park thinned more than 700 feet in the 23 years between 1980 and 2003..
People often will look at the weather of a given day and either promote or criticize the concept of climate change. But it’s incorrect to simply see today’s weather as any indicator of patterns..
This past winter was awfully cold and snowy for my neck of the woods. The entire East Coast simply remained frozen for months. But the rest of the world wasn't that way.. One example of patterns instead of daily weather: California. The drought which is hurting the land and people there has been building for years..it’s a product of a changing jet stream and alternating weather pattern..
A scary report on the drought was filed by New York TIMES reporters Justin Gillis and Matt Ritchel on April 5, indicating among many other things that beneath the California crops, a deepening groundwater crisis in occurring..
Regardless of what you think, feel, or believe, there are major changes occurring in weather and climate patterns. Some will calling manmade warming.. others will call it cyclical in nature. It doesn't really matter what political party you are, or what you dub these chances, because the fact is still the fact.. some have said the problems overblown..
But when you have glaciers becoming water and an entire state–a breadbasket for the world in some food and liquid categories–drying, you have a crisis that cuts across party lines. We need to mature to field the problem.. we need to think creatively about the future. And if we’re far too gone to reverse the course, then we sure as hell better have a backup plan and an exit plan as a last resort..
There are more than 100,000 glaciers in Alaska, and 95 percent of them are thinning, stagnating or retreating. Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park thinned more than 700 feet in the 23 years between 1980 and 2003..
People often will look at the weather of a given day and either promote or criticize the concept of climate change. But it’s incorrect to simply see today’s weather as any indicator of patterns..
This past winter was awfully cold and snowy for my neck of the woods. The entire East Coast simply remained frozen for months. But the rest of the world wasn't that way.. One example of patterns instead of daily weather: California. The drought which is hurting the land and people there has been building for years..it’s a product of a changing jet stream and alternating weather pattern..
A scary report on the drought was filed by New York TIMES reporters Justin Gillis and Matt Ritchel on April 5, indicating among many other things that beneath the California crops, a deepening groundwater crisis in occurring..
Regardless of what you think, feel, or believe, there are major changes occurring in weather and climate patterns. Some will calling manmade warming.. others will call it cyclical in nature. It doesn't really matter what political party you are, or what you dub these chances, because the fact is still the fact.. some have said the problems overblown..
But when you have glaciers becoming water and an entire state–a breadbasket for the world in some food and liquid categories–drying, you have a crisis that cuts across party lines. We need to mature to field the problem.. we need to think creatively about the future. And if we’re far too gone to reverse the course, then we sure as hell better have a backup plan and an exit plan as a last resort..
Climate change: Slip sliding away
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