From The Associated Press, Thursday, August 12, 2010:
Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It’s not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way.
The weather-related [...]
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From CBC News, Tuesday, August 10, 2010:
Landslides and low water levels in the Northwest Territories in the wake of record-breaking warmth have prompted calls for changes in infrastructure planning.
“It’s really important that community decision-makers and government decision-makers are prepared to spend a little bit more to make sure that the design [of structures such as [...]
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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, August 1, 2o10:
One hundred years ago, the growing season in Fairbanks was less than three months long. Last year, some local gardeners were still harvesting broccoli and cabbage in mid-September.
Fairbanks is 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter and 11 percent drier than it was in the early 20th century, according to [...]
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From The Associated Press, Sunday, June 27, 2010:
New transmission lines are critical to developing the alternative electricity production needed to meet demand in the coming years, governors of states in the West said Monday.
The need for new energy development and dangers of climate change topped the agenda at the annual meeting of the Western Governors [...]
Category: Energy, Renewable · Legislation and Policy · Sustainable Living
From The New York Times, Friday, June 25, 2010:
A long-running joke with my nieces, Allison and Lindsay, is that a mistake involving caribou is a “caribou-bou.” Our caribou-bou is now clear. We missed the massive migrations of the Western caribou herd in Alaska by two days. We’ve seen recent tracks everywhere, as well as those [...]
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A UA Museum of the North Special Exhibit
May 15, 2010 – January 8, 2011
This exhibition presents compelling, visual evidence of climate change in the North. By comparing early 20th Century photos with contemporary views from the same vantage points, visitors can see for themselves the nature and extent of changes to this remote landscape. Personal [...]
Category: Events · Northern Living
From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, March 16, 2010:
A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor is one of about 250 members of the U.S. National Academy of Science who have signed a well-publicized letter supporting climate-change science.
The letter, published in the May 6 issue of the journal Science, defends climate science against “the recent escalation of [...]
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From Alaska Dispatch, Wednesday, March 3, 2010:
Skepticism about climate change is going mainstream, and that is worrying. One-third of Americans now say global warming doesn’t exist — triple the percentage of three years ago.
This defiance of science isn’t just harmful for the environment. It’s also distracting us from growing threats to US national security. Actual [...]
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From The New York Times, Wednesday, Februrary 3, 2010:
President Obama moved on Wednesday to bolster the nation’s production of corn-based ethanol and other alternative liquid fuels and ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal.
The president is trying to expand the portfolio of American energy sources to [...]
Category: Energy, Renewable · Legislation and Policy · Sustainable Living
From The New York Times, Friday, January 29, 2010:
The federal government will take steps to cut its energy use and reduce its heat-trapping emissions by 28 percent by 2020, compared with 2008 levels, the White House announced on Friday.The government is the largest user of electricity and fuel in the country, accounting for roughly 1.5 [...]
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