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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 10:48 AM Jun 2015

Alaska just had its hottest May in 91 years

By Chris Mooney


We already knew Alaska was having some crazy weather lately. That included a record 91 degrees in Eagle in May, the “hottest temperature ever recorded so early in the calendar year in our 49th state,” per our own Capital Weather Gang.

And now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that the state as a whole experienced its warmest May in the weather books. As the agency puts it:

The Alaska statewide average temperature for May was the warmest on record in 91 years of record keeping at 44.9°F, 7.1°F above average. The warmth in Alaska was widespread with several cities were record warm, including Barrow and Juneau.

The consequences of this warmth were myriad, including much early year melting of snow.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/09/alaska-just-had-its-hottest-may-in-91-years/
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Alaska just had its hottest May in 91 years (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2015 OP
Remember in the way back machine to people like JC Watts Johonny Jun 2015 #1
One cannot control 'mitigation' n2doc Jun 2015 #3
K/R marmar Jun 2015 #2
Man made climate change is real and has to be taken seriously Gothmog Jun 2015 #4

Johonny

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1. Remember in the way back machine to people like JC Watts
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:03 AM
Jun 2015

They talked about how not to worry about Climate change because if it was real then we would just mitigate it. People would explain to him there simply was no way to mitigate the multiheaded dragon that was climate change. Yet to this day we hear people ready to start mitigating it. Yeah, lots of luck with that.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
3. One cannot control 'mitigation'
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:14 AM
Jun 2015

These idiots who blithely state that we can geoengineer our way out of warming are fools. The climate system is inherently chaotic, and any attempt to cool it will have some sort of side effects. And one can imagine the scale of lawsuits if, for instance, a major hurricane hits a city during this mitigation, as the mitigation will be blamed. Same with floods, blizzards, etc., etc.

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