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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlaska 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 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/
Johonny
(20,985 posts)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)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.