Forget global warming, Alaska is headed for an ice age
Alaska is going rogue on climate change.
Defiant as ever, the state that gave rise to Sarah Palin is bucking the mainstream yet again: While global temperatures surge hotter and the ice-cap crumbles, the nation’s icebox is getting even icier.
That may not be news to Alaskans coping with another round of 50-below during the coldest winter in two decades, or to the mariners locked out of the Bering Sea this spring by record ice growth.
Then again, it might. The 49th state has long been labeled one of the fastest-warming spots on the planet. But that’s so 20th Century.
In the first decade since 2000, the 49th state cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Forget global warming, Alaska is headed for an ice age | Alaska Dispatch
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Steve–FYI — You are probably already on top of this, but now the EPA is being investigated for giving preferential treatment (giving information free of charge) to some groups like the Sierra Club, one NGO which I think has gone far astray, while charging certain other groups for information. Things are coming at a dizzying pace.
Alaska’s cold trend may even be strengthening this winter. National Weather Service meteorologist Shaun Baines reported Saturday that as of Dec. 21, Anchorage had already spent 10 days below zero this month. The city’s average temperature this December is just 5.3 degrees, nearly 8 degrees shy of the December average of 13.2 degrees. Even though warmer air is due by Christmas Day, Anchorage was already enroute to the coldest winter since 1982.
Could it warm up a bit during the second half of Alaska’s winter? Anything is possible, but the National Weather Service in Anchorage recently completed its 90-day forecast and calls for colder-than-normal temperatures at least through the end of March, said meteorologist Dave Stricklan.
The NWS made a pretty good forecast for Alaska last December.
I vaguely recall that Alaska was colder than average in 2012 and temps have been trending down since 2007 or so having climbed in previous decades. This first 5 months have been shatteringly cold too. Let’s see if we hear anymore about this canary this year.
The “climate change” shibboleth rears its ugly head.
The earth has many climates, not one. Global mean temperature is not “climate.” If GMT goes up or down, it is not “climate change.”
Alaska has a climate. Probably more than one. Global mean temperature can go up or down, and Alaska’s climate will do what it wishes, anyway. People should rid their minds of the idea that if the GMT goes up one degree, all climates will go up one degree.
Well said.
“…global temperatures surge hotter ” – how absurd
The downside of having a front row seat at the PDO show.