Barack Obama is now an authority on permafrost.
Thirty Alaskan native villages on the coast are about to disappear into frigid waters; 12 are considering moving altogether. As sea ice melts earlier and forms later, more open water is left in the Chukchi and Bering Seas and the Arctic Ocean (which surround Alaska). Storms are larger and wreak more damage as a result (because ice protects the shoreline). And thawing permafrost, on which many villages are built, worsens matters by causing homes to sink towards calamity and releasing methane into the atmosphere. “Climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it,” Barack Obama said at a conference on climate change in the Arctic on August 31st. Lee Stephan, president of the Tribal Council of Eklutna, a native village, agreed: “If all the ice on Mother Earth melts we will all live in water,” he said.
Greenhouse gases bear the blame; America alone produces 15% of global carbon-dioxide emissions.
Unbelievable stupidity on the part of Obama and The Economist. Alaskan villages built on permafrost have been melting for as long as people have been stupid enough to build villages on permafrost.
02 Nov 1946 – NEWSFRONTS OF THE WORLD The Frozen North Was Not…
And to make matters worse, these villages are built on sand/gravel bars which have been shifting since the dawn of gravel bars.
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
? Ronald Reagan
Obama is exposing the world’s best kept secret: Stalin won WWII and used pseudo-science to rule the world:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281017812_STALIN'S_SCIENCE
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I don’t have enough fingers to count the LIES here..
Great work digging up the old News Prints.. WOW.. AGAIN.. the same bullshit from long ago recycled as new.. what a farce..
Next: global warming causes California earthquakes and houses falling down there, too.
I would remind readers that the poster child of global warming, the Alaskan village of Kivalina, is built on a gravel spit at the mouth of a river. No intelligent person would choose to build a village in such an ephemeral location, subject to vanishing at each big storm. Maybe the villagers are stupid? NO! They built there because the US government FORCED THEM to. About a hundred years ago the Feds put a school on the island and issued an ultimatum to the villagers (who were then located inland,) “Send your children to the school or we will throw you in prison.” The villagers relocated because it was the only way to both keep their children and stay out of prison.
The Kivalina village website used to tell all about this some years back. You can still find it in The Wayback Machine.
Which is why the Feds should pay for moving these poor people again.
If the Feds would pay for it themselves, I would think it perfectly fine. Unfortunately, every time the Feds are supposed to pay for something, the bill always winds up being sent to me and my neighbors.
Jason C. I have read much regarding Kivalina, and of course Katherine Hayhoe, begins with the plight of the Island in her book.
I knew about the government dropping off building materials on the island. The rest I did not know.
Thank you for the post. Now I have to try the Wayback machine.
For an easier source, here is a WUWT post that has all the important details.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/09/breaking-news-seventh-first-climate-refugees-discovered/
By the way, the Bible had instructions about not building houses on sand, etc. Also, anything built on permafrost melts the permafrost if the building is heated.
I doubt if Pravda had anything over these propagandists.