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02 Nov 1946 – NEWSFRONTS OF THE WORLD The Frozen North Was Not…

Meanwhile, some Eskimo kid in Alaska is suing the state for not stopping his family from being total morons.

 last year, Nelson Kanuk, a freshman at at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks, sued his state for failing to reduce carbon emissions or slow climate change. Last week, the Alaska Supreme Court agreed to hear Kanuk’s appeal, becoming the first high court in the country to take up such a case. (You can view the full hearing, which took place in a high school auditorium, here.)

Kanuk hails from a remote Yup’ik Eskimo village called Kipnuk, which is accessible primarily via river. Due to melting permafrost, the riverbank that protects Kanuk’s family’s house from floods softened, and some 13 feet of their front yard was swallowed up by the rushing water. The family has since been forced to move about 100 miles away.

Alaska’s Supreme Court Will Rule on This College Freshman’s Global Warming Lawsuit | Mother Jones

Al-Qaida Surges Back in Iraq, Reviving Old Fears – ABC News

In 2010, our friends got hysterical about a block of ice which calved off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. Since then, the glacier has grown 3km.

EOSDIS Worldview (Alpha)

MODIS Studies of Greenland

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

Actually this isn’t quite true. High school seniors who failed a grade might have seen a little global warming.

Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years | Environment | theguardian.com

The collapse can be seen here, as the most ice in a decade.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

This shouldn’t concern anyone, because the Arctic has actually been ice-free since the year 2000.

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The US has had no hurricanes and one minimal tropical storm this summer.

In 1886, the US was hit by seven hurricanes. As CO2 has increased, the number of hurricanes striking the US has decreased.

HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes

CO2 producers should get a tax credit for making the climate safer, and reducing disaster costs.

Storm Prediction Center WCM Page

The fire season is probably over, with no large fires burning and below normal temperatures in the west. The US had less than 40,000 fires this year – the smallest number since 1984.

National Interagency Fire Center

National Interagency Fire Center

In 1938, the US had more than four times as many fires as 2013

01 Feb 1939 – AMERICA’S FOREST FIRE TOLL

Obama says that we are having more fires now, because – as usual – he has no idea what he is talking about.

‘The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.’

Senator Barack Obama – 2006