Based on Big Gryphs link it seems to be evenly split between warmer than average and colder than average: edit: AKA average. It also appears they may be in the beginning of a colder than average period. No you cannot claim Alaska is warming twice as fast as the rest of the US or globally.
We are being surrounded by stupidity and there is no signs of it slowing down. You cannot get into a rational discussion about anything with liberals now days and the media ignores the common sense and rational questions that need to be answered so we can solve most of the problems we encounter.
Obama surrounds himself with children to talk about gun control and liberals and the press fawn over him. The NRA mentions providing the same protection in public schools that Obama's children get (no we aren't talking about the secret service) at the private school they attend and the focus isn't on the idea but they're mentioning Obama's children. It's utterly ridiculous.
I love the article from Scientific America. Let's ignore the nomadic history (not ancient history, we are talking people alive today were studying the nomadic lifestyle of Native Alaskans in real time) of native alaskans, call relocation unprecedented, and act ignorant when someone suggest that builing a community on a barrier island (that use to be used a seasonal hunting ground) with the ocean on one side a river on the other might not have been a good idea and the errosion taking placed is probably not related to climate change.
The temperature in Alaska is slowly increasing as evidenced by decreasing permafrost and receding glaciers.
I live here, and it is literally raining. Not snow, but rain. It's usually about 20ish. But now, it's between 30 and 40 every day and it has been for the last month about. So yes, yes it can.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2...
Are you "confusing" weather with climate now?
Alarmists don't let things like facts and reality ruin their fear mongering.
The USGCRP scientific climate assessment states:
"Over the past 50 years, Alaska has warmed at more than twice the rate of the rest of the United States’ average. Its annual average temperature has increased 3.4°F, while winters have warmed even more, by 6.3°F"
"These observed changes are consistent with climate model projections of greater warming over Alaska, especially in winter, as compared to the rest of the country."
http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/full-report/regional-climate-change-impacts/alaska
The Alaska Climate Research Center however has Alaska cooling over the period 1977-2011 with the most cooling in the winter: http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/ClimTrends/Change/7711Change.html
And just to check against the 48 contiguous US states, NOAA has a warming trend of 0.46F/decade: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html
And winter there right now is brutal and projected to be the coldest since 1982. People around here always 30 years and greater is enough time to make a statement about climate trends. 1977 was 36 years ago.
Can it be claimed that Alaska is warming twice as fast as the rest of the US or globally?
