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Ich Infect Dich Icky disease afflicting Alaskan salmon		16 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 16 Jun 2008 Alaska's prized wild salmon are suffering from a disease that scientists suspect of being boosted by -- you guessed it -- global warming. The emergence of Ichthyophonus as a threat to king salmon has coincided with a steady warming of Yukon River water over the past few decades, which scientists say has welcomed cold-averse parasites northward. "Climate change isn't going to increase infectious diseases ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news (all these topics)

Beyond the Palin Alaska will sue over polar-bear listing		22 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:07 PM on 22 May 2008 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will sue the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species. "We believe that the listing was unwarranted and that it's unprecedented to list a currently healthy population based on uncertain climate models," says Alaska Assistant Attorney General Steven Daugherty. To green groups, that argument is, shall we say, unimpressive. &quo ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Alas, Alaska Alaska legislature looking for polar-bear skeptics		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 07 May 2008 The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears are a threatened or endangered species, and "[w]e want to have the money to hire scientis ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Movers and Fist-Shakers Alaskan village sues Big Fossil Fuel over link to climate change		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:35 AM on 27 Feb 2008 The tiny village of Kivalina, built on a barrier reef in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 24 oil, coal, and power companies, alleging that Big Fossil Fuel's greenhouse-gas emissions are contributing to the climate-change-caused coastal erosion that threatens the village's very existence. Kivalina says that the companies should pay for its relocation. The ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Big Oil, climate, climate change impacts, coal, fossil fuels, litigation, news (all these topics)

Impermafrost Sobering dispatches from Alaska	Erik Hoffner	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The melting and erosion of permafrost is probably the most visible manifestation of climate change in Alaska. Photo: Seth Kantner, www.kapvikphotography.com Author and photographer Seth Kantner has a new blog that shares his observations of a changing Arctic in words and images. From trees invading the tundra and freakish weather to the hair-raising loss of the permafrost, it's a must-read. His phenomenal book Ordinary Wolves (one of my favorites of the la ...
Topics: Alaska, art, books, climate, wildlife (all these topics)

Sub Woofer Iditarod sled dog race forced to change starting point		10 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:47 PM on 10 Jan 2008 The famous Iditarod sled dog race is undergoing permanent changes as organizers cope with urban sprawl and a warming climate. For the ceremonial start to the competition on Mar. 1, racers will travel 11 miles instead of the traditional 18 miles. The race itself will kick off Mar. 2 from Willow, Alaska, 30 miles north of the traditional starting town of Wasilla. Says Stan Hooley of the Iditarod Tra ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, sports, sprawl (all these topics)

Murkowski condemns Rush to judgment Alaska Senator defends young constituent against Limbaugh's attacks	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Lisa Murkowski. Those of you who don't read the comments under our posts may have missed this. Two days ago Nathan Wyeth brought news that talk radio gasbag Rush Limbaugh has been mocking a young Yup'ik Eskimo from Alaska who came to testify to Congress about the accelerating loss of her people's traditional way of life due to climate change.During her testimony, she broke down in tears. Said Limbaugh: 'Wah, wah, wah, wah.' You should know that Sen. Lisa ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, politics (all these topics)

Palin Comparison Alaska joins regional climate initiative		17 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:26 PM on 17 Sep 2007 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has created a climate-change committee and joined her state with the cool kids at the Western Climate Initiative. From the Archives Gene Cool. DNA testing helps to settle claims of chemical exposure. Gee Biz. Industry to Bush administration: "Please regulate me". The Investor Class Owns the Means of Reduction. New York state investigates powe ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, politics (all these topics)

Eh ...	David Roberts	09 Sep 2007	Gristmill
... who needs sea ice and polar bears anyway.
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, wildlife (all these topics)

Ted Stevens, climatologist Alaskan senator invents new theory of global warming	Kit Stolz	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Ted Stevens, the Republican senator whose vacation home was recently raided by the FBI, and who made over $800,000 from a shady real estate deal last year, has come up with a brand-new theory of global warming. He told a NBC reporter in Alaska: We're at the end of a long, long term of warming, 700 to 900 years of increased temperature, a very slow increase. We think we're close to the end of that. If we're close to the end of that, that means that we'll s ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Alaskan: 'I don't want to live in permafrost no more.' Not so perma, not so frosty	Joseph Romm	28 May 2007	Gristmill
Thanks to global warming, the permafrost is no longer very perma, nor very frosty. I've noted before about how the ultimate release of huge amounts of greenhouse gases formerly trapped in the tundra could create a "self-perpetuating climate time bomb." But we shouldn't ignore the severe local impacts. The New York Times has a front-page story on what global warming has done to the Alaskan village of Newtok: Sea ice that would normally protect c ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Yowza Drilling for oil is good for climate change -- see how!	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) explains why drilling in the Arctic Refuge will help us fight climate change: Won't drilling for more oil make global warming worse? What some might perceive as the contradiction in further drilling, when we take into account the mean estimate of what we take from ANWR, it will be the equivalent of what we have seen from Prudhoe Bay, which has produced 20 percent of this country's oil [production]. If we could tap into a source that c ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, jackassery, oil, US Senate (all these topics)

She Will Have Her Way Hearing held on Inuit climate and human-rights claim against U.S.		01 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
She Will Have Her Way Hearing held on Inuit climate and human-rights claim against U.S. In the northern reaches of the world, climate change is more than a theory. For years, native Inuit have seen extreme weather and weak ice interfere with their lives, and they say big emitters like the U.S. are to blame. Today -- more than a year after filing a petition with the Inter-Ame ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics)

Who Speaks for the Eggman? U.S. green groups sue feds over polar bear, walrus protection		14 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Who Speaks for the Eggman? U.S. green groups sue feds over polar bear, walrus protection Two green groups have sued the feds for failing to protect polar bears and walruses (walri?) from the nasty combo of oil drilling and global warming. Pacific Environment and the Center for Biological Dive ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Let's Feed Them Some Oil Execs Hungry polar bears eating each other		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Let's Feed Them Some Oil Execs Hungry polar bears eating each other We can't think of anything funny to say about this: polar bears, deprived of their natural food by longer seasons without ice, may be turning to cannibalism. In the journal Polar Biology, American and Canadian scientists reviewed three cases of polar bear cannibalism in early 2004 in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. The kills included a mama ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears		15 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears OK, we're trying to keep a positive outlook here, but ... drowning polar bears? Seriously? And just when therapy was starting to work. In September 2004 (the year the polar ice cap receded a record 160 miles from Alaska's north coast), federal researchers doing routine aerial surveys counted 10 bears swimming in the open ocean as far as 60 miles off Al ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics)

I Fjord Your Pain McCain, Clinton, other senators take global-warming tour in Alaska		18 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
I Fjord Your Pain McCain, Clinton, other senators take global-warming tour in Alaska Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and two other Lower-48 colleagues are touring Alaska this week to see for themselves the destructive impacts of climate change. They've flown over Yukon forests devastated by spruce bark beetles -- believed to be thriving thanks to unusually high temperatures -- and e ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, Hillary Clinton, news, politics (all these topics)

Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change		25 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it's all melting. The Alaskan village of Shi ...
Topics: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Greenland, Iceland, news (all these topics)

Baked Alaskans Global warming is destroying Eskimo villages		28 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Baked Alaskans Global warming is destroying Eskimo villages While debates over the "precautionary principle" and economic tradeoffs take place down in the cozy lower 48, global warming is entirely less abstract to Inupiaq Eskimos on the coast of Alaska. They're not so much worried about losing jobs as losing, well, their villages. The annual mean air temperature in Alaska has risen 4 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 30 years, ...
Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics)

Another One Bytes the Slush Charles Wohlforth's The Whale and the Supercomputer compares views of climate change	Elizabeth Grossman	02 Jun 2004	Arts and Minds
In for the long haul. Photo: Charles Wohlforth. Out on the ice that forms the shores of the Arctic Ocean, the I�upiaq whalers of Barrow, Alaska, hauled in their catch, a bowhead whale that weighed more than 100,000 pounds. The entire village turned out to pull the enormous mammal ashore and butcher it. Sleds and snowmobiles were piled with maktak (ene ...
Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics)

Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry Global warming -- brought about in part by the burning of fossil fuels -- has raised temperatures in Alaska and reduced the length of the "frozen season" during which oil-prospecting convoys are allowed to traverse the landscape. The past three decades have seen the season ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies In an ironic twist, oil companies operating on Alaska's North Slope are finding their work impeded by a warming climate. The companies depend on long stretches of hard freeze during which they can haul heavy drilling equipment over tundra, but those cold periods are shrinking. In 1970, there were m ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, wilderness (all these topics)

Mush, Mush		17 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Mush, Mush In Alaska, some 4,000 miles from Capitol Hill, global warming is neither an abstraction nor up for debate. It's simply a reality -- and not, generally speaking, a pleasant one. High water is eating away houses and buildings, mosquitoes are invading where once they were unheard of, hunters are getting trapped on breakaway ice, permafrost is no longer permanent (meaning building foundations are slouching and buckling), and on the K ...
Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics)

Joltin' Joe		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Joltin' Joe In the most scathing attack on George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) blasted the president's environmental record in a speech made yesterday in California. Lieberman, a possible presidential candidate in 2004 and one of 15 senators to be recognized by the League of Conservation Voters f ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, elections, energy, League of Conservation Voters, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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