Thursday, June 15, 2006
Alaska is 'poster state' for global warming
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Fact or Photoshop?Posted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Elizabeth Weise - USA Today).
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - To the untrained eye, Bonanza Creek forest is breathtaking, a vibrant place alive with butterflies and birds, with evidence of moose and bear at every turn.
But look through forest ecologist Glenn Juday's eyes, and you see a dying landscape. Since the 1970s, climate change has doubled the growing season in some places and raised state temperatures six degrees in the winter and 3.5 on average annually since 1950, says Juday, a professor at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Drought is stressing and killing spruce, aspen and birch trees.
Alaska has emerged as the poster state for global warming, the worldwide climate effect attributed to higher concentrations of "greenhouse" gases - mostly carbon dioxide created by burning fossil fuels -...
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Fact or Photoshop?Posted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Elizabeth Weise - USA Today).
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - To the untrained eye, Bonanza Creek forest is breathtaking, a vibrant place alive with butterflies and birds, with evidence of moose and bear at every turn.
But look through forest ecologist Glenn Juday's eyes, and you see a dying landscape. Since the 1970s, climate change has doubled the growing season in some places and raised state temperatures six degrees in the winter and 3.5 on average annually since 1950, says Juday, a professor at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Drought is stressing and killing spruce, aspen and birch trees.
Alaska has emerged as the poster state for global warming, the worldwide climate effect attributed to higher concentrations of "greenhouse" gases - mostly carbon dioxide created by burning fossil fuels -...
Read More...
