A large cargo ship with a fire in its hold is being kept 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) offshore of an Alaska port as a precaution while efforts are undertaken to extinguish the…
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Artificial Airglow from HAARP May Be Widely Visible in Alaska Tonight
NOTE: The HAARP facility was closed some years ago, and now it is operational again. Back then I was happy it was closed because it (mostly) ended the silly conspiracy…
Alaska Energy vs. Woke Government
From MasterResource By Kassie Andrews — September 26, 2023 “The actions of Alaska policy makers, led by the governor, are eradicating the free-market principles in our state. A media blackout…
Frankly Embarrassing’: Manchin Unloads on Biden Admin for Restricting Alaskan Oil
From The Daily Caller NICK POPE CONTRIBUTOR Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin torched President Joe Biden and his administration Thursday for their aggressive moves to curtail oil activity in…
Cold Grips Globally: Alaska’s 4th Cold Winter… Record Cold Down Under…UK’s Delayed Spring…
More and more new cold records “Down Under”
Population Crash Cancels Alaska Snow Crab Season – Media Falsely Blames Climate Change
The evidence clearly demonstrates that the current large crash of the Bering Sea crab population is due to combination of overfishing and the largest La Niña event in a decade.…
Oops: Alaskan Electric Buses Run Out of Power in Winter
Who could have guessed electric vehicles might struggle in cold climates?
Claim: Global Warming will Turn Alaska into a Garden State
According to climate researcher Nancy Fresco, Alaska could have the potential to feed itself by 2100 – but lots of government intervention is required to kickstart Alaska’s agricultural revolution.
A ‘mass exodus’ of polar bears from Alaska to Russia has taken place, local residents claim
Quite simply, this flexibility in response to changing conditions in the Arctic has allowed the polar bear to be an evolutionarily successful species and not a symptom of climate change…
Alaska Suffering Through Some Intense Cold And There Is No Relief Coming Anytime Soon
Some of the recent winter seasons in Alaska have been warmer-than-normal, but this year is getting off to a very different start with persistent intense cold in the 49th state.…
Alaska student’s research upends understanding of upper atmospheric wind
Itani confirmed that the cross-polar jet, a well-known wind in the upper atmosphere, sometimes inexplicably stops or is deflected or reversed when it reaches the region above Alaska.
Alaska polar bear researchers claim poor sea ice limited spring field work in 2021 more than 2019
The reporter tries to paint a picture of polar bears suffering harm from these recent conditions but in fact there is no published data from the Southern Beaufort after 2016,…
Abundant Chukchi Sea ice explains silence on walrus haulouts in Alaska and Russia so far
This year is a totally different story and of course, the biologists are suddenly silent.
Claim: Climate change threatens seal hunting by Indigenous Alaskans
Hunters worry that in future years, ugruk and ice floes may be farther from Kotzebue across large expanses of open water, increasing the risk to boaters and lowering their chance…
Claim: Melting glaciers contribute to Alaska earthquakes
In a recently published research article, scientists with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute found that ice loss near Glacier Bay National Park has influenced the timing and location…
Preventing Ecosystem Collapse: Alaska’s Kelp Forests
Although these biological interactions control ecosystem shifts between kelp forests and urchin barrens, climate factors play a role, and in a most positive way. Otters are limited by ice. In…
Risk to Alaskan polar bear cubs from oil exploration in coastal Wildlife Refuge is small
A bill recently introduced to US Congress (30 July 2020) is supposedly meant to “safeguard the Beaufort Sea polar bear’s denning habitat”. However, the bill is named the “Polar Bear…
Alaska is getting wetter. That’s bad news for permafrost and the climate
Alaska is getting wetter. A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the consequences for Earth’s global climate.
Alaskan volcano linked to mysterious period with extreme climate in ancient Rome
PHYSICS The cold, famine and unrest in ancient Rome and Egypt after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE has long been shrouded in mystery. Now, an international team,…
Claim: Alaska Okmok Eruption Volcanic Winter Caused Social Turmoil in Ancient Rome
Just after the time of Julius Caesars death ancient Rome experienced crop failures, disease, social upheaval and extremely cold Summers. Researchers are pointing the finger at Alaska’s Okmok Volcano.
Polar bear habitat in Canada and eastern Alaska compared at end of June 2012-2020
Here is a quick compare and contrast of sea ice habitat for polar bears in Canada and the Southern Beaufort region of eastern Alaska near the end of June, 2012-2020.
No end in sight to the Alaska cold
*No end in sight to the Alaska cold* Overview Recent winters have been generally warmer-than-normal in Alaska, but the cold this season has been harsh and unrelenting. The forecast for…
2019 Alaska aerial survey found the most polar bears since 2012 – dozens of fat healthy bears
Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on January 12, 2020 | This aerial shot of six fat polar bears lolling around on a sand beach on the coast of the…
Walruses climbing cliffs and falling off them are natural events: 1994 video from Alaska
From Polar Bear Science Posted on September 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Walruses climbing cliffs and falling off them are natural events: 1994 video from Alaska US Fish and…
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