We Have A Right to Snow and Ice

[sue4e3]

One degree is the difference between ice and water. Thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit is the magic number. For the people who live in villages on the Bering and Chukchi seas in Alaska, the difference is life-threatening.

Just south of the Arctic Ocean, these northern seas separate Alaska from Russia and freeze during winter. Blanketing millions of miles, sea ice forms when the water temperature dips below freezing. Fastening to the coast, the ice creates a seawall protecting villages from storm surges and flooding. September and October were traditionally the months when the Bering and Chukchi seas began to freeze for the winter. But now these seas may not freeze until December or later.

Increasing temperatures are transforming the Arctic landscape. In October 2015, the monthly mean temperature in Alaska was 37.5 degrees Fahrenheit, a significant 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit above the normal temperature - 32 degrees Fahrenheit. October's temperatures were not an anomaly. According to NOAA, eight of the ten months in 2015 are the warmest on record - 1.55 degrees above the 20th century average. In Alaska, 2014 was the hottest year on record in many communities across the state. Ice and snow, iconic elements of the land and sea in the Arctic, are disappearing. Arctic Ocean sea ice has decreased by 36 per cent in the last three decades. This extraordinary melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean contributes to the late freezing of the Bering and Chukchi seas.

Loss of sea ice causes coastal villages to be exposed and vulnerable when storms occur. Autumn is the time of year when the lack of ice can be terrifying and extremely dangerous. Typhoons do not occur in Alaska, but typhoon strength winds batter Alaska's west coast. In 2014, super typhoon Nuri traveled from Guam to the Bering Sea, making it the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Bering Sea with sustained winds of 100 mph.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-bronen/we-have-a-right-to-snow-a_b_8626364.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change

[pscot]

1. K&R

[cilla4progress]

2. Someone

Needs to be SUED!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. knr

[daleanime]

4. kick, kick, kick.....

[Moostache]

5. Does anyone really believe that anyone in power actually CARES?

I don't. I do not believe that a single politician of consequence (aside from Bernie Sanders - edit...I left that off initially, but I do believe a politicial unbeholden to their donor class for favors MIGHT be the only one to actually be able to care AND act), and absolutely not a majority of ANY law making body in this country, really give one-tenth of a thousandth of single shit.

This is not "news".

This is the endgame for ALL coastal regions in the coming 20 years and there is very little to nothing that can stop it at this point. The warnings have been going off for 40 years. The urgency of the warnings have been ramping up and up and up for the last 20 years non-stop.

The evidence has piled up to the point of the ridiculous.

Species dying off at mass extinction level rates....still we do nothing.
Ice levels falling off a cliff and sea levels rising unabated....still we do nothing.
Wildly unpredictable and increasingly dangerous and impactful weather events are the new norm....still we do nothing.

International conferences and treaties and "agreements" are worth less than the paper they are printed on...in fact, we'd be a tiny bit better off if they just quit wasting the paper stopped printing them at all.

You know what gets attention and disproportionate funding and actions? Terrorism.
Its a sad, sad state of affairs that the only "cause" that gets any attention at all is that of radical jihadist Islam.

I'll be dead before the world ends...but the youth should start to put the pieces of the puzzle together and realize that the powers that be would just as soon kill them all for an extra 2% "growth" and start thinking of whether or not they want to live full lives and be the generation that saves humanity or just want a cell phone, unlimited texting and the "honor" of being the last human generation before the resource wars eliminate humanity from the Earth...

[The2ndWheel]

6. That's a tough headline to write

Humans don't have a right to snow and ice.

[Nihil]

7. Not so much "tough" as "pointless, false & whining".

The entire construct of "rights" is artificial and has no bearing whatsoever
in (or on) the natural world.

The more people believe in superstitious shit like that, the later (and more
painful) the final realisation will be.

[sue4e3]

8. I don't think any one really believes they have a right to snow and ice

I think it's more of believing we had a right to the information when those in charge actually got it and a real chance to negate whatever they could

[Rose-anna]

9. This is a severe problem.

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Yes, increasing temperature is transforming the Arctic landscape, Ice and snow of the Arctic are melting. This is a severe problem ,but who can control it?

[openheart]

10. Man should do something for this

Our life is richer,but our environment become worse and worse, man shouldn't improve our life at the sacrifice of our environment. protect our environment is protect our own life,it's time for we to do something to stop the Increasing temperature.