Damage from climate change may cost Alaska $10 bln

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/29/07 | Mica Rosenberg

[muawiyah]

Nothing like precision in language eh.

[RetSignman]

Collapsing bridges, bursting sewer pipes and crumbling roads caused by SLOPPY WORKMANSHIP by contractors.

[muawiyah]

Yet, several references on the internet point to what they identify as the "homosphere" being uniformly mixed (and that takes us up to 50 miles, and involves something like 98% of the atmosphere by mass), with differentiation not occuring until we get to the "heterosphere". Ergo, the claims of the writer concerning "concentrations" are essentially meaningless.

We must note at this juncture that none of this occurs except in the presence of a strato-cumulus fornicatus, and then only rarely.

[xcamel]

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More horsepucky

[bikerMD]

Looks like the dog fainted from the heat

I don't think so Newt. It was in the low 40's that day.

[Clam Digger]

LOL!

[Clam Digger]

No, if the permafrost were to melt, those failures would not because of SLOPPY WORKMANSHIP, as you are trying to lay blame. It would be bcause the support for said strucures was insufficient.

You may have noticed on the Alaska Pipeline sections that run through permafrost have little cooling towers on each support to maintain the frost. You can se them in the upper ight of this picture: http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/30/alaska_pipeline_T1848.jpg

Rarely are situations like this the result of SLOPPY WORKMANSHIP as the ignorant like to claim, but aging structures and forces not accounted for in the design of the structure.

Have a nice day. Oh yeah, I do not believe Al Gore and his bunch of liars when it comes to globull wrrming, or any matter.

[Eye of Unk]

They may not be technically condos but people do live on the beach in Nome. Many still look for gold, myself I live just north of Anchorage and all I see is booming construction for locals if indeed we have a warming crisis but I don’t see it here, unfortunately I am in the construction industry and its really slow this year so I am hoping there will be a demand in the future. Alaskans hire Alaskans.

I would LOVE to see it warmer by 30 degrees in the winter. Our last winter was colder and longer, NOT warmer, I still have to wear thermal underwear in the summer, and stupid Walmart refuses to stock it until mid december.

[BuffaloJack]

Look, if global warming does occur then we won’t need to burn as much fuel to heat our homes. If the whole concept weren’t such a big pile of horse hockey, it would be a self limiting process.

[RetSignman]

WOW, don’t have a coronary there. I was putting forth another possible scenario other than ‘globull wrrming’ which the left is always looking for.

I didn’t even mention the pipeline but I did click on that website you provided but I didn’t know where to se the upper ight.

Thanks anyhow.

[Sacajaweau]

I was taught about Alaska in the 50's. It was called "Seward's Folly".

At the other end of the spectrum...A friend of mine in Florida says "it's getting dangerous because it's so hot" and everything is so dry. Says that water use is restricted for lawn and car washing. I tell her....guess what, if there were no houses and no cars in Florida, there wouldn't be any water restrictions. In other words....you're the problem. Florida has always been HOT and had hurricanes etc.. It's why it never saw early development.

Solution....get rid of all the people??? Do you think that would be unfair??

Same thing with New Orleans...

As long as there are people, there will be "people problems".

Global warming, global cooling...Fire or Frost. Pick your option!! That's the way it is!! People problems are never-ending....but the laziness and "let the government take care of me" attitude of the people in New Orleans was disgusting. They knew it was coming.

[Sacajaweau]

Remember seeing an old movie on Alaska at our local gun club. Very cool...and very green much to my surprise.

A friend of mine said his greatest thrill was sitting down to his cup of coffee and watching the sun go up and down...in the next breath.

[Clam Digger]

There are a pair of small towers with fins that allow a coolant to recirculate that maintains the permafrost at tmeperature that keeps the pipeline support structure from sinking through.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

I don't think so Newt. It was in the low 40's that day.

Hence my facetious remark.

[drtom]

Ergo, the claims of the writer concerning "concentrations" are essentially meaningless.

Not necessarily. You can still have the same "uniform mix" and yet different densities. As long as any components exist at the same ratio. All that has changed is that one layer is denser in one spot than in another. Composition ("mix") and density are two different things.

[Dead Dog]

Wow, about half they’ll save on heating bills.

[bikerMD]

A friend of mine said his greatest thrill was sitting down to his cup of coffee and watching the sun go up and down...in the next breath.

And the reverse is true too. The sun is up this time of year before 0430 and sets after 2130, making the days over 17 hours long. Some of my golfing buddies tell me that to be an official Alaskan golfer you have to have played a round after midnight (in the Land of the Midnight Sun). Someday maybe....I'm anxious to go back.

[razorback-bert]

I check things out and bring photos from my Alaska trip in September, unless heat stoke gets me.

[RightWhale]

This is bogus.

Tom Anderson was convicted on all seven charges yesterday, which pleases the Ds quite a bit, not that Ds are any different except for being unindited so far.