I don't care if you're Al Franken, you filthy hunk of blubber!
Posted on 04/02/2019 1:55:51 PM PDT by rktman
On Monday and Tuesday, NBC weatherman Al Roker reported live from Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States, labeling it “ground zero for climate change.” Throughout the segment, Roker implored the nation to “make a commitment” to abandon fossil fuels and assured viewers: “This is not a theory, this is reality here.”
“We are back with our special series Al in the Arctic. Al’s there exploring an issue that a lot of folks all over the world are concerned about, and rightfully so, climate change,” co-host Craig Melvin announced during the Today show’s 8:00 a.m. ET hour on Monday. “Yeah, he traveled to the epicenter of the issue, way, way up in Alaska,” fellow co-host Hoda Kotb added.
Roker warned his colleagues:
And here in Utqiagvik, things are heating up, and we don’t mean in a good way. When I arrived here on Saturday morning, we hit a high of 33 degrees, that’s a record for the day, which is 36 degrees above average....it’s actually raising major red flags for scientists about what’s possible when it comes to climate change.
As his taped report began, Roker narrated: “It’s the top of the world, and for scientists, Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, is ground zero for climate change.” Talking to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist Bryan Thomas, the meteorologist asked: “As a planet, we make a commitment to change something, that you can reverse damage that has been done?” Thomas replied: “We all hope so.”
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Everyone knows the earth is turning over. Check out the moving north pole on your compass. There will soon be Palm trees growing up there.
Send Roker to Uranus.
5.56mm
I can see climate change from my house!
More than 1/3 of Alaska’s private sector jobs are tied to oil and gas industry.
Facts and Figures
Oil and Gas has Been Good to Alaska, Providing Jobs and Revenue
• The petroleum industry supports one-third of all Alaska jobs, generating 110,000 jobs throughout the state.
• For future generations, a portion of the state’s oil revenues was set aside in 1976. Now the Alaska Permanent Fund distributes an annual dividend to every eligible Alaskan.
• Since the annual dividend started being distributed in 1982, a family of four has received a total of $133,461.
• As of November 2014, the Alaska Permanent Fund was worth approximately $51.7 billion.
• A family of four received an estimated $22,000 in value from the oil industry in 2010.
• The State of Alaska has collected $157 billion (in today’s dollars) from oil since 1959.
• Oil and gas revenues continue to dominate the state’s unrestricted revenue stream, accounting for 89 percent, or just over $6 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2010.
• Even with falling production, the state estimates 90 percent of its revenue will continue to come from the oil and gas industry.
Alaska has Oil – but Higher Taxes Leads to Less Produced
• Prudhoe Bay remains one of the largest oil field in North America, with four of the top 10 producing oil fields existing on the North Slope.
• Alaska’s waters are believed to contain more than 30 percent of the nation’s known recoverable offshore resources.
• Alaska’s oil and gas industry has produced more than 17 billion barrels of oil and 13 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
• The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is operating at only one-third of its capacity, and there has been a 39 percent decline in the past 10 years.
• Furthermore, production has dropped 68 percent since hitting a peak of 2 million barrels per day in 1988. It currently produces about 600,000 barrels per day. However, only one exploration well was drilled in 2011.
https://www.aoga.org/facts-and-figures
My wife watches/likes all those Alaska TV programs (I'm just glad that we are too old to try some of that "living in the wilds" crap.)...OTOH, she dislikes FL so she'll be pissed when "frozen" up becomes "hot-as-hell" down...
Also, does mean that algore was correct when he said "everything that is up should be down and everything that is down should be up"?
Does Alaska have Thunderstorms or Thorms? The Weather Channel went downhill when NBC decided to turn it into an entertainment channel with a little weather thrown in.
I miss Howard Taft.
I don't care if you're Al Franken, you filthy hunk of blubber!
You see, folks, in Al Roker’s world, nothing can ever change. If something changes, that’s bad, and it must be our fault. Vote Democratic!
Did they ask the other black guy there for a comment :)
Yeah here's someone to trust!
Can they please leave hima there?
Ground Zero is Alaska? Why not send Al to Tahiti, that is where Ground Zero is. And Al went to Alaska by the NBC private jet and then by chartered Helicopter to wilds.
How much support went with him, supplies, tents, etc., Ice and Whiskey?
Alaska now has its first Niggimo.
+1000
I bet if he swims he will leave an afrosheen bigger than the Exxon Valdez
Watch out where those Huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow.
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