Damage from climate change may cost Alaska $10 bln

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

[elkfersupper]

As long as they’re making up numbers, why not make it $471bn?

[ChildOfThe60s]

This calls for................

[stevem]

Well, I grew up in Minnesota. I've pulled for global warming all my life. The winter just ended was, by no means, the warmest I can recall. It wasn't the coldest, either. In other words, it resembled most winters.

When all is done and said, I s'pect the weather on the sun determines what happens temperature-wise hereabouts.

[Dutch Tulip]

excellent point!! “longer growing seasons” and lower heating costs. The only problem is that it is all a lie. This was a horribly cold winter and this spring has been very much cooler than last. We all know that this is anti-capitalist propaganda designed to instill an anti-God secularist view on our dumbed down population. The measured increment in world wide temperatures is estimated to be .97 degrees F per hundred years!! It is estimated because half the world had no temperature measurement worth a damn a hundred years ago. Be sure and make no change to anything on this crap data they never even tell you. Get some damned refineries built or suffer RIOTS!!!

[bikerMD]

PROBLEM:Some coastal areas like the Inupiat village of Shishmaref on a narrow Chukchi Sea barrier island are disappearing as sea levels rise

SOLUTION:

[bmwcyle]

They made it up on the NJVC bill by Ted Stevens already.

NJVC

[stephenjohnbanker]

“The way these Gore”bull” warming toads jigger the statistics is shameful. They must take lessons from politicians and bureaucrats.”

LOL!!

B U M P

[stephenjohnbanker]

ROTFLOL!!

[caveat emptor]

The way these Gore"bull" warming toads jigger the statistics is shameful.

We may have a winner here.

Gorebull warming !

[Roy Tucker]

I was just about to jump on that whopper when I read your post.

That is an outrageous lie. Most scientists do not believe that. If they are true scientists they will say they do not know how much is anthropogenically derived.

Plus, their solution will be to spend several billion to try and turn the tide. No guarantees. Global Warming hysteria is the 21st Century’s version of Y2K. Cui bono?

[petertare]

FORGET PHOENIX!!

I’m packin for a condo in Anchorage.

[neverhillorat]

Didn`t Alaska just have a very cold winter?

[neverhillorat]

HEY! Mica is a reporter, what do facts have to do with anything?

[CBart95]

Hysterical rubbish from predictable sources of utter nonsense aiding and abetting the larcenous criminals in third world countries seeking to rob the developed countries of the world with blackmail.

Note well the advocates and supporters of this sham.

[edcoil]

Only 10 Billion, hell we are looking at 2 Trillion in cost for immigration.

[M Kehoe]

Yeah, and if it occurs, global warming will probably save Alaskans more than twice that in energy costs..

And the revenue from increased yields on their crops.

5.56mm

[rfp1234]

—HEY! Mica is a reporter, what do facts have to do with anything?—

Fact: mica is not a reporter, but a sheet silicate group that includes phlogopite, biotite, and muscovite.

[neverhillorat]

Ms. Rosenberg will be suprised, she thought Mica was a gem.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Looks like the dog fainted from the heat.

[drtom]

The atmosphere is thinner wrt to thickness, not density. Due to earth's rotation the atmospheric mantle flattens at the poles. Look at a picture of Jupiter - its high rotational speed produces a much higher diameter at the equator than from pole to pole.

For the atmospheric pressure to remain the same, the air layers will have to be denser in order to compensate for the lack in thickness. Any gas, greenhouse or not, will thus exist at a higher concentration.

That's actually only one effect. There are Coriolis forces, seasonal changes related to temperature, and other effects. But that'll have to be another day.