First Time EVER Anchorage Alaska never got below zero in a year.

[Bandit]

Alaska is warming and there is NO DOUBT about it..In 2014 the temperature never reached the below zero mark. People here are happy about that.

[peacebird]

1. That is truly scary... We are catapulting over climate changes that were estimated to take 50 years

http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/warming-pacific-drives-global-temperatures.html

[daleanime]

27. +infinity

The most pressing problem facing us.

[WillTwain]

2. Thanks

For the great tea-bag killer.

[Siwsan]

3. Maybe it's that hot Sarah Palin, heating things up

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joeybee12]

11. It's just her mouth...all that hot air coming out...nt

[daleanime]

29. She's producing a lot of something....

but most of it isn't coming out of her mouth.

[joeybee12]

32. She also produced a parcel of brats...

Except for Trig, they'll all turn out as bad as her.

[Siwsan]

31. Bingo!

[marym625]

4. It's not the longest

Without dropping below zero, but the first full calendar year.

Who's happy? I am not happy about it. The climate change naysayers won't care because science isn't real to them. But it sure is difficult to argue against this fsct

[sadoldgirl]

5. This is weather,

not climate. OTOH Las Vegas gets a dump of snow.

I don't mean to spoil your effort though, since I
believe that climate change is not only real, but
probably not reversible anymore.

Still: Happy 2015!

[Bandit]

6. Where did I say anything about Climate Change?

Although when the "weather patterns stretch into more than one year it soon becomes Climate. And in this case it is apparent that the Climate is changing.

[roguevalley]

18. I have green grass in my yard. no snow.

This is climate. The weather reflects the new climate

[Blue_In_AK]

38. My brother's yard in Homer looks like summer.

He's joking that he needs to mow again. It's supposed to get colder next week, so fingers crossed.

This will probably be one of those years where we get ten feet of snow in April.

[roguevalley]

43. I hope so, blue. happy new year, friend

[JaneyVee]

7. It's happening.

[TRoN33]

8. Palin's new message;

Drill, baby, jus fucking drill the hell out of Alaska in order to create the jobs and will help economy improve despite the facts of climate change that will someday kill all of us. Life is short.

[Thor_MN]

9. First time in recorded history, high doubtful the first time ever.

And we are more than willing for you to take the subzero weather back....

[adieu]

10. Zero F or

Zero C. Big difference.

[progressoid]

12. Fehrenheit in 'Murica

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

[Fred Sanders]

25. Does not look like 2014 is all that dramatic...one calendar year is still weather.

Is the black messy lines the 2014 daily temperature?

[Blue_In_AK]

41. This graphic is a little better at showing the trend over the past several years

I moved here in 1975 when we were still having pretty cold winters.

[Fred Sanders]

47. Thank you..when talking climate change I think a minimum of 50 years has to be looked at.

I have my reasons because nature works on a cosmic timescale.

[BlueJazz]

13. Back in my day, we used to trudge to school in absolute zero.

Ok..very, very slowly.

[GliderGuider]

33. Up the thermal gradient

Both ways...

[True Blue Door]

14. Anchorage might become pleasant over time.

But the rest of Alaska will become a bunch of rocky deserts with hurricane-force winds and insect-ridden bogs that periodically explode from escaping gases. It will never, ever be a nice place.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Alaska has always been a nice place.

Bite your tongue ( or fingers). I wouldn't live anywhere else.

[True Blue Door]

19. Nah, mah, Georgraphy spek all.

Those glacial valleys will become dry, windswept rocky desert with no lfe in them.

The premafrost bogs will melt ad release until swarks of nightmarihs bugs, and priodically griffing colossal reago-wde firefrab. I twit place be a pace land. The nice arts will be like Greenald in Summper - bare rock against empt, overfished water. Te rest will be scarred remains glacial history, with no goundsoil to drive vegetaration or suport wildlifel.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. No offense, but have you been hitting the bottle?

I'm not disputing what I think is your concern for Alaska's receding glaciers, but your spell check needs some work.

[Aerows]

26. I can't make

heads or tails of that post.

[Blue_In_AK]

39. I get most of it except for the "firefrab"

[Aerows]

42. LOL

I'm extremely puzzled at what on earth a "firefrab" is, myself.

[Fred Sanders]

48. I think the post is the most hilarious I have seen in days, I mean that kindly.....firefrab?

If you read it out loud you wil not make it to the end without convulsing in laughter.

"I twit place be a place land"? Any guesses?

"It will be a wasteland"?

[hatrack]

53. Wasn't that in The Princess Bride?

Or was that the ROUSes?

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. Something's a miss for sure.

[True Blue Door]

50. Yes, I hit the bottle. So would you if you knew what I know.

[Blue_In_AK]

52. Okay, I'll give you a pass.

You have to admit, reading that in the clear light of day, it doesn't make a lot of sense, although as I said, I think I caught your drift.

I may not know what you know, but I prefer not to live my life in fear. When/if the catastrophes come, I'll deal with it or die, simple as that.

[laundry_queen]

45. Dafuq? nt

[Bandit]

46. Sarah, is that you?

[easychoice]

51. did you have a stroke in the middle of that post?

Or do you grok jabberwokki?

[Enthusiast]

15. They will be happy about it until the permafrost starts to melt.

Maybe Anchorage doesn't have permafrost. But it will create many problems farther North.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I'm here

and I'm not happy about it at all. Water shouldn't be dripping off my roof on New Year's Eve. It's 40 degrees in Anchorage right now.

[countryjake]

35. So it's warmer up there than it is down here in WA today.

And we did finally get snow here.

You should post that video of the kids from up in Quinhagak again. This thread could use it.



Hey, have a Happy New Year, Blue!

[Blue_In_AK]

36. Thank you, countryjake.

You, too.

Yes, it's still 40 degrees here at almost 6:00 p.m. It's supposed to cool off and clear up next week. Still no snow, but at least more seasonable temperatures. I'll be glad to see the sun so I can try out my new neutral density filter.

[True Blue Door]

20. Plus, the collapse of the oil industry

won't leave Alaska for much an economic footing going forward.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. I was here before the oil industry.

We'll be fine. The upside of that is that the Texans and Oklahomans and other oily types will leave and give us our state back. Alaskans are resourceful.

[True Blue Door]

23. that should be fun to see.

[cadaverdog]

24. While reading this thread I just heard on the radio

that today in Los Angeles was the first day this year the temperature did not reach at least 60 degrees. Sort of a backwards comment on climate change here in the Southland. Meanwhile, we have over six inches of snow in our local mountains. Yep, there will be skiing in the morning and surfing in the afternoon this year for the hale and hearty. And for me, the temps are predicted to reach the mid-seventies in the Valley this weekend, which will be perfect tennis weather. What's not to like?

[Warpy]

28. I had a friend who moved there in the 60s, just in time for the big earthquake

Once the dust cleared, her letters were full of things like plugging in the car as soon as they parked so it wouldn't freeze solid, antifreeze and all, by the next morning.

So yeah, Anchorage has warmed. It's almost temperate these days.

[Ink Man]

34. First Time EVER????

The earth is millions of years old. How can they say that?

http://www.fe.doe.gov/education/energylessons/coal/gen_howformed.html

Fossil fuels, however, were once alive!

They were formed from prehistoric plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

Think about what the Earth must have looked like 300 million years or so ago. The land masses we live on today were just forming. There were swamps and bogs everywhere. The climate was warmer. Ancient trees and plants grew everywhere. Strange looking animals walked on the land, and just as weird looking fish swam in the rivers and seas. Tiny one-celled organisms called protoplankton floated in the ocean. <snip>

It's not the first time ever.

[Blue_In_AK]

37. I agree, they should have said something about since records have been kept,

but despite that, it is the first time that anyone can remember.

[Reter]

40. And it NYC my Forth of July was ruined when 69 degrees was the high

I will never forgive Mother Nature for this, it was supposed to be 90+!

[vive la commune]

44. Polar vortex?

I thought the warm temps in AK this year are supposed to be mostly because of the polar vortex, not primarily because of climate change. Also, there is something going on called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which is supposed to be responsible for Alaska having warmer, wetter winters.

Note, I'm not a climate change denier or anything, just that there are supposed to be other reasons why for the warm temps. I'm sure it's all interrelated, though. I think the unusually hot summers of the late 90's/early 2000's were supposed to be because of both El Nino and climate change warming trends combined.

I'm really enjoying the mild winter, though it wouldn't be good for every winter to be like this.

[HereSince1628]

49. Maybe the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge...the other part of the ridge-trough

system whose low pressure encouraged the polar vortex in the midwest.