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[JayhawkSD]

6. I'm not sure how this constitutes Alaska being "in trouble"

Access to plenty of water and a warming climate -- they can begin growing crops.

That might offset Central California, which is losing its ability to grow crops due to a hotter and drier climate. No water for crops, a crisis ongoing for years now, is definitely putting California "in trouble."

Why is Alaska the "canary in the coal mine" when the California drought has been going on for just as long and is attributed to the same cause? Alaska's problems are not going to harm the nation as a whole, but California grows food for the entire nation, and the loss of those crops is going to cause food price inflation nationwide, and will increase imports with the consequent increase to our trade deficit.

The fact that I live in California is irrelevant, and I am not engaged in some sort of sick competition for "whose state is in the most trouble" here. We just need a sense of balance. Alaska's warming is certainly change, but it has not been illustrated how that constitutes a disaster. Having to truck in snow to start the Iditarod? Please.