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Alaskan GlobalWarming
Global Warming is causing severe environmental changes in Alaska, including coastal erosion and thawing permafrost, adversely affecting Native peoples' way of life.
Date: 8/18/2005 4:41:10 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1277 times 
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McCain, Clinton, other senators take global-warming tour in Alaska
Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and two other Lower-48 colleagues are touring Alaska this week to see for themselves the destructive impacts of climate change. They've flown over Yukon forests devastated by spruce bark beetles -- believed to be thriving thanks to unusually high temperatures -- and eyeballed receding glaciers at Kenai Fjords National Park. In Barrow, America's northernmost city, the senators spoke with scientists and met Inupiat native Alaskans who described how severe environmental changes are disrupting their hunts, homes, and lives. Coastal erosion and thawing permafrost are likely to force massive relocations of Native villages, which could cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. "If you can go to the Native people and listen to their stories and walk away with any doubt that something's going on, I just think you're not listening," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
straight to the source: Planet Ark, Reuters, Yereth Rosen, 18 Aug 2005 straight to the source: The Boston Globe, Associated Press, Dan Joling, 17 Aug 2005 ©2005. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.
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