This is bad news-for polar bears.

Ah, so *that's* where all the heat went last week.

/in Europe

FTFA comments:

Just goes to show, be careful what you wish for. Quit griping and praying about the cold people...you've got the whole world worried about global warming when it was you who chose to live in the Arctic. And before you say I'm nuts for suggesting it's a spiritual thing, let me ask you...Isn't everything spiritual? In your hearts you know.

Sarah? Sarah Palin? Is that you?

Or is Alaska just full of nutjobs?

Well, I guess that showed me! A heat wave in Alaska in January is the final proof.

/former global warming doubter(?)
//nah!
///Alaska is part of the globe, isn't it?

The warm temperatures came on the heels of one of the longest cold snaps to hit Fairbanks in decades, during which the temperature never rose above 20 below for 16 straight days from Dec. 27 to Jan. 11. The low temperature was 40 below or colder on 14 of those days.

Really farked-up weather means nothing, nothing at all. Move along now.

Yeah while the entire rest of the continental US is freezing our asses off. I would welcome some record highs about now.

Remember not knowing anything about the science is the best way to form an opinion.

FARK flamewars on global warming are the main cause of global warming!

Dubai Vol: This is bad news-for polar bears.

that is racist only commenting on one bear based on the color of its fur. What about the black and brown bears? You cant exclude them just because they arent white.

10 USC 311 - nice name, and with a minor thread jack, you do realize how silly that law is right? 17 year olds are in the militia but banned from having weapons. :P

frizzle65: FARK flamewars on global warming and teapots are the main cause of global warming!
ftfy

For those of us who live in AK,this weather ain't no walk in the park. Went from two weeks of sub zero (very unusual where I live) to 50 degrees and non stop rain, Hurricane force winds and now it is almost back to freezing rain. Roads are lots of fun, moose are confused and we have the same stupid drivers as the lower 48. I want snow. My driveway is a solid sheet of ice with a nice layer of water on top.

People in AK who biatch about the cold need to move to Alabama.

/I love it here.
//Global climate change. Embrace it, 'cause it is here.

I guess Sarah Palin finally shut up for a while.

FTA: "The chinook is kind of dying off," said meteorologist Daniel Robinson

My first thought:

The earth is slowly tilting into the sun. And will be for the foreseeable future (about 10,000 years). The arctic circle is moving north at about 75 feet/day. And nobody is reporting that.
Why?
Crazy weather? Get used to it.

WTF Indeed: I guess Sarah Palin finally shut up for a while.

No, now she's an expert on global warming and an meteorologist.

/remember kids: proximity = experience

farkmeagainandagain: //Global climate change. Embrace it, 'cause it is here.

That's unpossible! It snowed in Vegas last month! It was 40 below in Minnesota a few days ago! AAAAAALLLLLL GOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRE!

Lee Jackson Beauregard: farkmeagainandagain: //Global climate change. Embrace it, 'cause it is here.

That's unpossible! It snowed in Vegas last month! It was 40 below in Minnesota a few days ago! AAAAAALLLLLL GOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRE!

EXACTLY! Since it's cold HERE, it's not global warming. In fact, fark the environment. I'm gonna use Pesticides and CFCs every damn day, because I'm so obtuse, I only care about global whargarbling. Savin money and resources? wharrgarble

/people love being obtuse.
//wharrgarble
///wharrgarble wharrgarble wharrgarble wharrgarble

Dubai Vol:

Sarah? Sarah Palin? Is that you?

Or is Alaska just full of nutjobs?

Naw, but I hear Dubai is full of Muslim extremists.

bibitte

The earth is slowly tilting into the sun. And will be for the foreseeable future (about 10,000 years). The arctic circle is moving north at about 75 feet/day. And nobody is reporting that.

If the Earth were tilting into the Sun, the arctic circle would be moving south. Maybe that's why they're not reporting it; they did some basic fact-checking.

Also 75 feet/day is not "slow"; that means it would take a about 70 days to move a mile, and only 13 years to move a degree of latitude.

Dubai Vol: Or is Alaska just full of nutjobs?

Between the burned out old hippies and the fundy churchies, this place is jam-packed with weirdos. It scares me that I'm one of the saner people here.

bibitte: The earth is slowly tilting into the sun. And will be for the foreseeable future (about 10,000 years). The arctic circle is moving north at about 75 feet/day. And nobody is reporting that.
Why?
Crazy weather? Get used to it.

What the hell are you talking about?

trixter_nl: Dubai Vol: This is bad news-for polar bears.

that is racist only commenting on one bear based on the color of its fur. What about the black and brown bears? You cant exclude them just because they arent white.

Polar Bears have black skin, unlike some other bears.

DeathVegetable: trixter_nl: Dubai Vol: This is bad news-for polar bears.

that is racist only commenting on one bear based on the color of its fur. What about the black and brown bears? You cant exclude them just because they arent white.

Polar Bears have black skin, unlike some other bears.

They only have white fur to try and pass.

akzeac: Ah, so *that's* where all the heat went last week.

/in Europe

I'd like to ask that they return it all and never take it again.

To AEROJOCKEY: Yes. Now do you see the problem? Tell Al Gore.

To Ed Grubermann: Snow in Vegas, 40 degrees in Alaska. Crazy weather? Get used to it.

bibitte: To AEROJOCKEY: Yes. Now do you see the problem? Tell Al Gore.

There you go again: AAAAAALLLLLLL GOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRE!

Baked Alaska, anyone?

The arctic circle is moving north at about 75 feet/day. And nobody is reporting that.
Why?

...because it's literally impossible for the arctic circle to move North?