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Iditarod Moved!

Fun | February 10, 2003 | Tim

For the last several years in a row, the Anchorage area has had insufficient snow for the traditional start of the Iditarod. They've attempted to compensate by putting manufactured snow on the streets of Anchorage, and sawdust on the trails leading out of Wasilla.

This year, for the first time ever, they've moving the Iditarod to Fairbanks or Nenana. The traditional "ceremonial" start will still take place in Anchorage on March 1st.

I'm told by all my conservative friends that "global warming" isn't happening. Perhaps they mean that climate change isn't absolutely traceable to human activity. Perhaps. I understand one year's odd weather is no indicator. But its been several years now. And I remember the Halloween to April snowcover in Wisconsin, when I was growing up -- I remember "Trick or Treating" in the snowbanks, in cold weather gear. And its not the same now.

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In the grand scheme of the age of the earth, "several" years doesn't really seem that distinctive from one year, to me. They are both blips in a LONG history.

Or perhaps that's just my knee-jerk reaction in response to the 99% junk science trotted out by the enviro-extremists and liberal media and they Kyoto fascists.

Posted by: harry on February 10, 2003 11:02 PM

Apparently, there have been some studies about this in Alaska:

Part I: http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/envirowrapper.jsp?PID=1051-450&CID=1051-072502A

The northern Pacific Ocean temperature strongly affects the temperatures of Alaska. The Pacific Ocean temperature changes naturally on multiple time scales. The major pattern in the northern Pacific Ocean is for it to hold at a low average temperature for roughly 20 to 30 years, and then to suddenly shift upward, where it remains for some decades. Then it shifts back down again.

Twenty-two of the thirty individual locations defining Alaska's temperature history show either no warming trend or a significant cooling trend after 1977. Nor does the USNA's Alaska record show a meaningful man-made warming trend in the period beyond the Great Pacific Climate Shift of 1976 - 1977. Those facts contradict the predictions from the climate simulations.

Part II: http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/envirowrapper.jsp?PID=1051-450&CID=1051-021003A

Posted by: harry on February 12, 2003 08:41 PM

I agree with the author.

Posted by: postal code on July 24, 2003 08:43 AM

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