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Red-state Alaska drafting plans to address climate change
Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:37 pm
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While many conservative-leaning states have resisted aggressive climate policies, Alaska is already seeing the dramatic effects of global warming firsthand, making the issue difficult for local politicians to ignore. The solid permafrost that sits beneath many roads, buildings and pipelines is starting to thaw, destabilizing the infrastructure above. At least 31 coastal towns and cities may need to relocate, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, as protective sea ice vanishes and fierce waves erode Alaska’s shores.
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“Climate change is affecting Alaskans right now,” wrote Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott in a recent op-ed in the Juneau Empire. “To underestimate the risks or rate of climate change is to gamble with our children’s futures and that is not a bet that we are willing to make.”
The state is still finalizing its climate plan. In October, Governor Walker, a former Republican who won election as an independent in 2014, created a task force headed by Lieutenant Governor Mallott that would propose specific policies to reduce emissions and help the state adapt to the impacts of global warming. The recommendations are due by September.
In addressing climate change, Alaska will have to grapple with its own deep contradictions. Roughly 85 percent of the state’s budget is funded by revenues from the production of oil, which is primarily exported to the rest of the United States, and local politicians have largely been unwilling to curtail the supply of fossil fuels. Both Governor Walker and Lieutenant Governor Mallott supported Congress’s recent decision to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, a move sharply opposed by environmentalists.
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Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:38 pm to TejasHorn
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“Climate change is affecting Alaskans right now,”
Yet overstated CO2 emissions by 40+%?
lulz
Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:38 pm to TejasHorn
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TejasHorn
you're an embarrassment.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 4:40 pm to TejasHorn
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Red-state Alaska drafting plans to address climate change
Very predictable thread right at the start of summer.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 6:08 pm to TejasHorn
It's all about the federal $$ going to the native villages.
Walker also expanded Medicaid which is now killing us and will be a tremendous burden for years to come
Walker also expanded Medicaid which is now killing us and will be a tremendous burden for years to come
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 7:17 pm to TejasHorn
Guess we need to pump all those fossil fuels out of the ground up there so in case Alaska gets too hot it won't explode or flip over like Guam.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:07 pm to FinebaumsHair
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Guess we need to pump all those fossil fuels out of the ground up there so in case Alaska gets too hot it won't explode or flip over like Guam.
Repeating because of the awesomeness!
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:10 pm to TejasHorn
CuckHorn. What a joke poster
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:24 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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It's all about the federal $$ going to the native villages.
Walker also expanded Medicaid which is now killing us and will be a tremendous burden for years to come
#nailedit.
Only people who live in Alaska understands the moves behind this push.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 8:59 pm to TejasHorn
Reducing emissions from all that busy traffic in Alaska should really curtail global warming
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:00 pm to TejasHorn
Odumba's people.
Good riddance, let them burn it down.
Good riddance, let them burn it down.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:03 pm to TejasHorn
It’s bizarre that greenhouse gas emissions and our environment have become a partisan issue.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:05 pm to DavidTheGnome
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It’s bizarre that greenhouse gas emissions and our environment have become a partisan issue.
The whole God damn made up farce has been a "partisan issue" since its inception.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:06 pm to TejasHorn
K keep me posted meme. I typed it out to reduce my cO 2 footprint. Just doing my part.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:08 pm to gthog61
What’s amazing is how absolutely certain a lot of you are that you’re correct.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:21 pm to DavidTheGnome
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What’s amazing is how absolutely certain a lot of you are that you’re correct.
There is scant "evidence" to the contrary.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:26 pm to Dale51
Dale are you a student and scholar of the topic to such a degree as to qualify you to accurately make such a claim?
Posted on 5/15/18 at 9:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
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What’s amazing is how absolutely certain a lot of you are that you’re correct.
I’m not a skeptic by any means. However I do think it’s become really partisan. I especially don’t understand how the narrative went from “global warming” to “climate change”.
I’m in the oil and gas industry and I’m happy that many of the super majors and majors are trying to admit scientific facts.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 10:17 pm to TejasHorn
US should start fracking and drilling hardcore in Alaska.
“Take the oil!” - President Trump
“Take the oil!” - President Trump
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 10:19 pm
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