Cumberland Times-News - You don’t have to live near them to be affected

The Backbone wind turbines are four miles from my home, with hills in between us, but I can still hear them. The trees that were cut to clear the path for them to be built nine years ago still lie in heaps rotting on the ground around them.

The wildlife that once was abundant in the area has moved out and the water run off down hill from them has drastically changed. This causes flooding, land erosion and property loss for miles below the viewshed of the turbines.

To further add insult to injury, people should realize that once you produce that 1 percent of energy that the nation uses from wind, there then has to be transmission lines to pipe the electric to where the power companies want it to be purchased. You have further land loss from that, further eyesores, further forest fragmentation and disruption.

Alaska: Nenana Ice Classic tickets go on sale today

Though officials usually drill a hole to measure the ice for the first time in mid-January, Forness said no measurements have been taken yet, in part because of the cold snap that gripped the Interior during the first two weeks of the month.

“It was so flippin’ cold we didn’t want to send anybody out there,” she said.

The first measurement will be taken this week, Forness said. The ice was 44 inches thick on Jan. 21 last year and grew to more than 50 inches thick in March before beginning to shrink.

Given the cold snap in late December and early January, during which the temperature never rose above 20 below for 16 straight days, Forness said it will be interesting to see how thick the ice is.

Wise cooling to global warming - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Perhaps there is hope for America after all.

Despite the incessant hysteria about how mankind's irresponsible use of fossil fuels has put our whole planet in imminent peril, few Americans seem to be sitting up late at night fretting over any global-warming apocalypse.