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Pickens Plan III: More Retreat but Still Errant (SPR oil for nat gas) — MasterResource

His repeated calls for from-your-pocket-to-mine energy subsidies bring to mind a harsh verdict by the late Milton Friedman: “The two greatest enemies of free enterprise in the United States … have been, on the one hand, my fellow intellectuals and, on the other hand, the business corporations of this country.”

Breakup running late; no quick warm-up expected - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS — The bad news is that breakup on Interior rivers is already two weeks late, and it doesn’t look like it’s in any hurry to get here, judging from the record-cold temperatures in Alaska’s second-largest city on Monday morning.

[Arctic is lot *colder* now than it was during another period when CO2 was at similar levels, therefore, CO2 must be even more powerful than we thought?]

[Or an alternate hypothesis:  Maybe CO2 isn't the primary driver of Arctic temperature?] Temperatures were high enough – about 14 degrees warmer than today in the warmest month of the summer – to suggest that the climate system is more sensitive to small changes in greenhouse-gas concentrations than the sensitivity estimates included in some climate models.

Brrrrrr, with snow in the forecast salmon season may have to be put on hold | Alaska Dispatch

Where the May thoughts of Alaskans should be turning toward tasty Copper River salmon, they are instead focused on a "Winter Weather Advisory" for Cooper River Country.
...In the worst-case scenario, people in the Copper River basin could be dealing with more than a foot of snow by late Tuesday.
...The forecast for Tuesday in Fairbanks calls for "mostly sunny." Of course, temperatures are forecast to dip to 5 degrees tonight.
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Monday’s high temperature for Fairbanks, in the mid-30s, is the coldest for May 13, ever for Alaska's Golden Heart City.