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Early Snow Expected in Alaska

in mid August…..

Ted Turner: Fossil fuels are ‘going to poison us’ | JunkScience.com

“It’s time to say goodbye to fossil fuels,” Turner said. “Thank God it is, because it’s going to poison us if we don’t phase it out. It’s the right thing to do, it’s economical to do, and it’s going to be more efficient. We need to get on it right away”…

2012: Whatever Happened to Ted Turner? - The Hollywood Reporter

Turner shuttles endlessly among his 28 properties — 14 of them ranches with 55,000 bison — traveling hundreds of thousands of miles per year on his private Challenger jet

China's voyage of discovery to cross the less frozen north | World news | The Observer

"We always knew global warming would affect the planet first in the Arctic, but we have been floored by the rapidity of that change," said Mark Serreze, director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.

"Temperatures have risen dramatically. At this rate, I would expect the Arctic to be completely free of ice in summer by around 2030. That is why everyone has become so interested in the region."