Overheated Alaska update: Kivalina residents, allegedly terrified of being swept out to sea, don't want to move to an inland site because it would be "too cold, too windy, too removed from the coast"

As waves lap at their doorsteps, Alaskan islanders take on climate polluters | Grist

With the clock ticking, the cold Chukchi Sea seems to loom over every interaction, every conversation. Residents describe nightmares of being swept out to sea. Even more vivid are the details of actual events, such as the 2007 storm during which people struggled in pitch darkness to reassure crying children and move belongings as the sea grabbed chunks of land
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Even if Kivalina succeeds in financing its relocation, the future of the community is by no means assured. Shearer recounts how a contractor working on the relocation problem, URS Corporation, proposed an inland site that horrified residents -- too cold, too windy, too removed from the coast -- and has yet to consider their objections.