Tuesday, October 25, 2011

13 people in Alaska claim that they can no longer sometimes accurately predict next week's weather by looking at the moon; CO2 blamed

Climate Change is Altering the Lives of Alaska's Natives
The researchers interviewed 13 people, eight of them men. The number of subjects was small because of logistical and cultural difficulties, the researchers said, and they plan to go back.
...The weather also has become less predictable, the men said, as well as more dangerous.

The Yup'iks believe they could accurately predict the weather sometimes a week in advance by looking at the moon, but can no longer with any reliability, they said.
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Since the average temperature in Alaska over the course of the year is at about the freezing point of water, warming by even a few degrees can completely alter life there.

The average temperature in the area has increased by one degree C since 1966, and Arctic temperatures are now at a 400-year high.
Barrow, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Temperatures remain below freezing from early October through late May. The high daily temperature is above freezing on an average of only 109 days per year. There are freezing temperatures on an average of 324 days per year.

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