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The Bushies want us to believe that the scientists are all nuts and the there is no such thing as global warming. I don’t think the scientists are the nuts. I think the Bushies are nuts.

Alaska: Warming is Disturbing Preview of What’s to Come, Scientists Say

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska is melting.

Glaciers are receding. Permafrost is thawing. Roads are collapsing. Forests are dying. Villages are being forced to move, and animals are being forced to seek new habitats.

What’s happening in Alaska is a preview of what people farther south can expect, said Robert Corell, a former top National Science Foundation scientist who heads research for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment team.

“If you want to see what will be happening in the rest of the world 25 years from now, just look at what’s happening in the Arctic,” Corell said.

Alaska and the Arctic are warming up fast, top international scientists will tell senior officials from eight Arctic countries at a conference in Iceland next week. They will disclose early, disturbing findings from a massive study of polar climate change.

That’s what’s happening in Alaska. Here’s what’s happening right here in my neck of the woods…

Balmy month one for the record books

Could it happen: A Year Without a Winter?

There are reasons for North Texans to begin asking the question this week, which marks the midpoint of what is usually the year’s coldest season.

The daily high temperatures during January were, on average, the warmest ever for the month – 68.3 degrees, a figure that broke an 83-year-old record. The normal high is 54.

A cold snap hit in early December, but since winter officially began Dec. 21, there have been only three days when the high was below normal. And there was only one hour – around daybreak Jan. 14 – when the official thermometer at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport fell below freezing.

Needless to say, there has been no winter snow or ice.

There is something good coming out of all this, though. People are not being hit real hard with the record high heating fuel prices brought on by the Bush Administration.

Maybe next year.