Title: What climate change looks like in Alaska now - Anchorage Daily News
Headings: What climate change looks like in Alaska now
What climate change looks like in Alaska now
Since the mid-20th century, Alaska and the Arctic have been warming about twice as fast as the global rate. Over the past five decades, average Alaska temperatures have increased by 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit, with the increases most pronounced in winter -- a change noticed by Native elders decades ago.
Winter 6.3 degrees warmer
Weather changes, weather extremes
Melt and thaw  glaciers and permafrost
Forests, fires and plants
Wildlife on thin ice
Erosion, villages and culture
Food security, health and safety
Ocean acidification pronounced in Alaska waters
Cold Rush
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Content: With the Arctic crucial to the Earth's climate and much of its wildlife, and with new evidence coming in that links the rapid Arctic warming to extreme weather events in highly populated latitudes far south, the rest of the world should pay attention to the changes first noticed by Alaska's indigenous residents, scientists say. "The Arctic is not like Vegas. What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic," Howard Epstein, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia, said when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a 2013 Arctic Report Card showing profound changes. Waves pound against the sandbagged seawall in Kivalina, Alaska on September 13, 2007. A storm surge and pounding waves sheared off large segments of Kivalina's multimillion dollar sea wall causing more than 200 residents to evacuate the village built on a slender strip of land. Waves pound against the sandbagged seawall in Kivalina, Alaska on September 13, 2007. A storm surge and pounding waves sheared off large segments of Kivalina's multimillion dollar sea wall causing more than 200 residents to evacuate the village built on a slender strip of land. Weather changes, weather extremes
Alaska in the past few years has been posting some of its warmest temperatures on record, with new marks in various places for all-time highs, daily highs, high daily lows and lack of snow. That is part of a global pattern. The world's 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 1998, and last year was the hottest ever measured.