The lede:
Alaska is going rogue on climate change.
Defiant as ever, the state that gave rise to Sarah Palin is bucking the mainstream yet again: While global temperatures surge hotter and the ice-cap crumbles, the nation's icebox is getting even icier.
That may not be news to Alaskans coping with another round of 50-below during the coldest winter in two decades, or to the mariners locked out of the Bering Sea this spring by record ice growth.
Then again, it might. The 49th state has long been labeled one of the fastest-warming spots on the planet. But that's so 20th Century.This comes even as the US reports lowest CO2 emissions since, was it, 1990?
In the first decade since 2000, the 49th state cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
So, I guess it all fits. Maybe "we" overshot the target for CO2 emissions -- unless faux environmentalists who have never been to Barrow, Alaska, want to see an even colder Alaska.
I can't make this stuff up.
Oh, by the way, Russia just experienced one of its coldest winters in decades. No links. It was posted earlier.
