Magnetic
Pole Movement
North
and South
The core of the Earth is revolving closer and closer to the crust of
the Earth faster to 85th° latitude, and 235° longitude, right over Alaska. But there is no panic that an iron ball the size of the Moon will crash out of the Earth there. Scientists saying Earth's core is in its center, so it cannot hit Earth's top, keeping a certain disaster a secret. Here I change the agenda of science as a dictator, draft work forces needed in industry, and decide from all the choices in public polls, while I employ every able American worker, to abandon the "waite and see" quagmire that leaves no time to replace "the system" by legal means. Only a U.S. Military need for my dictatorship as America's Third Party can establish my National Company government system, for only American citizens, during my huge deportation and nationalization conflict.
Warmth in Alaska unwanted
Social, ecological upheaval created
By Timothy Egan
New York Times
ANCHOR POINT, Alaska ---
To live in Alaska, where the average temperature has risen about 7 degrees
over the past 30 years, means learning to cope with a landscape that can
sink, catch fire or break apart in the turn of a season.
In the village of Shishmaref, on the Chukchi Sea just south of the Arctic
Circle, it means high water eating away so many houses and buildings that
people will vote next month on moving inland.
In Barrow, the northernmost city in North America, it means coping with
mosquitoes in a place where they once were non-existent, and rescuing
hunters trapped on breakaway ice at a time of year when such things once
were unheard of.
Hydraulic jacks handy
In Fairbanks, where wildfires have been burning off and on since mid-May,
it means living with hydraulic jacks to keep houses from slouching and
buckling on foundations that used to be frozen all year. Permafrost, they
say, is no longer permanent.
Here on the Kenai Peninsula, a recreation wonderland a few hours' drive
from Anchorage, it means living in a 4 million-acre spruce forest that
has been killed by beetles, the largest loss of trees to insects ever
recorded in North America, federal officials say. Government scientists
tied the event to rising temperatures, which allow the beetles to reproduce
at twice their normal rate.
In Alaska, mean temperatures have risen by 5 degrees in summer and 10
degrees in winter since the 1970's, federal officials say.
The leading Republican in the state, Sen. Ted Stevens, says that no place
is experiencing more startling changes from rising temperatures than Alaska.
The social costs of higher temperatures have been mostly negative, people
here say. The Bush administration report, which was drafted by the Environmental
Protection Agency, also found few positives to Alaska's thermal rise.
But it said climate change would bring a longer growing season and open
ice-frozen seas in the Arctic for shipping.
"There can no longer be any doubt that major changes in the climate
have occurred in recent decades in the region, with visible and measurable
consequences," the government concluded in the report to the United
Nations last month.
It does not take much to find those consequences in a state with 40 percent
of the nation's surface water and 63 percent of its wetlands.
'Profound' occurrence
Here on the Kenai Peninsula, a forest nearly twice the size of Yellowstone
National Park is in the last phases of a graphic death, Century-old spruce
trees stand silvered and cinnamon-colored as they bleed sap.
Climate models predict Alaskan temperatures will continue to rise over
this century, by up to 18 degrees.
"We've had so many strange events, things are so different than they
used to be, that I think most Alaskans now believe something profound
is going on," said Dr. Glenn Juday, an authority on climate change
at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. "We're experiencing indisputable
climate warming. The positive changes from this take a long time, but
the negative changes are happening real fast."


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