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The Washington Post reports that weather conditions at the North Pole are abnormally warm for the beginning of winter.
It's polar night there now — the sun isn't rising in much of the Arctic. That's when the Arctic is supposed to get super-cold, when the sea ice that covers the vast Arctic Ocean is supposed to grow and thicken.
[...] "It's about 20C [36 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over north-central Asia," Jennifer Francis, an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University, said by email Wednesday.
"The Arctic warmth is the result of a combination of record-low sea-ice extent for this time of year, probably very thin ice, and plenty of warm/moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a very wavy jet stream."
No one quoted in the article speaks about Global Warming, but they all think the situation in the Arctic is anomalous and are interesting in learning more about its causes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @09:50PM
She can see the North Pole from her house
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @10:17PM
To save energy, make her ambassador to Russia: she can walk to work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @10:29PM
Amazing how something that a candidate did not say will stay with her forever
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/russia.asp [snopes.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by vux984 on Monday November 21 2016, @11:56PM
Amazing how something that a candidate did not say will stay with her forever
What Palin actually said, while not quite as ridiculous, was pretty ridiculous when considered in context.
"What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?"
Her actual answer "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." is just as much a non-sequitur as "I can see Russia from my house."
The interviewer KNEW that... that's WHY he asked the question. A good answer might have been to reply with her experience in negotiating with Russians over various disputed resources in the North and their stance and posturing etc. To talk about the shared shipping lanes between two nations. To talk about the ANR. Alaskan NORAD region; and experience with airspace violations and historical incidents...
At the end of the day Palin was asked to demonstrate her foreign policy experience with Russia given her state does essentially share a border with Russia -- her answer was (literally) "They're our next door neighbors [...]", a fact that was already implicit in the question... that plus the double-meaning of 'next door neighbors' made it a pretty short hop over to Fey's "I can see Russia from my House".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:23AM
And they say snopes has a left-wing bias...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:23PM
Past couple months you link anybody living in a truthy bubble to Snopes and they'll immediately say they're biased and deny deny deny. So I've been trying to figure this out. If Snopes debunks something [snopes.com] that would make a conservative look silly or stupid, does that mean it's actually true and the conservative in question really is silly and/or stupid?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:24PM
Well, it's obvious that they are going to occasionally debunk something that will help conservatives, and likewise might also debunk something that was helping the left. That way useful idiots like yourself can make postings questioning whether they are really biased. Though at least with Snopes it's more subtle than with Politifact.