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on Tuesday October 13 2015, @08:58AM
from the solving-problems-with-more-problems dept.
from the solving-problems-with-more-problems dept.
Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change, the Governor of Alaska has told the BBC.
The state is suffering significant climate impacts from rising seas forcing the relocation of remote villages.
Governor Bill Walker says that coping with these changes is hugely expensive.
He wants to "urgently" drill in the protected lands of the Arctic National Wilderness Refuge to fund them.
Alaska has been severely hit by the dramatic drop in the price of oil over the past two years.
In Alaska politicians are as with men: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
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(Score: 1) by WalksOnDirt on Tuesday October 13 2015, @04:29PM
The warmer winter would be much more significant. However, change is hard to get through, and watching houses wash out to sea because of the melting permafrost has to hurt.
After people get used to a warmer Alaska I doubt they will want to go back to the cold one. There are plenty of places where the population will really regret global warming, though.