Alaskan Village Shishmaref Sinking Into the Sea

[Swede]

This may not be breaking news,but I just heard about this.


The effects of climate change are not coming, they are here. For over a decade villages in northwest Alaska have been watching their coastlines erode away, as the warming climate reduces permafrost and the formation of sea ice that protects and maintains their shores. Many of the villages are in low-lying coastal areas near freshwater sources, surrounded completely by water and making them vulnerable to storms.

http://www.conducivemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65:7climate-crisis-alaskan-village-shishmaref-sinking-into-the-sea7&catid=47:beneficial-people&Itemid=67

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the update, Swede.

[timeforpeace]

2. Global sinking again.

[Arctic Dave]

3. This has been happening to most of Alaska's coastline. It has become reallly bad the last few years.

[redqueen]

4. It's happening in lots of places.

Here in the US in Florida... also in India, Australia...

[joeybee12]

5. This is why even nutjob Linda Murkowski isn't a nutjob about global warming...

...when you see concrete evidence of global warming, then it's pretty tough to deny it.