Reply #62: I don't doubt this for a minute

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I've lived in Anchorage, AK for 40 years, and for most of my life a "warm summer day" was in the low 70's. In the last decade it's been creeping up and this past summer we had many days in the mid-80's! It was so hot and humid it felt like freakin' Hawaii. Scares me to death.

Yet the local news did stories about the outdoor food market and "how great the hot weather is for business." Showing off how large the fruits and vegetables were and the bumper crops. Yeah, just wonderful. And the local ice cream parlor made beaucoup bucks too. To their credit a local news station had a serious story about global warming about a month ago, but it's not pushing that kind of news nearly enough for me.

Now we've got Lisa Murkowski in the Senate who is toeing the Republican party line that there is no such thing as global warming. Goddamnit. My whole family worked hard for Tony Knowles, but when Lisa started showing commercials of herself with Laura Bush singing her praises, and others with Senator Ted Stevens threatening that he would lose his job(!) if Lisa wasn't "re-elected" (she was appointed by her father, the governor, to his vacated Senate seat) I knew we were cooked. Literally. The damn repubs just salivate over stuff like that and showed up at the polls for her, even though Knowles was ahead in *every* poll before the election.

The winters started getting freaky about ten years ago. I remember one where by January all we had was a light dusting of snow on the ground. Unheard of. It starts snowing here in mid-October, or earlier, and we've got *feet* of snow on the ground by January, normally. People don't mind mild winters all that much, but the Hawaiian summers are way too damn scary. I'm sure glad I didn't have kids. I'm worried enough that my generation is going to be one of the last.