Is this the coldest Summer "ever" in Alaska?

Question

http://www.alaska.com/adn/front/story/9917709p-9837523c.html

Answer 1

isn't this cool?  I mean, even in the face of information that 'denies' one of the major premises of AGW, the greenie/leftist/socialist democrats insist that global warming is real and continuing...lets see, what else, oh yeah, this 'global warming' is actually causing fewer Atlantic hurricanes to reach the USA mainland, just opposite of what they said would happen in 2004....and of course the ice cap at the North pole is actually thicker than at anytime in the last 10 years, not completely melted as promised by the gore-bore obama-bin-lyin' guys...but hey, global warming is real and is going to destroy us all if we do not 'believe'...what a joke!  If we elect these clowns, the joke is on us!!  and I am a democrat.(blush blush)..good question, good fun, at the greenie's expense...

Answer 2

No it's not.  Anchorage may be having a mild summer--but tis a tiny part of a very big state. Besides, global warming revers to AVERAGE temperatures.

Of course, understanding the concept of "average temperature" requires a 4-5th grade knowledge of science and math--so its obviously beyond the mental capabilities of the "deniers."

Answer 3

If that's what the article says, then I guess it is.

Answer 4

This question was asked almost a week ago

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

When I checked several different weather sites they had the

Anchorage temp at 60F average low for that time of year is 50F to be a record low for this time of year if would have to get down to 40F. A week later the temp there today is?

http://www.alaska.com/about/weather/stor...

from the same site you posted and the forecast for the next 5 days is high 60s

Average highs and lows are here

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimato...

record highs and lows can be turned on by clicking the small buttons at the top.

Answer 5

That's just weather not climate.    If it were a warm summer, that would be climate not weather.   If it's cold it's weather or noise, if it's warm it's climate or signal.  Except 1998 - that was very warm and that was noise.   An "outlier."

Or, maybe they're out-lying.

Answer 6

According to the link you give, no, at least, not yet, although it might be (...in Anchorage, not Alaka).

This article says Anchorage may have the coldest summer in years due to a La Nina effect. It also says that this coldness is NOT a signal that AGW is wrong or not happening:

"So are all bets off on global warming? Hardly, scientists say. Climate change is a function of long-term trends, not single summers or individual hurricanes."

So how is it the skeptics are suddenly jumping up and down?

The link given actually supports AGW more than it refutes it.

Two things:

1) Anchorage is not the Globe. Something that is local or regional over a short time frame is weather. Something that is planetwide over a longer time frame is climate. Sorry, Randall, but that happens to be the definitions: Not my fault if you don't understand the words.

2) The fact that some places such as Anchorage (or Wisconsin, sharbear) are experiencing extreme weather is exactly what the theory predicts - more volatility, more extremes.

As for the rest: "the ice mass is gaining and is near normal levels" - really? All the research says that arctic ice mass is down 40% from normal levels and that it continues to shrink, not gain.

No AGW proponent, study or forecast has said anything about "Anchorage will have consistently warmer summers every year". It certainly isn't "one of the major premises of AGW".

And no one (except lie-mongering, fact-distorting skeptics - sorry you started the name-slinging) said that the artic ice cap would be completely melted in 2008.

Answer 7

I live in Wisconsin and I'll tell you that we had the worst winter in like 50 years or so.  (give or take a couple years, just like they do degrees).  I was so mad that it was getting warmer and blasting us with all that snow.  What idiots!

Answer 8

Most likely.  We can see from the Arctic ice data that the ice hasn't melted as fast as last year, and in fact the ice mass is gaining and is near normal levels.  

If this trend continues, there will be more ice at the arctic than normal within a year.