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Don't think it's isolated to Russia either. Alaska just reported their hottest June ever (It's in the 90's in a lot of places now), and the Yukon is seeing mas
by grecy 7y ago
Don't think it's isolated to Russia either.
Alaska just reported their hottest June ever (It's in the 90's in a lot of places now), and the Yukon is seeing massive, massive climate changes in recent years.
The annual Redezvous festival used to be held ON the Yukon River in downtown Whitehorse. Friends tell of driving onto the river, having huge bonfires, etc. etc.
It hasn't even frozen over enough to walk on in a decade or more, and now it actually goes above freezing in January most years..... even 20 years ago it wouldn't go above -40 for all of Dec/Jan.
Things are changing very, very fast in the North.
- floatrock 7y agoSo, winter is not coming?
- ngvrnd 7y agoNo. Cormac McCarthy's Road, or William Gibson's Jackpot, is coming.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoThe Road was implied to be a comet or maybe nukes. This will look more like Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl".
- 52-6F-62 7y agoYep. It's happening here in Canada too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-melting-1.5119767 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-melting-1.5119...
- itcrowd 7y agoThe climate has changed rapidly in the Yukon (see below), but I am wondering if you could provide a (scientific) source for your claims? Especially: > even 20 years ago it wouldn't go above -40 for all of Dec/Jan. This seems to be contradicted by [1]. Climate has changed dramatically in the Yukon, see Fig. 5 in [2] (open access). The average temperature in the Yukon has increased by >2 deg C since 1900 AD and >1 deg C relative to the 20th century average. [1] https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Canada/Yukon/temperature-january.php https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Canada/Yukon/temperat... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09622-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09622-y