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Cold Weather

As the U.S. midwest and east coast experience record cold temperatures and winter weather, we can’t help but make fun of some of the “global warming” issues that have affected our economy and our way of life in Alaska. Even though sea ice has increased for the past two years, polar bear populations have increased, [...]

Let’s Keep a Lid on This

President Obama and Senator Harry Reid can’t be glad that the global warming issue is coming apart before they have a chance to use it to tax us even more.

House of Cards

This week’s news about hacked emails from East Anglia tends to support what we have suspected about the global warming issue all along.  Is the house of cards about to fall?

Our economy: The next big hit

Some folks are saying the economic freefall appears to be at an end.  But there’s new legislation on the horizon that will send us over the edge. Click on the image to view the full cartoon. Published 5/7/2009.

Holes in Global Warming Theory

Each day we look at more holes in the predictions of catastrophic global warming. Probably the best overall view of global warming data can be found at www.petitionproject.org. If there is a “consensus on climate change,” this is it. Click on the image to see this week’s cartoon. Published 8/16/2008.

Alaska’s Five Seasons

Anyone who has spent time in the Alaska Bush knows seasons are defined, not by “spring, summer, fall and winter,” but by the activities that take place during those times. For those who have never been out of the Anchorage bowl and other outsiders, here is a handy reference chart. Click on the image to [...]

Environmental Science and Hired Guns

Maybe it’s time for some common sense…

Polar Bear Politics Threaten Alaskans

A ruling by the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife that the polar bear is threatened, as claimed by the Center for Biological Diversity, will be felt even more profoundly by Alaskans than by the rest of the country. The petition specifically targets oil exploration and development, shipping and fishing as industries which could affect [...]

Alaska’s Endangered Polar Bears

Most U.S. businesses are unaware of the full implications if the polar bear or other marine mammal is declared an endangered species based on melting sea ice as a result of man-made global warming.

Global cooling has arrived.

I’m down to my last cord of dry firewood. We’ve had a cold December and January, a warmer February, and I was just looking forward to spring when I saw this news tidbit on www.dailytech.com: “All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over [...]