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How is 4/10 of normal an elevated level?

Obviously the journalist is an idiot.

Here is a more competently written source: Fukushima radiation found in Bering Sea.

The concentration of cesium 137 went from 2.0 to 2.4 becquerels per cubic meter.

It was a charge. I doubt that, even in Florida, she was convicted: https://nypost.com/2017/11/03/...

It gets worse, though: http://www.newsminer.com/junea...

However the State has tried many times to stop or limit how much they pay the citizens. The current Governor did cap the amount that they paid for last years dividend and the State is currently trying to impose an income tax.

http://www.newsminer.com/news/...

https://www.usnews.com/news/bu...

The people love the PFD but the State would love nothing more than to spend every damn penny of it.

It could be worse. There are, of course, good reasons for the high fuel prices in rural Alaska, but $3.80/gallon isn't nearly as bad as it gets.

I posted about this on my G+ feed a while back; at some point, we went from being told about Global Warming to being warned about Climate Change.

The reason for that is that people equate "Global Warming" with "hot summers". That's bogus. The greenhouse effect isn't about direct sunlight; it prevents heat from escaping; therefore it affects low temperatures more than it affects high temperatures, and it affects winter more than it affects summer. The Arctic and Antarctic are the places that are changing the most drastically, and that's far removed from your average Joe's day to day "ermigahrd its sooo hot" experience.

But warming the poles more than the temperate latitudes evens out the temperature difference between them, and that has huge consequences from a weather standpoint. Temperature differences drive the jet streams; a polar jet stream is a 100mph~200mph river of air that circles the planet 5 miles up, and if you live in a temperate latitude (e.g. the US, Europe, China, south Australia) then a polar jet streams is responsible for everything nice about your weather. A polar jet stream blocks cold dry air from plunging equatorward (and warm moist air from surging poleward), and it also shepherds weather systems from west to east, forcing them to keep moving. Without a jet stream, weather would just sit in place for weeks or months at a time, causing droughts or flooding depending on whether a high pressure system or a low pressure system decided to set up shop over your head. (Either possibility is a disaster for agriculture and local ecology.) But thanks to CO2-induced polar warming, the jet streams have been creeping equatorward a little bit each year and they've been weakening. With weaker jet streams, we can expect things like polar vortex plunges and balmy temperatures in Alaska and 15%-of-normal-rainfall droughts in California and 115 F heat waves in Australia to become regular occurrences. (These things are all happening right now, if you haven't been paying attention, and they're all a consequence of polar jet stream shenanigans, which are getting more common and more extreme as of late.)

Like the jet streams, ocean currents are also driven by temperature differences, so ocean currents will eventually start to shift if polar warming continues. That will have far-reaching consequences, because ocean currents determine evaporation rates and thus where precipitation falls, but ocean current changes are very hard to predict because we have so little data to work from. This hasn't really affected us yet, but the El Niño vs La Niña dichotomy (drought vs flooding; where you live determines which one brings which) gives a small taste of how much power the ocean has over the weather (and how big the effect will be once we do get our first permanent ocean current shifts). That awful The Day After Tomorrow film was mostly made of bogus-science-from-hell, but it was very loosely based on a real-world hypothesis that freshwater glacial melt could disrupt the thermohaline circulation that powers the Gulf Stream, the ocean current that keeps the UK and northern Europe warm. (The UK is at the same latitude as the Gulf of Alaska, suggesting it would be as cold as Alaska if the Gulf Stream were disrupted. The Gulf Stream

But I don't understand why you want me to stop at N PV panels instead of more? I have space. I can install 10x as many. Don't you want power? I will sell you power, and you will receive it for the same price that the utility charges you. It will be just a trade between us, using the utility's power grid for which we pay $8/mo separately.

Nice idea, but maintaining the grid infrastructure in a generalized fashion between you and me costs more than $8/month. Heck, the connection charge in my area is closer to $35/month. Labor is expensive and conditions are extreme. In fact we have the worlds 'most powerful battery' in my town.

http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/thursday-marks-st--degree-day-of-summer-in-fairbanks/article_01686836-fb4a-11e2-8a40-001a4bcf6878.html

Sometimes it is a good idea to do a little more research before whining...

Galena Nuclear Power Plant
Why nuclear energy is on hold for Alaska

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/17259808/article-Classic-collection--Book-provides-detail---context-to-Fairbanks%E2%80%99-automobile-museum About halfway down the article is discussion of Robert Sheldon. He built a car, having only seen pictures. Not quite loading a horse with a straight six, but I was fairly impressed.

nope:
http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/10519399/article-Weather-records-fell-like-rain-in-November
http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/16641072/article-2011-Novemburrrrr-in-Fairbanks-one-to-remember
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/11/145020767/alaska-town-endures-record-snow-fall

I'm pretty sure that snowfall in Anchorage is setting records. There was an unusual storm out west that left Nome, Kotzebue and a few other towns in a bad way. Whether using "normal" in the casual sense that I meant or the forecasting statistical method that you seem to prefer, this is not normal. I'm not trying to convey an underlying message. The weather here always has odd extremes. It's just part of life.

nope:
http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/10519399/article-Weather-records-fell-like-rain-in-November
http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/16641072/article-2011-Novemburrrrr-in-Fairbanks-one-to-remember
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/11/145020767/alaska-town-endures-record-snow-fall

I'm pretty sure that snowfall in Anchorage is setting records. There was an unusual storm out west that left Nome, Kotzebue and a few other towns in a bad way. Whether using "normal" in the casual sense that I meant or the forecasting statistical method that you seem to prefer, this is not normal. I'm not trying to convey an underlying message. The weather here always has odd extremes. It's just part of life.

Your telling me that winter tires are not mandatory in wintery states in the US?! No wonder there are all kinds of crazy when a snow storm pops by. Here in Norway your required to have winter tires on after a specific date, and they need to have a minimum thread depth.

Nope, not mandatory at all in most areas, but I can't speak for the entire country. I've been on some mountain roads in California where they make sure you have at least all-season tires that are M+S (mud and snow) rated or they require snow chains, but all season tires are a poor substitute for quality winter tires. But I think the all kinds of crazy that happens during a winter storm is more due to poor driver skills than the tires they have on their cars - many people don't understand that just because their car will accelerate to 50km/hour on a snow covered city street, that doesn't mean that they will be able to negotiate the curve ahead at that same speed without sliding off the road.

Not even our northern-most state of Alaska requires snow tires in the winter:

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/6376818/article-Alaska-Legislature-considers-making-snow-tires-mandatory?instance=home_news_window_left_top_2

Murkowski is no longer the Republican running for Alaska's Senate seat, but she woud caucus with them if reelected as that's how she'll have seniority on committees. Since she has joined every Republican filibuster - on any kind of legislation, so long as it obstructed Democrats - there's no reason to believe she won't go along with them, especially since she'll have to make deals with the party to keep her seniority. She might not lead witch hunts, but she will eliminate Social Security and Medicare to give its money to Wall Street, which is the Republican platform as it always has been. The witch hunts of course are just distraction so that real story isn't reported to the people, and to weaken Democrats who would try to stop the heist.

Joe Miller is the Republican. He says Social Security is unconstitutional, clearly his pretext for handing it over to Wall Street. He wants to take away Americans' voting for our senators directly, and says the minimum wage is unconstitutional, despite longstanding Supreme Court decisions supporting them, so his idea of what the Constitution is and is worth is an open question.

McAdams' ad wearing Stevens' tie is obviously a message about bringing Alaska Federal pork just like Stevens was beloved to do, and without which handouts Alaska would shrivel and die. He's not going to witch hunt anyone, because those handouts have been protected by Democrats as well as Republicans.

So yes, your mileage may vary. There are many roads to an Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere. But both Miller and Murkowski are active climate change deniers, even as climate change hits Alaska harder than any other state, as the Arctic is the most sensitive to the changes. Which is why either of them in the Senate will be voting for exactly the kind of witch hunt this story in Virginia is about. The witch hunts where they help impeach the Democratic president for some imaginary nonsense are just the price of admission to the modern Republican caucus they're spending all their time and money fighting to be counted among.

http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/sep/27/global-warming-has-paused/?opinion

I live here, and I've got a friend who works for SourceForge ... I'm not sure in what capacity, though. There's definitely a demand for people with technical skills. There's also ample opportunities for infrastructure development if you're interested in the hardware side of things. The state is working pretty hard to improve broadband access (http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/jun/21/fairbanks-representative-hopes-highlight-lack-alas/ and http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/mar/16/internet-companies-hope-stimulus-boon-bush/).

Maybe she wanted a public "fan-mail" account? I don't know. I can't imagine why she'd make two as well. Maybe she didn't want someone else making those accounts first and posing as her. Maybe she was proud of being elected governor and wanted to rub it in. I suppose I would be tempted to do the same. Maybe her child originally made the accounts, and Palin accesses them using yahoo messenger without even caring what the password is (I don't use yahoo messenger- can you get your e-mail from it?)

Don't get me wrong here, I'm not a fan, I think Obama's ticket is better for country, if not only because it shows the middle east that yes, its possible to get a different party in charge. My dad is a hardcore republican and he was ecstatic that Palin was selected - because she wouldn't be governor anymore. He thinks "McCain will win as long as she doesn't open her mouth". Really, there isn't a good reason Palin should have won over Binkley except that the area she represented had a much larger population than her republican opponents during the primaries. And anyone who wasn't Frank Murkowski would have won the election.

Here's some more info about Palin, mainly about how she just happened to be the right face at the right time: Palin unqualified to server vice president

But seriously, give her the benefit of the doubt a little. I'm assuming your trying to imply she created those accounts to conduct government business "under the radar". If she wanted to do that she would just talk to someone in person. Its very easy, creating an e-mail account that flat out gives away who you are is by far the most illogical way of doing that. On the bright side, if she is elected, she probably won't make this mistake again.

Yes, but so is she.

Her enormous popularity in the state took a hit this summer over her firing of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, a former Anchorage police chief.

State lawmakers launched a $100,000 investigation to determine if Palin dismissed Monegan because he would not fire the governor's ex-brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who has been involved in a messy custody battle with Palin's sister.

A candidate complete with pre-made scandal. Outstanding.

Her state loves her because she helps Stevens bring in the federal pork.

O rly? End of the Bridge to Nowhere

Also...

"Alaskans are being told wake up, you have to be less reliant on the federal government. So I'm saying, 'OK then let us be less reliant on you. Allow us to develop our resources. Let us prove to you that we can responsibly and safely do this.'"

from Palin visits D.C., lobbies for Alaska issues