Snow levels in Alaska illustrate climate changes underway

Climate change is not as complex as many believe it is, providing you are willing to learn how the planet's seasonal changes can be indicators of how change occurs. It was strange hearing how Houston Texas got a light snowfall while big cities like Toronto, New York and Ottawa still had rain and weekly above freezing temperatures. In Alaska, the snow falling in the mountains is exceeding historical norms and in some regions, setting records. What this can it tell us about our planet and its current environmental conditions is being undertaken by a research team from Dartmouth University.

If the data is accurate, the consequences may illustrate and explain why our planet's laws of nature cannot be fooled and may prove difficult to reverse. Natural disasters do not always occur overnight. Dartmouth University Earth Sciences Department has an excellent online resource that assists the reader in understanding their approach and how the data can be correlated to develop future environmental models.

Annual increases of water and carbon that is no longer being sunk into the planet's glaciers,and instead will quickly melt every spring atop of the mountains and have lasting impacts on our land and oceans including;

Additional Resources:

• Reuters Article - Climate change driving record snows in Alaskan mountain
• Dartmouth University Earth Sciences Alaska Research