Sen. Inhofe: Alaska needs your snowball

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Doggone! Snowless Alaska forces Iditarod race change

For only the second time in 42 years, the famed Iditarod Sled Dog Race has been forced to shift its route due to lack of snow, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

The start of the race, which begins March 7, has been moved from its traditional location in Willow to Fairbanks; this happened once before, in 2003.

Members of the trail committee's board voted unanimously Tuesday to change the course "due to low snowfall in some of the most treacherous sections of the trail's roughly 1,000 miles," the paper reported.

"This year, you can't go through a rock," Nome musher Burmeister told the News- Miner. "There's boulders and rocks that we've never seen there in 20-some years that are littering all the gorge, places that you'd never even see a rock because you're going over feet of snow going through there. This year, you're looking at bare ground."

Over the past 50 years, wintertime temperatures across Alaska increased by an average of more than 6.3 degrees, due to man-made climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency reports. Overall, Alaska's temperatures are rising twice as fast as those in the lower 48 states.

 

[Wrong Element]

"Treehugger idiot. Don't you realize that the weather in the eastern United States is always perfectly representative of what's happening everywhere else on the planet?"--- James Inhofe

 

[Paendragon]

This is what annoys me about the "look how cold it is right here" crowd.

In California we're having another mild winter with little precipitation.

When my home state of New Jersey is getting snow by the foot and my adopted state of California can't buy a rain drizzle I get concerned.

 

[phrodeau]

"Treehugger idiot. Don't you realize that the weather in the eastern United States is always perfectly representative of what's happening everywhere else on the planet?"--- James Inhofe

That isn't a real quote by James Inhofe.

This one is: "God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons and that cold and heat would never cease as long as the earth remains."

 

[BoyNextDoor]

They should run the Iditarod in Boston. I still have 4 feet of snow in my yard and it is March.