Scientists paint grim view of impact on U.S. of global warmingAssessment predicts results if nation’s weather warms by 5 degrees to 10 degrees over the next hundred years; Alaska would see further permafrost thawing H. Josef Hebert Associated Press Writer
A new climate study says if global warming continues, then the results could mean more thawing of the permafrost in Alaska causing damage to roads and impacting forests and fish.
It’s a grim forecast: Sugar maples in New England disappear, the barrier islands off the Carolinas are swept away by hig....
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