Claim: Global Warming will Turn Alaska into a Garden State

[rangerrebew]

Claim: Global Warming will Turn Alaska into a Garden State
 

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

According to climate researcher Nancy Fresco, Alaska could have the potential to feed itself by 2100 – but lots of government intervention is required to kickstart Alaska’s agricultural revolution.

    Climate change could enable Alaska to grow more of its own food – now is the time to plan for it

    February 4, 2022 12.10am AEDT

    Nancy Fresco
    SNAP Coordinator, Research Faculty, University of Alaska Fairbanks

    …

    As a climate researcher at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, I recently worked with other scholars, farmers and gardeners to begin investigating our state’s agricultural future. We used global climate change models downscaled to the local level, coupled with insights from farmers growing vegetables for local markets and tribal groups interested in gardening and food security. Our goal was to take a preliminary look at what climate change might mean for agriculture in communities across the state, from Nome to Juneau and from Utqiaġvik to Unalaska.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/05/claim-global-warming-will-turn-alaska-into-a-garden-state/

[rangerrebew]

Does that mean it will be like New Jersey, which is the "Garden State," after all.  If so, we had better pray for more cold weather.

[AARguy]

1970 - "Miami will be underwater in ten years."
1980 - "Miami will be underwater in ten years."
1990 - "Miami will be underwater in ten years."
2000 - "Miami will be underwater in ten years."
2010 - "Miami will be underwater in ten years."
2020 - "Miami will be underwater in ten years."

YADA, YADA............ YADA.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, no one has said what the "right" temperature for the planet is, nor how they came up with that.

Consider a little warmer would push Zone 3 (and the other zones) back up north a bit, and make for potentially more arable land in the Northern Hemisphere. Not to mention the possibility of extending the number and variety of orchards farther North into areas that fruit trees cannot survive now. That would be a joy for some of us, not to mention being able to put our 40 below gear up.
 
But I suppose I should just be content that there aren't continental glaciers just over the horizon, waiting to make this place look like central Greenland.

[roamer_1]

Alaska already IS a garden state. They trade darkness in the winter for daylight in the night all summer long. You would be entirely surprised what can be produced  in 4 months up there.

[AARguy]

In order for Alaska to resemble New Jersey, Alaska would have to import mountains of trash, thousands of drug dealers, massive numbers of cars to clog highways, and give significant discounts to attract Mafia members.

[Kamaji]

In order for Alaska to resemble New Jersey, Alaska would have to import mountains of trash, thousands of drug dealers, massive numbers of cars to clog highways, and give significant discounts to attract Mafia members.

[rangerrebew]

In order for Alaska to resemble New Jersey, Alaska would have to import mountains of trash, thousands of drug dealers, massive numbers of cars to clog highways, and give significant discounts to attract Mafia members.

That is EXACTLY my unwritten point.  I went to Navy Schools in Lakehurst.  We called Jersey the Garbage State instead of Garden State.

[Hoodat]

Alaska already IS a garden state. They trade darkness in the winter for daylight in the night all summer long. You would be entirely surprised what can be produced  in 4 months up there.

No stems, no seeds that you don't need.
Anchorage Gold is . . . badass weed.

[Hoodat]

If the temperature of the planet increased by ten degrees, sure Miami might be underwater.  But the remainder of the planet would easily be able to support 16 billion people.  Now how about that beachfront property in Greenland?

[roamer_1]

No stems, no seeds that you don't need.
Anchorage Gold is . . . badass weed.

Well... yeah. I was thinking of green peppers half the size of my head... but yeah. 

[roamer_1]

If the temperature of the planet increased by ten degrees, sure Miami might be underwater.  But the remainder of the planet would easily be able to support 16 billion people.  Now how about that beachfront property in Greenland?

Folks forget - Greenland was arable in recorded history - Just a few hundred years ago...

[rangerrebew]

We know Taxachusettes is free from global warming caused flooding since the Imam Obama built a multi-million dollar shack on Cape Cod.  Could the world's smartest person ever be wrong?

[DefiantMassRINO]

Obama's summer shack in Taxachusetts may be invulnerable to flooding by rising oceans, but it is susceptible to erosion, storm damage, and decreased property values as more Great White Sharks summer in its waters.

[Bigun]

Folks forget - Greenland was arable in recorded history - Just a few hundred years ago...

Yep!  The Romans grew grapes and made wine there.

[Kamaji]

Folks forget - Greenland was arable in recorded history - Just a few hundred years ago...

You mean the name "Greenland" wasn't the first instance in recorded history of a timeshare salesman lying in order to sell his inventory of lots?

[roamer_1]

You mean the name "Greenland" wasn't the first instance in recorded history of a timeshare salesman lying in order to sell his inventory of lots?

Dunno... He may have been looking down the road a bit further than most. 

[Kamaji]

Dunno... He may have been looking down the road a bit further than most. 

[240B]

That is the biggest problem with global warming extremists. They think in terms of a few years. Mother Nature works in terms of millenniums. Alaska and the Antarctica may indeed change over time. But that time will be in terms of hundreds or thousands of years, not decades. And nothing mankind does will change the natural path of the Earth's climate.

None of us or the climate change disciples will live to see it.