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<div>Only posting a short segment, with quotes from Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, from the recent Anchorage Daily News article, might clarify what the article is about, in terms of whether this is a new problem or not. As I have posted before about the Green Revolution, it is only a matter of time before it arrives; and Republicans such as Ted Stevens taking a public stand like this is part of this revolution:
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<div>Anchorage Daily News</div>
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<div>Published: October 22, 2007<br>Last Modified: October 22, 2007 at 02:37 AM<br> </div>
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<div>By BETH BRAGG </div>
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<div>A NEW KIND OF EMERGENCY<br><br>Newtok, Shishmaref, and Kivalina are the canaries in the mine that is global warming, which is eating river banks, thawing permafrost and delaying the annual formation of shore-fast ice that protects coastal towns from fall sea
<br>storms.<br><br>Even Stevens, once a skeptic of global warming and man's role in hastening it, talks about the effects of "global climate change." Long a champion of the oil industry that supports Alaska's economy, he has in recent months pushed for fuel-efficient American-made cars and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
<br><br>"I think there is a contribution of mankind to the warming cycle," he told Channel 2 news this summer, although he also said he believes the warming trend is part of a natural cycle hundreds of years in the making.
<br><br>Stevens harbors no doubt, though, that many Alaska villages face impending disaster.<br><br>"This is a new type of emergency," he said at the Senate hearing. "We get it first, but it's coming everywhere."
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