Damage from climate change may cost Alaska $10 bln - Yahoo! News: "Larsen led a study with a team of engineers to calculate how Alaska will cope with the highest temperatures it has experienced in the last 400 years, according to data gathered from ice cores.
'There is a rough magnitude of between $5 and $10 billion of public infrastructure that's vulnerable to climate change just in Alaska,' Larsen said on Monday night.
Permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, covers nearly two-thirds of the massive state but buildings, pipelines, roads and bridges crumble as it melts, he said at this week's meeting in Belize of Arctic peoples and tropical islanders who are suffering the worst effects of global warming."
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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