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To those who are still in denial that our beloved mother Earth is heating up, this article is quite disturbing:

The earth beneath much of Alaska is not what it used to be. The permanently frozen subsoil, known as permafrost...is yielding to warming air temperatures and a warming ocean. Sea ice that would normally protect coastal villages is forming later in the year, allowing fall storms to pound away at the shoreline.

And this describes a village that's being destroyed in that part of Alaska because of climate change:

Excrement dumped from honey buckets is piled on the banks of the slow-flowing Newtok River, not far from wooden shacks where residents take nightly steam baths. An elderly man drains kerosene into a puddle of snowmelt. Children pedal past a walrus skull left to rot, tusks intact, in the mud beside a boardwalk that serves as a main thoroughfare. There are no cars here, just snow machines, boats and all-terrain vehicles that tear up the tundra.

Remember - Alaska is part of America.

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