The Struggle Between Alaska And Global Warming

Alaska is a state where they can have two extremities either extremely dry and cold or extremely moist and hot. Over the years Alaska’s climate has been doing anything but the norm. Wildfires during the summer have been an issue in Alaska; just last year hundreds of fires had burned over 5 million acres of the state’s land. It doesn’t necessarily get a lot of news attention because it’s a problem far away from civilization, but the smoke travels far and it plays a part in the global warming issue because of the amount of carbon it pumps into the atmosphere.
Glaciers are melting at a rapid pace. From 1950-2010 over eight percent of Alaska’s glaciers have melted (Zielinski, 2015 ) and it is flowing into the ocean so not only is Alaska losing