Alaska Quote by Katey Walter

Melting permafrost in Greenland and the Arctic tundra is releasing vast amounts of methane, a potent climate-altering gas.

— Tatiana Schlossberg

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

— Joseph J. Romm

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six…

— Bill McKibben

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska,…

— Michael Specter

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

— Jeff Goodell

In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water.…

— Sheila Watt-Cloutier

I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that…

— Michael Hanlon

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism…

— Bill McKibben

...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was…

— Kevin E. Trenberth

Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented…

— David Adam

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers,…

— Robert Ballard

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores,…

— Ray Metcalfe