http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/22/eveningnews/main1926055.shtmlAlaska, America's spectacular last frontier, is now Earth's hot spot.
Just ask Deborah Williams, of Alaska Conservation Solutions. "I used to bring people to this spot to see the glacier; now I bring people here to not see the glacier," she says. "Nine percent of the rise of sea levels in the world is because of melting Alaska glaciers."
No place says "baked Alaska" like the Eskimo village of Shishmaref, a barrier island town of 600 residents on the state's west coast.
Shishmaref's natives, called Inupiat, still survive on the salmon and seal they catch, along with the ivory and bone carvings they sell to outsiders.
The town has been the winter home of the Inupiat for 4,000 years, and became their permanent home only after they adopted Western ways with permanent housing. But there's nothing permanent about the village now, with the sea swallowing up one home after another.
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Alaska is going to need 10 bilion dollars to fix infrastructure problems from Global Warming with roads bridges and building sinking in the permafrost. to moove the village they are asking for 180 million so far the village has gotten 10 million
Alaska is having huge changes happening and I just wish the debates would have talked more about environment issues a bit more
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