Climate Change and Alaskan Coastal Villages

In Alaska, there are some villages that are being encroached upon by the rising sea and melting permafrost. Some of the villages, such as Newtok, pictured above, have already made plans to move their village a few miles away where it will be on bedrock, instead of permafrost. The average winter temperature in Alaska has risen 6.8 degrees in the past 50 years, which doesn't sound like much, but if you think of the difference between 30 degrees and 36 degrees, you get rain instead of snow or chocolate milk instead of ice cream.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/alaska-village-climate-change/402604/