"This just in:
2012 was the coldest year of the new century in Fairbanks, and the second
coldest here in the last 40 years.
Fairbanks isn’t the
only chilly place in Alaska. Average temperatures at 19 of 20 long-term
National Weather Service stations displayed a cooling trend from 2000 to 2010,
according a recent study written up by Gerd Wendler, Blake Moore and Lian Chen
of the Alaska Climate Research Center".