[RegulatorCountry]

I don’t know about conditions in the Arctic as a whole, but I do know that Alaska is having one heck of a winter.

Maybe it’s just too much cold and snow for them, odd as that sounds. They’re leaving to find food.

No doubt this will be sagely noted as an effect of global warming too. When you have a bogeyman and find him useful, he’s responsible for every “bad” thing, even when it’s not.

[BfloGuy]

Alaska is having one heck of a winter

That was my first thought. It's just too damned cold up there this year. Odd the reporter didn't seem to know anything about that.

[diogenes ghost]

".......Alaska is having one heck of a winter."

Tenana, in cental AK, yesterday had a high of 48 degrees and a low of 60 degrees..............below.

Now I don't care who you are, that's cold.

[sportutegrl]

Keep using the term, “global warming.” They want to change it to “climate change.” Don’t let them.

[Flycatcher]

I don’t know about conditions in the Arctic as a whole, but I do know that Alaska is having one heck of a winter. Maybe it’s just too much cold and snow for them, odd as that sounds. They’re leaving to find food.

You are correct. Arctic bird irruptions into the Lower 48 during winter are always caused by a period of extreme cold on their feeding grounds. That is what is happening now. These birds have to move south in order to eat -- it's as simple as that.

Yet it is amazing to me that this fact is completely ignored in this absurd and biased article.

Honest journalism is dead. R.I.P.