Fires are raging over Alaska. The satellite image below shows the situation on July 8, 2019. The satellite image below shows the situation on July 9, 2019. The image below shows carbon monoxide levels as high as 43,443 ppb over Alaska on July 8, 2019. Carbon dioxide levels were as high as 561 ppm over that same spot in Alaska on July 8, 2019. Carbon dioxide levels were as high as 888 ppm on July 10, 2019, as the image below shows. The image below shows a forecast for July 10, 2019, with temperatures forecast to be as high as 35.5°C or 95.8°F. What causes such extreme weather events to occur? The Arctic has been heating up faster than the rest of the world, due to self-reinforcing feedback loops such as the decline of the snow and ice cover in the Arctic, which results in less sunlight getting reflected back into space and more sunlight instead getting absorbed in the Arctic. As the image on the right shows, sea surface temperatures in the Bering Sea were as high as 19.8°C or 67.64°F...