# As global climate change happens will people move in droves to places like Alaska?

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Alaska is experiencing longer and colder winters, as a result of 'global warming".

It’s important to recall that “global warming” only means that the Earth on average gets warmer; it may well get colder in various regions of the world even as the world as a whole grows warmer. For example there are worries that disruption of the present climate could chill Europe down to the climate that Canada now has, causing widespread crop failures and famine.

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