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yes it was warmer in Alaska one hundred million yrs. ago.
5 million years
The energy came from the sun, 300 million years ago, when the fossil fuel was formed.
363 million years ago.
I live in Fairbanks area, Central Alaska. I can remember summer temperatures having reached 102*F (not in the last 3 years). Many people may be surprised by those temperatures, but often do not take into consideration the near-24 hour sunshine.
Organic material (vegetation, animals etc) need:Time (about 300 million years)Pressure (and heat)
The Euoplocephalus was a herbivorethat lived over 60 million years ago. The armored dinosaur lived in areas that had a lot of vegetation and access to water.
The earth has warmed in the past 50 million years. It has had various Ice Ages and temperatures have risen and fallen in the past, but it has never had the rapid rise in temperature that we are now experiencing since the Industrial Revolution, 200 years ago, global warming.
18 years of age in Alaska.
The geo-historic opposite of the Ice Ages (maximum glaciation) would be the periods of higher temperatures such as the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum (65 to 100 million years ago) and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (peaking about 55 million years ago).
Alaska became a US state 83 years after the first Russian explorer visited Alaska. Alaska was sold to the US in 1867.
Approximately 4 million years ago, the Earth experienced a cooler climate known as the Pliocene epoch. Global average temperatures during this time were about 2-3 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels.