Have you considered climate change if you are relocating?

[Gaer]

"Climate Change" is something made up by Al Gore to sell books in California.
IMO

 

[Murrmurr]

"Climate Change" is something made up by Bob Dole to sell books in California.

There's a lot of evidence showing a shift in our climate. Dole's argument was/is that the shift is our fault; the fault of humans, factories and consumerism. Scientists are split on that argument, some saying that climate change is normal and actually inevitable, others saying that's true but humans have made it happen sooner and more severely than it should have been.

They can both be right, I suppose. I believe it was indeed inevitable that some glaciers would melt, but maybe our pollution did hasten the process.

 

[Jules]

Normal rainfall does cause flooding and landslides every year. But we'd have to have mega-snowfall for a mega-flood to happen.

Last year we had an atmospheric river. This followed a heat dome in the summer and extreme wildfires. Our major highways were washed away, towns flooded, burned hillsides collapsed. We were landlocked in the interior for a week and then roads were still barely passable.

A Meteorologist ”said the dangerous part about atmospheric rivers is that they can stall over an area for multiple days bringing heavy rain and mild air. “This is what we experienced in November of 2021 where a combination of heavy rain and quickly dissolving snowpack was off the charts,” she said.”

 

[Gaer]

There's a lot of evidence showing a shift in our climate. Dole's argument was/is that the shift is our fault; the fault of humans, factories and consumerism. Scientists are split on that argument, some saying that climate change is normal and actually inevitable, others saying that's true but humans have made it happen sooner and more severely than it should have been.

They can both be right, I suppose. I believe it was indeed inevitable that some glaciers would melt, but maybe our pollution did hasten the process.

Of course there are climate changes. (If you want to call it that) This has been going on for billions of years. This is not something new upon the Earth.
Look at this from a different perspective. Thisi s a new planet and catastophic events will occur for the next million years at least.
There will be millions more people around to instill fear in the populace.
Of course, IMO

 

[Kaila]

Last year we had an atmospheric river. This followed a heat dome in the summer and extreme wildfires. Our major highways were washed away, towns flooded, burned hillsides collapsed. We were landlocked in the interior for a week and then roads were still barely passable.

A Meteorologist ”said the dangerous part about atmospheric rivers is that they can stall over an area for multiple days bringing heavy rain and mild air. “This is what we experienced in November of 2021 where a combination of heavy rain and quickly dissolving snowpack was off the charts,” she said.”

wow....Could you tell us the general location you are describing?

 

[Jules]

wow....Could you tell us the general location you are describing?

Sure. It picked up the warm water in the Pacific. It moved from the west to east, starting with coastal area of BC (Vancouver/Victoria), flooding our prime farm lands right on the southern border (Chilliwack), moving south westerly into the interior (Kelowna) and kept going into Alberta. The Cochiqualla was destroyed in sections and will take years to completely rebuild this major highway. There are only 2 major highways (the Coq & the Trans Canada) and a smaller one, the number 3, and they were all washed out for long periods until temporary repairs could be made. Many small highways were washed into rivers. This is high mountain country.

This storm also flooded Washington & Oregon states.

 

[HoneyNut]

Here is a list of states that are most vulnerable to climate change. I guess we may be leaving Texas for Vermont soon!

Sounds like a good plan to me. I was thinking if the oceans warmed too much those little things that make oxygen would die and lower the atmospheric oxygen, but apparently that is only a danger if we do nothing and even so it would be at least 150 years in the future. Then I wondered about those ocean currents stopping and causing glacial issues in North America and Europe, but that too seems to be only if we don't successfully limit our carbon and at least 75 or more years in the future.

Previously when the news talks about extending the human lifespan I was sad to think it would probably only benefit the ultra wealthy people, but maybe if they were going to live to experience the problems they would quit being a hindrance to change. Probably not though, they will be able to use their money to insulate themselves from all the problems.

 

[chic]

I will. I visited my cousin many times when we lived in MA. It's a very pretty area and the people are friendly. Pretty much a different vibe than in Boston. More laid back.

Very much so. Boston is very inner city urban.

 

[Murrmurr]

Last year we had an atmospheric river. This followed a heat dome in the summer and extreme wildfires. Our major highways were washed away, towns flooded, burned hillsides collapsed. We were landlocked in the interior for a week and then roads were still barely passable.

A Meteorologist ”said the dangerous part about atmospheric rivers is that they can stall over an area for multiple days bringing heavy rain and mild air. “This is what we experienced in November of 2021 where a combination of heavy rain and quickly dissolving snowpack was off the charts,” she said.”

If I'm understanding that right, it sounds similar to this thing we get in Calif called "cloud conversion" (I think). Water-heavy cloud clusters travel eastward from the pacific but get stuck at the Sierra Mountains because they're too heavy to make it over them. So they blanket the valley and stop the heat from rising, which causes high temperatures as wells as a level of humidity that Californians aren't accustomed to, and they just sit there doing that for days until the water finally falls out of them as rain. They can cause some really wicked lightening displays, too.

 

[timoc]

Well, if there are snakes, I'm not going there.
If there are mosquitoes, sod that.
Me and earthquakes don't get on very well.
And, one place I sort of fancied from the lovely picture, well, when I got to see it, the place was under 20ft of snow.

This dump where I twitch my toes just gets more and more appealing...... fancy a brew?

 

[SeniorBen]

"Climate Change" is something made up by Bob Dole to sell books in California.
IMO

Bob Dole was an environmentalist? Are you sure you don't mean Al Gore?

 

[Gaer]

Bob Dole was an environmentalist? Are you sure you don't mean Al Gore?

Hahaha! Did i say Bob Dole????? Oh, SORRY!!!! I meant Al Gore! Oh, I feel so stupid!!!!! hahaha!
I can't believe I said that! Thank you @SeniorBen for making that correction!
I changed it. Sorry!

 

[spectratg]

I read a disturbing article, according to which at least 85% of all plastic ends up in landfills! There are many types of plastic that don't mix at all with other types; the recycling process breaks down the chemical structure of plastics and often makes the plastic toxic. There are not enough recycling facilities anyways, and those that do exist are water intensive. There has been a “decades-long misinformation campaign to perpetuate the myth that plastic is recyclable.”