So far, the only climate refugees I’ve ever seen in reality are the ones that travel from NYC, Boston, Minneapolis, and other cold winter locations to escape to Florida and Arizona during November-March.
I have to laugh at this though:
Climate disruption will be the defining issue of this century and probably for centuries to come. No famine, no war, no plague, not even natural disasters will compare with the impacts of this event on human civilization.
Story here
Yeah sure, just a few years ago nobody was talking about “climate disruption”. Now we have another hockey stick. Funny how when we had weather disasters before nobody knew it was actually climate disruption and not simply plain old weather. See this Google ngram graph plotting the frequency of use of the phrase “climate disruption”.
h/t to reader GregO
I’ve just spoken to an Aussie pilot I met in the bar here in Heathrow Airport. Apparently Brisbane had its coldest day ever yesterday at 8C. 46F.
Personally I am a climate refugee to the Northwest, I moved to North Idaho to escape the horrific heat of my native Texas, so far I have been delighted, as both Texas has gotten worse(hotter) and Idaho better (colder), however I fail to see what global warming has to do with this.
The old joke goes: “People in Portland don’t tan in the summer, they rust.”
The Moving Finger Writes, And Having Writ, Moves On, Nothing to See Here. (The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, modified)
Passing from Global Warming, through Climate Change, to Extreme Climate Events, to Severe Climate Disruption, we see how the terminolgy shifts to encompass an even greater number of phenomena such as abnormal cooling arising from global warming.
The next logical term is “Increased Average Normality”, whereby every imaginable circumstance of climate can be blamed on the Moving Finger of Man.
IAN = Increased Average Normality. You read it here first.
Utterly assinine, to characterize the article as being balderdash being far too charitable.
Someone needs to tell them that the current fetish is that “Global Warming” will cause more rain, not less. So that sidbar to the picture that says it’s going to cause droughts needs to be replaced. That is history not in keeping with the current dogma (and heavy rain / snows…) Someone needs to tell the AGW History Revision Team that they are being too slow with the airbrush…
“Beaverton Valley Times”, this is made up right, like the Onion?
I was born in Portland 60 some years ago! I moved out at age 5 and I am still trying to get the webs out from between my toes!
My sister is a climate refugee doing the Idaho / Arizona loop each year. They used to call them Snow Birds!
From the article:
“The Northwest, with our temperate weather and abundant water, will not be immune to climate change impacts, by any means. In fact, we may be a victim of our own success.”
Notice the word “our” in there? And what success is she talking about? Does she really believe that she or anyone else has anything to do with creating the climate there. Perhaps she is a god in her own mind.
Semi-OT: this morning’s news in the NW is full of a story about long-term decrease in snowpack. “Don’t be fooled by the recent increase”, they say; “it can’t represent a cycle because we know everything in Nature moves in infinite linear trends.”
I took the trouble to purchase the original USGS article, and their graph shows something very different from a linear long-term trend.
http://polistrasmill.blogspot.com/2011/06/snowpack-vs-global-warming.html
Gee here I and wife are excited about 70F in the coming week. The Portland Rose Festival is having a hard time getting roses for the floats. If I was worried about “Climate Refugees” I’d b e Worried about Canadians heading south….
“If the climate disruption is nice this weekend, I’m going to go play 18 holes of golf”.
Sorry, it just doesn’t have the same nice ring the old term had.
Snake Oil comes in many package.
Droughts happen.
In some places populations increase between droughts.
Nature’s cyclical behavior may be disruptive to some human lives.
It is less clear that some human lives can disrupt natures cycles.
# Why did I even read it?
There is one big reason to really care about this stuff. People are using arguments based on “climate disruption” to spend real public money. When Wisconsin’s new governor nixed a high speed rail line, one of the arguments that was thrown at me was that WI NEEDED the rail line to handle all of the increased population that will come north when the south becomes uninhabitable! The person was adamant. I was dumbstruck.
There really are people who think that way, and there are more of them than you think, and they are influencing public policy.
The mathematical equivalent of an “infinite linear trend” is a curve (yet saying so would weaken their argument). Very few things in Nature are a straight line, and even those are certainly not for long. Even this “climate change disruption” meme isn’t going to endure; they’ll find a new, more hysterical term to represent their agenda.
Portland has a major problem with a volcano and a fault line off shore. Either one of those can/will cause “disruption”in the area. If the fault gives a tsunami will disrupt areas inland for miles. And it gives way on a regular basis. If the volcano blows will all bets are off. They need to worry about those not climate.
NikFromNYC says:
June 9, 2011 at 10:16 pm
“Thanks for the October graphs. It is always fun to see important factual information that the Warmista would not discuss to save their lives.”
To Mike Davis, here in Central Florida we still call them “Snow Birds.” There are so many of them that they are clearly visible, like a new flock arriving. Grocery stores are packed with upscale people in their seventies and eighties.
Actually, it is the $200,000 a bed flop house they just built for the homeless with yoga and painting classes. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703937104576303033608531702.html
Portland, the city of moonbats. Everyone here is nuts, and Eugene is even worse. Eugene, what an ironic name! I sometimes use the phrase “The Peoples Republic of Portland”, in reference to the “Peoples Republic of Kalifornia” where many moonbats migrated from, in derision. I have recently started seeing bumper stickers with that and a red star. The owners display them with community pride! Truelly and honestly a large percentage of the population thinks that Marxism is a good idea, what pathetic fools they are.
What about Canada? It’s cold here. And we don’t get a lot of earthquakes or tornadoes. Plus, climate, ahem, disruption will extend the geographical area of the grain belt and and allow us to grow more kinds of fruits and vegetables up north. Maybe we should build a really big fence around the contry, eh?
DavidM
June 10, 2011 at 5:44 am
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Sorry, it isn’t. And this is one of the more conservative rags here!
http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/index.php
I hate it here. I want to go back to the desert were I belong. Too bad that the project I am working on is so exciting, that I de-Gault-ed to work on it. Maybe in a year or two …..
If you like constant rain in winter, and a nanny state to rival California, then you would like Portland.
Portlanders love Goth and their city.
I was there for a couple of weeks in March this year. It stopped raining for two days out of 14. Cold, too. Normal for most of the winter and early spring.
Amusing article, but Portlanders seem to love it there.
We get this stuff nearly every day.
Kat is typical of nearly every bureaucrat in Oregon government agencies related to anything land use, transportation, sustainability, environment, planning etc.
We have a heavily dominating, disproporianate concentration of lunatics where most states have a few spattering s of kooks.
Here is another one today.
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/06/snowpack_declines_in_northern.html
Snowpack declines in Northern Rockies, Upper Columbia region ‘almost unprecedented’ in last 800 years, study says.