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
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Assuming this is a medium to long wave cooling trend the Pac NW will go into a depopulation trend.
ShrNfr says:
June 10, 2011 at 7:51 am
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
Yes, the Portland branch of these sensitives are indeed well aware of their close kin, The Homeless, as well as their personal future situation – perhaps striking them tomorrow?. At least when the members of their Wisconsin blood line aren’t also emphasizing their nearly indistinguishable resemblance to full-fledged Zombies there in Wisc., where they recently demonstrated “in the face of” a Gov. Scott Walker – Special Olympics event, apparently due to their unjust exclusion from the Special Olympics!
There IS a reason that the NW cities of Portland and Seattle lead the country in the number of cases of Depression and Suicide… They are both hot beds od neo-socialist belief. The climate rusts their brains, and the average discussion varies from Pol Potism through KimIL Sungism, to Maoism on the left edge of Leftisms, to Bolshevism, Musolini- Corporate- socialism and finally national socialism on the right edge of Leftism.
The only common thing is they are ALL Socialists.
The last time we had real climate change Portland would have been a poor choice of destinations to flock to. It was buried under hundreds of feet of water.
http://hugefloods.com/ColumbiaGorge.html
http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/open-file/03-408/metadata.faq.html
And will be again. When we have real climate change.
The only thing we have to worry about ‘climate change’ in PDX is those water hogs in SOCAL who will use it as an excuse to revive the proposal that they had in the `60’s to pipe “excess water” from the Columbia River to SOCAL.
It may be that behind such stories is a subliminal awareness that if they don’t keep up the hype the whole story will collapse – since there’s nothing in people’s lives that supports the notion of runaway warming.
So what’s wrong with selling a tiny fraction of excess water to anyone?
Or giving it away to farmers like legislative bill would have provided for an Orewgon county rich in farmland but no water.
Oregon Democrat legislators killed a bill that would have done so.
As for the truth about the snow pack trends
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/marka/swe.na.1976-2008.gif
A couple years ago I constructed this composite of all 448 snotel and snow course sites with complete records across western North America (Arizona to Alaska) between 1976 and 2008. This does not even include 2011, a very big year for snowpack in the West. Hopefully this demonstrates that all the alarm about the decline in snowpack is not justified.
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/marka/swe.na.1976-2008.gif
-mark albright
WA State Climatologist (1987-2003)
FYI:
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/framingham/2011/06/snow_pile_lives_on_in_framingh.html
Not the NW, but if the Humid Continental NE has this, imagine the Marine West Coast NW someday. It’s all about precip amount combined with slight cooling.
Kat West
Director, Office of Sustainability
kathleen.s.west@multco.us
Here is a link to the snotel summary of western U S precipitation data real time for this date . Examples: Snow water equivalent for Utah=570% of normal water content. Nevada= 500%, Great Basin=494%, California=394%, Wyoming=368%.
Link:
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/reports/UpdateReport.html?textReport=Summary+of+Western+US&textRptKey=35&textFormat=SNOTEL+Snow%2FPrecipitation+Update+Report&StateList=Select+a+State&RegionList=Select+a+Region+or+Basin&SpecialList=35&MonthList=June&DayList=10&YearList=2011&FormatList=N0&OutputFormatList=HTML&textMonth=June&textDay=10&CompYearList=select+a+year
Its amazing what strange mental images some people can brainwash themselves to believe. Living in Western Oregon can do that to you. Consider “Sometimes A Great Notion…” Fishing is great up there, I’ll give it that.
http://www.timberlinelodge.com/conditions/
Link represents actual conditions. Weather IS NOT climate. a selected dataset is …………