Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The recent resurrection of “The Day After Tomorrow” warming causes cooling scenario has panicked climate alarmists, who until recently thought they could ride out the apocalypse by moving somewhere cold.
With Climate Change, There May Be No Best Place to Live
If you’re looking to move somewhere in the U.S. to ride out the climate apocalypse, bad news: The list is growing shorter.
By Francis Wilkinson
19 September 2021, 22:00 GMT+10Climate change is having a breakout performance this year. Throughout the U.S., the slow-motion calamity long described in scientific studies and news articles has been visible to the naked eye or felt on tingling flesh — here too wet, there too dry, everywhere too hot. It’s only human to wonder where the higher, safer ground might be. Where to run?
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Consider America’s two Portlands — Oregon and Maine. Tucked into the northwest and northeast corners of the Lower 48, each was thought to be a safe haven from the ravages of climate change. Not anymore.
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In June, Portland [Oregon] reached a record 116 degrees in the midst of a freakish heat wave. The temperature, which followed record-breaking highs on each of the two previous days, could have been worse. In the village of Lytton, British Columbia, 400 miles north of Portland, the temperature hit 121 degrees. Even Seattle experienced triple-digit heat on three consecutive days.
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Portland, Maine, is another place that has received attention as a potential refuge from climate chaos. It makes sense. Portland is cool and coastal while being less vulnerable to the sea rise that is already complicating life in many East Coast cities. As one climate scientist told the New York Times in 2016: “Portland is high enough that certainly for the next few centuries it’s not going to have significant sea-level rise.”
On the other hand, Portland is not exactly balmy, with an average low temperature in January of 13 degrees. So any prospect of the city getting colder is cause for concern.
To understand how that could happen, it’s necessary to understand the evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the ocean current system of which the Gulf Stream is a part. The AMOC, as it’s known, transports warm surface waters up the East Coast of North America before crossing the Atlantic to Northern Europe.
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/neither-portland-maine-or-oregon-is-refuge-from-climate-change
Michael Mann has been pushing warming causes cooling pretty hard lately, which seems to have upset greens who thought they might be safe if they move somewhere cold.
Imagine what it is like being a dedicated deep green climate alarmist. You move to Portland, Maine, and have your outdoor swimming pool installed, in anticipation of the apocalyptic warming everyone expects, only to discover you might have to fend off mile thick ice sheets. Better make sure those solar panels are ready to warm the house in winter!
Drama green, I mean queen
Serious question.
Does anyone outside the believers in the climate alarm cult, actually take any notice of what Michael E Mann has to say about anything?
It would be difficult to find any other individual that has been more wrong about anything and confirmed wrong than Michael E Mann. With that almost unique achievement in his CV, how is even possible he is still employed, let alone given air time to broadcast his climate nonsense?
Ehrlich would give Mann a run for his money in that race.
I noted, though, he was a hit with the media down-under with the fires and all. Is he a fire-Gore?
Mann is at Penn State, that should tell you all you need to know about how he is still employed and considered an asset to their organization…
Contact the author: fwilkinson1@bloomberg.net and
the editor responsible
Mnewman43@bloomberg.net
To tell them what garbage alarmism this is.
These idiots are all severely mentally ill and need to be forcibly institutionalized for our protection.
I’m amazed. The laws of physics have somehow been changed since I was in grade school.
It was always “cold is the absence of heat, so we build fires/run furnaces to keep warm and cook”.
Now, with this unprecedented change in the laws of physics via Mann, heat causes cold.
Amazing! How does he do that??? If we have a blizzard or two this winter, I’d like to send him a cubic foot of snow from my personal collection, just so he doesn’t get too hot.
You actually have a snow collection?
Note Robert Burns, from Tam O’Shanter :
“But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed;
Or, like the snow-fall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever.”
He correctly does not say the river freezes. Still, last year skaters took out shoes on the frozen river after 30 years! Something must have caused that!
Same thing that did 30 years ago. Duh!
Yes, there will be, come winter, snowballs in my freezer which I will produce as souvenirs for next summer. I have some photos of ice that froze in a thin layer and held up until April, then vanished into my lawn. I also froze some soap bubbles, just for fun.
I wonder what would happen if 9 feet of snow blocked the doors at some of the places where these people gather. With the moisture content of the air as it is (rathr high where I am), and a rather mild summer, the grasses are still quite green. And Autumn starts tomorrow, which means we may get more rain than we’ve had all summer.
“Amazing! How does he do that”
He employs the same approach as the post-modern left in general. Doublethink.
Once mastered doublethink allows you to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in your mind simultaneously, and accept both of them.
So we know that heat does not cool something, you have to heat the water to take a bath
But now you have to also believe that, for example, a hot radiator will cool you down
Simple when you know how.
Climate change hysteria is surely having a breakout performance this year. The blathering idiots are constantly braying about the weather, about how “bad” it’s become, and how it’s all our fault for wanting to live comfortable lives. How dare we want to have reliable and affordable energy, which is “destroying the planet”. Excuse me, while I look for my sackcloth and ashes.
Ummm, could you tell me what planet those people are living on , Bruce?
Where I live, the summer was rather nice, if just a little dry after the spring rains ended. I really don’t think those people are on the same planet as you and I.
COP26
We are being subjected to a deliberate blizzard of Human-caused Climate Change propaganda. An organized, purposeful blizzard.
Big Brother has the Megaphone.
Gather all ye faithful – and you, griff – and hear the tidings
“Scientists see
warming causes cooling”
All you have to do is believe this nonsense.
“warming causes cooling”
All you have to do is believe this nonsense.”
Yes you are talking nonsense.
Regional cold outbreaks in winter by the process of PJS disruption (perhaps) being enhanced by areas of open Arctic water and earlier build of the Siberian high.
does NOT constitute “Cooling”.
The GMST is not affected as cold areas become less cold in return.
It’s zero sum (or as near as we can tell.
Just energy being moved around the climate system and not a change in Solar energy in vs LWIR out.
But don’t let the new myth be punctured by the facts.
You seem to have done a great job of convincing yourself
I applaud that kind of devotion.
Tough on Siberians, eh?
I’m not “convinced” either way.
It’s just a hypothesis, that is meteorologically plausible.
The “Siberian” winter climate is severe whatever happens to Arctic Air – in fact it is usually colder than the Arctic.
The Arctic has a marine environment, albeit cold. Siberia has a continental climate, much warmer and colder. Also, try Fairbanks, AK.
The only climate crisis is the one being manufactured which is leading to spiralling energy costs. The best place to survive is in the middle of nowhere with enough food, water, fuel (and ammo) for the duration.
Never thought I’d be thinking about becoming a ‘preper’, but I can see where eco-policy is leading. In the UK we are starting to see cause and effect.
Would someone explain how the models predict freakish temperatures, horrible storms, drought etc if world temps rise 2C?
Charlotte NC is about 1+ degree Lat north of Columbia SC, and 1 degree of latitude has the effect of about 1C temp difference. It seems to me that global warming will make Charlotte NC weather to be like Columbia SC weather.
See, Manmade CO2 has magical powers. It can even cause CO2 heat to become Ninja Heat, which can hide deep in the oceans, where we can’t see it, but we “know” it’s there, waiting for the right moment to pounce.
Even the UN IPCC CliSciFi models don’t predict freakish weather; it is a fiction pushed by the likes of Mann and amplified by NGOs, crony capitalists and the MSM.
“scientific studies and news articles has been visible to the naked eye or felt on tingling flesh — here too wet, there too dry, everywhere too hot. It’s only human to wonder where the higher, safer ground might be. Where to run?”
Leftists are so funny….
What actual science shows is that for the last 100’s years, there have been no increasing global trends in frequency nor severity of: hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, tornadoes, thunderstorms, droughts, floods and hail…
Leftists in the Northern Hemisphere will likely have a rude awakening when they experience a brutal winter this year caused by a rare back-to-back La Niña cycle and also cooling North Atlantic SSTs temps, soon to be followed by 30 years of global cooling when the PDO/AMO soon reenter their respective 30-year cool cycles…
“Warming apocalypse”… Give me a break…
Leftists are so funny…
“Leftists are so funny…”
They are also ridiculous.
The author of the article sounds like a True Believer. She is assuming things not in evidence about climate change, like every True Believer alarmist does.
One doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out there is no “there, there”, when it comes to Human-caused Climate Change. The only thing underlying human-caused climate change is a bunch of speculation.
But, True Believers are probably not the type to do their homework. They let others do it for them, and are led astray.
I wonder if this author is stressed out about the situation she thinks the world is in? If so, it’s a self-inflicted wound. The truth about the “truth” of climate change is out there.
The only climate catastrophe in the making is the overwhelming codswallop claiming a climate catastrophe
Well there you go: it is climate change, not ‘everywhere just gets 2 degrees warmer quite evenly across the globe, throughout the year’.
You have had 6 heatwaves across the USA, one setting new high temp records and killing people. The fires are getting worse, you’ve again had flooding – record rainfall in NY.
The globe has this year seen a long list of climate related extreme weather.
Still you continue unprepared in seeming blissful ignorance…
Griffy-poo,
Show the evidence that all of this (any of it) are outside the range of the Earth’s paleo-climatic historical trends. Has NY never been flooded before in its history going back to the 17-19th centuries? Was the NY flooding unusual from a historical and global perspective?
Has North America never been as warm as now in the Medieval or Roman Warm Periods? Do we have non-proxy temp records in NA going back that far? Did you read the recent posting here at WUWT about Antarctica cooling since 1980?
Blissful ignorance Griff? Blissful ignorance is a failure or refusal to place today’s meteorological events in historical perspective. Blissful ignorance is a failure or refusal to acknowledge the global flat trend line for hurricanes from past decades through to today. Etc., etc.
Religions don’t tolerate anything that would threaten the faith Griffy-poo. Don’t drink any spiked Kool-Aid.
Climate is the average of given weather metrics, commonly assumed to be an average of any metric at a particular location over 30 years. How does an individual weather event (hot, cold, rainy & etc.) be caused by a statistical construct?
Hottest, coldest, wettest, driest & etc. occurs at many places around the globe daily. Pick a few cold records and you can prove a global cooling crisis using CliSciFi methods of communication.
I think the rain is moving into the U.S. northwest where the fires are, Griff.
This summer’s heatwaves are just what should be expected every summer in the U.S. The unusually hot heatwave in the northwest was a freak of nature powered by downslope winds.
Seasonal change is in the air.
despite having it explained patiently many times, Griff the village idiot still has not understood how the Normal Distribution works.
Climate events are normally distributed, meaning that any climate record will be broken eventually, if one waits long enough. This is true even if the climate does not change.
It’s only human to wonder where the higher, safer ground might be. Where to run?
Translation: You can’t escape the misery our policies will bring.
This reminds me of the time a friend and I were riding in a car listening to the radio, and there was a weather front moving into the area but it was still probably an hour away from arriving at our location, when all of a sudden, the radio DJ interrupted the song that was playing and started yelling, “There’s a tornado touching down right now! If you are in your cars, get out of your cars and into the ditch! Get out of your cars and into the ditch!”
And me and my friend looked at each other puzzled, and we looked out the window and everything looked normal, no tornadoes or severe weather at all, so we didn’t pull over and get into the ditch, we kept on driving, and in about a minute or so, the DJ came back on the radio and told us it was a false alarm.
He said the wind gauge at the radio station had broken and was reading that the wind was blowing at 110mph, so he thought a tornado had snuck up on them. This took place before we had the really good radar coverage we have of tornadoes today, so we were flying blind a little bit back then.
We had a pretty good laugh at that one. We weren’t afraid since we were experienced with tornado weather (remember, I knew at the time that the front was an hour away:), so although the sky was a little bit yellow, which is an indication a tornado could be coming, but we were in what would be called the “calm before the storm” and we knew it.
That DJ was in a panic over something that didn’t exist! Looking for a place to run, just like the author of this article.
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
I like that song.
Is this the end of the beginning?
Or the beginning of the end?
Losing control or are you winning?
Is your life real or just pretend?
Reanimation of the sequence
Rewinds the future to the past
To find the source of the solution
The system has to be recast
Never mind the simmering tectonics, proof of seriously large coastal tsunami and active volcanoes as neighbors.
More misuse of the term “average”.
Portland, Maine gets a lot colder than 13°, presumably in Fahrenheit, for long periods of time.
Again, the averages are misleading.
Portland’s oceanfront goes far to keep the city warmer in the winter and chillier in summer.
There are good reasons pictures of Maine residents often show them in sweaters and jackets throughout the year.
Short growing seasons, cold clammy weather, picnics habitable between 11AM and 3PM.
The only global apocalypse out there is the World Economic Forum and their global leaders and shapers. Stop them !
These ‘people’ are effing sick. Idiots all. I take none of them seriously.
Nowhere is safe from the paid news and agendas revenue model.