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This is true, but climate extremes make these events more likely than before too. It's not a gradual shift, but wilder swings. So, signs of things to come, eve
by loopz 5y ago
This is true, but climate extremes make these events more likely than before too. It's not a gradual shift, but wilder swings.
So, signs of things to come, even if the overall change takes time.
- akiselev 5y agoPeople have very short memories - the wild swings are in full effect. Four years ago almost to the day dozens of wildfires started all over BC thanks to a series of heat waves, forcing a record 65,000 people to evacuate and burning over 1% of the entire province. I moved to Seattle in August of that year and it wasn't until September that all the smoke cleared up. Literally moved a thousand miles north of California fire country and stepped into.... Pacific Northwest fire country.
- cf100clunk 5y agoSeattle and Vancouver (and their surrounding areas) both have quadruple threats for natural disasters: earthquakes connected to a subduction zone, live and dormant volcanoes, tsunamis, and wildfires. But apart from those, they are wonderful places.