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The pacific northwest doesn't look like Texas though. Our birds, mammals, forests, I don't think any of it could withstand that heat regularly. What we're talk

The pacific northwest doesn't look like Texas though. Our birds, mammals, forests, I don't think any of it could withstand that heat regularly. What we're talking about is one biome being changed out for another if this becomes regular. Allegedly this heat wave is 1 in 1000 years but who knows what is normal now.

FigmentEngine 5y ago
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change/ https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ... it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely - even if we stopped emitting today, those odds look bad.
- marricks 5y ago
  That was a bitter read. Most terrifyingly to me is those odds of 1/1000 (which only get worse) aren't even the most terrifying prospect for the region: "There are two possible sources of this extreme jump in peak temperatures. The first is that this is a very low probability event[...] The second option is that nonlinear interactions in the climate have substantially increased the probability of such extreme heat, much beyond the gradual increase in heat extremes that has been observed up to now" So something could have changed in the dynamics for the region which greatly increased the chances of this occurrence. Really hope that isn't the case here...
UncleOxidant 5y ago
> The pacific northwest doesn't look like Texas though. Our birds, mammals, forests, I don't think any of it could withstand that heat regularly. Exactly. I'm already seeing deciduous trees dropping leaves here in Western Oregon a good 3 months early due to that heatwave. A lot of conifers not looking great either. Those temps put tremendous stress on our ecosystem. They don't have large amounts of fuel in the form of trees in places like TX, if a large portion of our trees start dying it's going to make fire season even more horrific than it has been in recent years.

FigmentEngine 5y ago

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change/ https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ... it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely - even if we stopped emitting today, those odds look bad.

marricks 5y ago
That was a bitter read. Most terrifyingly to me is those odds of 1/1000 (which only get worse) aren't even the most terrifying prospect for the region: "There are two possible sources of this extreme jump in peak temperatures. The first is that this is a very low probability event[...] The second option is that nonlinear interactions in the climate have substantially increased the probability of such extreme heat, much beyond the gradual increase in heat extremes that has been observed up to now" So something could have changed in the dynamics for the region which greatly increased the chances of this occurrence. Really hope that isn't the case here...

UncleOxidant 5y ago

> The pacific northwest doesn't look like Texas though. Our birds, mammals, forests, I don't think any of it could withstand that heat regularly. Exactly. I'm already seeing deciduous trees dropping leaves here in Western Oregon a good 3 months early due to that heatwave. A lot of conifers not looking great either. Those temps put tremendous stress on our ecosystem. They don't have large amounts of fuel in the form of trees in places like TX, if a large portion of our trees start dying it's going to make fire season even more horrific than it has been in recent years.