Right here, apparently.
Cliff Mass Weather Blog does the analysis:
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The Northwest is the place to be during global warming.
- Temperatures will rise more slowly than most of the nation due to the Pacific Ocean (see below)
- We will have plenty of precipitation, although the amount falling as snow will decline (will fall as rain instead). But we can deal with that by building more reservoir and dam capacity (and some folks on the eastern slopes of the Cascades have proposed to do exactly that).
- The Pacific Ocean will keep heat waves in check and we don’t get hurricanes.
- Sea level rise is less of a problem for us due to our substantial terrain and the general elevation rise of our shorelines. Furthermore, some of our land is actually RISING relatively to the sea level because we are still recovering from the last ice age (the heavy ice sheets pushed the land down and now it is still rebounding).
- There is no indication that our major storms…cyclone-based winds (like the Columbus Day Storm)… will increase under global warming.
- Increased precipitation may produce more flooding, but that will be limited to river valleys and can be planned for with better river management and zoning.
Temperature of the eastern Pacific, which controls Northwest weather, have been COOLING the last 35 years (blue color)
Our problem? Could get a little crowded.
There is no good place for humans in a warming world!
The physics of the atmosphere is one thing; the biology of the biosphere is another. The indications are that disease vectors all over the planet are on the move toward the poles and with them come a myriad of deadly diseases. Ebola is frightening enough but imagine what everyday life will be like when tropical diseases are common in Vancouver. Imagine mass extinctions of wild life populations lacking immunity to new pathogens.
This article is an example of short sighted thinking leading to a false sense of security. There is no escape to the Pacific Northwest. The only solution is curbing carbon emissions and that possibility becomes more remote with each passing day.
Simply untrue. There are winners and losers in every scenario. And despite your Cassandra like warning, when was the last outbreak of “tropical diseases” in Hawai’i? Bermuda? Warmer temps do not automatically equate to disease outbreaks.
Check out the latest issue of Scientific American.
Let’s all move back into our solar heated caves with our e-cars. No more babies until the population has shrunk by 50% and babies are approved by the UN. No more meat either .. and no fish, of course.
Are there actually still people out there who believe all this global “warming” hype ?
Truth is not a matter of belief.
Truth is based on observation.
Truth is not dependent on opinion.
And just for the record; I am not people.
Predicting temperatures 50-100 years out is “truth” ?
Measuring man’s (or shall I say people’s) impact on global warming is truth ?
Predicting temperatures is called weather forecasting
Predicting temperature trends is called climate science
The human impact isn’t measured, it is calculated based on the observations referenced above. And the truth is based on the observations.
Denying the scientific consensus on human impact on climate change is called ignorance or blind faith.
Can you imagine if the best place to escape climate change was Texas? Suddenly climate change denial would be that much easier.
Humans will adapt as they always have. They survived famines, rising and falling oceans, live in arctic climates, hot humid ones and dry cold ones. I have no doubt about the human species ability to survive and prosper. They are an inventive lot. There are numerous benefits to global warming, if true: longer growing seasons, more ice free port, less heating required in formerly cold places, more rain in formerly dry places, less travel required from cold places like Canada, Norway or Russion to beach resort etc.
You mention both humans, and the human species. While the human species may adapt, many humans will be the ones who die in the famines. That is what usually results from famines. But that is OK with you if you can buy cheaper strawberries and vacation closer to home?
The price of my strawberries have no bearing on famines elsewhere. To develop nations in S-America, Africa or Asia THEY need more cheap energy & development. If our energy is more expensive has no bearing on them.
Follow Nigeria the next few months, for example. An election in Feb 2015. An oil rich nation. Could be as rich as Canada as they have agricultural land and oil revenue. Yet it is stuck in the past due to corruption and now extreme (muslim) violence try to turn this nation into a caliphate. That is the core issue in the world, sectarian violence and corruption, not global “warming”