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If it does become the new normal, what do you think might be the result both in people moving elsewhere, and what other effects do you foresee, either politically or how that would affect U.S. society?
If it DOES become the new normal, what do you think might be the result both in people moving elsewhere, and what other effects do you foresee, either politically or how that would affect U.S. society?
This happens every year. You should also look up the multi-year heat wave in the 1950's. My dad was a kid then and still talks about it, because nobody had air conditioning back then. I know all the young activists don't think weather happened before they were born, but it did, and it could be brutal even when there were far fewer people on the planet.
This happens every year. You should also look up the multi-year heat wave in the 1950's. My dad was a kid then and still talks about it, because nobody had air conditioning back then. I know all the young activists don't think weather happened before they were born, but it did, and it could be brutal even when there were far fewer people on the planet.
Well, yes, I am 67 and I have seen plenty of week-long extreme heat periods in both SoCal (lived there 23 years) and in Colorado (lived there 30 years),
However, the above is from the National Weather Service and not from me -- and I was not the one who said it could become the "new normal" -- THEY were the ones who said it.
When the right wingers come on here after a snow storm and bitter cold snap claiming global warming is a hoax, the lefties all remind them that it is "weather" not climate. That door should swing both ways. Until a pattern is established, there is no pattern. It's still just weather.
As for the question, the west is still the best and people will continue to migrate and remain there.
Triple digit heat waves were normal then, and they're normal now. We counted on them every summer, just like the Santa Ana winds, the wildfires which inevitably follow, the drought, etc. All the things that Californians are claiming are due to "climate change" and implying are new phenomena are just normal California seasonal weather events.
This USA Today article is propaganda, and the OP, at least, seems to have fallen for it.
I finished reading the article. The headline is misrepresenting what the piece actually says. Shocking, I know.
Nowhere do we find "new normal" anywhere other than in her opinion, which shouldn't even be included in a piece not labeled as such.
Rather than citing this article and spreading misinformation about climate change, you should be chastising USA Today for misrepresenting the content and injecting opinions into news items.
I think - People Tend not to fully read articles and just post whatever.
Shocking, I know...
I live in the Midwest and we've been hot and Dry - it's Normal.
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