Plagues of climate change

Каждый день из каждого утюга несется что-то в этом духе про unprecedented disasters and yada yada yada:

We’ve always had hurricanes, droughts and wildfires, flooding and high winds. However, we are currently witnessing a scale of destruction and devastation that is new and terrifying.

Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms.
A sweeping new report by top climate scientists and meteorologists describes how climate change drove unprecedented heat waves, floods and droughts in recent years. The annual report from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) compiles the leading science about the role of climate change in extreme weather.

Professor Roger Pielke Jr. публикует реальные peer-reviewed данные, которых вы не увидите в центральных газетах.

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What the media won't tell you about extreme weather and its impacts

Here is a thread of some of the figures I've posted in recent months about extreme weather that I have never seen in legacy media reporting

All peer-reviewed and official sources . . .

— The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) February 14, 2023

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При этом mortality from extreme heat падает как в целом по стране так и в большинстве регионов, и сейчас ниже пиковых значений повсеместно.

The great migration

В сегодняшней утренней рассылке, NYT делится отрывком из заметки Дэвида Брукса:

Between 2010 and 2020, the fastest-growing states were mostly red — places like Texas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina. During the pandemic, that trend accelerated, and once again, most of the big population-gaining states are governed by Republicans.

If you go back farther, you see decade after decade of migration toward the more conservative South. The Brookings Institution demographer William Frey has noted that in 1920, the Northeast and the Midwest accounted for 60 percent of America’s population. A century later, the Sun Belt accounts for 62 percent of the nation’s population. These days we are mostly a Sun Belt nation.

Причины происходящего не особенно заинтересовали читателей, но свои эмоции они выразили в комментариях.

They didn’t grapple with why so many Americans, including young families and immigrants, were moving to Republican-run states. These comments instead argued that blue America was better and red America was backward. “I, for one, will never live in a red state,” read the comment that has received the most endorsements from other readers. “Never have, never will.”

Оставляя в стороне возможный переезд во Флориду на пенсию (если это и случится, то только по экономически вынужденным причинам, к тому же окрестности Майами вряд ли можно считать настоящей Америкой в большей степени, чем НЙ), в общем мои ощущения примерно те же. Я думаю, что я бы там чувствовал себя чужим, как будто снова переехал в другую страну.