Posted on 08/10/2017 6:12:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SEATTLE - If you think living in the Pacific Northwest looks good now, consider the next 100 years.
Atmospherics scientist Cliff Mass of the University of Washington said that as global warming takes hold, we'll be better off than the rest of the lower 48 states.
According to Mass, global warming will affect different parts of the US in different ways.
“The Southwest United States is emphatically going to get drier,” he said. “The models are really all on board about that, and they start off with a water resource problem right now. I mean they have too many people living in an arid area with massive agriculture, so they're already on the edge and so things are not going to get better there. On the other hand, we expect precipitation to actually increase here in the Northwest.”
Mass says much of the country will see record heat, with average highs climbing between five and 10 degrees by century’s end.
“So you'll see record breaking temperatures -- day after day of these heat waves, especially in the summertime,” Mass said.
Then there's the issue of rising sea levels.
“We're talking about probably a one- to two-foot rise during the rest of the century,” Mass said. “Now if you're in Florida, which is only at sea level, there's going to be flooding.”
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No, in a hundred years you'll be just as dead as everyone else living wherever today...
Heat waves in the summer time? Why, I never. /s
They will not be around in 100 Years.
Hahahahahah!
Now that’s Brilliant, right there,; I don’t care who you are.....
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