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With climate change upon us, where’s the safest place in California to live?
Sacramento Bee ^ | September 7, 2017 | By Shawn Hubler

Posted on 09/07/2017 6:36:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

If climate change is a given, what’s the best place to live? Or, maybe, the least-worst?

It’s not an easy question. Just asking it feels somehow simultaneously obvious and alarmist.

There’s no place to hide from global warming, by definition. And until recently climate change wasn’t supposed to be a given.

If you were on the right, it wasn’t supposed to exist. If you were on the left, it was supposed to be something humanity could put the brakes on. If you were in the middle, it was one of those things to worry about later, like your 401(k) or North Korea.

So where to outrun the coming catastrophe? And is it possible for a Californian to outrun it and still be in California? Titley, who has lived in Monterey and San Diego, but now lives in climate resilient Pennsylvania, was one of several climate scientists who generously shared their perspectives with me.

The good news is, California knows how to do this, Frances C. Moore, an assistant professor of environmental economics at UC Davis told me. The whole state is already engineered, and rich enough to double down, if needed.

“As relatively wealthy places, the United States and California are in a better position to manage the adverse consequences of climate change,” Moore reminded. California’s grid is set up to supply air conditioning to hot places. Infrastructure is a core competency in this state. And, most crucially, policymakers get its importance.

“We know we have a problem, and we know that we can reduce greenhouse gases that are a primary driver,” Moore said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: fakescience; globalism; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
California’s grid is set up to supply air conditioning to hot places. Infrastructure is a core competency in this state. And, most crucially, policymakers get its importance.

Wow, that is some of the stupidest bosh I've read this week. California has killed its electrical generation and imports more power than ever. It won't allow coal power to be imported. It is shutting down its last nuke. You won't get reliable power from wind and solar. Where is the mythical power source to run all those air conditioners going to come from?

Besides, true believers are supposed to not use AC which caused GW in the first place according to them.

"Infrastructure competency"? Ha! Under Reagan and Moonbeam's father it was true. Not now.

41 posted on 09/07/2017 7:14:14 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anywhere in California, MO look fine.


42 posted on 09/07/2017 7:14:35 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: hal ogen

Unfortunately, it the libs concentrate in your stat capital 300 miles from you, you are still mightily screwed.


43 posted on 09/07/2017 7:16:05 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CottonBall

“California has to import electricity to cover its usage. Even so, during hot weather or power plant outages - not uncommon events - they’ve had plenty of rolling blackouts.”

We have had several of these in the past 4+ weeks.

They last just long enough to screw up up our internet/router, phones connected to the internet, wifi, the tv after we cut the cable and other minor bs.

So I ordered some UPCs from Costco and put them in places to avoid these so called minor rolling blackouts.

Shortly after 6 pm we had a rolling blackout for 15 minutes.

The new UPC’s worked and everything connected to them continued to work.

Now with our smart meters, PG&E can take 4,000+ users off the grid for a few minutes and then rotate the off users until the power supply has been stabilized.


44 posted on 09/07/2017 7:16:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: ETL

Great Pics!


45 posted on 09/07/2017 7:17:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Did you ever try 40 sleeping pills?”


46 posted on 09/07/2017 7:18:39 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Atlantis....beneath the ocean


47 posted on 09/07/2017 7:21:52 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Death Valley.


48 posted on 09/07/2017 7:24:52 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: tomkat

California: I would recommend anywhere along the San Andreas fault.


49 posted on 09/07/2017 7:26:24 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

About 10 miles offshore.


50 posted on 09/07/2017 7:26:25 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Red Badger
I was going to say Reno.

-PJ

51 posted on 09/07/2017 7:28:16 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

California is getting ready global warming, while the earth is getting ready to end the warm interstitial glacial period. You can call Californians a lot of things, but smart is not one of them.


52 posted on 09/07/2017 7:37:45 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Alaska - gonna be very temperate and beautiful year-round....


53 posted on 09/07/2017 7:44:30 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should try Mars - I hear it’s lovely this time of year...


54 posted on 09/07/2017 7:44:54 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’d say Badwater...or Furnace Creek.


55 posted on 09/07/2017 7:45:03 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: blueunicorn6
Oxnard.

When I was a teenager that name always made me giggle.

56 posted on 09/07/2017 7:46:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (https://imgoat.com/uploads/645920e395/39513.gif)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Chula Vista
57 posted on 09/07/2017 7:47:43 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (https://imgoat.com/uploads/645920e395/39513.gif)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
With climate change upon us, where’s the safest place in California to live?

Sacramento Bee ^ | September 7, 2017 | By Shawn Hubler

Note to Shawn: There is no safest place. You are doooomed! Just Kill Yourself Now!

58 posted on 09/07/2017 7:50:41 AM PDT by Col Freeper (Liberals: Devoted members of the "Church of the Eternally Offended".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And rain has its own issues. More rain means more foliage, which fuels more intense wildfires. And more rain means more flooding: “If you own a house,” Titley said, “there’s now about an 8-in-10 chance that what used to be a 100-year flood will happen to you in the course of your 30-year mortgage.”


80% chance you’re gonna be flooded out of your home? No alarm ism here. No sir.

One observation. These people are Bat Shit Crazy. Not just a little nuts. Full on, call out the guys in the white suits with nets crazy. How can anyone with just a few brain cells left look at a statement like that and not know that these people are either nuts/stupid/crooked/dishonest? Or a combination of all 4?


59 posted on 09/07/2017 8:05:03 AM PDT by saleman
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To: reg45

Well, since you already took the San Andres fault, I’ll go with pitching your tent on algore’s mansion front lawn, and plug your extension cord into his electric supply.
Then you, like he, won’t need to worry any longer!


60 posted on 09/07/2017 8:06:25 AM PDT by Noob1999
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