Posted on 01/14/2021 6:57:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Jay Gamel, 76, still talks about his Northern California home in the present tense, as if nothing had happened. “The place is a paradise by any measure,” says Gamel, who is semiretired. “The mountains are beautiful, the surroundings are gorgeous. It’s a postcard.”
“That place is everything to me,” he says. “It has been my life. It’s the center of my being.”
Or it was, until last October, when hot, dry easterly winds known as Diablos drove a fierce wildfire across the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Known as the Glass Fire, the flames tore through more than 67,000 acres of wine country, destroying more than 300 homes, including Gamel’s.
Even with aggressive efforts to reduce climate emissions, climate-driven events like the one Gamel is grappling with are unlikely to reverse direction anytime soon. And that’s turning retirement upside down for many older Americans whose homes are, or will be, endangered.
“The trends are all going the wrong way,” says Adam Smith, an applied climatologist at the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Regional climate impacts have become so commonplace that lists of “best retirement destinations” are beginning to take them into account.
One of the more insidious climate impacts is high-tide flooding or “sunny-day” flooding, when rising sea levels cause coastal regions to become awash even without a storm-driven surge. It’s happening with increasing frequency along the low-lying Atlantic and Gulf coasts, both magnets for retirees.
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I assume that was the Goebbels’ pic?
Trends are going the wrong way... Yes, we stopped logging to protect random mutations, we stopped brush clearance because of another random mutation, and thus the fires that have existed in California throughout all recorded history have been sweeping through places that would have been protected had logging and brush clearance continued.
Man made climate change - force the stop of removing fuel, historic fires happen, this validates the man made climate change theory!
So, California has never had hot winds and wildfires before. Who knew?
“Science” now means “to connect cause and effect to suit a political agenda”.
Leftists can stick their climate change up their asses.
Retirement?
Anyone who retires in California hasn’t got the sense God gave a gnat.
...and don’t bother clearing around the high tension electric wires; that costs too much money, you know.
The climate has been changing forever. People would move to better climes if needed or perish. This is not that hard to figure out. If you think your property is in danger of being burned out (real or imaginary) then move.
Oh, not to worry. The US will now plow huge amounts of money into Climate Change. Of course, most of that money will find it’s way into DNC coffers, but we won’t mention that.
I love hot weather, it makes my retirement very enjoyable..........
Yes, for some reason the Goebbels pic doesn't always show up in some browsers. Another freeper said I might have a cache issue ... who knows.
Fires are part of nature. I've heard that the prairies of the Midwest grew best when burned off about once every five years, which means in nature (Before we plowed it and planted crops) on average about one fifth of the land between the Rockies and the Mississippi would burn off. Imagine if we had Kansas and Nebraska burn one summer.
When we prevent fires without removing the cause (dry brush and such), we are merely delaying the fire for a much worse one.
Planet Earth goes through big long term continuous cycles of Hot to Cold and Dry to Wet. It’s the SUN that controls that.
Yep. That guy was a mere amateur compared to todays democraps.
No sign of glaciers there for the last 100,000 years however.
I’m positioned for climate change with my Tennessee Possum Holler Sea Port.
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