"Prodded to name refuges in the US, researchers will point to Washington and Oregon in the Pacific north-west, where temperatures will remain bearable and disasters unlikely to strike."
This gave me a grim gallows laugh. The author and the researchers he talked to must not know about the pending full fault rip +9 earthquake due for Oregon and Washington that is only a matter of time until it goes. In my own lifetime I've noticed how the coast has risen, because of subduction zone pressures. If people move to the PNW to avoid sea level rise, then they should move to the eastern part of the region. The coast is likely to drop 6 feet or so when the big one hits. Seattle and Portland while inland have plenty of low lying flood prone areas and will receive massive damage when the fault goes. So much for the "disasters unlikely to strike" theory.
You forgot to mention that in the PNW we now expect a month or more of unbreathable air from wildfires yearly between mid July and late September. A big earthquake and yearly wildfires, sounds like disaster striking to me.
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"Prodded to name refuges in the US, researchers will point to Washington and Oregon in the Pacific north-west, where temperatures will remain bearable and disasters unlikely to strike."
This gave me a grim gallows laugh. The author and the researchers he talked to must not know about the pending full fault rip +9 earthquake due for Oregon and Washington that is only a matter of time until it goes. In my own lifetime I've noticed how the coast has risen, because of subduction zone pressures. If people move to the PNW to avoid sea level rise, then they should move to the eastern part of the region. The coast is likely to drop 6 feet or so when the big one hits. Seattle and Portland while inland have plenty of low lying flood prone areas and will receive massive damage when the fault goes. So much for the "disasters unlikely to strike" theory.
10:29,
You forgot to mention that in the PNW we now expect a month or more of unbreathable air from wildfires yearly between mid July and late September. A big earthquake and yearly wildfires, sounds like disaster striking to me.
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