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by seanmcdirmid 1127 days ago
I don't see how climate change is going to nuke the PNW. Our coasts are too high to be much affected (so we don't have issues with rising coast lines), while the heat makes summers more...normal for the rest of the country, the fact that we get rain 9 months out of the year should insulate us from the changes. Forest fire season does suck, but again, 9 months of rain a year means it isn't that long.

Perhaps we should all be buying in Alaska, however, given that it will soon be the next mild climate tropical destination :).

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Wildfires are expected to get more intense and longer as climate change goes on in the PNW. I don't think you're going to want an inferno to be a destination point. It's nothing against the PNW - it's a beautiful part of the country we definitely need to preserve but if you're looking at things in decades I don't think you'd want to invest considerably into a tourist destination there if you're Disney is all.
Disney already puts up with yearly fires in Central Florida, which are as bad as anything we've had up here. Florida is literally a swamp on fire in the summer, which is such a contradiction!