{"id":11433,"date":"2021-07-10T23:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T06:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T22:47:05","slug":"heatdome-climatechange-media-optimistic-fiction-myanmar-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/10\/heatdome-climatechange-media-optimistic-fiction-myanmar-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"PNW heat dome, climate change media, and optimistic fiction, plus Myanmar and Brazil news blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: In 2021, I\u2019m blogging once a week, typically on weekends. This entry is number 27 of 52.<\/em> I took the two Rosario Beach photographs on 3 July 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: I added a note to my post<\/a> two weeks ago that mentioned the media noise around “critical race theory.” In short, the note provides this link to readers:<\/em> https:\/\/pastebin.com\/Ex3AmsEz<\/a><\/em>. It’s a collection of a hundred or so thought-provoking questions on the topic of race, for instance: “How many races do you think there are? What are they?<\/em>” For my post<\/a> three weeks ago regarding compounding pharmacies, I added a quick note making my argument in the last paragraph more explicit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosario Beach<\/a> predicted to disappear underwater within nine years<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The recent Pacific Northwest heat dome broke regional records for hottest recorded temperatures ever \u2014 Seattle hit 108\u00b0 F \/ 42.2\u00b0 C; Washington state capital Olympia 110\u00b0 F \/ 42.2\u00b0 C; Portland Oregon 116\u00b0 F \/ 46.6 \u00b0C; Chelan county in eastern Washington 119\u00b0 F \/ 48.3\u00b0 C; Lytton in southern British Columbia 121.3\u00b0 F \/ 49.6\u00b0 C before getting largely destroyed by wildfire<\/a> \u2014 reminding Cascadia residents, who typically don’t have home air conditioning, that climate change has their area, too, in its crosshairs. Hundreds of people died<\/a>, and along Canada’s coast, more than a billion marine animals<\/a> were cooked to death due to the mass casualty event (as Multnomah county declared<\/a> it). Depending on which experts you trust, the catastrophic heat wave was either worsened by<\/a>, or outright couldn’t have happened without<\/a>, human-caused global warming. Humans as in me, you, and the world’s most powerful predators, their names named and biographies analyzed by Spooky Connections<\/a> in an effort to end impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More disaster is on the way. The nonprofit news organization Climate Central, which as of summer 2019 listed<\/a> rather mainstream funding \u2014 Goldman Sachs Charitable, several universities, the National Science Foundation, and so on \u2014 runs a Surging Seas project<\/a> online. That undertaking includes an interactive map<\/a> where you can pick a decade (2030, 2040, 2050, and so on), configure various other settings, and view sea level rise projections for any place you pick. The sea level rises will happen for chiefly two reasons: first, soaring temperatures heat water up, enlarging it, and second, ice that’s land-based (i.e.<\/em>, not currently part of the ocean), will melt, thus entering the ocean for the first time and swelling it. Given moderate scenarios, the neighborhood where I currently live, part of the West Seattle peninsula, is expected to be underwater within just 29 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map of West Seattle (left), with red showing sea level rise, for 2050, given settings for medium luck, medium effort against pollution, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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