The catastrophic heat dome that descended over the Pacific Northwest during the summer of 2021 was unlike anything the region, which includes Washington, Oregon and Idaho, had experienced in living memory.
), crop loss, very large fires, sea level rise and economic damages — and rated each county on the impact climate change would have on them given two emissions scenarios: high and moderate.
“Certainly on the West Coast, it’s on people’s minds, with the heat waves and flooding and especially the wildfires,” Jon Reeves, a psychologist based in Seattle who treats patients for climate anxiety,“With the heat dome, I noticed that people struggled to sleep because a lot of homes don’t have air-conditioning, and heat tends to exacerbate suicidality, anger and aggression,” Reeves said. “So folks were on edge and making mistakes at work because they’re not getting sleep.
“We’re not losing the ability to predict weather or extreme events really. In fact, if anything, our ability is improving incrementally over time. But if we’re talking about predicting large-scale shifts over decades, I still think we’re kind of behind the curve,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain told Yahoo News. “We can’t always represent those changes very well because we don’t always understand them.
As with other regions of the country, Clausius-Clapeyron is likely already impacting the Pacific Northwest in numerous ways.
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