Climate change: fires in the west, floods in the east

[Anonymous]

But my Yukon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should research all the people who died from heat pre air conditioning in the US. And read about the fires and droughts. You won’t believe it. This is a misunderstanding of history, not science.

But now heat is killing people who live in areas where people generally didn’t die from heat exposure, like Oregon. The climate is shifting.

This is going to be bad.

This just isn’t true. My family goes back generations in Oregon. They were loggers and still own land there. Deaths from heat/forest fires were a problem 100 years ago and more. Look up Henry S. Graves. He wrote a lot about the problems of forest fires. He became the head of the forest service in the early 1900s. Look up “heat prostrations” and also “ice riots.” People fainted and died from heat often, and during heat waves (1907/1911) thousands of Americans died. And when ice was scarce people would riot to get some. Portland had a water shortage during one heat wave in the early 1900s. 1896, 1911 and 1916 had horrible heatwaves in the summers all over the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should research all the people who died from heat pre air conditioning in the US. And read about the fires and droughts. You won’t believe it. This is a misunderstanding of history, not science.

But now heat is killing people who live in areas where people generally didn’t die from heat exposure, like Oregon. The climate is shifting.

This is going to be bad.

This just isn’t true. My family goes back generations in Oregon. They were loggers and still own land there. Deaths from heat/forest fires were a problem 100 years ago and more. Look up Henry S. Graves. He wrote a lot about the problems of forest fires. He became the head of the forest service in the early 1900s. Look up “heat prostrations” and also “ice riots.” People fainted and died from heat often, and during heat waves (1907/1911) thousands of Americans died. And when ice was scarce people would riot to get some. Portland had a water shortage during one heat wave in the early 1900s. 1896, 1911 and 1916 had horrible heatwaves in the summers all over the US.

You’ve basically proven PP’s point in that they said “where people generally didn’t die from heat exposure” and then the most recent year you listed in which people did generally die from heat in Oregon was 105 years ago.