re: The American climate migration has already begun

How does this explain all the people moving TO Florida? If climate disasters was the reason people are moving, you would think they wouldn't move to the most vulnerable state in the country? In fact, the two states that the most people are moving to just so happen to be the two states that get the most hurricanes - Texas and Florida.

Much of will be under water if climate change is what they say it is. Florida is hit with more hurricanes than any other state, by far. Yet, people keep on coming. Something tells me that weather isn't the reason so many people are moving. I talk to them, and cost of living (especially in retirement), shitty weather, and no state income taxes are the biggest reasons for moving from wherever they come from.

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That graph is disingenuous because it stops in 2006. I'd like to see how 2010-2020 stacks up. Most of the largest wildfires in CA occurred between 2015 and 2020.

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You can see the data here: LINK

The Biden administration stopped reporting the burn acreage prior to 1983. Their reasoning is

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Prior to 1983, the federal wildland fire agencies did not track official wildfire data using current reporting processes.

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Whatever that means?

The real reason is because 1983 was a low burn year and if you start your chart at the lowest point and erase prior year data points it looks like burn acreage is increasing. It's not. Burn acreage was MUCH worse in the 1920s and 1930s when CO2 concentrations were lower.

I read an article this week about people leaving the Keys because of the stronger storms and rising seas.

So people are leaving CA because of the wildfires and droughts?
Not because of crappy cities and crazy taxes or not because corporations have been moving out of the anti-business state.

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The American climate migration

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has been happening for a long time.


I'm looking for a link explaining how the French settlers and French Canadian exiles left the Pointe Coupee area in the late 18th century / early 19th century and settled in Avoyelles Parish (and elsewhere) to get away from the floods.

Shame on them, they had internal combustion engines powering their pirogues, which caused the Mississippi River to flood and ruin their homesteads. They should have had an electric motor on their pirogue and traded in their gas stove.

Edit: This link LINK only discusses the flood not where everyone went afterwards. Kudos to the historians of colonial Louisiana.

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That graph is disingenuous because it stops in 2006. I'd like to see how 2010-2020 stacks up. Most of the largest wildfires in CA occurred between 2015 and 2020.

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They were all started by humans, not the climate.

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We as Americans don’t often hear about this chaotic process of displacement and relocation, but the scale of movement is already overwhelming: more than 3 million Americans lost their homes to climate disasters last year, and a substantial number of those will never make it back to their original properties. Over the coming decades, the total number of displaced will swell by millions and tens of millions, forcing Americans from the most vulnerable parts of the country into an unpredictable, quasi-permanent exile from the places they know and love

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All this pabulum - and not the first mention of Federal manipulations of people 'forced to move' because of onerous policy, vastly over-stringent flood insurance regulations, and encroaching unfocused environmental compliance programs...

just downright dishonest...

propaganda used to have an element of truth... no more

Every summer, heat waves in California result in temperatures as high as 83F, causing thousands to flee for better climates in Texas and Florida.