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We're not doing anything but shuffling deck chairs on climate change because there is not practicable solution, just as we'd have no solution to a comet 9 lm across about to impact the planet.

I think the looks into the problem and potential solutions done by Bjorn Lomborg and his associates are pretty well reasoned, an actionable.  As much as can be, I mean, for something that's still not fully understood as far as human impact and viable solutions.  I think he and the economists that work with him have done as good a job as I'm aware of as far as sussing out what's actually going on and seeking to mitigate unintended (or maybe intended?) consequences of the pop-level "fixes."  He has a book called False Alarm I have on my list, but haven't read yet.  Also read a helpful book called Weathering Climate Change that summarized where we are and some potential moves going forward nicely, I thought.  

I was an invited speaker at a wine conference near Paris a few years back, the first speaker talked about the impact of CC on theh wine industry.  It was in French, but the upshot was "dire and soon".  Wine grapes require specific terroir to make very good wine, and you can't move most wine regions a bit north to get a cooler climate because the soil changes, or it's a river or mountain or whatever.  (Napa is cooler in the south anyway).  So, CC SHOULD harm the wine industry "soon", but hasn't.  Yet.

It's a canary in the mine of coal in effect.  Part of this is the changes in T reported to date are actually pretty modest, well within normal variation year over year, and growers can manage, but IF we double that, I think many would be in trouble.  But I also think they would be 50 years from now, not 2030.

The T change is so slow we wouldn't notice it vicariously without instrumentation.

according to 60 minutes this is a HUGE problem for France today


12/26/2021: Weather & Wine, Drawing Truth to Power

Europe's wine industry being altered by climate change; Badiucao: The 60 Minutes Interview Air Date: Dec 26, 2021


https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/WvvGeqR7GsGkykCsR78T1WINDn_M9QVW/12-26-2021-weather-wine-drawing-truth-to-power/

Amazingly, they don't respect my Google degree at all. 

It's like they think year's worth of medical school and practice and coordinating carefully with the CDC means they know more than I, an internet master with the world at my fingertips and hot takes ready to regurgitate.  

according to 60 minutes this is a HUGE problem for France today


12/26/2021: Weather & Wine, Drawing Truth to Power

Europe's wine industry being altered by climate change; Badiucao: The 60 Minutes Interview Air Date: Dec 26, 2021


https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/WvvGeqR7GsGkykCsR78T1WINDn_M9QVW/12-26-2021-weather-wine-drawing-truth-to-power/

"Being altered" is not the same as "has been altered" to any significant degree.  It's a danger for the future, not today, that I've seen.

Wine making is always impacted by weather, which is one reason California is so predictable with relatively few bad years.

According to a U-Haul study, South Dakota is No. 11 "Growth State" in 2021, moving up 14 spots from its 2020 report. One-way U-Haul trucks to South Dakota increased by nearly 28% from last year.

Growth states are calculated by the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks entering a state verses leaving that state in a calendar year.

Top 10 states people moved to, according to United Van Lines:

Vermont
South Dakota
South Carolina
West Virginia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Oregon
Idaho
Rhode Island


Top 10 metro areas people moved to, according to United Van Lines:

Medford-Ashland, Oregon
Punta Gorda, Florida
Wilmington, North Carolina
Eugene-Springfield, Oregon
Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
For Myers-Cape Coral, Florida
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bellingham, Washington


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Texas not mentioned, Utee

According to a U-Haul study, South Dakota is No. 11 "Growth State" in 2021, moving up 14 spots from its 2020 report. One-way U-Haul trucks to South Dakota increased by nearly 28% from last year.

Growth states are calculated by the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks entering a state verses leaving that state in a calendar year.

Top 10 states people moved to, according to United Van Lines:

Vermont
South Dakota
South Carolina
West Virginia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Oregon
Idaho
Rhode Island


Top 10 metro areas people moved to, according to United Van Lines:

Medford-Ashland, Oregon
Punta Gorda, Florida
Wilmington, North Carolina
Eugene-Springfield, Oregon
Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
For Myers-Cape Coral, Florida
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bellingham, Washington


______________________________________

Texas not mentioned, Utee

No WAY.


On a serious note, another friend just moved down. He wanted to do a one-way U-Haul from the Chicago area.

$2400.00 one-way. For the round trip, it was $750. So, he did the round trip and picked us his car while up there.

Sounds like U-Haul will pay people to move trucks from Florida to Illinois. Certainly nobody is moving to Illinois from Florida, so that makes sense.

Greater Atlanta Metropolitan.

[th][/th] [th]Atlanta City(2021)[/th] [th]Greater Atlanta(2019)[/th]
Population	519,481	6.8 million
Area	136.76 sq mi (354.22 sq km)	10,494.03 sq mi (27,179.4 sq km)

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They are coming in from the expected places apparently.  Mass. has a land area of 10,565 sqmiles and a population of about 6.9 million folks, so this place is comparable.


Population growth has slowed since 2008, but the city is growing.