We've started getting things like snow in MAY in Denver here. And the snowfall stuff... let's just say the past 10 years have been increasingly unpredictable as to whether or not we'll get city-closing snowstorms and snow lingering in more than the shadows; Denver is one of those places that 99% of the time, you have to get 12+ inches of fall in one storm for there to still be snow everywhere but the pavement outside of a day or two, and I've seen it sticking around sometimes a lot more lately. And over the past 10 years, the "close the city" snowstorms have been getting more frequent.
Also, we've just had our most damaging hail storm early last month; one of our malls is closed until potentially Black Friday, one of my favorite pizza places is closed for the foreseeable future, both from the roofs being basically destroyed, and warmer air temperatures are actually part of what allows hail to form in the first place. Most of the previous severe damage hailstorms I can recall (I've been here 35 years this coming November) were limited to windows and car bodywork in dealership lots.
I think part of the problem, ultimately, is the idea that "climate change reactions are going to keep these industries closed", when the reality is generally much more complex than that; some of those industries (and their workers who don't feel like they should adapt to a changing world) that are arguing AGAINST climate change being a thing are industries that have other factors against them, or are against competing industries that just have so many advantages over them that they are eating their breakfast, lunch AND DINNER, and going back in time and wiping away the environmental laws they claim hamstrung them actually won't change the overall picture of the present of their industry anyway.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
Also, we've just had our most damaging hail storm early last month; one of our malls is closed until potentially Black Friday, one of my favorite pizza places is closed for the foreseeable future, both from the roofs being basically destroyed, and warmer air temperatures are actually part of what allows hail to form in the first place. Most of the previous severe damage hailstorms I can recall (I've been here 35 years this coming November) were limited to windows and car bodywork in dealership lots.
I think part of the problem, ultimately, is the idea that "climate change reactions are going to keep these industries closed", when the reality is generally much more complex than that; some of those industries (and their workers who don't feel like they should adapt to a changing world) that are arguing AGAINST climate change being a thing are industries that have other factors against them, or are against competing industries that just have so many advantages over them that they are eating their breakfast, lunch AND DINNER, and going back in time and wiping away the environmental laws they claim hamstrung them actually won't change the overall picture of the present of their industry anyway.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor