I have heard positive projection of growing season length in a goodly part of Canada. I suspect some portion of eastern Siberia that is now not good for farming can also become a somewhat good farming region as a result of global warming. Also, some parts of Alaska and Canada have some bad seasonal problems with bugs that can survive severe cold that their natural enemies cannot, and some of these bugs are mosquitoes. I suspect that global warming can eat away at bug-enemy-disfavoring bug-favoring climate in those such interior inland arctic/subarctic regions of Alaska and Canada.
I would also say positive projection of real estate value on whatever will become coastal property as soon as adequately reliable forecasts become available as to where the coasts will move to and stabilize at should we experience major icecap melting.
Not that this is any evidence against the negative forecasts that are better at "making the news".
After riding out Camille and Betsy and some smaller fry in New Orleans, I arrived in San Francisco in time for the '89 earthquake, the Pretty Big One. And I had to go back just after Katrina.
I suspect in much of USA's "Desert Southwest" it's "par for the course" for once in a while to get a few month's worth of rain in a bad rainy couple of days in the summer.
There is such a thing as the "monsoon" of USA's Desert Southwest, with annual average rainfall in summer months upticking, and in a wetter summer maybe being at "semiarid" level rather than "arid", and a bad July in some parts of Arizona I suspect could have rainfall approaching mid-Atlantic East Coast July average, and do so mainly in a bad day or two. New Mexico I consider more infamous for bad thunderstorms than Arizona - beware evem more there!
Heck, for that matter, I consider it close to par for the course for a July in Philadelphia to get 40% of its rainfall in a 3-6 hour stretch, with August often being even worse and September being only a minor improvement over August. In August and September in the mid-Atlantic, decreasing sunlight disfavors the more-common thunderstorms that peak in June and July. However, temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico peak in August or so, and the "Greater North Atlantic Basin" hurricane season usually peaks a little later still in early September, with peak USA impact from those often as late as mid-September.
So, I consider "par for the course" of rainfall irregularity in such a "humid" location as Philadelphia to be July to often have near or over 40% of its rainfall in a 6 hour stretch (at least a few times per decade), and for August and September to be more irregular still, as in often near or over half the month's rainfall occurring in a single storm event largely confined to a single stretch of 4-8 hours.
Also consider that the Philadelphia area is far from immune to drought restrictions. Philadelphia is in the Temperate Zone, where the weather has a temper, and all-too-often goes a good 2 months maybe more with rainfall around half of "normal".
Philadelphia metropolitan area, where many suburbs have had 2 or 3 "100 year floods" in the past 25 or so years from rainstorms that include ones falling short of "100 year class" (my words).
Such things are few and far between in Philadelphia metro area, and known here as "open spaces". Biggest undeveloped parkland in the Philly metro area is in the city, known as "Fairmount Park", and some of that has been cleared of trees and those cleared areas in my experience tend to heavily lack unmowed grass and tall weeds. Biggest forested parkland in the Philly area is the "Wissahickon" section of Fairmount Park in Philly's northwest segment, short of maybe and maybe not Valley Forge National Park and nearby clusters of tree-laden high-acreage private properties in/near Upper Merion Township.
It's bad, but the Lord be thankit, nowhere near as bad as Katrina, not even in the same phonebook. Few deaths (sadly a woman lost her premature twins in childbirth), a lot of inconvenience (especially to the old), a lot of (much probably uninsured) damage, often to historical properties in places like Tewkesbury
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. And the Worcestershire county cricket team have lost most of their kit.
So thanks for the concern, but remember everything except history happens on a much smaller scale here.
They should have known better ! The only reason that Worcester has a racecourse (Pitchcroft) and a cricket pitch is because it (used to) flood so regularly that no one dared put houses on that land. The cathedral and most of old city is up on the higher ground. I remember (as a little lad) paddling on the racecourse - kind of spooky at the time to have a huge puddle to wander about in. Neil
When I was a kid, the eye of hurricane Betsy passed over our house in New Orleans. The city was shut down for about 2 weeks, and the Audubon Park golf course was under three feet of water. It could have been taken as a warning, but of course it wasn't.
But I just thought of an actual use for the International Space Station: planetary defense against comets and asteroids. Locate a bunch of wide-field telescopes up there to track everything that might intersect earth, and keep a dozen or two interceptor/deflector rockets on standby, in orbit, ready to boost on short notice.
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