Wrong, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Oregonians Are Not Being “Hit Hard” By Climate Change
By
Linnea Lueken
September 4, 2024
A recent article posted by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), titled “Climate change will keep hitting Oregonians hard, but the exact impact will depend on where you live,” claims that Oregon will be impacted severely on multiple fronts by climate change. Areas of concern include increased wildfires, sea level rise, and water shortages, among others. This is mostly false, as many of the problems listed are not worsening and those that are have nothing to do with climate change.
OPB writes that different regions of Oregon will face different effects from climate change, which is reasonable; coastal communities will have to worry about sea level more than those in Eastern Oregon, for example. But the caveats listed by OPB are interesting. The story doesn’t just discuss geographic and natural climate differences, but also differing effects based on demographics, such as, “how many people live there, and how much money their local governments have on hand.” Those two variables, and others like population growth and relative incomes, are totally independent of long-term climate change and even short-term weather events.
Regardless, the article goes on to make several false claims regarding the direct effects of climate change:
https://climaterealism.com/2024/09/wrong-oregon-public-broadcasting-oregonians-are-not-being-hit-hard-by-climate-change/
