Got me

Thank you! I'm having fun with the wording, so yeah, it's a lot of hyperbole. I have a sneaking suspicion that much of our region's ecology will adapt fine. Most of the thermal processes which govern the flow of tropical air to the north pole will be generally unaffected. Winter storms will become warmer winter storms, and our summers will grow more arid. The Ponderosa will spread north while wildfire and bark beetles pave its path. Heat deaths and summer energy consumption will both increase, while our winters will grow even more timid and harmless than before; albeit while staying as cloudy and drizzly as any other period in history. We'll lose the glaciers, and perhaps the salmon. And we'll lose most of our marginal snow events, while Arctic intrusions continue to trend shallower and more impotent. A June 2021 redux will probably happen multiple times before the end of the century. Maybe not for another couple decades, but it will happen again, under different, probably more normal synoptic circumstances, as the world warms and the permutations required for such heat become less exotic and rare. It's sad seeing us slowly lose our mild summer weather and our harshest winter cold snaps. We'll adapt, but it sucks. At any rate, even Eugene has a more comfortable summer climate in 2026 than most of the country east of the Rockies.

Andrew?

Hyperbolic? Maybe; we'll see. But there's no denying it's gorgeously expressive writing, and for that I salute you, sir. A++.

Why in the hell do you consider Springfield as part of the metro area? It is not even close.