Wildfire smoke will be the big question there. It's started to be bad for a week or two a year in Minneapolis, and is only worse the closer you are to the boreal forest.

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wildfires only a problem until the overgrowth is burned off. When there's not enough to sustain a large spreading fire, they will stop happening.

	▲	__MatrixMan__ an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Then come the floods because the roots were holding all the soil in place and the soil was managing water movement. What used to be an all year trickle becomes an occasional deatructive deluge.
	▲	electricEmu 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Climate change is defined by both wet and dry extremes. Excess rainfall creates an explosion of brush that during the now annual drought turns to tinder.
	▲	8note 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		canada's forest is growing, not shrinking. the overgrowth will keep growing year over year
	▲	1attice 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		True, but disingenuous, as "over" growth implies a normative cap, but climate change just is moving the cap lower. The ceiling is falling: more and more growth, in every biome, counts as overgrowth. Eventually only desert remains viable, and everything above it, including arability, is locked away forever.

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testing22321 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And the failure of basic services like water and power.

Given it took FEMA ten days to get power restored to the super dome, how long will responses be when there are many simultaneous disasters of that size or bigger? With the current admin the answer could be “indefinite”