Not all dams that are blocking salmon runs in the PNW are used for hydro power, or for flood control for that matter.
See this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540540
So the question is are we okay with converting barge traffic to rail traffic? Probably. That's the way things are transported across the rest of the country.
I would rather you pay more and pay the full costs of your electrical use. Use solar, wind or invest in a nuclear plant if removing carbon is imported.
Causing extinction in the name of climate change when really it's about cheaper prices is a non-starter.
Interesting. Do you have a source for this?
No, I've done a fair amount of research into the historical climate of the PNW and I've never heard that before! Do you have any journal articles so I can read more about it?
https://boris.unibe.ch/132301/7/333323_4_merged_1557735881.p...
The phenomenon you’re referring to seems to be regional, in contrast to global warming. Global warming has plenty of regional variation, but the average temperature of the whole planet is, in fact, increasing quite a bit.
Global temperatures were not warmer in the past, because there was less energy retained due to lesser amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.