The High Arctic lowlands of Eureka Sound on Ellesmere Island are melting.

Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in walls of exposed permafrost, extending for hundreds of metres, that are retreating as fast as one metre per week.

The north probably has it a heck of a lot easier than other places will get it. Some will get flood causing rains as the new norm

Human activities that spur global warming are largely to blame for changes in rainfall patterns over the last century, climate researchers reported on Monday.

The report was released as record rains caused deadly flooding in Britain and China.

Others will get drought

While wildfires are common natural disasters in the western United States, the wildfire forecast includes all of Florida and the southern states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Additionally, western North Carolina and Virginia and portions of Alaska are at high risk.

One obvious factor is the drought conditions in many of these states. Alarmingly, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed abnormally dry conditions in wide areas of the United States as of June 1–well before the tinder dryness of later summer months.

While others get…. well, drought

Taitung County has been hit hard by the most severe drought in 30 years, leaving government officials scratching their heads over how to save the county’s crops.

Taitung Irrigation Association officials said that although they had diverted water from four streams in the county to fill irrigation canals, the volume of water still fell short of what farmers needed for the season’s second round of rice planting.

In addition, more than 50 percent of the area’s tea crop has already withered, officials said.

The north may end up better off than a lot of places in all of this - and it just might be getting close to the time when heading back there is a prudent thing to do.