Warming Will Destabilize Life In Southern, Coastal US, But People Just Keep On Moving There

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The guts of this report are at the second link - very graphics-heavy and not suitable for copy/paste. Well-presented and organized, worth your time.

Extreme Heat & Humidity (wet-bulb mortality)
Loss Of Agricultural Productivity
Northward Shift Of Corn, Soy
Increased Forest Fire Risk
SLR

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Americans have defied the norms of climate migration seen elsewhere in the world, flocking to cities like Phoenix, Houston and Miami that face some of the greatest risks from soaring temperatures and rising sea levels.

Those patterns seem likely to change.

New data from the Rhodium Group, analyzed by ProPublica, shows that climate damage will wreak havoc on the southern third of the country, erasing more than 8% of its economic output and likely turning migration from a choice to an imperative.

The data shows that the warming climate will alter everything from how we grow food to where people can plausibly live. Ultimately, millions of people will be displaced by flooding, fires and scorching heat, a resorting of the map not seen since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Now as then, the biggest question will be who escapes and who is left behind.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-make-parts-of-the-u-s-uninhabitable-americans-are-still-moving-there

https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/

[SamKnause]

1. Thanks for the links.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Because

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This isn't fun.

[bronxiteforever]

3. Kick and recommend. Thanks for posting! I

am reading the Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper. I was struck at how Harper’s theory of the fall of Rome matches the fate of the US. Rome suffered from the role of nature in shaping Roman history through pandemics and natural climate variability. Now in our time we add a main course of fossil fuel burning created global warming and our fate is not looking all that good.