{"id":43439,"date":"2019-02-02T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43439"},"modified":"2019-02-02T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:04:25","slug":"lets-say-i-wanted-to-escape-climate-change-where-should-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43439","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let\u2019s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Q.<\/strong>I am not giving up \u2026 but if I were<\/em> to move, where in the United States could I go to minimize climate disruption?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Uneasy in a U-Haul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A.<\/strong>Dear Uneasy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So you want to escape climate change. That\u2019s a reasonable impulse \u2014 climate change rivals nuclear war for the greatest threat to human life in the history of our species\u2019 existence. Every survival instinct we\u2019ve cultivated to date should, understandably, make us want to get away from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start by evaluating regions of the U.S. based on the basics of what we expect climate change to bring. We know that the seas will swell and temperatures will go up. So that particularly endangers a host of coastal cities with relatively warm climates, especially in the summer \u2014 so Miami<\/a>, New Orleans<\/a>, Norfolk<\/a>, Washington D.C.<\/a>, New York<\/a>, Los Angeles<\/a>. A 2017 paper in Nature Climate Change estimated that the 13.1 million people displaced from those cities by sea level rise could head for more inland locales like Atlanta, Houston, and Phoenix<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So there you have it, Uneasy! Let\u2019s all head to Atlanta, Houston, and Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait a second: Hurricane Harvey gave an alarming preview of how Houston will fare in a climate-changed future<\/a>. Phoenix is in the middle of a desert with no reliable water source<\/a>, where temperatures can surge to 120 degrees F in the summer. And Atlanta is the third fastest-warming metropolitan region<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forget about those cities. What\u2019s a nice, temperate place? Never gets too hot or too cold, has lots of water? Aha \u2014 the Pacific Northwest. Umbra\u2019s home<\/a>! It\u2019s part-rainforest, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go? Q.I am not giving up \u2026 but if I were to move, where in the United States could I go to minimize climate disruption? \u2014 Uneasy in a U-Haul A.Dear Uneasy, So you want to escape climate change. That\u2019s a reasonable impulse \u2014 climate change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,18349,15759],"class_list":["post-43439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-eve-andrews","tag-grist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43440,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439\/revisions\/43440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}