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Climate Change is increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters all around the world. And in the United States, more and more people seem to be moving to the places that are projected to be most impacted by climate change, from hazards such as flooding, wildfire, storms, drought and extreme heat; and leaving the most climate-resilient areas. At first glance, this seems like a bizarre and paradoxical trend. So, for this episode of Weathered, we decided to see if we could get to the bottom of it.
We spoke to experts and sifted through lots of data about moving trends and shifting climate patterns to figure out what’s really going on here and what you can do to avoid moving into harm’s way.
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
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There’s lots of lying going on in some of the maps. Large wildfires are rare in Florida because humidity is very high all year long. Some lightning strikes do cause fires but this isn’t that common because the lightning strikes are accompanied by torrential rain.
Half the people that move don't do it because of climate change. They, like their cult leader, the stable genius, believe it's a hoax.
Yes we moved to Pacific Northwest due to cooler temperatures and temperate winters. Yes, we get rain and gray days but we don't mind. Living on an island in Puget Sound is great living for 2 seniors. We moved from CENTRAL NC, that was too hot to go outside in summers. And the humidity was crazy horrible. Before that we lived in MA. WE CONSIDERED CLIMATE IN OUR MOVES!
I would like to see the additional risk in insect propagation, if plausible, considering that the climate is expected to cause changes.
Questo video è incredibilmente stimolante.
So sad that your projections are WAY too conservative. People have no idea of how horrifying this is going to be, but it's for sure going to be a hell of a lot worse than this video projects. Here's the science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6VhCAeEfQ Also: Resilience and mitigation is a fantasy. Analogy: When you were a child, did you build sand castles below the high tide mark? Remember all the engineering you put into protecting your castle from the rising tide? Remember what the ultimate outcome was? That's what we're up against. The forces of planetary physics are SO massive, there is nothing we can do to stop it. Our only hope is to declare a climate emergency right now, but we have two choices for President, and they're both climate deniers, so that's not going happen.
I like Florida, but what the hell is anyone thinking moving there to escape natural disasters???
Thank you for doing this research and sharing the information! 🙏
When are people going to start blaming Canada for all the fires? Ever year their fire are left to just burn. I’ve watched this for yrs. An Canada is always how it starts! It always moves down the entire west! It’s cause big trouble for global warming! Beside the fact it’s burning all our wood.
Look at the map. Mountains don't suffer as much from adverse weather. I lived in the Adirondack Mountains. No tornados, no hurricanes. Everybody knew where to build to avoid spring snow melting. Prepare for cold weather and it is not a problem.
Time for a Gas Tax Escalator, 10% each year, until increases can level off to match inflation. $6 a gallon is fair and correct. The money saved must be spent on Mass Transit.
I don't understand why Hawaii and Alaska were excluded?!
This proves Jesus hates Texas
All this worry about global warming…When the nuclear war starts you got real problems….
I have seen similar videos claim by 2050 the entire US will not be liveable. Personally Im not sure why if this climate change is real the large companies and elites who fly daily aren't being held accountable. I read somewhere that said most the damage was done decades ago by companies like 3m the same ones who added pfas to every source of public water and is now in all of us. Only reverse osmosis can remove it.
This is so ridiculous…
Phoenix, ALREADY & regularly, reaches into the 110°+ range every year. So, even IF the number of deaths from heat exhaustion actually increases, it only means that employees/employers of outdoor-labor occupations will have taken-on the risk of pushing the limits of their abilities to endure such tortures by working longer/harder in those extreme conditions.
Further… the reason people are leaving those "climate resilient" areas is because of the increasingly prevalent ideology presented in this over- exaggerated cartoon show predicated on "scientific evidence," the exclusively unobtainable economic-class and the corporations they own and run, the politics and the politicians… all of which sponsor such ideals and, finally, those whose gullibility and dedication to their aforementioned bloodsucking overlords has kept them believing it all… even in spite of the evidence to the contrary – including those instances and individuals from which the very same claims have occurred and reoccurred, yet they remain unrealized and for decades by now.
That, now written… does the climate change? Of course it does and it will continue to do so every single year into infinity. However, there isn't a scientist alive that can accurately predict what it will change to or when, year over year and with any certainty or definite causationally accurate reasoning. If they do, they will have guessed and gotten lucky.
Now I live in Western Virginia and I absolutely love it the weather is really great sometimes unpredictable as it is anywhere don't get me wrong I love the beach but having a house on the beach is not what I want to do I had a house on the beach and it was constant maintenance and it was storms and we can go on and on
Obama's house
I live in memphis tn. The humidity is rising, summer is hard. Winter brings freeze here. The storms are getting more violent too.
Many Americans do not plan their future using science. It’s very simple. They move to the south because of their race and trying to escape what they’ve done in the past
You’ve reinforced my desire to stay in Vermont.
west virginia is a rain forest https://youtu.be/pVYrTl9Zcjg?si=Ny_LKd5l-q6dlRRS
love how the sonoran desert is marked as hot, lol
next thing you know they will list alaska as cold
If you think we can predict with any sort of accuracy what is going to happen 75 years from now, 1) you need to do some more learnin and 2) you gonna be dead either way.
Well I’m doomed I live on the Chesapeake bay in Maryland
Pro Tip: The riskiest region is the most liberal one. They'll expense you're whole wallet and it still won't change anything. Then they'll blame it on Trump.