HomeWorldClimate‘Climate Havens’ Don’t Exist The worst damage from Hurricane Helene came in areas that were expected to be relatively immune to the effects of climate change.
‘Climate Havens’ Don’t Exist The worst damage from Hurricane Helene came in areas that were expected to be relatively immune to the effects of climate change.
October 2, 2024
‘Climate Havens’ Don’t Exist The worst damage from Hurricane Helene came in areas that were expected to be relatively immune to the effects of climate change.
Why do these articles keep getting posted? The US Gulf south and the southeast are not climate havens by any stretch, this is predictable activity and people moving there for climate resiliency are being foolish
New York and the new England area are supposedly climate havens but that is being generous because things will still be bad but not as bad as other areas. That’s what I think people don’t get about climate havens, they are places that are just not as bad as other areas as earth heats up.
This reminds me of experts claiming the PNW is a climate change safe haven. Somehow the experts forgot about droughts, heat, tinder, and fire.
It’s weird to think *anywhere* in the southeast US could ever be considered a climate haven.
I feel like it was dumb to ever think that anywhere in Georga or the Carolinas would be a “haven” of any kind.
Sure, they’re probably statistically safer than Puerto Rico or somewhere but… come on. It was dumb to list anywhere in that region as a haven.
if you live on the planet you are at risk.
I hope everybody understands just how much future generations are going to curse us.
It doesn’t matter how many times we fought and how many times we lost. at the end of the day we are all going to watch this happen while oil companies and billionaires just stoke culture wars.
Vermont found this out more than 10 years ago. Northern tier, known for cold/snowy winters, ~100 miles from the coast. Surely that would be a haven?
Yeah, Hurricane Irene proved that to be wrong. When I went there in 2017, not only was a lot of the damage from 2011 still not addressed, but I arrived during a torrential rain that left a lot of the area completely submerged, including a lot of cropfields that were probably destroyed as a result. And they’ve repeatedly experienced more heavy rains/flooding.
The only places that are climate havens are those areas that haven’t been hit *yet*.
title is nonsense, nowhere in Florida or even the whole southern half of the US Is supposed to be immune to climate change. Nowhere is going to be safe from climate change but a few places like the North East and Michigan might get an extra decade or two.
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Why do these articles keep getting posted? The US Gulf south and the southeast are not climate havens by any stretch, this is predictable activity and people moving there for climate resiliency are being foolish
New York and the new England area are supposedly climate havens but that is being generous because things will still be bad but not as bad as other areas. That’s what I think people don’t get about climate havens, they are places that are just not as bad as other areas as earth heats up.
This reminds me of experts claiming the PNW is a climate change safe haven. Somehow the experts forgot about droughts, heat, tinder, and fire.
It’s weird to think *anywhere* in the southeast US could ever be considered a climate haven.
I feel like it was dumb to ever think that anywhere in Georga or the Carolinas would be a “haven” of any kind.
Sure, they’re probably statistically safer than Puerto Rico or somewhere but… come on. It was dumb to list anywhere in that region as a haven.
if you live on the planet you are at risk.
I hope everybody understands just how much future generations are going to curse us.
It doesn’t matter how many times we fought and how many times we lost. at the end of the day we are all going to watch this happen while oil companies and billionaires just stoke culture wars.
Vermont found this out more than 10 years ago. Northern tier, known for cold/snowy winters, ~100 miles from the coast. Surely that would be a haven?
Yeah, Hurricane Irene proved that to be wrong. When I went there in 2017, not only was a lot of the damage from 2011 still not addressed, but I arrived during a torrential rain that left a lot of the area completely submerged, including a lot of cropfields that were probably destroyed as a result. And they’ve repeatedly experienced more heavy rains/flooding.
The only places that are climate havens are those areas that haven’t been hit *yet*.
title is nonsense, nowhere in Florida or even the whole southern half of the US Is supposed to be immune to climate change. Nowhere is going to be safe from climate change but a few places like the North East and Michigan might get an extra decade or two.