Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Want to find a place to live that will be safe from climate change? Good luck


I am sure some of you might remember that fine Australian film Strictly Ballroom.

In it, there was an epic struggle going on. On the one hand, there were those convinced that there is only one model of ballroom dancing and hence their insistent and non-compromising mantra: “No new steps”.


A young couple in the film, however, challenged this prevailing ideology and showed, in their actual dancing, that “new steps” are indeed possible.

Well, there is a similar ‘dance’, this time a ‘dance’ of the Rising rivers, seas and oceans, going on in our villages, towns and cities  at the moment.

Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities.

The authors of a paper published this week developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea-level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic. The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by mid-century.
Rising seas will erase more cities by 2050, new research shows








JEREMY SMITH. Our Climate Crisis


While local drought-affected communities are declaring a climate emergency, present proposals to mitigate the impacts of drought fail to address the real crisis. They do not recognise that this drought is not just another variation on ‘normal’ conditions, but a step towards a new climate. More … Continue reading 










due to climate change. The Sydney/Central Coast region, shown in Figure 1, includes the Sydney,. Western Sydney, South West Sydney and the Central Coast State Plan regions. It extends from the Royal National ...



Coastal erosion is one dramatic possible outcome of climate-related weather events, but ... on a few homes in suburbs of Sydney, Byron Bay, Melbourne and the Central Coast predicted to be most at risk ...


 The Gold Coast, Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, Shepparton and the New South Wales Central Coast stand to pay the highest costs from extreme weather events by 2100 if global greenhouse gas ... 

These Aussie suburbs could be underwater in just decades - The New Daily
Some of Australia's most densely populated suburbs, major cities and crucial pieces of ... according to University of New South Wales Climate Change Research Centre's 


Climate change is fueling heatwaves, hurricanes and floods, gradually making certain places in the US challenging, if not outright miserable, to live in.
Scientists, and some members of the public, are starting to question where in the US will remain comfortable to call home.
The answer, broadly speaking, is north and maybe west. Florida has seen a population boom in recent decades but the southern portion of the state is on course to be submerged by rising seas. The Gulf coast will get supercharged hurricanes, while the south-west and south-east US will be baked by increasingly hostile heat.

Want to find a place to live that will be safe from climate change? - Fast Company

 Between increased risks of dangerous heat, flooding, droughts, wildfires, and economic collapse, there’s not a lot of places in the country that won’t be affected by some aspect of climate change.



New Delhi's 'gas chamber' smog reaches worst levels of the year with flights unable to land



LUIZA CH. SAVAGE. How Russia and China are preparing to exploit a warming planet



Hurricanes, floods, and wildfires aside, climate change is delivering another threat: a remaking of geopolitics that stands to empower some of America’s adversaries and rivals.
The year is 2050 or 2060, and as climate change progresses, extreme weather is getting worse. ... in Portland, Oregon, could feel like the current sweltering weather in California's Central Valley.