Is Alaska the new Florida? Experts predict where next for America's 'climate refugees'

[n2doc]

Alaskans, stay in Alaska. People in the midwest and the Pacific north-west, sit tight. Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change say that they see few havens from the storms, floods and droughts that are sure to intensify over the coming decades. But some regions in the US, they add, will fare better than others.

Forget most of California and the south-west (drought, wildfires). Ditto for much of the east coast and south-east (heatwaves, hurricanes, rising sea levels). Washington DC , for example, may well be a flood zone by 2100, according to an estimate released last week.

Instead, consider Anchorage. Or even, perhaps, Detroit.

"If you do not like it hot and do not want to be hit by a hurricane, the options of where to go are very limited," said Camilo Mora, a geography professor at the University of Hawaii and lead author of a paper published in Nature last year predicting that unprecedented high temperatures will become the norm worldwide by 2047.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/america-climate-refugees-us-population-shift-rising-temperatures

[AZ Progressive]

1. Well, you still have to deal with potential huge earthquakes in Alaska

And 9.0 ones

[n2doc]

2. True all along the west coast of North America n/t

[PasadenaTrudy]

3. I've got my eye

on Portland, OR as a possibility. I want actual seasons and temps below 80 for a change.