Are You Ready for Massive Climate Migration?

According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River Valley.

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Taken with other recent research showing the most habitable climate in North America will shift northward and the incidence of large fires will increase across the country, this suggests that the climate crisis will profoundly interrupt the way we live and farm in the U.S.

Scan the slideshow above to see how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands of years might shift with climate migration.

Continue reading at ProPublica.org.

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