I posted the other day on the rethinking this week’s floods have caused in relation to “Which areas are climate change havens?”
New England now being re-evaluated by a lot of people.
Above, CNBC had a contribution to this genre a year ago, reposting here.
Great Lakes area getting a lot of attention as a climate haven, before this year’s air quality crisis.
Some things that annoyed me about that 1-year-old CNBC video:
(1) A good target city needs mitigation measures but does not need to be “decarbonized”. Decarbonization is a global goal, and whether it is a happy smiling Great Lakes city or a hurricane-threatened steamy coastal pit doesn’t make any difference decarbonization-wise.
(2) Migration, like climate change is natural until it isn’t. Increasing migration levels 50-fold is a big problem, no matter how “natural” or “human” past levels were. Even the peak of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South was 1.45 million in the decade of the 1940s. We had a million people* move in 2022 and the number is going up.
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*Perversely, 318,000 of them moved to Florida.
The cost of fire resistance, tornado resistance and even flood resistance can be relatively minimal on construction. We could do so much better with our houses.
But instead the HOAs are concerned about the color of our front doors.