Which U.S. Cities Are Safest From Climate Change?

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Climate havens or climate destinations are cities that are situated in places that avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and have the infrastructure to support a larger population. Many of these legacy cities are in the U.S. Northeast. Watch the video to see where Americans can move to avoid the risk of wildfires and flooding from rising seal levels, and learn how these destination cities can translate climate migration into an economic triumph.

Millions of Americans are living in communities with precarious climate conditions, in houses that feel overpriced.

There is a solution for many of these people, though: Move to one of the so-called climate havens.

Climate havens or climate destinations are situated in places that avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and have the infrastructure to support a larger population. Many of these legacy cities are located in the Northeast.

Jesse Keenan, associate professor of real estate at Tulane University, named the following cities as possible climate havens:

Asheville, North Carolina
Buffalo, New York
Burlington, Vermont
Detroit, Michigan
Duluth, Minnesota
Madison, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Rochester, New York

Anna Marandi, who served as the program manager of climate resilience and sustainability at the National League of Cities, added four other places to the safe haven list: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Charleston, South Carolina; Chico, California; and perhaps surprisingly, Orlando, Florida.

Orlando makes the cut, Marandi said, because the city has introduced measures to decarbonize. While the natural environment, such as being a noncoastal city, is an advantage, cities can “earn” the designation by working to provide benefits like affordable housing and being committed to economic sustainability.

“I see climate migration as an opportunity for these cities to avoid the mistakes of urban sprawl,” Marandi said. “They often have a vibrant, walkable downtown that might just need a little bit of revitalization.”

Keenan also stressed that climate haven cities need to help their own residents, which in turn will attract more climate migrants.

“This isn’t we’re going to build a community for tomorrow,” he said. “We’re going to build a community for today. And that’s going to be the foundation for the building of a community for tomorrow.”

Correction: Anna Marandi at the National League of Cities added two other places to the climate haven list: Ann Arbor, Michigan, and perhaps surprisingly, Orlando, Florida. An earlier version misstated the cities.

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Which U.S. Cities Are Safest From Climate Change?

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  1. This video is Carl Sagan Greenhouse Effect, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, December 10, 1985.
    Carl Sagan says during the video that most of Venus's atmosphere is CO2, which is causing the runaway greenhouse effect on the planet. He also adds that it isn't the proximity to the Sun causing the extreme temperatures.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOdTEIihFU&ab_channel=SpaceSPAN

    In the Real Engineering video, the narrator says, the atmosphere on Mars is 95% CO2. Why isn't Mars a ball of flame like Venus? It must have something to do with the distance from the Sun.

    This is interesting. If they are going to use CO2 to make methane fuel on Mars, why don't they do that here on Earth. Wouldn't they be able to solve our carbon footprint problem here on Earth?
    (This is from the Web) Is burning methane good for the environment?
    Methane provides a great environmental benefit, producing more heat and light energy by mass than other hydrocarbon, or fossil fuel, including coal and gasoline refined from oil, while producing significantly less carbon dioxide and other pollutants that contribute to smog and unhealthy air.

    Here is a Real Engineering video on the subject of why SpaceX is using methane as a fuel.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRtx56xl-70&ab_channel=RealEngineering👁

  2. Are you trying to get all the people that fled these armpit cities to Florida/Texas back? As a Floridian I am all for it! Those useless legal plundered “social programs” aren’t gonna pay themselves!

  3. Please show some real threats from climate change and not your made up delusions. Suppressing forest fires from their natural cycles for longer than most people have been alive is not a symptom of climate change. Building inappropriate houses in areas prone to natural phenomenon is not a symptom of climate change. Even with man made mistakes in choosing areas to live and not building the appropriate housing for the area the harm from natural disasters is now at a tiny fraction of what is was at anytime in the past century………..These people are just rambling Grifters fearmongering for money.

  4. None because a diminishing molecular Oxygen atmosphere is allowing more UV energy to reach the Earth's surface where it transitions to light and then heat.

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  7. Great they are the cities with increasing crime rates. So there you go ,Do you want to be destroyed by the climate or the criminals. Life sucks and then you die

  8. I am curious why Cleveland was not included in the map of climate destinations? I would think Cleveland meets the same climate resilience criteria as say Toledo and Detroit.

  9. Safe places. It must be rural farmland. Cities are not acceptable. It must be far inland from ocean coastlines. Not in the middle of flammable forests. Not in water poor lands. Not in the tornado prone interior. And it must be higher ground and not on a flood plain. A prime example is central Ontario. In the US, somewhere near the Great Lakes.

  10. Obama and Biden bought property right smack dab on the 'rising ocean'. Note how 'scared' these clowns are! They aren't fools, they know this hysteria about 'rising oceans' is fake.

  11. Basically, all the dumb sheeple(Conservatives), chase after the locations their employers tell them are the best(the South) because of low taxes and regulation will now be forced to move back to the places they abandonded. As always these people will sell low and buy high.

  12. Eventually nobody will be safe, the havens will be effected greatly too. Human activity causes hotter weather. There is no real escape. You think a farmer's market will protect you?

  13. All cities contribute to warmer climates. All that concrete, asphalt, and glass high rise buildings hold alot of heat. Cities are generally hotter than the country side…even in the desert.

  14. No!Really?You really believe this fool??There aint Climate Change!And there will always be hot days,they had them in the past century too!The GLOBAL temperature hasnt changed for many decades!!Earlier they thought that we already should all be dead by now because off climate change,instead we as species have grown a whole lot!No!The so called climate change is just a way to pres us to spend lots off money offering the rich to become even richer!But no change to the climate..

  15. Nobody needs to worry about sea level rise, that's just a scaremongering political myth!
    (Also forget CO2, /carbon/decarbonise, that's also a scam.)
    The REAL danger on the horizon, is COLD!
    Early snows, like Montana experienced recently will become more frequent, and last longer.
    There has been Unprecedented FOUR consecutive years of snowfalls in the SAHARA desert.
    Freak snow storms have been experienced, worldwide.
    The planet is returning to a glacial climate, from its present end of interglacial climate.
    .

  16. Your first city mentioned does not have affordable housing. Asheville, NC has low service industry wages from the breweries and restaurants but the housing market is driven by wealthy migrants from high income major cities. Many of the houses have been bought up for AirBnB rentals that further reduces the supply of homes.

  17. Until there is large scale population declines in the world the environment will continue to degrade to the point where no place in the world will be inhabitable

  18. I’m wondering about the climate impact of moving to the very cold climate around the Great Lakes and needing to use much more energy to heat a home?

    It’s a complicated topic.

  19. This is "NOT!!!" from "The burning of fossil fuels!" Let's post some very serious facts: Rain forests are extremely vital to human existence! Our rain forests are being decimated by the meat industry to grow cattle! Stupid humans continue high demand on meat! Cows, pigs and chickens all produce more greenhouse gasses than all modes of transportation combined! There will be no safe place for humans to migrate to if you stupid humans continue eating meat! Transportation is not the issue! STOP eating all forms of meat! Install solar on your home! Buy electric cars as soon as you can afford to! STOP eating meat! More vegetation on earth will turn climates around and we will get more rain!

  20. I'm very greatful to have an affordable place to live. The house prices in my area are 100k-200k for a nice houses. That said I live in Michigan and people still have a stigma about it being cold here it was 100F out this june already and they winters have been a joke nothing like 20 years ago when i was a kid. they have been so mild with not much snowfall.

  21. Can't just elevate homes. Otherwise, you'll need a boat to get to the grocery store and your friend's house. Gives a whole new meaning to Venice, FL.

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