THIS Is the Safest Place to Live in the US as the Climate Changes

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: to.pbs.org/DonateTerra.
↓ More info below ↓
We asked six experts where the safest, or least risky, places will be to live in the United States as the climate changes and weather becomes more extreme. And the answer is pretty surprising. In this episode, we look at many hazards from temperature, storms, drought, farming, wildfire, polar vortex, hurricanes, sea-level rise, crop failure, extreme heat, and even economics. We look at the effect of climate on future migration patterns in the US and talk to someone who left New York City after Hurricane Sandy and identifies as a climate migrant. She ended up moving to the safest county in the United States from a weather and climate perspective. We’ll reveal where she went and why.
Here is a link to the ProPublica article that was very influential in our research of this episode: projects.propublica.org/clima... (scroll to the bottom of the article for a list of counties and the criteria used to rate them)
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
Subscribe to PBS Terra so you never miss an episode! bit.ly/3mOfd77
And keep up with Weathered and PBS Terra on:
Facebook: / pbsdigitalst. .
Twitter: / pbsds
Instagram: / pbsds
Thank you Margaret A. Carghill Philanthropies for supporting PBS.

[@shellylofgren]

I’m closing in on my retirement and I’d like to move from Minnesota to a warmer climate, but the prices on homes are stupidly ridiculous and Mortgage prices has been skyrocketing on a roll(currently over 7%) do I just invest my spare cash into stock and wait for a housing crash or should I go ahead to buy a home anyways

[@DavidRiggs-dc7jk]

Nobody knows anything; You need to create your own process, manage risk, and stick to the plan, through thick or thin, While also continuously learning from mistakes and improving.

[@jeffery_Automotive]

Uncertainty... it took me 5 years to stop trying to predict what bout to happen in market based on charts studying, cause you never know. not having a mentor cost me 5 years of pain I learn to go we’re the market is wanting to go and keep it simple with discipline.

[@philipr1759]

@@theresahv Thank so much for sharing. Your advisor was simple to discover online. I did my research on her before I scheduled our phone call. She appears knowledgeable and well accredited based on his online resume.

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@philipr1759 THEN support Climate-Change-KZbinrs.

[@skoltrollkallamik4450]

Hi, fellow MN resident! As a result of climate change, you may find warm weather coming to you! Could end up with milder winters. If you're in north MN, a move to south MN could be all you need! I know the "feel" tells me it's happening. (Still gets cold.) As far the econ, in this moment, home buying is a no-go. High rates, high prices. One of the two need to go.

[@conesnail1364]

People are more focused on running from their problems then solving them “safe” areas will quickly be populated and new problems will rise from that. Climate change needs to be confronted.

[@zoppp621]

Think we might be too late. Combating climate change will require abolishing consumerism.

[@splintmeow4723]

More like overpopulation needs to be confronted 😞 too much demand not enough supply for the planet to handle humans. Too many people, putting too much strain on flora and fauna.

[@dinahmyte3749]

@@splintmeow4723 But it's NOT overpopulation, it's the proper and humane allocation of resources. I don't produce NEARLY as much of a carbon footprint as a billionaire does with their yachts, 5000 square feet mansions, plus their two or three other homes, their cars, their jets etc, yet I'm being BLAMED for my single use plastics? I can't AFFORD greener options.

[@conesnail1364]

@@zoppp621 resigning yourself to loss is easy if it means people think can just keep on living the way they always have. Before the verdict on climate change is decided several governments will crumble and power will shift in unpredictable ways so I just hope once the dust settles we will come out somewhat better on the other side.

[@splintmeow4723]

@@dinahmyte3749 every human requires shelter, energy/fuel (these days), food, water. Mere basics. Now if 8billions humans needs that, it puts a massive strain on the environment. I’m environmentally conscious. I still get food that has been put in plastic packaging, still pay for power, still use water, all these things add up. Are you saying we wouldn’t be better with less people? Simply put, the rich are not the issue, it is far too many people. Each person is an apex predator. The ecosystems can’t support 8 billion predators. It is hard enough with two lion prides encroaching on each other’s territory. We are so narcissistic and egotistical that we fantasize about aliens on distant planets, yet we don’t take care of the species dying off on our own planet. 500million people should be the very maximum. The earth is ruined at this point, unless we get a proper pandemic. Even then it would be a miracle to fix everything that is wrong.

[@angelalewis400]

I came across this video on July 12, 2023. My husband and I are trying to figure out where to retire. We are from the New England area but have lived in many states. Most recently Washington State and now in Texas. The irony is, just 2 days ago Lamoille County Vermont suffered from severe flooding causing historic rainfall to wash out roadways and bridges in the region. Over 7 inches of rain in less than 24 hours. Really no place is free from severe weather events. 😢

[@janepappas1032]

The issue with Vermont is its narrow valleys. The problem it poses is not being meaningfully addressed even though we experienced this already with Tropical Storm Irene. I don’t have the ability to flee at this time myself, but I think that you want a hilly, but not mountainous, terrain and a location well inland with ample access to freshwater. I think that Michigan near the Great Lakes will escape the worst of the flooding, yet will have plenty of water and the temperatures should remain moderate for a while. We can only mitigate risk though. No place will be safe from the degradation of our quality of life. I already see so many fewer butterflies and dragonflies, etc.

[@ziziroberts8041]

Correct. 😢

[@hummingbird3771]

@@janepappas1032 In the 80's you couldn't drive 20 minutes around here without a bug-splattered windshield. Now, I get excited to see bees in my dedicated pollinator garden.

[@rednawt1]

We'd luv you to consider Delta County Michigan. Oh we get weather but short term. Even having the longest Lake Michigan shoreline of any on the Great Lakes little long term flooding. Only problem is enough housing for seniors. 😞

[@rednawt1]

@@janepappas1032 I am in Delta County in Escanaba. I have actually seen a come back of Monarch butterflies, +friendly bees, squirrels rabbits and bats with very few mosquitoes. (bats of course love mosquitoes). I have yet to turn the air conditioner on. It has been a PERFECT summer! Only problem is very cold in the winter.

[@nathanielsizemore3946]

My family moved out to Josephine County, Oregon in 2018, and we bought a 4-acre homestead with great plans. Then the summer drought/fire season rolled around. Our well dried up and we had to buy water to live on the land. Breathing, from the smoke of wildfires, was an issue for my wife and I. The summers of 2019 and 2020 proved that we could not live in the area of Oregon we had settled in. In the late winter/early spring of 2021, we moved to Illinois, less than a mile from Lake Michigan. The winter cold is hard on our arthritis, but survivable and we can breathe.

[@davidowens5898]

Right! Breathing is kind of important.

[@fumble_brewski5410]

Sperling's Best Places is a resource website that people should refer to BEFORE making any move.

[@danfreeman9079]

We nearly did the same to the same area of OR. Backed out at the last minute after seeing how the mountain above the property looked like it was ready to slide and bury the place.

[@fumble_brewski5410]

@@danfreeman9079 Not to mention how the entire state is dominated politically by the Portland-Salem-Eugene axis of evil leftist lunatics.

[@TheLakingc]

That happened to us in NE Washington, too. Can't sell or get homeowners insurance. Winters here are harsh -19 last night and summers over 100. A new well will cost at least $65k. There is no help, and i am older and in poor health. The neighbors pollute the creek water withdead deer, garbage, sewage, and destroyed my pump pouring diesel into the creek. I complained, even to Olympia, but no one enforces the laws here. Some great country living!

[@joeyotten2091]

I ran away from my home state of Wisconsin to escape the frigid winters…went to arizona….ten years later I came back home because I hated the heat…I just had the most mild winter of my life in Wisconsin, I don’t think it ever went below zero and i only had to shovel a few times…it was wonderful and scary as hell…it was not the winter I remember growing up and I worry about the changes to come and it makes me so profoundly sad

[@adventurealley4151]

Same in NY. They actually have vineyards now

[@MariaLopez-mi4ol]

I was there 2017 to 2019 and WINTERS WERE 7 MOS!!!!! I will not go back there!!!

[@coltoncardinal313]

I'm only 21 from Minnesota and this past years winter was unlike any other. I remember it normally would start snowing in October/November and stay snowy until around March or April, but this past year it snowed in November and all that snow melted and in December we were having temperatures in the 50s and almost to the 60s! Instead of snow it was raining and from December 15th-17th we had thunderstorms with hurricane level winds (75 mph+) and the first ever recorded December tornado in history, the latest recorded tornado previously was on November 17th.

[@dianemitchell1717]

My son just bought a property in northern Wisconsin on a lake, freshwater, fish to eat, etc. It would be a paradise if not for the mosquitoes. Still it is a nice getaway from Denver.

[@NancyNoo7007]

Weather is cyclical .. I don’t believe any of this global warming .. it was very warm in the Middle Ages compared to our weather today in the northern parts of Europe .. that’s why the population grew ..

[@HatedJared]

Been in Michigan most of my life. Bought a 10 acre farm that has a 1 acre pond, underground water, and is on a pretty large hill. I feel pretty safe from climate change out here. Our goal this year is to get stable food production from our land going.

[@markr8755]

Lived in Michigan all my life. I have also traveled all over the US early on. While I loved traveling and liked many of the places I visited, I always loved coming home. Now I just vacation around Michigan. There are so many placed to go and see once you leave the Detroit area that are just so wonderful. Most people I have talked to here on the east side of the state have never been to the west side of the state or to the UP. Hell most have never been north of I-69. Right now the wife and I are looking in to moving further north with lots of land.

[@kingskylandantonio8450]

I'm a ohioan we feel the same about this

[@michaelcap9550]

@@kingskylandantonio8450 Revenge of Fly Over country. Profit opportunity from Climate hysteria.

[@kingskylandantonio8450]

@@michaelcap9550 yes let us take back our former glory that was stolen from us by the tech states and cheap labor countries!

[@BoxOfCurryos]

By the 2050’s roll along, expect some competition for that land

[@cyclewisconsin105]

Here it is a year later and Vermont has just had intense flooding, so much for a safe place from climate change.

[@notmyname9625]

Just because an area is safer from climate change to other areas of the country doesnt mean it is immune from natural events such as flooding. Thats just life. I live in new england and nor’easters are pretty much the worst natural disasters we get here and relatively speaking thats not that bad. Combine that with the fact its inland and that alone makes it safer than the majority of the country.

[@drblevins]

You may want to look up the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption last year. From NASA's own website. None of the following fits the current narrative, so you don't hear anything about it by design. "The huge amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere, as detected by NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up temporarily warming Earth’s surface. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere - enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature. “We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. In the study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, Millán and his colleagues estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere - equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer. That’s nearly four times the amount of water vapor that scientists estimate the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines lofted into the stratosphere."

[@JoshuaTootell]

People struggle understanding the difference between "weather" and "climate change" ​@@notmyname9625

[@chestermicek]

I've lived in Atlanta, GA for the last 45 years and the last two years have proven to be rainier than any of the proceeding 43 years. Additionally, there is more wind blowing inside the I-285-beltway. In response to the climate change, we've planted a dozen Japanese Maples in our west-facing, front yard & built a screened in porch which is now cooled by those trees. Our west-facing windows are also shaded by the same trees. We've also installed a full-house, stand-by generator, but that's not all we are doing. I'd go on, but it now seems like Atlanta might be the new hot zone & that changes everything.

[@carolynlarke1340]

How did I not find you until today? I'm a native Floridian. I've got 65 years of environmental catastrophe behind me. Please, my generation treated people like me, people who read "Silent Spring" in school, like 'silly alarmists' our entire lives. It's all true. It's coming to every human on earth now. Thank you.

[@BeachcomberNZ]

So, you would have been aware of the warnings of a coming 1ce Age that were being made back in the 1970's and early 1980's, right? What did you make of them? Did you believe those predictions? If not, why not?

[@carolynlarke1340]

@@BeachcomberNZ I don't recall that outlier being a part of our thinking. The evidence of warming was straight up happening where I live. Environmental overexploitation, pollution and habitat destruction were taking place around me. There was occasional talk about cooling but between Rachel Carson and a paper called The Greenhouse Effect combined with the rather simple chemistry proposed by Arrhenius warming has always seemed evident.

[@jackthomas2051]

@@carolynlarke1340 You’re wrong. Nearly the entire field was convinced a new ice age would be here by 2075 back in the 1970’s. This lie about it only being one article in Time Magazine is demonstrably untrue.

[@carolynlarke1340]

@@jackthomas2051 Dunno who heard or believed what. Only have my direct observation and the discussions my group had regarding the obviously rising temps, water levels and the environmental catastrophes that ended my first 2 careers. Our thinking was influenced by "The Greenhouse Effect" and Arrhenius chemistry. I graduated HS in '75. Politicians and Koch industries, Exxon and others with vested interests in the status quo promoted the unprovable theory of cooling. It wasn't a thing for me or the other 'blue water' refugees whose livelihoods we're disappearing.

[@linjicakonikon7666]

@@carolynlarke1340 I could agree with you, but then we'd BOTH be wrong. The problem with living within a cult is that you are stuck in a delusional feedback loop.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Amazing that the availability of drinking water wasn't mentioned. Even the scientist who spoke about the preferred temperature range by humans apparently didn't factor water availability in the study. Add to that water availability for agriculture. Aren't you thinking about that? Water doesn't come automatically from the faucet.

[@yunusemretortamis727]

also humidity is probably more important than average temperature as a single factor

[@MrNicoJac]

The scientist probably will cover that in a later publication. But you sorta have to keep it within 10 pages, or no one will read/quote it, and your career will suffer for it 🙃

[@bongJovi420o]

I thought the same thing one of my first priorities in assessing where to go was based on availability of water and if it was a suitable place for agriculture

[@baneverything5580]

@@MrNicoJac Careers suffer for telling the truth. Climate "scientists" are given funding to lie. They got caught, remember, or are you a CNN viewer? I`ll bet you think dozens of CAT 5 hurricanes have slammed the coasts in the past 30 years and the deadliest tornadoes in history happened in recent decades.

[@mrcuttime22]

Hydroponics will have to replace throwing water in the soil where it can. But it probably won't scale up, huh? I'd bet they'll address water later.

[@gmsteele44]

I’ve lived my whole life in Northern California, the last 18 years with my Canadian husband, who, ironically, left Canada because it was so cold where he lived. We are now preparing to move to Vancouver, BC because it’s getting so hot where we live, it’s impossible to go outside without significant health risks.

[@yukon666]

Van - overrated, expensive place with wildfires, full of drug addicts and homeless. Moreover it's prone to tsunami because of Cascade Subduction zone earthquake, which can occur in 50 years with 1/3 probability.

[@danfreeman9079]

From the videos I see Vancouver is a zombie apocalypses.

[@timgora9116]

For those who don’t know northern Maine does not have many people living there, it’s heavily forested and half the roads aren’t even paved.. so if you decide to move there keep in mind it could take several hours to days for someone to rescue you if something happens and if you get service. Also both nws radar systems can only go so far so you’re on your own in terms of weather the further north/west you go as well

[@TheEmeraldVortex]

Not to mention the increasing tick population and the assortment of snakes

[@timgora9116]

@@TheEmeraldVortex tbh I really haven’t seen many snakes up north, they do live up there but they aren’t as prevalent as they are in southern Maine. Worst I’ve seen are tiny garter snakes lol

[@timgora9116]

@@slevinchannel7589 what about them?

[@ThatGuy-js6mu]

Lol i live in northern maine buddy. 98% roads are paved. Unless youre going to camps on the lake or cutting through a potato field. Cell service is plentiful for verizon, t mobile, us cellular. Not sprint though. We have our own police, hospitals, EMS and life flight services. Ticks actually arent an issue in northern maine. Central and southern maine have them bad though. With a warming climate, i assume they will become an issue for us in the future. Snakes are nonexistant except green grass snakes with no teeth. I would say the biggest issue to safety is the snowstorms and moose. For snowstorms we all have studdes tires and just dont go out if too bad. But this last winter weve barely had any snow. Moose though are an issue. If you hit this beast with your car, good chance you wont survive. Theyre huge. We dont drive fast at night.

[@danielvisintainer3352]

Been in Michigan all my life, and wanted to leave for a bit but honestly the way this is going, I want to stay, or at least own land somewhere in the state. Not only are we last in natural disasters but being connected to four massive bodies of freshwater and is fourth in amount of inland lakes is a huge bonus.

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

Watch out for Nestle and Cocoa cola trying to drain them lol

[@durango8882]

Detroit 😂

[@danielvisintainer3352]

@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 oof don’t remind me lol

[@ravensilvermoon853]

Never pry my DEAD ass out of our state...lol Heading to Lake MI for some float time next week...

[@trajan6927]

Everybody should leave Michigan for Ohio. I will stay here in Michigan and take one for the team. Everybody thinking about coming to Mi, "don't come, don't come," move to Ohio. They will accomodate you, Mi will not. I will stay in this lousy state so the rest of you can leave. I got your back. Lmao! 🇺🇸👍😁✌️☝️

[@pkmcburroughs]

It's so comforting to see the discussion shift from "What will we do to stop climate change?" to "What extraordinary things will people do to survive the inevitable climate change disaster that will occur because we are doing absolutely nothing about it?"

[@pbsterra]

I mean, it can be both. Right? Acknowledge the reality and ask where we go from here. That's our goal. There's a lot we can do, even when we accept that a lot of changes are already locked in.

[@pkmcburroughs]

@@pbsterra It could have been both, yes. Unfortunately, one of those courses of action seems to have been eliminated.

[@Synathidy]

@@pkmcburroughs As long as there's a little profit to be made by corporations and politicians to do the wrong thing, the wrong thing is what will get done. Money talks. Money is the root of all wrong-doing. Or at least a ton of it. Thanks, capitalism and outdated political infrastructure which supports minority rule by a class of greedy fat-cats who don't give a damn about any other life on earth or the future of that life as long as they can live the rest of their meager, pathetic, mortal lives in a little extra wealth and luxury.

[@jacksmack51]

Happy to know that I don’t have to fix it, I can simply run away from everything I break.

[@mikelouis9389]

Well, I have been screaming about this since the early eighties. He who will not hear will feel.

[@jenniferburns2530]

Having spent most of my life in southeastern Wisconsin, I can say that living near Lake Michigan is great for both recreation and fresh water access. Our winters are milder than they were 30 years ago, we don't have to worry about hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanos, or most other natural disasters, and if need be we can produce our own food. No place is perfect, but I can see the upper Midwest being an attractive destination for those fleeing extreme heat, wildfires, water shortages, and other issues forcing relocation.

[@sashamoore9691]

That’s why I’m moving to Minnesota 😂

[@horus2369]

I lived in Dallas from 1999-2022, then moved back to my hometown, Flint, MI. ,after realizing that it would be in better shape in 20 years than any part of Texas

[@wintercame]

Agree. Michigan is overall pretty good choice. And no avalanches from snow pack, lol.

[@myklebustsears]

Moved to Vermont three+ years ago and I love it. No place is immune from climate change (we had many poor air quality days last summer from wildfires thousands of miles away, our winters are getting shorter, hurricanes can still reach us, etc.), but it's wonderful to live in a place with great natural beauty, abundant water, and a state government that takes climate change seriously.

[@bl1429]

Same in southern New England...... shorter winters, snowed Christmas Eve, gone the day after Christmas.

[@XPFTP]

near the lake? where champ lives ? iam at the top end of 89 myself.. after i hit enter. got to thinking omg.... no iam not hittin on you hahhahahha..... just a nabor up top near the boarder. waving hi hi ..

[@sidilicious11]

Abundant water is important. So is beauty.

[@oldfogey4679]

Andree the only reason I don't move to Vermont is due to snow! I'm moving and climate is a big reason but no snow! Arizona has my favorite climate bit I've lived in Tucson and it wasn't a safe place in the 70s!

[@oldfogey4679]

@ryan sullivan what are u saying?

[@rluikaart]

If it ain’t one thing, it’s another. You may think you’re moving out of danger from one place, only to be confronted with some other thing in the new place. With all the stuff that could happen in a lifetime, I’m amazed and grateful that I’m still here.

[@stanleydolan5609]

How truth rings out with your statement, didn’t watch the swill being served.Just like reading comments and replies for amusement.of people whom are played from cradle to grave. The 99% whom chose a life as a minimalist is not by free choice, but forced. Go to any courthouse and watch divorce court rulings or bankruptcy cases where business will be booming with this current administration.

[@SteakNAleOrPonderosa]

I moved from Sacramento after 10 years in California to West Virginia, and absolutely did so as a climate migrant. Fires, drought, we even had a tornado my last year there (rare for that area, but less so). I'm a native Appalachian (PA), so the transition back to the mountains has been lovely - certainly less snowy than where I grew up. But other people I've met from CA have had a terrible time. Flooding is a big issue in the region, and even folks on high hills aren't immune (the soil here is "expansive", meaning it wrecks your foundation if you're not careful and you end up with flooded basements at high elevations). Culture shock can also be significant for the unprepared. WV is a beautiful place and I love living here, but it's not for the faint of heart.

[@donalvarez4006]

Also known as minorities

[@jouir45]

Flooding everywhere actually. Vermont, New York, Texas, Georgia, Florida, California,

[@masonfreeparty]

will get alot colder here next few years...youve been warned

[@Anonymoose66G]

The Midwest is the safest place in The USA from climate change, I'm just curious how you manage your finances, there's a reason these states have been seeing mass emigration in recent years, lack of jobs opportunity etc. I do think we'll see places like West Virginia and Detroit being much more popular in recent years due to climate migration and they'll become what they used to be, centres of commerce that people moved to for job opportunity, security & safety. I'm not from nor do I live in The USA but I do know alot about it, because ye love your media 😂. If I moved to The USA it'd most definitely be in a place people don't regard all to highly, (i.e) Alaska, Wyoming, Colorado, Detroit, Seattle, West Virginia etc, due to their future prospects, it'd be a good investment and they tend to have decent accessibility to nature.

[@heresjohnny23.7]

I’m so heartbroken by the way we treat our planet.

[@standingbear998]

there is no we. you are living a life of hate, fear and ignorance.

[@gogoscorner1111]

Omg so am I. She's so sick and we made her that way. It's devastating

[@yvonne2965]

Absolutely we have let Corporate greed dictate our lives & how we handle our Resources..This beautiful planet 🌍 is our only home 🏡.. We have to do whatever we can to transition to a greener lifestyle & we have to hold the politicians we vote for to work for our interests & a healthier planet .. Screw the 1%!!!!!!!!

[@yukon666]

What are you talking about? Earth has experienced cold periods (informally referred to as “ice ages,” or "glacials") and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years.

[@yvonne2965]

@@yukon666 do we really have to explain this to you ??..Please get a clue

[@billquigley6556]

I thought Vancouver would be a pretty good place to avoid extreme weather events because it's so temperate but we just had a record breaking heat dome followed by a huge atmospheric river that had record breaking rainfall and flooding. I truly think nowhere is safe and predicting where these extreme weather events are going to occur is impossible.

[@pbsterra]

Yep, predicting is probably pretty difficult but I hope that this episode makes people think about the idea of Climate Migration as something that is inevitable eventually. Thanks for watching! We're in Portland and experienced lots of the extremes you mentioned. Did you get flooded during the atmospheric river?

[@gypsydonovan]

Agreed. I'm in Seattle, but I felt like the whole pacific northwest was probably best area. We also don't have the hurricanes & tornadoes of half the country. We do have earthquakes, but not nearly as often as south of us. Aside from a volcano, we're pretty safe from natural disasters. But we've always had flooding and that's getting worse. I have a niece who thought the thick, orange wildfire smoke of recent summers was normal. No where is "safe". We have to do everything we can to address climate change and we need to do what humans are best at- adapt. It's scary. And it's so much more than the impact on humans.

[@craigmiller4199]

Yeah even though most metrics have us pretty ok here in the PNW, the wildfire risk in summer is definitely very real. Summer 2020 was a real nasty one here in the Rose City.

[@RomanNardone]

With how populated California is I feel like if the big one hits then the Pacific Northwest would get flooded by people. Could get pretty scary. In my opinion the area along the great lakes is probably the safest since fresh water is likely going to be a hard commodity to get in the future

[@IdunnoBroIjdk]

There it is. No place will be safe.

[@WilliamHostman]

I left Alaska (greater Anchorage) to care for my parents. I decided against going back because the weather is so much nicer in Oregon; as the weather heated, Anchorage's winters got more severe (colder, longer, more adverse events), and the summers warmer. Of the < 30 hanging glaciers that used to be visible from the Eagle River house, none remained 5 years ago. Most of these were under 2 miles long in the 1980s, on the north side of the Chugach foothills; by 2014, all were gone. Another interesting side effect was that the politicians being elected seemed more extreme.

[@michealnagy5763]

Interesting I just left Alaska a month ago and we broke the record in snow this year alone. Twice.

[@alexanderpowell1528]

@@michealnagy5763 People are not supposed to tell the truth while the climate change industry controls the media. Be careful.

[@michealnagy5763]

@@alexanderpowell1528 oh! Sorry! My bad!

[@baneverything5580]

The glaciers have been melting for 13,000 years and then started again in the 1800s after building up again destroying many farming towns in Europe with advancing ice. What caused the over 400 feet of sea level rise in the past 13,000 years? It makes me sick that these leftists are deliberately frightening and mentally abusing children and the mentally disabled in their attempts to destroy our country.

[@michealnagy5763]

@@baneverything5580 we are either in a glacial period of climate, or an inter glacial period. God help us if we go into a Glacial period again.

[@daisyy99]

My family moved from Iowa to CA, my husbands family moved from Texas to CA. Both families were in agriculture. We love where we are now, small-town life!

[@spadeznut8088]

I moved from Oahu, HI in 2005 to get married and support my hubby in his new job in D.C. After he finally retired in 2017 we came back home to Hawaii. The amount of erosion along all the coast lines was shocking. The folks who are trying to stay in their area in Miami need to accept that the water levels rising are absolutely going to continue and they need to make adjustments and relocate more inland. Here it's has only continued to eat the shore lines. Many beach front property owners have put their homes on the market. Much Aloha!

[@riogrande5761]

I moved to the DC area (northern Virginia) in 2009 and so far it seems like moderately safe area according to the climate change risk maps. Might be a good area to remain for the foreseeable future. Hawaii wasn't part of the PBS climate risk presentation. How is it there assuming you stay away from the cost. Cost of living is pretty high there isn't it? Northern Virginia cost of living is pretty high also, but I managed to get a home out west from DC for a decent price (fixer upper).

[@phylissgeorge1085]

I recently moved from Texas to Erie, PA. I had never considered moving up here but an opportunity presented itself and I moved. The Texas heat has become unbearable. The temps have been over 100 for several weeks and it is like living in an oven. I love the weather in Erie and the slower lifestyle and less traffic. I don't anticipate ever going back to Texas!

[@datboyrains5657]

true texas don’t notice the heat lol

[@NighDarke]

We're planning a move up north from Texas as well. Crazy heat, drought, and now with Texas relegating women to be nothing but brood mares... fuck this, time to leave.

[@whizbang7130]

@@datboyrains5657 not true. I have lived here all my life, and the heat is something you never adapt to.

[@datboyrains5657]

@@whizbang7130 then you weren’t a true texan.

[@datboyrains5657]

@@whizbang7130 it’s not a bad thing tho, maybe you aren’t meant to live in texas tho

[@joshuastarkloff9602]

As someone who's living in Florida which is the state that will be effected the most, by the oncoming climate apocalypse . I am dying to move out of here as soon as I can.

[@relicofgold]

Flori-DUH! is the worst place in the USA, far and away. Get out now!

[@gesenhausen2922]

affected

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

May I recommend North Korea? And bring a Bible. They love that.

[@geod1932]

I'm from Southern CA and moved to lower Michigan to take care of family. When I moved, I was excited just for this reason, climate changed seemed to be actually improving this area. With that said - it is freaking scary COLD in the winter and SWEATY parts of summer. As I write this I would be much more comfortable living in Southern CA year round than here, despite the crappy summer. Here, in the winter if I get lockout of my house, I could actual die. Point being, climate change is having an affect and it is happening faster each year. Just, please, don't move to Vermont (or Michigan etc) thinking it is all sunshine and rainbows there, it is more extreme weather than a SoCAl kid was prepared for. For me it is more dangerous to go outside here and requires more prep than it does in CA currently. Just saying.

[@richrogers2157]

Dude, I’m a rich,fat ,lazy man living up on palos verdes peninsula-we talked about leaving but decided to stay here and roast and die of thirst.

[@AstroBlack143]

Thanks for sharing! I’ve been considering this.

[@andrewbawden7477]

I’m in Barstow. The heat this summer was 4 months long, with 20% humidity and 110 temps in august. Misery, pure misery. I’m moving to seattle. I’ll deal with seasonal depression better than roasting alive.

[@AstroBlack143]

@@andrewbawden7477 😂

[@dayd7420]

you dodged a bullet leaving california.

[@DeKKH]

We are on the coast in Florida. I’m about to be over the hurricanes. We have been lucky and have not lost everything but I feel it’s only a matter of time. Moving is hugely costly and then where to go… This video was informative in making our decision where to go. Thank you!

[@thomasfroat4668]

I've been on the coast of Florida for a long time. 25 years now and the water level has actually dropped 3 cm. Hurricanes have shifted more so to the Gulf and seem to miss the Fernandina Jax Beach area. I think if you're in my area we're good for quite a long time. People In Miami and gulf side of Florida have much much more to worry about.

[@elainebraindrain3174]

I moved from San Diego California area to Tucson Arizona 3 years ago and was not aware of climate information. I have become disabled and have no way to move again realized I'm in a death trap. It's going to be 110 this weekend and I'm scared that Black outs are coming. Scared to death.🥵

[@karenl.1695]

Move North !

[@elainebraindrain3174]

@@karenl.1695 I wish I could move I have no money being disabled and on Social Security

[@andrewdelaney1772]

Left the southeast for many reasons, but the changing climate was one. I moved to the PNW and have since seen extreme heat waves, wildfires, and serious flooding. I don't think there is a haven, but I do love where I am and there currently is plenty of access to water.

[@MrNicoJac]

What area did you go to? As far as I know, all real estate in the pacific northwest is _insanely_ cost-prohibitive...

[@imbrudedsoul]

NE Ohio is pretty steady, no major weather systems, just cold snowy winters.

[@baneverything5580]

Fires set by BLM and antifa are NOT "wild." Water only goes so far without food. You can thank your hero Biden for the coming hunger and fuel crisis. Maybe you can eat some badgers up there? I`ll be growing vegetables 365 days a year here in the South, hunting, and catching fish.

[@kpokpojiji]

@@baneverything5580 Your comment about Biden is a bit ridiculous. Nice try though.

[@loreleimaid]

@@baneverything5580 The BLM in the case of fires is Bureau of Land Management, not Black Lives Matter. What a maroon.

[@CM-bj8hr]

I lived in Illinois most my life and my family swears the weather has always been this nice and I’m speechless because I remember being a kid with feet of snow and we haven’t really got that over the last few years

[@evergIow]

same snow isn’t as common nowadays their used to be multiple snowstorms when i was younger

[@domcizek]

YES, I MOVED OUT OF CHICHGO IN 79, 10 FEET OF SNOW, MOVED TO FLORIDA IN 80, NOW 100 DEGREES EVERY DAY FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER

[@danielhosking7257]

I also used to get sunburnt through my shirt swimming as a kid in Ontario Canada over march break. This year it snowed. It goes both ways. Thing is when they spray chemicals into the clouds to manipulate weather, its anyones guess. California sprays to induce more condensation to reduce drought. All of these things drastically effect the weather. The worlds wealthy who are profiting off of carbon taxes and alternative energy sources would have to believe you deive your car to work though. Every country in the world could go net 0% except for India and China, and it still wouldnt make a difference. Us "developed" countries that "try to keep our carbon emissions down" just buy everything from china and india so we pin the emissions on them. Its the biggest wealth transfer from the tax payers to the worlds elite in history and people are too stupid to see whats going on. Just a bunch of idiots who do whatever the government tells them to do because they think that they care. Couldnt be farther than the truth.

[@sierrasky2491]

I grew up in Illinois in the 60s during a mini ice age. When the snow was piled up to the street signs and you had to count houses to get home. This is a temporary warming Trend that will probably go back to the Ice Age again it's a very very tough place to live physically.

[@BEATDADDYMUSICIntl]

This was well done and informative. Would be great to get a 2023 updated version. My location/state is on the receiving end of perpetual inbound mass migration due to financial problems faced by those fleeing other states. The new arrivals, by the thousands, are the future of humanity on this planet. Meaning: Everyone will have to migrate constantly throughout their lifetime. When it's my turn, I pray my new neighbors are as welcoming as I have been to those crowding into my city.....😱

[@SunraeSkatimunggr]

The woman that owned the house I lived in for nine years in Eugene, Oregon recently sold it, citing moving herself (and her rental wealth of several houses) further north because we have been having such terrible wildfires here, so I had to move. I finally was accepted into public housing (further north in Salem) after going homeless for three months in transition, because so many people got burned out around the state from those wildfires.

[@baneverything5580]

Your heroes BLM and antifa set the fires. THEY WERE ARSON FIRES! There`s no way I would move north and restrict my growing season with Joe Biden causing a world wide food and energy crisis. Are you people suicidal or what?

[@jsmariani4180]

I summer in Corvallis, and it seems like the fires tend to be further to the East and South/North. We get smoke sometimes though.

[@SunraeSkatimunggr]

@@jsmariani4180 Last year there were two big fires that burned the entire town of Detroit Lake and almost all of Mill City outside of Salem and two more small towns up the highway from Eugene. Thousands were displaced, so I doubt you have been here the last couple of years.

[@montylc2001]

Those fires were not due to climate change. They were arson.

[@SunraeSkatimunggr]

@@montylc2001 True, a couple were set by arson, but the intensity and size of the fires are due to climate change. There have always been arson fires, but the destruction is due to climate change and stupid forestry practices.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

Climate change is just one of the reasons I moved north; I wanted to get out of a city that felt like it was getting hotter every year and had increasing drought conditions. I can handle colder temperatures just by bundling up, but there’s a limit on how many layers I can doff whet it gets too hot.

[@roberthicks1612]

You do realized that the difference in temperature from 300 years ago is only 1 degree? Humans can not detect that change, let alone in one life time. It felt hotter because you believed it was hotter.

[@jordancuplinger2671]

@@roberthicks1612 Humans can't detect that change but Robert Hicks remembers lookin at his old thermometer back in days before America. That's right scientists aren't sure about climate BUT OLDDDD ROBERT HICKS memebers, it wasn't so different back in the days before cities, 300 years ago when Robert Hicks was there. In fact, everyone, save your time, don't watch the video, just ask old Robert Hicks anything. Guy's got a brain as big and beautiful as my right nut

[@00crashtest]

@@roberthicks1612 Global warming isn't even across the Earth. The average surface air temperature rose 1.2°C so far, but it is including that above the ocean, where the high specific heat of water dramatically slows down the change in temperature. On land, it acrually rose about 2°C average already. And some places on land have already risen 7°C already, so it is definitely detectable.

[@roberthicks1612]

@@00crashtest According to the alarmist, the vast majority of the warming is occurring at the poles. The equator is barely changing. I would love to see you prove that some where near the equator rose 7°c when the average since the early 1600's was only 1.8. IF you are seeing a 7°c change in temperature in a city, its due to urban heating effect, not climate changes.

[@roberthicks1612]

@@jordancuplinger2671 "but Robert Hicks remembers lookin at his old thermometer" I do not have to remember what the temperature was, I only have to read what SCIENTIST say. You know, the people that actually keep records and stuff. Scientist compare proxies to proxies say that the temperature rose from the bottom of the little ice age in the mid 1600's to present by about 1.8°c. A quarter of a degree occurred in the mid to late 1600's.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

I live in Central Iowa. We're likely going to have a lot more droughts and floods and the town I live in is pretty well known for flooding, although the duplex we rent is pretty elevated - basically the rest of the town will flood before the waters get this high. But just because we aren't personally threatened by flood waters, that doesn't mean we wouldn't be majorly impacted by a major flood like we had back in 1993 (my family lived on the eastside of Des Moines at the time). When everyone around you, including important services like water, sewage, food distribution, etc is impacted by flooding, it also impacts you in pretty important ways. Although, we're more likely to move to be closer to my partner's family than because of Climate Change. And that would mean moving to either WI or MN (probably MN).

[@xavierclerc6401]

I recently moved out of California after experiencing 10 atmospheric rivers. I was during the storms pumping away from my house 10 gallons of water per minute for about 8hrs+ each storm. Luckily my home had very minor damage but that was enough for me.

[@illuminatiuser-Masoni]

See what three degrees on global warming looks like da What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit? da Replicates Human Vagda for Dofors | Now da Thisda România da Statele Unite ale Americii A da Story About What Would Happen If Earth Warmed By Just 2 Degrees? da Earth da Signs That a Woman Wants da Women's Psychology.da The most sensitive part of the vagina is not always the da usage da pula da !screener usage da Sealing a chastity belt da Neosteel da The da HAMAZING FACTS ABOUT WOMEN + BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY FEMININE 1 2024

[@Withekaye]

We've spent over two decades building a life in California...and are now in the process of planning our relocation to Western NY. The smoke every year has just gotten to be too much. Our wake up call was the day in 2020 when my daughter burst into our room in the early morning, sobbing and terrified because the sky was literally orange. That was it.

[@boojiemonster]

It took you 20 years to realize that? Um, ok.

[@brucefrykman8295]

Moving from California to New York is not going to solve your problem which is "intelligence change" These states are both suffering serious "intelligence disruption" to the point where they now experiencing "intelligence crisis" Too many acts of stupidity are occurring in them to ignore. Of course there are always the ignorance deniers we have to deal with.

[@charlie-obrien]

I moved back to Western New York last year after living in Northern Nevada for 4 years and each year the smoke from the fires was getting worse until in 2021 they had to evacuate South Lake Tahoe region. I still love the area and hope to return for long visits, but the consistency of clean air and reliable weather in the Great Lakes region is very desirable right now.

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

Girls cry when they break nails. Your wife cries when you don't let her eat KFC 8 meals a day. Your mom cries when you don't lick her toes. When will you learn this is all we programmed these golem to do?

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@ShawnJonesHellion California pine forests are designed to burn owing to warm moist winters followed by desert like summers often featuring hot dry Santa Ana winds. Left on their own, these forests succumb to lightning strike and burn gloriously wherever the winds take them until they run out of fuel, most often when encountering the bare borders of some previous fire doing likewise. Nature could give a hoot. Into this order steps man who stupidly builds communities in the midst of these volatile pine forests to begin a multi generational program of fire suppression as the fuel loads build. To add to the insanity, they string the whole affair up with high tension lines and transformers and wait for either a tree to fall over a high tension line or a transformer to explode under excessive load for a truly marvelous 4th of July fireworks display tossing their flaming bits far and wide. If that isn't enough they actually let these ignorant people have matches in these communities too. These grand conflagrations have nothing to do with "climate change" for the very logical reason that the climates of California have not changed at all over its entire recorded human history. Of course everything from vaginal warts to bunions are due to "climate change" these days owing to the -public- government education's mission of turning a once reasonable clever population into armies of brain dead zombies.

[@Sylvana620]

After a major flood event in Houston in 2015 (flooded apartment and car...lost almost everything), I moved to Austin. I lived in Houston over 30 years and finally had enough of the floods and hurricanes. I have recently decided to move further west to Colorado. Central Texas has had increasing drought. My small family (son, daughter-in-law and grandbabies) will share a house in Colorado. It may be colder in the winter, but with rising temps, I think this is the best choice.

[@feedermonkey7233]

Good luck

[@roberthicks1612]

Houston has ALWAYS had a flooding problem during hurricanes. The droughts we have been facing for the last century was a small amount compared to previous centuries.

[@oldnick4707]

@@roberthicks1612, Exactly true. It's laughable to see this silly sheep-like behavior, especially from people who'd consider themselves 'enlightened'. Lol! I'd try to warn this person above of the changing environment, (political), in Colorado, but of course she's most likely going to contribute to that detriment. Lmao!

[@monk975]

You know Colorado has terrible wildfires and drought right?

[@roberthicks1612]

@@monk975 Compared to the history of the area, no it does not have that bad of ones.

[@kevineholmes9572]

I left Arizona and moved to the East Coast due to wildfires. I was also watching my neighbors having to drill deeper wells each year and the winter snowpacks becoming less and less... much less than they ever were in my childhood. As Phoenix and the California desert cities continue to grow it's only adding more demand for water and the writing is on the wall.

[@everythingmatters6308]

Very smart move.

[@karenpawson-smith2975]

I live in Austin and have disautonomia and low blood pressure. I've fainted in hot tubs in the past but recently I have been passing out (unconscious- falling to the floor) from the heat. Temperatures here are getting ridiculous due to climate change. I don't go out of the house May- September due to the health risk. We are looking for a new place to live. The problem is that I also have a genetic joint disorder where I am in excruciating pain when the temperature and humidity CHANGE. Cold mountain areas and cities I love like NYC and DC are the worst for my joint pain. Mediteranean climates and coastal locations where temperatures are more moderate are best for my joints. But with the risk of hurricanes, floods, wildfires . . . its seems that any type of migration is hopeless.

[@Shonade_Malik]

That's not good at all. You really need to check those out.

[@autizgiz2756]

Our city in Australia, went from one of the sunniest to now the wetest, it's raining practically every day and moss growing on driveways and on sidewalks, it'a crazy. cyclones have gotten a lot closer too

[@omokaroojiire]

That's better than having bone dry no rain drought condition.

[@jodyhakala-ristow7014]

Dam 🦫 that’s extreme is a short time! Thanks for reporting that. Where exactly you speaking of AU?

[@fenrirgg]

Spit it, what city?

[@oldfogey4679]

Autiz ur climate sounds like western Oregon where rain is the only climate!

[@krisgold5641]

That is why we need to protect the earth. Let us plant more native trees to promote biodiversity and hopefully find way to totally transfer to use of natural and renewable energy from fossil fuel which contributed a lot of damage due to emission

[@lilbertsmom3561]

I was surprised to see Colorado as a place to go to avoid climate effects. With the kinds of wildfires we've been seeing over the last 15 years, and the likelihood of extreme drought and loss of water, I'm very curious why we were considered a haven.

[@lynnhettrick7588]

Same. I was a bit surprised too. I've been hearing from friends and family who live there who notice the air quality from the wildfires or notice less snow in the mountains.

[@dizzysinclaire6795]

If you look at the chart in the description, it's only certain parts of Colorado. In some parts the heat is gonna increase a fuck ton, in others it's the frequency of wildfires.

[@Bigglesworth78]

Also surprised to see that as well considering the wildfire factor. And hi from Arthur the grey cat !!

[@SuperSpidey313]

Yeah... I call BS

[@eh8888]

I agree. If you look up the Colorado River’s lowering levels and its potential impact to everything around it it doesn’t make it seem like the best location.

[@spacebar1008]

Protect public broadcasting man, it’s the best thing to happen to our modern info-sphere

[@austinhummell4118]

It’s fairly easy to be more precise about this. Michigan is, as most everyone here agrees, the safest state, but only one of the great lakes will be able to provide the air and water quality necessary to sustain safe living conditions as our climate buckles. The south shore of Lake Superior, where the summer temps average about 75 degrees, is your answer. The safest place to live in the United States will be Marquette Michigan.

[@mariehernandez5878]

I am from Michigan and have figured we are enjoying the most important resources. Being used to the temperature changes and knowing how to deal with them makes this area the wisest home choice I can think of.

[@homedoghappiness]

I wondered this exact question. Thank you for this video and all the research it entailed! Love the attitude the wonderful leaders of the Vermont county showed. If only more people are like them, the world would be a better and hospitable place.

[@catherinerosner970]

I have lived in 5 states. In 2020, I moved from Oklahoma to Washington State for various reasons. Weather was one of the top 3 reasons I was considering. I live about an hour from the Canadian border and on the west side of the Cascade Mountains. It is heaven!! The weather is mild, changes with seasons and absolutely beautiful. The humidity is very, very low because of the dew point and no it doesn't rain nearly as much as people think!!

[@wild-radio7373]

Shhhh! ;) ♡

[@elizabethkeith9569]

I have lived in South Florida all my life. It seems every year it is hotter and summers are year round. The humidity is awful, which you can't go out and do anything. We would love to move to Washington State.

[@tempieroberts4712]

I lived in Broken Arrow, Ok. AND I call my monster headaches from having barometer head. Now I'm in Western Oregon and haven't had a headache in 15 years. I've found my climate safe place. Yay!

[@jesusiskingofkings4650]

@@elizabethkeith9569 ... Humidity is a monster. I moved from Western US for a short time & had no idea that 95 degrees is near the same feel as 110 in the Western desert. Your clothes become soaking wet... Just miserable. Actually 110 in the West is much more comfortable. No severe life threatening weather either.

[@serge9923]

THANK YOU

[@poboymusic1958]

My cousin moved from CA to get away from the constant smoke from the wildfires, as he had to be med-evacced a number of times. He moved to Florida. Sort of trading one climate risk for another. He believes he will have to move again in 10-15 years as the storms and heat get worse. I’ve lived all over, including CA, Seattle and Nevada. Nevada got too hot for me so I moved back to my native Indianapolis a couple of years ago. I think it is fairly safe here from climate risk, though apparently not a climate haven as depicted in this video. Vermont seems nice. 😅

[@jemiller226]

My best friend moved from California to Pittsburgh and while none of the surface level reasons involve climate issues, she definitely recognizes that the Rust Belt is going to be more sustainable long term.

[@farcinue]

Living in Southern California, I think our biggest threat is drought and water supply. Where I live, i am not so worried about wildfires as much as the idea of 10,000,000 people without enough water. It’s going to become like Mad Max in Los Angeles.

[@RichardHarlos]

It's good that you're facing this prospect instead of doing like so many I've talked with. They nay-say the risk, which I believe is likely just an ego defense mechanism because the thought of being forced to relocate due to factors outside one's control can feel oppressive. And nobody likes to feel that way. But, however understandable such defense mechanisms may be, they don't actually help anyone -- including the person avoiding the uncomfortable truths available to them. Hopefully, in addition to facing these risks, you're planning *now* to do something *soon* because if you wait until everyone around you is on-board with the reality, you'll be caught in a mass exodus where real estate prices are falling precipitously, and availability elsewhere will already be more expensive than it is now. You've probably heard that old saying that _'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,'_ right? Well, in my view, the 'ounce of prevention' is a proactive relocation strategy that's implemented sooner rather than later. I wish you well as you ponder your choices and the timing in which to execute them.

[@Finians_Mancave]

As an ex-Californian, I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but you forgot about the other overdue natural disaster so feared they've already named it the "BIG ONE" (Earthquakes, if you didn't get it).

[@RichardHarlos]

@@Finians_Mancave In case the comment with the link gets deleted, here's the relevant bit: _"Most people in the United States know just one fault line by name: the San Andreas, which runs nearly the length of California and is perpetually rumored to be on the verge of unleashing 'the big one.' That rumor is misleading, no matter what the San Andreas ever does. Every fault line has an upper limit to its potency, determined by its length and width, and by how far it can slip. For the San Andreas, one of the most extensively studied and best understood fault lines in the world, that upper limit is roughly an 8.2-a powerful earthquake, but, because the Richter scale is logarithmic, only six per cent as strong as the 2011 event in Japan._ ... _"If only the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone gives way, the magnitude of the resulting quake will be somewhere between 8.0 and 8.6. That’s _*_the big one._*_ If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the _*_very big one."_*

[@Finians_Mancave]

@@RichardHarlos Okay, thanks for that info, but I'm not sure how the nomenclature matters a bit. An 8.6 quake will be pretty damned destructive, and if you manage to survive that, the aftermath - with the fighting for limited food and water - will be pretty awful and look like one of those dystopian movies. By all accounts this quake is PAST DUE, so I don' t see how you can just write that off as a non-threat.

[@RichardHarlos]

@@Finians_Mancave You sure have a knack for misunderstanding. I replied to Ferdinand with scientific fact. You came in as an ex-Californian to 'correct' me that there's already something called "the big one" in California. I shared with you a credible reference so you can update your knowledge to include what I referred to and now, here you are accusing me of _"writing that off as a non-threat."_ Please work on your reading comprehension and on your communication skills. Nowhere did I ever say, or even imply, that San Andreas is a non-threat. The article makes the point that the Cascadia Subduction potential makes San Andreas look relatively weak, but it also doesn't suggest that San Andreas is a _"non-threat"._ Are you just out to find someone to disagree with, or do you sincerely not understand all this?

[@AdADglgmutShevanel]

I've been living in California for the last 8 years, and I am moving with my wife and baby this fall back to Maine where I grew up. There are a lot of reasons I'm moving. Climate is one of the big reasons. It's too hot for us to enjoy ourselves outside. We want a house, but the risk of fire is alarming. The other reasons are: way too crowded (I live in Orange County), the median home price is $1 million and good luck saving for that being the breadwinner, and we'd like another season besides year long summer. Just waiting for the apartment lease to end! Luckily with remote work and being in the web development field, I'm able to work from anywhere.

[@larryc1616]

Good luck you'll miss sunny Cali ❤️. I moved from Maryland and went to Boston for grad school 🥶⛈️❄️

[@valdiskruze458]

Good choice, beautiful nature, good air, I have been cycling.

[@jimmerkerlin5005]

There are obviously MANY reasons to be leaving California. Good for you! Hope you and you family do well.

[@underthetornado]

I grew up in O.C. it's no fun there anymore. I moved to desert but I'm thinking of moving more up into mountains because it is too friggin windy and hot!!!! Good luck in Maine. Stay away from coast tho cuz oceans are rising.

[@theknow7557]

Water issues is why you really should be moving. It's running out and fast.

[@davidcobb464]

Lived in Vermont and loved it. Planning on moving back. Nice to see several of the counties I want to move to are in the top of the list.

[@JoeyVol]

I’m in North Carolina right now… but going outside for 4 months out of the year is literally unbearable. 88-92 degrees every day with 95+% humidity… every single day.

[@JoeyVol]

I’d take 105 degrees and 10% humidity over 90 and 95% humidity, ANY DAY!

[@victorquesada7530]

Thank you for that list. This concern is definitely part of why I moved where I did. As much as I love my hometown, and the ocean, I appreciate other parts of nature as well, and found a place that's safer for me and my family.

[@briangarrow448]

I spent years living on the Washington coast as a pump station repair mechanic and wastewater treatment plant professional. One of the last projects I worked on was installing tsunami warning sirens in my hometown. After decades of floods, mud and then tsunami concerns, I finally moved inland and upwards in elevation. I have watched asphalt streets undulating like waves on a pond, athletic field lights sway like a drunk frat boy at closing time and decided that I could handle a few more degrees of summer high temps. A good rule of thumb is the further away from the ocean you are, the colder it is in winter and the warmer it is in summer.

[@Trump_20-24_YEARS_in_PRISON]

Where are you located if you don't mind me asking.

[@RobertMJohnson]

good rule of thumb is the further away from the ocean you are, the colder it is in winter and the warmer it is in summer. you must have absolutely no idea what weather like on the east coast of canada and the US in Summer

[@user-fx4qz8pt3w]

@@RobertMJohnson Brian is correct. Being near the ocean tempers the climate because ocean temperatures effect rhe coastal land. Marine climate vs continental climate.

[@RobertMJohnson]

@@user-fx4qz8pt3w go to Washington, DC and New York City on a hot day in August. you'll find your statement doesn't comport.

[@oliviachipperfield6029]

Yes, and so dry and hot summers, like where I am in the southern interior of British Columbia. Summers are increasingly hotter (more wildfires!), and winter is less brutally cold.

[@afairshare]

We Michiganders are preparing for "climate refugees" to this area. In the short decade I've lived here our winners have drastically changed. I've been involved in several environmental sustainability projects and local intiatives and events attended the economic summit as a student representative. The number one focus was future influx of people moving here due to the prime location amid climate change.

[@Macrochenia]

My dad: climate change is perfectly natural and we therefore don't need to do anything about it. Also my dad: we have a lot more droughts and wildfires than when I was your age. It's getting to be a real problem.

[@mickymort4534]

When we were young, we had 3 channels on the tv and no internet. Thus, not as much fake news.

[@timberwolf0122]

@@mickymort4534 Like climate denialism

[@joesucks2023]

@@timberwolf0122 Thank God the climate changed during the Ice age !

[@timberwolf0122]

@@joesucks2023 you are not wrong. The earths climate has always changed, so the fact it is changing is not the problem. The problem is the rate at which it is changing, we have achieved in a century what should take millennia to happen

[@mickymort4534]

@@timberwolf0122 Tell me ole wise one, what is a woman? And while you're spreading wisdom, tell me why oblahblahblah bought an oceanfront mansion if climate change is so sped up?

[@gayleseely2675]

I think you might need to add the impact of drought into your next estimations. Scientists posit that there is desertification occurring in the southwest - so places that have been depending on Colorado river water (among other rivers) are going to have to come up with alternatives. Huge dams also provide electricity. It would be harder to live in Arizona with little or no air conditioning and water rationing. This also effects California, Nevada, Utah, and other states. Once desertification has taken hold, wild fires will subside - deserts don't burn.

[@oliviachipperfield6029]

Great points!

[@brucefrykman8295]

With the weather you can predict anything and it will eventually come true. How about 100 degree temperatures in Alaska - oh shit that already happened - 1915 (inside the arctic circle)

[@willjapheth23789]

@@brucefrykman8295 outliers are fun to talk about, but the people who study climate are looking at averages. As the average weather shifts so will our biomes. Some shifts will be quite costly, but we have time to move. And hopefully the plants can move quick enough, they tend to be slow.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@willjapheth23789 *RE "outliers are fun to talk about, but the people who study climate are looking at averages."* "Studying" things does not mean you know anything about the things you are studying. During the Roman Empire, haruspices "studied" chicken entrails to determine future events. We may laugh about it now, but at the time haruspices were considered experts in determining the future. All they had to do was to convince the gullible majority that they knew what they were doing. "Studying" is only an activity, it'snot an accomplishment. I tutor physics as a volunteer and I can assure you that I had some truly hopeless cases who "studied" the subject endlessly, they just couldn't solve any problems without help. They should not have been taking the physics. There are many such useful courses they could have been "studying" instead that they could have actually mastered (welding, home ecc. history, health etc) Possibly the greatest man of science who ever lived, Sir Isaac Newton, "studied' alchemy for most of his adulthood. He accomplished nothing by this "studying" Climatology as a science is not unlike alchemy. In the past climatology was considered a clerical job of collecting statistical weather data for agricultural or insurance purposes primarily. This is not science. Science must "predict" outcomes and no "climate science" has ever proven this can be done. Climate has no averages, in order to have an average you need some numbers. If you have numbers then you must have a metric. Climate has no metric since it's a non-scientific term for the prevailing "weather" condition occurring in a general area of a general period of time. Weather is also not a scientific term, it's also a general term for an unspecified collection of atmospheric conditions occurring at a particular time and place. (dew point, pressure, wind velocity and direction, precipitation levels, growing degree days, etc. to name but a few.) Further, the Earth has no collective weather and therefore can have no collective climate. It has untold millions of climates. You cannot add this stuff up and divide and come up with a metric by which you can measure "global climate change" The term "climate change" as it is used today by the politicians, the press, and those in the education industry seeking grants of public money use this term to confuse the scientifically illiterate and the incurably gullible. Always follow the money for any new fear useless people are supposed to cure for us. It's quite easy to cure a disease that your client doesn't have. In the case of climate change" you consume trillions slopping at the public trough and then declared the non existent disease (climate change) "cured" (See, "Ozone Hole," "Silent Spring," & "Acid Rain" for similar scams)

[@willjapheth23789]

@@brucefrykman8295 I see you seem to be rather stuck in a pit of smart ass skepticism. Prophecy using palms or stars or anything like that is not the scientific method so that comparison can be thrown out right away. Newton has some strange supernatural views, that does not mean scientists are injecting similar bais into climate science. Climate science is very empirical, as most science regarding heat transfer is empirical. They look at the solar input and the how the atmosphere holds heat. We know carbon gas and water make the atmosphere opaque to thermal radiation emitted by the earth and thus reduces the radiation the earth returns to space, so the earth increases in average heat until input and output are back at equilibrium. Not sure how you can believe climate can't change on a global level unless you are completely ignorant of the ice age. The earth will still be full of biomes whether hotter or colder, but biomes will shift in position and size. If the shift happens quick enough, it will put alot of pressure on the environment and our society to adjust. It will be costly to any species that can't afford to move, or lives in a small biome, as well as humans. We'll survive of course, but we can work to reduce future suffering.

[@debbybrady1246]

I live on the Texas Gulf coast, south of Houston, and 1 mile from the Gulf. We have been through two hurricanes but were not damaged. We would move north if a hurricane hit us directly. But at our advanced age it would be very difficult and maybe cost prohibitive. Yes, we think about it.

[@princesspearlthumb]

My family left the west coast and moved to the Midwest for many reasons. Wild fires/smoke/ash and earthquakes were all on the list.

[@mikealexander1935]

I live in Michigan which I believe to be one of the best locations. We have the Great Lakes, which means a significant reserve of water, are far from the coasts and out of earthquake territory.

[@VanillaMacaron551]

You also grow good cherries there. This is an important factor in choosing where to live, I feel. 🍒🤣 NZ South Island also grows fantastic cherries.

[@RobertMJohnson]

you'll find before you die that living in michigan isn't going to matter one bit b/c this entire story is one big pathetic myth

[@jimcurtis569]

Shhh....

[@LadySayeh]

Hi neighbor

[@0.-.0]

@@RobertMJohnson why are you even hear if you're only interested in the delusions that come from your own mouth

[@yay-cat]

I’m not sure if it was “not just bikes” or “climate town” or “oh the urbanity” but there are a few pro bicycling channels. So apparently older cities that were designed pre-car are amazing to live in and the walk ability factor and higher urban density has really good local economy benefits etc etc. But it’s much easier to retrofit a city that is already dense with better public transport etc whereas younger more sprawling cities are too spread out to make cycling feasible or trains and extensive bus routes financially viable. So the video I watched was saying that the old cities in the rust belt up north are actually the best because you could easily modernise them so that urban people don’t actually need cars. Like if you didn’t have to drive and pay for a car & insurance & fuel (and rent a parking spot) because you can easily walk/bike/train to work and shops; maybe rent a car twice a year or catch an uber or delivery service if there’s something unwieldy to transport - well many people would prefer that. Also there are still climate issues with electric cars like rare mineral mining and where your electricity comes from so not needing a car is probably the best way to reduce your own footprint. It’s just a nice coincidence that the cities most able to accommodate this kind of Dutch / Finnish lifeline are also likely to be less affected by climate change. Also people migrating back north might be ok with downsizing into a denser, more energy efficient, housing environment. these arguments for urban density, fewer cars, and more cycle paths / walkability are backed up by a book/channel called strong towns where they realised that tax revenue from downtown subsidises the suburbs and that highway maintenance is not economically feasible. Old neighborhoods where people can walk do very well economically

[@scottdorsey8220]

What about the affects of solar flares and the reduction of the earth's ozone layer on global warming. Humans like to think they can fix everything, but the Sun is the likely exception.

[@greenmachine5600]

That's a really good point.

[@TamasinShaw]

Really interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[@recyclespinning9839]

Really good point about the older cities being able to convert to transit and walking . Suburbia on the other hand are basically subdivisions that need cars. I don't think humans will make a conscious decision to stop polluting. Some major environmental disaster or crash must happen first to get them to act differently. It's like we've been brainwashed about cars and material goods.

[@definitelynotacrab7651]

Glad to see another fan of those channels

[@michaelraymond7604]

I love these videos u make because it's real and u learn something and it's helpful thank u for making these videos I live in Duluth where the weather changes everyday

[@goldieARZ]

I left NYC in 81 after going thru the worst winter the city had seen in a century. I still have family in NYC so I have watched the increased frequency of "storm of the century" benchmarks that NY and the Eastern seaboard have endured over the past 2 decades. We have lived just outside San Francisco for 20+ years and in summer we typically get a lot of fog and cooler temperatures than sunnier Bay Area locations. And we've checked w/ our neighbors who've lived here longer than us...and they concur. Yeah, It's getting warmer.

[@brianmclaughlin4419]

Except when it's Colder.🥶 Selective Memory is the real Fog.

[@ParArdua]

In my country in the southern hemisphere, temperate zones have become sub-tropical, sub-tropical have become tropical, and tropical has become equatorial. It is a bit of a nightmare. The ability to migrate is down to one's resources and how well one can work at a distance. This was an excellent article, thank you.

[@rumfordc]

you have some mild nightmares

[@dougkelley2781]

I am old enough to likely not need to flee due to climate change in my lifetime (unless the Greenland or Antarctic ice collapses), but am not sanguine about this at all. My old home on a cove of a tidal estuary in New England is perched 50’ above current high water mark, and I’ve seen that mark rise and the steep shore undercut by the tides. The course of the seasons have changed and not only storms and severe weather events are stronger. The wind roars through now. Roars. Trees fall that stood for decades or centuries. Plants that used to thrive struggle and die. I am the last of my family in this place we came nearly four centuries ago, and I’d like to think we have been good stewards of it. Overall though, we have not been good stewards of the earth. I fear for what those who come after face, and what we pass them as an inheritance.

[@recyclespinning9839]

Unfortunately, being a good steward today is next to impossible. We all need to stop polluting, first step is stop driving cars . Good luck with that one...

[@kirstinstrand6292]

Sources I trust imply 2040+ will likely be severe. I'll be quite old. Thanks for the share 400 years, wow. Take care!

[@allenheart582]

You have undoubtedly been a good steward of the land. The storms are not caused by your lack of stewardship, but by a 12,000-year catastrophe that the Earth has withstood many times-12,000, 24,000 years ago. 36,000 years ago, 48,000, 60,000, 72,000, 94,000, and 108,000 years ago--the layers of rocks, the geology has recorded at least these. It's another cycle like day and night, seasons, rinse and repeat...Humans, except the Neanderthals, have survived all this cataclysm, starting civilizations almost from scratch. More info in my 2nd book to be published in September--Quantum Dreaming-The Train Is on the Tracks based on the further research I did because of what I learned in my 1st book, Dancing a Quantum Dream.

[@thetechnicanwithaheart1682]

All the carbon dioxide that was released from your tailpipe, from the ships that you've traveled on, from the jet aircraft and from all the materials that you picked up from the grocery store or from the hardware store all emitted CO2 into the atmosphere. Your legacy is CO2 like the Legacy CO2 of billions of humans will stay in the atmosphere for up to 100 years. Carbon dioxide regulates the temperature of the planet. If CO2 did not exist planet Earth would be a complete and Dead Planet full of ice. It would be snowball Earth. CO2 is necessary to trap some of the heat in the atmosphere to make earth habitable. 185 parts per million CO2 is what caused the last ice age 16,900 years ago. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution man has been burning coal in natural gas and that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. CO2 started going up in the late 1800s and into early 1900s and it has continued with the global increase of population. The maximum level Earth can be considered safe is 350 parts per million. That. In Earth's history occurred in 1990. It's been increasing ever since that point at a rate of 2.5 parts per million per year. Presently CO2 levels are now 420 parts per million per year. Global deforestation has been rampant. Normally a healthy Forest will absorb 1/3 of all carbon dioxide on planet Earth. Unfortunately the global Forest has been decimated and only half of the Boreal and tropical forests are left on Earth. Agriculture normally replaces it in agriculture can only absorb 150th of the carbon dioxide of Earth. Scientists are saying that Earth is entering a sixth math Extinction. There are two mass extinctions underway. One is from overheating of Earth and the second is through biodiversity loss. Let me ask you something in the 1950s or the 1960s or the 1970s or 1980s every time you went on a long drive did you notice a big change in the amount of bug splatter on your windshield? What about the 1990s or 2000s as a getting less and less overtime? That's most likely insect mass extinction and it's severely occurring in the Southwest United States where it's losing its water.

[@allenheart582]

@@thetechnicanwithaheart1682 Earth is barely coming out of an ice age and yet the sun is about to micronova, sending Earth into another ice age. The Earth magnetosphere has been weakening, but we didn't discover that until very recently. Our shield has been getting weaker, so that the Magnetic Poles are moving rapidly to their previous locations they left 12,000-years ago. It's a sun cycle we haven't experienced in recent times, but the experience of our past civilizations have only been able to warn us by the only means they knew, but we have dismissed them as fanciful stories, myths. They developed Mathematics, geometry, science, but we question their intellectual capacity as though they are somehow superior to them, our genetic past. They were survivors of a catastrophe we will be experiencing as well. But they knew how to hunt and gather their own food, without a shopping cart or a complex technological society to support them. How well will you manage when you are on your own after the micronova burns and crushes your home, neighborhood, your place of work and leaves you to invent your world all over again. When the sun changes from a merry yellow most of the day to a blazing white, you have no idea what happened. You dismiss or don't even notice the first sign after the Carrington Event of 1859. Google it while you still can! I barely mentioned it in "Quantum Knowing: A Train Is on the Tracks" to be published in September. There was too much other information I needed to make available to help an unaware species get ready for a potential extinction event that is already upon us. My compass is already off by almost 15 degrees of true north after I set the official declination for my area. Another sign is the effect a weakened magnetosphere has on mental and psychological stability.

[@summersday1254]

This claims Lamoille county in Vermont is "the safest place" in the US. ?? 7/9/23 headlines: "Lamoille County braces for severe flooding." "Crews prepare for catastrophic flooding. Many Central Vermont communities are isolated as severe flooding made for dangerous conditions on the roads. Within many of them, people are trapped in their homes calling for help." Flooding was not one of the six factors considered in the model discussed in the video. ?! I guess the bottom line is that none of us are safe. Our hearts go out to you, safest county in the US. It hurts more when you thought you were safe.

[@JonathanRootD]

Yeah this video aged like milk. Vermont is not safe from climate change!

[@sagasandstars]

We are in Minnesota and we live in a large city we love. As we have aged we have found our tolerance for warmer weather is not as great. So we bought land along the north shore and we plan to move in the next 2 years into a tiny home. Also setting up a greenhouse and another tiny home for our family, who we anticipate will visit.

[@jc7376]

I moved away from the Sierra Foothills in California because of wildfires and heatwaves more than half the year. I got evacuated 3 times in one year. Fire came very close. We moved to Humboldt County to a community near Eureka CA high above where sea level will ever reach at 400FT. Fresh moist ocean air without smoke is nice. Temperatures are always 50F-75F. I think people are a bit too quick to dismiss the coast. Because the coast of California is mostly elevated land and will not be severely impacted the way the East Coast will be. It works. Housing is in relatively short supply here though, but I hear that is improving.

[@WeatheringHeights1]

You will likely see at some point wildfires affect even the now moist cool redwood country as conditions get hotter and dry out, but this may be down the roads in a couple-few decades.

[@kenycharles8600]

Housing will get worse because people brag about how good things are in their neighborhood. Then everyone shows up from all the slums all over planet to your neighborhood. Nice and generous of you to advertise how grand your place is. Expect several bus loads of immigrants shortly.

[@jc7376]

@@kenycharles8600 K...

[@melissahood2960]

Until the tsunami comes

[@jc7376]

@@melissahood2960 Only if you are in the low lands 30ft or less. I'm at 400ft.

[@marygraves6509]

I don't understand why none of the counties that surround the Great Lakes are not highlighted. I live in NE Ohio. No fear of rising waters. Fresh water. Land to grow. Summers usually don't go above 90 degrees and winters are getting warmer.

[@zeemc2751]

Mary, I think base on the decades they choose (2040-2060) I think Ohio will end up with much milder winters, the south will be very hot. Many flocking to the southern states, will migrate back North to cooler, milder weather.

[@Aztec339]

People will eventually have to come back here just cuz of water.

[@judischarns4509]

My husband and I moved from southern Oregon back to Boone, NC due to climate issues. I feel we are in the best place climate wise.

[@nerowolfe5175]

I'm in Mount Airy, down at the eastern bottom of the Blue Ridge escarpment. Boone is one of the places I'm keeping an eye on for future reference. But I am also holding an option for clambering higher in the Blue Ridge/Appalachians if need be.

[@judischarns4509]

@@nerowolfe5175 Boone is expensive. But further north in Virginia real estate is cheaper. The spine of the Appalachians is the place to be. But don’t tell anyone or it’ll get crowded.

[@iguanaamphibioustruck7352]

we are on the Oregon Coast at 250 feet elevation on a South facing hillside. We had 11 inches of snow, a record, this winter. So much depends on your age and your life style. I just bought three cords of rounds that I will split (my exercise) for next winter. We have a heat pump but like a wood fire to counter the moist marine air in the evenings. I think our weather is changing and that we may get more snow next year and the following. One thing is sure, there are no guarantees on weather and you had better be prepared, both mentally and physically, for anything. I encourage younger people to look for opportunities in the smaller towns. There are good jobs and a need for better education. You don't skyrocket in your chosen job but, patience is a virtue and will bring a quality of life. Iguana

[@gregcooks9]

I just moved back home to Maine where I was born and raised after living away for almost 20 years in Colorado and North Carolina where I experienced wildfires floods hurricanes and all kinds of crazy stuff. I never really thought of myself as a climate migrant but I am happy to be home.

[@CAMacKenzie]

I was born in Los Angeles in 1950, and I've lived in the San Fernando Valley (northern L.A.) since 1953. I've seen local temperatures rise, though part of that is due to local effect of increasing pavement--roads and parking lots. When I was a kid, most of the Valley was farmland, orchards, and horse ranches. Today there's hardly any land not covered with houses, apartments, commercial buildings, and especially pavement. I'm looking north, not so much for global climate change, as for local weather change and crowding. And, of course, drought, which IS from global climate change.

[@RobertMJohnson]

drought is from global climate change? so what caused California to be a desert before man? NOT global climate change?

[@CAMacKenzie]

@@RobertMJohnson The drought affecting Los Angeles is not primarily local. Most of our water comes, and has long come, from upstate, primarily eastern Sierra Nevada. Drought in Northern CA affects L.A. heavily. Although L.A. doesn't receive significant water from the Colorado Riveror the Feather River Project, other Southern and Central CA areas do, and that affects us as well, as water is fungible.

[@RobertMJohnson]

@@CAMacKenzie 1. you've told me NOTHING i don't know. 2. the west was a fucking desert before any humans showed up. HAVE YOU ASKED YOURSELF WHY THAT IS? 2nd question: have you asked yourself why the climate should provide the 75,000,000 or so people in the Western US more water? because you FEEL like it should? what level would be ok with you? and why do you think what you think is somehow "right" ?

[@sm3675]

Yes!! In Houston a lot of money is spend on infrastructure to ensure that there won't be extreme flooding. There's too much concrete!! No where for the water to go...

[@gypsylove4291]

Check out Ben Davidson on his channel suspicious Observers channel

[@IronskullGM]

As a person who lives in the Mountains of Western Maine, I'm kind of looking forward to owning tropical beach front property.

[@grandcatsmama3421]

We were in Baton Rouge when Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast, we were much better off than many who had to move to BR from New Orleans. One of the ways we were affected was that our electric bill went up from $60 to $160 the next month, because the people in NO were unable to pay their bill's. Many had moved to Houston or other cities and never returned. That's on my credit record, I pay for it still. We also took with us the cold temperatures, we had 25° at night the first winter we were there. We found an apartment through a group that helped people find apartments.

[@MrShaclakclak]

I moved from South Florida to Upstate NY (usually its the other way around) Florida has changed a lot since what it used to be. People are always so surprised by my decision to. "Why would you move from there?" (Upstate is gorgeous btw) honest answer is I see a more stable future.

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Smart move ❤️

[@oneirishpoet]

Florida is the worst place to live, not only because of climate change but because they are ruled by despicable hateful right wing bigots and racists. However it won't matter much in about 10-15 years, once the Arctic and Antarctic ice is gone humans will be extinct shortly after...and living in Vermont (or anywhere else) will not save !

[@oneirishpoet]

BTW if anyone in the US thinks that they will be safe from climate change they have no idea what they are in for. When we begin to experience ecological and economic collapse in a few short years, all of these right-wing gun nuts will lose their tiny little minds when they realize they've been lied to for years by their fascist corporate whore Republicunts. I guarantee you they will start acting even more like the domestic terrorists they've become under Trump and these bastards are armed to the teeth. My wife and I just bought a small house in the mountains of Costa Rica and will watch the "American carnage" from afar

[@drstone1167]

🆘 (CNN) April 2, 2022 In Antarctica the last six months were the coldest on record. "For the polar darkness period, from April through September, the average temperature was -60.9 degrees Celsius (-77.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a record for those months," the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said. The last six months is also the darkest period at the South Pole, which is where the name polar darkness (also called polar night)comes from. Here, the sun sets for the last time around the spring equinox, and does not rise again until near the autumn equinox six months later. For the entire Antarctic continent, the winter of 2021 was the second-coldest on record, with the "temperature for June, July, and August 3.4 degrees Celsius (6.1 degrees Fahrenheit) lower than the 1981 to 2010 average at -62.9 degrees Celsius (-81.2 degrees Fahrenheit)," according to a new report from the NSIDC. So much for liberal democrats like Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, AOC all preaching the Global warning nonsense and we all need to buy $50,000 dollar electric cars and install over priced solar on our homes.

[@danf-gg4lk]

30° and snowing. Global warming is really bad.🤣🤣🤣

[@AnnaMorris411]

I’ve visited most of our 50 states but have always called Michigan home! What the study did not mention was the availability of drinking water, renewable energy, and violent crime! Here in Michigan you don’t see a rise in violent crime like many other places, , we’re expanding our wind energy project and since the Flint water crisis, we’ve taken water quality very seriously! We haven’t experienced catastrophic flooding, forest fires, drought, dangerous tornadoes, nor are we affected by hurricanes and earthquakes! While snowstorms that impact the entire region are decreasing, lake-effect snowfall is increasing around Lakes Superior and Michigan, most likely due to warming of Lake Michigan. But the rest of the state has less snowfall and milder temperatures. We are loosing our beaches along Lake Michigan as the water is rising and waves have increased considerably. But people are not as enamored with lake front property as they once were. I used to think about retirement in the south where it wasn’t so cold and winters are shorter. But there’s no need to move as our climate is more agreeable now than ever before! The only concern I do have for the future generations in Michigan, is the protection of our natural resources and the quality the food we eat. But now that’s way off topic!

[@joycelevy3628]

What about all the side effects of the fracking?

[@caribrown8554]

So cold 8 months out of the year... I was done after 3 years

[@robertelliott3881]

@@caribrown8554 8 months out of the year? Did you live in the upper peninsula? Even then, 8 months is quite a stretch unless you consider anything non-tropical to be cold. In southeast Michigan, I'd agree that 4 months/year (Dec-March) are pretty cold. That said, it's been what I consider to be too cold to go outside about 7 total days in the 6 years I've lived here. It definitely takes some time to get the right winter gear (i.e. down coat, insulated boots). It's important to remember that just because it's cold outside doesn't mean you have to be cold yourself. I lived in the southwestern US most of my life, and I can honestly say that extreme heat kept me indoors more than cold weather does.

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

Yes, Detroit is so safe!!! LOL.

[@michaelgrabianowski6567]

Greetings from the mountains of the Oregon coast. We have no threat of climate change at the moment. I have yet to use my air conditioner and there is plenty of water. The temperature has not risen above 75 degrees in years. Good luck to all of you.

[@illuminatiuser-Masoni]

See what three degrees on global warming looks like da What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit? da Replicates Human Vagda for Dofors | Now da Thisda România da Statele Unite ale Americii A da Story About What Would Happen If Earth Warmed By Just 2 Degrees? da Earth da Signs That a Woman Wants da Women's Psychology.da The most sensitive part of the vagina is not always the da usage da pula da !screener usage da Sealing a chastity belt da Neosteel da The da HAMAZING FACTS ABOUT WOMEN + BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY FEMININE 1 2024

[@TiaGLDN]

Loving this series ❤

[@illuminatiuser-Masoni]

See what three degrees on global warming looks like da What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit? da Replicates Human Vagda for Dofors | Now da Thisda România da Statele Unite ale Americii A da Story About What Would Happen If Earth Warmed By Just 2 Degrees? da Earth da Signs That a Woman Wants da Women's Psychology.da The most sensitive part of the vagina is not always the da usage da pula da !screener usage da Sealing a chastity belt da Neosteel da The da HAMAZING FACTS ABOUT WOMEN + BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY FEMININE 1 2024

[@foovay]

I moved from the Midwest to the Southwest twenty years ago to get away from the tornados. I'm glad I did, since my former home has now added earthquakes due to fracking on top of tornados. So I've already moved my life to find weather more suited to how I want to live. I felt like the Southwest was perfect for me as I actually prefer to be considerably warmer, on average than 50-60 degrees! I'm sorry, thats COLD as far as I'm concerned. However, the places I've lived and live now are clearly heating up, burning up, and drying up. I find myself seriously wondering if they will still be livable in twenty years. I've read the tornado alley is moving east... nah, nothing could get me to move back to the Midwest. But I may have to go a bit further north. Sadly, what I've seen of how our U.S. society has reacted to the pandemic, with violence, selfishness and cruelty, I don't expect that we will see a better reaction to climate migrants. The lovely speech about us all working together made me laugh. I'm 62 and I've heard that speech before, during Vietnam, during 9-11, and it never happens. The rich get richer, and the poor, well, we'll probably die fighting each other for the last scrap the 1% knocked off the table.

[@bl1429]

The lovely speech about us all working together only applies to the common man, NOT THE WEALTHY......COMPANIES INCLUDES....

[@ConfoundedVarmit]

Hard truth, but its even harder to imagine us finding solutions. Scary reality out on the horizon…

[@janetduncan87]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJevmXxshtlgm80

[@thetechnicanwithaheart1682]

Fracking does not create earthquakes tectonic stress caused by magma dragging on the underside of the lithosphere causes earthquakes. The stress was always there it just needed a lubricant to cause the plates to slip

[@coconut6839]

@@thetechnicanwithaheart1682 So by your comment the fracking is the lubricant to cause plates to slip which causes the earthquakes therefore contradicting yourself because fracking now causes earthquakes lol

[@NickFrom1228]

Gotta love the ocean level affect maps. They imply by color and intent that these are the areas that will be covered with water. The problem is, for WA state they colored a huge part that is all mountains. I presume they just took the outline of counties and colored them if any part of that county was affected which given WA long slim counties that have a small part by the ocean and a majority of the county at much higher elevations, it ends up being quite misleading. The maps have the entire olympic mountain range underwater, which if that happened would be about 8000 ft meaning most of the US would be under water.

[@redwhiteblue9866]

Thought same. I'm on the edge of the implication in N. central Fla at 140 feet above sea level. If rising tides become an issue for me.....

[@desertdweller4316]

Maybe it's the same map artists who make all the inconsistent maps of the "earth from space" 😂

[@rollingthunder4599]

Global warming, it's all fake.

[@BentReality.369]

It's after the great earthquake obviously. Because the people that made this video know everything. This video is just more guessing then facts.

[@sweatt4237]

Maybe its because the entire thing is complete bullshit?

[@lesliesmith7312]

Would say michigan is the best state from a climate perspective. The Great Lakes shift the weather a lot, and having so much fresh water nearby makes it pretty good

[@kathleentuggle]

The only time my husband and I moved because of weather was after Hurricane Katrina. We moved to northern Ohio and I still am here.

[@HarlequinDrFaustus]

I currently live in Seattle, have for over 20 years now, which is much longer than intended. Part of that was researching where to move next, more than a decade ago, and seeing how the weather here in the PNW was much better than most of the rest of the country, which was having fires, floods, etc.

[@Beryllahawk]

Two of the best friends I've ever had, fled to Colorado from Mississippi after Katrina. Seeing that map of the Gulf Coast - watching the town where I went to high school basically slide underwater - that hit me pretty hard. Knowing it'll happen in my lifetime is scary. But my family is among those who probably won't flee, because we won't have the option. We're simply not wealthy enough to relocate, on any time scale. Most of my relatives live either in the same area, or farther south; and the ones that aren't in this state are very far away - in western Texas and Arizona. Not tenable options even IF they had the room to take us in, which they don't. With my husband on dialysis, and disability, we MIGHT be able to get some kind of help sooner...but not unless and until a disaster has already struck. It's just how the system treats the underprivileged, and the reasons for that are complicated, as is any possible solution to it. So mostly we just try to keep prepared, try to keep exploring options and updating information as we go, and hold out hope that we can survive what's coming.

[@pbsterra]

Thanks for sharing that. Equity in extreme weather preparedness and adaptation is something we need to address as a society. We dive a bit deeper into it in our next episode about sea level rise and climate gentrification. I hope you'll stick around for it.

[@alexanderpowell1528]

@@pbsterra Katrina had nothing to do with man made climate change.

[@RobertMJohnson]

@@pbsterra what are you going to do? put the billions of people on earth in the same place?

[@brucefrykman8295]

*RE: "Two of the best friends I've ever had, fled to Colorado from Mississippi after Katrina."* I'm truly sorry that you cannot flee the cause of your misery, think of what those Ukrainians are going through! However, hurricanes are a constant feature of the Atlantic, Gulf, and the Caribbean. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 was the worst natural disaster to ever hit the USA. The oil companies did not cause this. Katrina wasn't even an also-ran as far as hurricane strength and intensity goes. It was, however, a man-made disaster: it was caused by 1) The Army Corps of Engineers, 2) Local inept and corrupt politicians and 3) The corrupt and cowardly police they hired. Oil companies and coal miners had nothing whatsoever to do with it. In fact, they all helped mitigate the disaster.

[@warrenpierce5542]

Instead of being in fear, be informed. PBS Is ran by the government that if it was really concerned about climate disaster could have done something forty-five years ago. Research the independent scientists who no longer believe the doomsday scenarios. None of the super rich are moving away from the coasts. Maybe they know something you don't.

[@elidabyard6100]

Both Ashville NC and Knoxville TN are listed as Havens. Are there maps available showing exact areas or elevations that are most likely to avoid the most disaster concerns? I'm sure the area extends outward from the cities to some degree but would vary with the topography. Appreciate any assistance available! THANKS

[@ilasegal5480]

I live in Colorado and we get lots of people moving here from the west coast with all the fires, the migration has already started.

[@sashamoore9691]

Colorado gets hot as Texas during the summer and yall have a shxtload of wild fires. Y’all not special 😂 Colorado was unbearable last I lived there. Wont ever be back

[@kellbing]

I love your educational programming. I know I'm in the minority with this, but some of the background music makes it difficult for me to concentrate on the content. This is especially true with anything that contains a clicking/ticking or snapping noise. Just something to keep in mind regarding your neurodivergent viewers.

[@pbsterra]

Thanks for the love AND the feedback. It's always a struggle with music but we hear you and we'll take it into account in the future.

[@Uluwehi_Knecht]

I seek out older documentaries from the 70s and 80s before the US and UK started using such emotionally manipulative soundtracks. It feels dishonest and overcompensatory: if the documentary content is presented well enough it shouldn't require a blunt force.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@Uluwehi_Knecht I love astronomy, but the bombastic music of the BBC series of series (yes, there are multiple series on the different aspects of astronomy) with Brian Cox is a real turn-off for me.

[@chayarakofsky5206]

agreed

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

@@pbsterra, release a Patreon version with no audio background. It's a win-win for both parties.

[@henry2641]

First I certainly like the idea of this video, where to live as the climate changes has been on my mind for quite awhile. I had hoped there would be more than one location identified as relatively safe. And I would have hoped that you asked those scientists for insight into what questions a person (family) should consider so as to make a decision prior to a traumatic experience like surviving a flood, fire or earthquake for example. thanx for the work!

[@illuminatiuser-Masoni]

See what three degrees on global warming looks like da What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit? da Replicates Human Vagda for Dofors | Now da Thisda România da Statele Unite ale Americii A da Story About What Would Happen If Earth Warmed By Just 2 Degrees? da Earth da Signs That a Woman Wants da Women's Psychology.da The most sensitive part of the vagina is not always the da usage da pula da !screener usage da Sealing a chastity belt da Neosteel da The da HAMAZING FACTS ABOUT WOMEN + BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY FEMININE 1 2024

[@sallyrenata1409]

I left the coast of SC specifically because local and state government kept cutting down trees and building as if climate change didn’t exist. Profit seemed far more important than people. It’s a recipe for disaster.

[@freddyfenwick2603]

I would also consider geologic factors as in earthquake or volcano probablity. Tornado probability too. How much groundwater is available? Soil quality for farming. Annual rainfall. Nearby streams and rivers with clean water that can support a healthy fish population.

[@lindaallen4067]

Sounds like Vermont!

[@Iusethis4comments]

As someone that grew up on the East Coast and loves big cities like New York, I’m starting to grow more fond of where I am now in Ohio. Still, I hope conversations like these can continue, and we do what we can to medicate the impact of climate change from the little things to the big policy things

[@rustymaximus9179]

Well, the numbers are so tiny that it's like spending a billion dollars for a penny.

[@amywalker7515]

Why does everyone equate NY with only NY City? Most of the state is actually suburban to rural, like Ohio. We rarely ever see hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts. Yes, it does get cold here, but not quite as much as it used to.

[@janeroth7]

NYC has raising crime. It not a place to visit or live safe.

[@bingosunnoon9341]

Absence makes the heart grow more fond.

[@joycecaudell6047]

We may need to use all of these “perfect” places to grow our food.

[@greenfoxes5903]

Indoor vertical farming is going to become more prevalent in the future along with lab grown meat. Ultimately, access to water is going to become a primary driver and traditional farming locations could change.

[@steviesevieria1868]

@@greenfoxes5903 meat is totally unnecessary and a huge part of the problem.

[@greenfoxes5903]

@@steviesevieria1868 Almost any argument against meat, although currently valid under the current model, falls apart when you consider growing it in a lab: Animal suffering disappears, overuse of antibiotics vanishes, the need for insane amounts of water becomes obsolete, methane pollution is nil since there is no need for a stomach. All that's left is transportation cost and its emissions. By the time this kind of meat cultivation is perfected and costs drop down to profitable levels, we should have been able to address some of that. We evolved as omnivores and there is a psychological and cultural component to meat consumption as well as an emotional need for some. That is not going to go away any time soon. This is why we need to both create meat alternatives and develop a lab grown solutions as well.

[@steviesevieria1868]

@@greenfoxes5903 Yeah I eat some fish once in a while. The rest of it is totally unnecessary and more harmful to health than beneficial. Of course there’s a huge industry that would disagree with me LMAO.

[@dawnsalois]

@@steviesevieria1868 Hey Stevie I was born in Montana, Native America and of a Taiga living tribe from southern Canada. I tried to go meatless, just lacto, no eggs. In 8 months my face and chest broke out in acne. Then there was the gas that 20 drops of Beeno couldnt touch. So because I cannot tolerate veg based proteins as primary protein source that I should???? die? kill myself? feel guilt because of self righteous people like you? what do you think would happen to the tribal peoples of the Artic if they were forced to be even ovo-lacto vegs? they would get sick and die. Meat is not TOTALLY UNNECESSARY, UNLESS YOU SUPPORT GENOCIDE.

[@ElectricDanielBoone]

We're probably going to stay put and fight it out right here. It can get mighty hot (110F+) here in Southern Oregon in the summer, but it's a "dry heat". 🤓 There have been a few small towns that flat burned up in the last few years! Keeping the vegetation under control for fire seaon is very important these days!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting.

[@star-cursed]

I moved from the Canadian Prairies (perpetual drought, extreme cold in winter, extreme heat in summer, and not much in between) to the Inland coast of northern BC where the rainforest is still intact. I just can not get over how moderate everything is here. Southern BC is a disaster between the floods and the fires but up here it is so stable. The Prairies have always had extreme cold and heat, but every year it just gets worse and I am so lucky I was able to choose to leave before a true disaster forced me to.

[@markdavis8888]

Ya, but won't you miss the mosquitos?

[@star-cursed]

@@markdavis8888 oh yeah I just miss them so much

[@frederickodiase971]

I got to go from Alberta to Victoria for school and got to experience a winter with no snow, and like the other comment said no mosquitos. Was wonderful, by the time I was leaving they started to get lots of snowfall for the first time in over a decade like all the residents said. And now snow fall is a staple every winter.

[@star-cursed]

@@frederickodiase971 Yeah Victoria really got dumped on a couple days ago. Snow where I am is normal and we're just getting our first big snowfall of the year now

[@xtinafusco]

I had family leave California for the Northeast calling themselves climate refugees around 6 years ago. This was before the incessant wildfires but the droughts were already bad. There were water limits in their county and they would time their showers and collect the cold water in the beginning to use to water plants etc. They knew it would just get worse. We live in upstate NY and have heard of recent neighbors coming from Colorado and California with climate being the main reason.

[@SuperSpidey313]

Yeah...it's already started.

[@natashamaier5233]

The elite oligarchs used to call it "Global Warming," and when that proved false, they changed it to "Climate Change." Have uou ever heard of (the real) Nikola Tesla and his technogies, and how he created the ability to engineer the weather - from draughts, to hurricanes, to fires, and even earthquakes? Yes, our government "borrowed" his discoveries upon his death, and even used it for seed clouding in Vietnam. Look into HAARP in Alaska, and chemtrails. Besides, our enemies (china, india, and russia) are now responsible for the current state of global pollution, and are still using oil and coal. The plan is to destroy America from within, and with the sheep non-the-wiser. I actually heard recently that the whole climate change hoax was started by Russia. Snd it realky seems yo be working. Your first clue was that the elite oligarchs did not allow for any debate to take place. That is how media control works -- not science. "It is easier to fool people, than to convince them thst they have been fooled." - Mark Twain

[@danm8747]

Most of the wildfire issues, at least in Oregon and Washington come in large by the complete lack of forest management by the state. This management was done a lot by the lumber industry who took care of the forests as well as replanting. The greenies decided to kill that industry without any way to take up forest management.

[@glendabarton45barton48]

I love in Northern California and it's not that bad at all. Plenty of water, we almost always have a drought but California has alternating droughts for thousands of years and the county I live is the premier wine country in the world with plenty of redwoods, too, clean air and very rare we have water regulation. If you know where to live you can avoid wildfires. We don't have hurricanes, tornados, floods except on the Russian River (just don't live there like I did). Our county practices sustainability, stewardship of wilderness and agriculture, much of it farm-to-table and other methods of conserving water and soil. Some of the best soils in the world - terroir winemakers call it. I love living in the only State that has thousands of redwoods which are the biggest sequesters of carbon in the world. Our town has so many redwoods I'm convinced it keeps the air so fresh and the water is clean. California is a big state but people always it's the same everywhere in the state but there are hundreds of microclimates and the greatest biodiversity in the United States.

[@glendabarton45barton48]

@@danm8747 Weve had a century of stupidity under Smoky the Bear trying to suppress fires and consequently there's a huge buildup of fuels. I'm not convinced logging companies do things in a responsible manner. But here in California we're studying the way the indigenous tribes managed the environment...with controlled burns for one thing. California is a fire-dependent forest system, the plants here like the redwoods are dependent on wildfire for reproducing. Not this much of course! The thousands of redwoods in California are the biggest sequesters of carbon in the world, btw.

[@arthurwatts1680]

Winnipeg here we come ! ;) Seriously, many laughed when scientists began predicting that wars would be fought over access to clean water - that is just as important as temperature ranges if not more so IMO.

[@zenyeti3076]

I have considered myself a climate refugee, like the young lady said; I wasn’t forced out on foot, but, unable to survive the extreme heat & humidity along with extreme cold in the Mid South, I fled back to the southern Rockies of New Mexico for this very reason ☮️

[@annedouard]

My husband, myself, our 2 horses, 2 dogs and 4 cats just relocated to Vermont from the North bay in California…(Santa Rosa) and right in time to avoid yet another fire season that looks to be pretty tough again. We evacuated twice because of wildfires and just could not bear the stress of constantly being prepared to evacuate with the horses and the terrible air quality that often plagues the area for sometimes weeks at a time because of the smoke… Water scarcity and anxiety about hay availability was another factor…still linked to climate change.

[@rulaj1]

💙

[@Prophezora]

Yeah. It's beautiful out west but the fires are a bit much.

[@LaurenMirandaG]

I commend your courage for making such a big move involving so many animal friends! I wonder how you are settling in with the big culture shift. I'm a lifelong Californian, but I, too, am so tired of having fire-anxiety. We are out here in Eastern Contra Costa County. I know someone else who moved her family from Santa Rosa to Maine and she says she is enjoying the change.

[@lynnamarsh6384]

right there with you. I was ready to move to California beginning of summer 2021. three wildfires affected me in California in the next month. I like air to breath.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

That was a looooooooooong drive!