Noreen O'Donnell and Meghan McDonoughSurging sea-levels on the coasts, wildfires in the West, climate change is already affecting the country but you might not know it from real estate trends.
Where aren’t they going? The Great Lakes Region, for one, although it is expected to be more resilient to climate change in the coming years. The region lies in the center of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from a seacoast, on the edge of enormous bodies of fresh water and far enough north to escape the worst of today’s heat waves.
“It puts us in a tough spot,” he said. “People pay $2 million for a home. They probably aren't thinking about, “Will I be able to obtain insurance?’ So pretty much our hands are tied because there aren't really many options.” , which provides basic fire insurance for high-risk properties when traditional insurance companies will not.
“The severity of wildfires has been increasing over the past four decades,” the lead author Yuhan Huang, a graduate student researcher at UC Davis, said in a statement. “We found that fires were much bigger and more severe during dry and hot years compared to other climatic conditions.” The extreme swings are a result of heavier rainfall and more frequent droughts. Average temperatures in the Midwest are rising, especially in the winter. Ice on lakes and rivers is forming later into the fall and melting earlier in the spring, according to a 2019 paper,The water level in Lake Michigan hit a record high in 2020, sending waves over Lakeshore Drive. The Chicago River overflowed into downtown.
Thank you so much for clearly connecting climate change to the increased frequency and ferocity of wildfires.
Still zero mention of the geo engineering robbing us from winter while spraying the skies with flammable aluminium particulates that end up coating the landscape.
Oh no! 💯🖐🏼🔥