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=====Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues===== | |||
[https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0217592 PLOS one 7/20/2019] | |||
To our knowledge, our study represents the first global analysis of the shifts in climate conditions of the world’s major cities under climate change. Our analysis revealed that over 77% of the world’s cities are likely to experience a shift towards the climate conditions of another major city by 2050, while 22% will shift to climate conditions that are not currently present for any major cities on the planet. Across the globe, the direction of movement is generally trending towards the subtropics, providing unifying patterns that support trends observed in Europe and North America. In addition, this analysis revealed new insights for cities in equatorial regions, many of which are likely to move to entirely new climate conditions that are not currently experienced by any of the other global cities today. These city analogues, and the data we openly share, can help land managers and city planners to visualize the climate futures of their respective cities, facilitating efforts to establish targeted climate response strategies. As well as facilitating our basic understanding of climate change effects, our analysis highlights the value of using cities to visualize the tangible effects of climate change across the globe. | |||
=====In These U.S. Cities, Heat Waves Will Kill Hundreds More as Temperatures Rise===== | =====In These U.S. Cities, Heat Waves Will Kill Hundreds More as Temperatures Rise===== | ||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062019/heat-deaths-cities-climate-change-paris-agreement-half-degree Inside Climate News 6/05/2019] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062019/heat-deaths-cities-climate-change-paris-agreement-half-degree Inside Climate News 6/05/2019] | ||
