Climate Refugees. Coming Soon To A Planet Near You

BBC explains that:

[Reports predict that] there will be as many as 200 million climate refugees by 2050.

Areas where people are already on the move to avoid climate excesses include, the report says:

Brazil, where one in five people born in the arid northeast region relocates to avoid drought

China, where three provinces are seeing the spread of the Gobi desert

Nigeria, where about 2,000 sq km is becoming desert each year

Attributing the movement of people to climate impacts is, however, a difficult issue, with many other factors including economic opportunity behind decisions to relocate.

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"It's the extremes of water which are going to provide the biggest threat to the developing world from climate change," [according to One of Britain's leading climate scientists, Sir John Houghton].

"Without being able to be too specific about exactly where, droughts will tend to be longer, and that's very bad news. Extreme droughts currently cover about 2% of the world's land area, and that is going to spread to about 10% by 2050."

Overall, he said, climate models show a drying out of sub-Saharan Africa, while some other areas of the world will see more severe flooding.

I guess all those people searching for water and all those people flooded out of their homes will just go hang out at the Astrodome for a week or two.






No. I don't.