Climate Change, Migration, Urbanization As West heats up, cold-weather cities getting a new look as ‘climate safe havens’

Research by Perry World House Visiting Scholar Jesse Keenan is cited in this article from The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Excessive heat, enduring drought, omnipresent wildfire and rising sea level.

Those growing dangers driven by climate change have generated grave concerns and considerable news coverage about how habitable California and the West will be in the not-too-distant future...

Sun Belt states continue to grow, though population has stalled in California. How much population shifts to winter lands because of climate change fueled by human-made greenhouse gas emissions remains to be seen. The notion of Duluth being attractive to climate migrants started with Jesse Keenan.

Keenan, now a professor at Tulane University, was teaching at Harvard when he highlighted Duluth after he and his team spent more than 2,000 hours studying which U.S. cities and towns might be safer climate havens, have room to grow and potentially provide other amenities for a sustainable urban area, according to Reuters..

Keenan was invited to Duluth in 2019 to give a presentation on his research and shortly thereafter civic leaders began planning for a possible influx of new residents...

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