Empirical Data Refutes Media Claim Climate Change Putting Growing Cities ‘At Risk’
by Thomas Richard 2 hours ago in Extreme Weather, Media, News and Opinion Reading Time: 4 mins read
An article in Bloomberg, titled “Climate Change Is Putting Swelling Cities at Risk,” with the subtitle, “A warming world is putting Bangladesh, Niger, Pakistan, and other countries more at risk for extreme weather,” makes some false claims refuted by real-world data and by scientific research that examines the impacts of growth and the densification of cities. [emphasis, links added]
The authors, Dorothy Gambrell and Brian Kahn say this:
Weather events exacerbated by climate change will threaten many places in the coming years, and many of these locations are also projected to gain a lot of new inhabitants. In the world’s largest cities, governments will have to do more to protect the millions of people in danger from a hot planet.
The article provides a graphic, seen below, which purports to show where the urban populations are “most vulnerable to climate change.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/empirical-data-refutes-media-claim-climate-change-putting-growing-cities-at-risk/
