New map plots out how city climates will change in 60 years Scott Sutherland Meteorologist/Science Writer
Tuesday, February 19th 2019, 3:33 pm - How will the next 60 years impact your city, if we fail to take swift action on climate change? This new interactive map tells all.
No matter where we live, our cities are already feeling the impacts of climate change, as temperatures climb and incidences of weather extremes become more common.
Now, a new study has looked ahead 60 years into the future, to track how these changes will continue to impact our homes, and it presents the data in a way we all can easily relate to.
Several major cities in Canada are linked with their future climates via this interactive map. Credit: Matthew Fitzpatrick/University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
In a new interactive web tool, click on any highlighted city in Canada or the United States, and that city will instantly be linked to another location on the map.
What do these locations have in common? In 2080, just 60 years from now, the climate conditions in the city you chose will be the same as the climate conditions currently experienced in the city it was paired with.
"Under the business as usual emissions the average urban dweller is going to have to drive nearly 1,000 km to the south to find a climate like that expected in their home city by 2080," said Matt Fitzpatrick, of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, who is one of the authors of this new study. "Not only is climate changing, but climates that don't presently exist in North America will be prevalent in a lot of urban areas."
To see the interactive map and read the full story, please click here.
