Do Climate Change Refugees Know Where to Go?

A recent episode of PBS's Terra program featured Americans who moved within the country (one from Washington to Florida) to avoid climate-related hazards, only to find new weather problems in their new locations. You can watch it on YouTube here.Terra used data from Pro Publica to map out the safest weather/climate areas in the US, based on predictions of how climate will change. New England as a whole fared well, though Southwestern CT, a bit of coastal Maine, a sliver along the CT River in New Hampshire, and Cape Cod and the North Shore of Mass didn't get "Safest 10%" status, as you can see in the map below, from the show.Risks arise from flooding, fire, heat, and drought, and the riskiest 10% of the country is in the south and west, as you can see in the map below, also from the show and using data from Redfin:One of the big dangers of extreme heat is how difficult it is for humans to adapt to it - at home, and on the job. In places where humans (and the built environment) have already adapted to extreme heat - such as Florida - people should have an easier time as the heat rises, because they and their spaces have become acclimatized to it.The fastest-growing metro areas in the US are nearly all in the South - Denver, Seattle, and Oklahoma City are the only non-Southern areas. Why are people moving out of the climate-safe Northeast and moving to the climate-risky South? Because middle-income people can't afford to live in the safe areas. And in the Midwest, housing is cheap, but there are fewer jobs.