It's the Brian Larrow Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

And now our climate story of the week, which

we do every Tuesday on the show.

Today, will the effects of climate crises

force you to move from your home.

Research from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

says that extreme climate-related weather events like rising

temperatures, rising sea levels, the growing frequency of forest fires and hurricanes and drought and tornadoes

point to a pretty unavoidable future.

Many millions of people are going to be driven from their homes.

Over the next 30 years, just in this country,

the estimate is between 13 and 100 million Americans

are expected to move as their homes and communities

become less hospitable and more expensive.

Even at the lowest end of that spectrum, 13 million people,

if that's how many have to move because of climate changes,

that's twice the size of the largest migration in American history,

according to a new book. Even in regions that were once thought to be relatively shielded from the effects of climate change, people have been and will continue to be

uprooted.

And yet, Americans these days are moving more south than they are north.

That's the baseline. That's the starting point in 2024.

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