Asheville North Carolina hurricaine tragedy shows there are no climate change safe havens --experts

Asheville tragedy shows there are no climate change safe havens: experts Asheville, North Carolina, has been called a potential safe haven for climate refugees by real estate researchers, praised for its temperate mountain weather, distance far from the coast, experiencing less extreme heat and fewer wildfires. The city of around 95,000 people was believed markings of a place where those escaping the harsh impacts of the climate crisis could go for safety. Certainly, there are locations that are going to be able to withstand some of those impacts more than others, according to Dave Reidmiller, the director of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute's Climate Center. Yahoo News

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Experts say human-caused climate change has caused an increase in rainfall, increasing the severity and frequency of rainfall events, and more across the country. As extreme weather worsens amid global heating, the crisis is displacing people not just in the U.S., but around the world.

Because of this, Antonia Sebastian, a professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Depar​tment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, doesn't believe in climate havens. ..."Climate change is sort of a pervasive issue that is going to affect communities all over the world -- not equally -- but definitely it will impact everyone, everywhere in some way," Sebastian told ABC News.

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