The Countries Most Likely To Survive Climate Change In One Infographic
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Climate change is real, and it's coming. But we're all going to be affected in different ways. How will your country fare?
The folks at Eco Experts put together a great infographic based on data from the Notre Dame Global Adaptation (ND-Gain) Index, an annual ranking of which countries are best poised to adapt to a warming world.
While the maps provide a great zoomed-out perspective of what's going to happen globally as the earth warms, there are a few caveats to keep in mind when checking it out:
First, these maps are based on country rankings, not comprehensive evaluations of each country. In other words, the best-ranked countries are only as great as they seem compared to the countries that are performing less well.
Additionally, the ranking looks only at the level of entire countries. All of the state-specific, region-specific, or city-specific data gets somewhat lost in this zoomed out perspective.
Take the United States, for example. It gets a green-light on this map. But what about specific parts of the US that aren’t as well-equipped to handle climate change as the country might be on average? Miami Beach, Florida, for instance, is poised to see sea levels rise between 6-7 feet by the end of the century; most of the city is less than 10 feet above sea level. Multiple parts of New York City are similarly vulnerable to climate change.
Thankfully, the US as a whole has the infrastructure to adapt; the government can force people in coastal cities like Miami Beach to move inland; we can also build new airports and transit hubs closer to the center of the country. And the map reflects countries' abilities to do just that.
Here's the graphic in its entirety:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-infographic-2015-1#ixzz3QDLHTlNp
The folks at Eco Experts put together a great infographic based on data from the Notre Dame Global Adaptation (ND-Gain) Index, an annual ranking of which countries are best poised to adapt to a warming world.
While the maps provide a great zoomed-out perspective of what's going to happen globally as the earth warms, there are a few caveats to keep in mind when checking it out:
First, these maps are based on country rankings, not comprehensive evaluations of each country. In other words, the best-ranked countries are only as great as they seem compared to the countries that are performing less well.
Additionally, the ranking looks only at the level of entire countries. All of the state-specific, region-specific, or city-specific data gets somewhat lost in this zoomed out perspective.
Take the United States, for example. It gets a green-light on this map. But what about specific parts of the US that aren’t as well-equipped to handle climate change as the country might be on average? Miami Beach, Florida, for instance, is poised to see sea levels rise between 6-7 feet by the end of the century; most of the city is less than 10 feet above sea level. Multiple parts of New York City are similarly vulnerable to climate change.
Thankfully, the US as a whole has the infrastructure to adapt; the government can force people in coastal cities like Miami Beach to move inland; we can also build new airports and transit hubs closer to the center of the country. And the map reflects countries' abilities to do just that.
Here's the graphic in its entirety:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-infographic-2015-1#ixzz3QDLHTlNp
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United states thinks it got a immigration problem now lol ,its going to be a Mass Exodus from Central America.
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This list is inaccurate. Many of those countries would be under water.
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That's a plan to destroy African and melanin people.
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So basically the countries who will suffer the most are the poorer ones...
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Hilarious
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Yeah at first I thought it meant climate as far as economics but physical? there is a reason congress is ignoring global warming but the sun is our ally and greatest weapon.
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They manipulate the weather..
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mother nature is a ? , mafuckas really think they can predict who will survive global shift in climate, lol ok
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yea i dunno how australia for example is dark green
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Well Got Dam wrote: »mother nature is a ? , mafuckas really think they can predict who will survive global shift in climate, lol ok
Right, ? can't even predict weather patterns past a week and we supposed to believe some convenient infographic that has all the Brown ppl of the world perishing from climate change.....foh doggy
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Those stats read like a conspiracy theory in the making.
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Bully_Pulpit wrote: »Well Got Dam wrote: »mother nature is a ? , mafuckas really think they can predict who will survive global shift in climate, lol ok
Right, ? can't even predict weather patterns past a week and we supposed to believe some convenient infographic that has all the Brown ppl of the world perishing from climate change.....foh doggy
Couldn't have said it better my self -
propaganda ? ...some of those climate changes are artificially produced by HAARP...I ain't listening to white people predicting ? about the weather ..miss me with that because in the end they only care about preserving their race above anybody elses
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Oh ? Pharrell is on board with climate change too, it must be real then
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I know for a fact this list is ? cause Holland is green....
its called The Netherlands for a reason, its below sea level and back in the Al Gore manbearpig days, all climate change experts(and still to this day) are claiming Holland has a problem and half of the country will be in the sea.
also, I find it very strange that Africa will be ? , Spain is safe but Morocco isnt? Every is cool in s.arabia but the sudan is done for?
weve got the damn Atlas mountains in Morocco, only 35 million people, loads of living space
? , people survive all the hardships of the (western) sahara, but cant survive the rising sea level?
? , considering all shitload of crucial fossil/agricultural etc resources in africa, it seems like the entire world would be ? . How is everything logistically gonna work than?
list is ? son, dont believe the hype. ? Hubris azz mofos -
Only thing that I liked about the article is planet earths dismissal of Florida lmao
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They say its mother nature or an act of ? but it's their agenda to do away with us
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Those pictures mean nothing without a discussion of how they rated things. I'd guess it's some combination of economic strength, reliance on agriculture, and location.
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Took one look at this and was like damn...mother nature gonna ? all the ? .
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This ? doesn't look accurate at all.
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how the hell is haiti and the dominican republic on the same island and an invisible line makes haiti take the L?
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botswana is the only green place in all of africa smh
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MazterChef wrote: »how the hell is haiti and the dominican republic on the same island and an invisible line makes haiti take the L?
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MazterChef wrote: »how the hell is haiti and the dominican republic on the same island and an invisible line makes haiti take the L?
I'm guessing there is higher ground/ lower sea level on the side that is Dominican republic. If not then that's ? up. Lol. -
Freeman...... wrote: »MazterChef wrote: »how the hell is haiti and the dominican republic on the same island and an invisible line makes haiti take the L?
I'm guessing there is higher ground/ lower sea level on the side that is Dominican republic. If not then that's ? up. Lol.
i think they trying to say that dom. rep. maybe has more money etc. than haiti to deal with the issues that come with climate change