It does not sit in the path of hurricanes, nor is it vulnerable to the rising number of forest fires in the American West. “In the search for a big-city refuge from climate change, Chicago looks like an excellent option,” the author Dan Egan writes in The Times. “At least, it does on a map.”But Chicago has a problem, one that’s almost certainly caused by the forces that climate change has released. A balance has long existed between the city’s two great bodies of water, Lake Michigan and the Chicago River. Climate change can also cause counterintuitive changes in the opposite direction.

Source: New York Times July 08, 2021 10:30 UTC