Science Alert July 11, 2019
Researchers in Switzerland analyzed city pairs for 520 major cities of the world and tested if their climate in 2050. They found that even under an optimistic climate scenario 77% of future cities are very likely to experience a climate that is closer to that of another existing city than to its own current climate. As a general trend, they found that all the cities tend to shift towards the sub-tropics, with cities from the Northern hemisphere shifting to warmer conditions, on average ~1000 km south and cities from the tropics shifting to drier conditions…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Distribution of current and future cities along the first 4 principal component axes. Credit: PLOS https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217592