Kerry Gold does a feature on the ‘Cold Harbour’ phenomenon: a neighbourhood that seems empty because a high percentage of the units are owned by people who don’t occupy them for much of the year. In the story, there’s this observation:
“People come from the Middle East, they come from Taiwan, China, Singapore, Korea, from all over. There’s a component from the United States, because it gets too hot in Arizona or Palm Springs during the summer so they come up here, where the climate is so much milder.”
The rich have choices – and they’re already starting to adapt to a changing climate. But what happens in, say, Phoenix, if after a month of 50-degree weather, a stressed electrical grid (and the air conditioning) fails? Perhaps a wave of refugees to the milder places on the continent?
Why write it when you can sing it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTVf0jnZeo8