INDIRECT PROCESSES COULD CREATE 5.3 TO 18 TIMES THE NUMBER OF CLIMATE MIGRANTS AS RISING SEAS.
PROC. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
VIA EUREKA ALERT
As climate change fuels sea level rise, younger people will migrate inland, leaving aging coastal populations ...
said Associate Professor of Sociology Matt Hauer, lead author of the study...
“In the destination communities where populations are increasing you’ll need more dentists, doctors, service workers, construction workers, etc.,” Hauer said. “So by people moving, you affect other people’s likelihood of moving. You get a demographic amplification.”...
The study concluded that these indirect processes could create 5.3 to 18 times the number of climate migrants as those directly displaced by rising seas. It also found that by 2100, median age in coastal communities could spike as much as 10 years.
The researchers developed a migration model that uses sea level rise data from Climate Central and information about migration patterns from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
