Birmingham Worst For Climate Change
If you want to avoid climate change then don’t live in Birmingham is the message from Dr David Viner, a leading climatologist (The BBC). In a new BBC Inside Out programme Viner reveals the best 10 places and 10 worst places to live in terms of climate change, and sadly for Brummies, Birmingham tops the pile.
According to the program (which aired only in The Midlands on 30th March 2007, but details can be found at Inside Out), Birmingham has the worst air pollution outside London and if temperatures increase this could cause an “urban heat island effect”. The winter would be wetter, summer hotter and they’d be increased possibilities of tornadoes as seen already in the region in recent years.
It’s not just bad news for Birmingham though, as Viner lists London, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester as not ideal places to be if climate change takes hold as he and fellow IPCC scientists predict.
There is some good news though with South and West England including Somerset and South West Devon, The Yorkshire Dales, North Norfolk and even South West Wales being mentioned as good places to live in terms of climate change.
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