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How Hot Will Your City Be in 2080? | How Climate Will Change in 5 Cities

What will it be like to live in America in 2080? And what will it feel like? This is what America’s five most populated cities will feel like if climate change isn’t curbed. How will your town feel in 2080? Find out here: — Producer/Video by: Jason Lederman Narrator: Corinne Iozzio Researcher/Maps by: Sara Chodosh…

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What will it be like to live in America in 2080? And what will it feel like? This is what America’s five most populated cities will feel like if climate change isn’t curbed.

How will your town feel in 2080? Find out here:

Producer/Video by: Jason Lederman

Narrator: Corinne Iozzio

Researcher/Maps by: Sara Chodosh

Music: APM Music

Special Thanks: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Ken Miller

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  1. Jc Lc

    February 28, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    I cannot believe ya’ll are posting this crap! Unsubscribing!

    • kash krupa

      March 2, 2019 at 6:51 am

      @4Real Science – “Climate changes temps are fabricated and historic records removed. CO2 is not the cause.”

      Where’s your proof temps are fabricated & historical records have been removed? No proof = BS.

      Man made CO2 is the cause. Here’s my proof:

      Monday’s findings, by researchers in the United States, Canada and Scotland, said evidence for global warming reached the five sigma level by 2005 in two of three sets of satellite data widely used by researchers, and in 2016 in the third.

      Separately in 2013, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that it is “extremely likely”, or at least 95 percent probable, that human activities have been the main cause of climate change since the 1950s.

      Peter Stott of the British Met Office, who was among the scientists drawing that conclusion and was not involved in Monday’s study, said he would favor raising the probability one notch to “virtually certain”, or 99-100 percent.

      Consensus: 97% of climate scientists agree

      The following page lists the nearly 200 worldwide scientific organizations that hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action.

    • Walrave

      March 2, 2019 at 11:00 am

      Science on a science channel, who’d of thunk it?

    • Jc Lc

      March 2, 2019 at 5:15 pm

      Find the equation for global warming, not the CO2 EMMISION CALCULATION and you will find the answer there!

      PS, are ya’ll seriously saying all this bs? They can’t tell you the weather accurately for THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!, (???) you really think they can tell you (within AT LEAST 50% accuracy) what the weather is gonna be 80 years from now! ???Ya’ll funny! ???

    • Bill Lazar

      March 2, 2019 at 10:14 pm

      So your second link shows a decrease in ice thickness by 16% from Jan 2003 to Jan 2019. How does this disprove global warming? Heads in the sand aren’t going to change the facts. +4Real Science

    • Bill Lazar

      March 2, 2019 at 10:15 pm

      The ‘work’ comes from the energy of the sun. +4Real Science

  2. Ryan Perry

    February 28, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    That is entirely too many degrees, imo

  3. Popular Science

    February 28, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    How will your town feel in 2080? Find out here:

  4. Pablo Insano

    February 28, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    Unsubbed

    • TheHealthPhysicist

      February 28, 2019 at 10:48 pm

      Unhinged

  5. Nomadic Diesel

    February 28, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    MSM propaganda

    • Eric Blumer

      March 1, 2019 at 1:26 am

      They love to vomit this shit all over the place…

      It might as well say “vote liberal or we’ll cook your grandchildren”

    • Gary Sarela

      March 1, 2019 at 3:14 am

      Human-based greenhouse gases cause global warming: http://www.climatelevels.org

    • kash krupa

      March 2, 2019 at 4:47 am

      So says your biased, uninformed opinion.

  6. TheHealthPhysicist

    February 28, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    Trump: “Make America Venus Again!”…and the rest of the planet, too.

    • Supreme ali

      March 2, 2019 at 12:42 pm

      The us leads the world in co2 reduction. I’m going to follow you from comment section to comment section.

    • TheHealthPhysicist

      March 2, 2019 at 12:49 pm

      +Supreme ali Bullshit. The US reduced its CO2 emissions due to luck. Good luck: we found a lot of natural gas to replace coal. Bad Luck: Great Recession of 2008, which reduced industrial activity for several years. Today, the bad luck has run out and we’re increasing emissions again. We’re not leading anything.

    • TheHealthPhysicist

      March 2, 2019 at 12:49 pm

      @Supreme ali Bullshit. The US reduced its CO2 emissions due to luck. Good luck: we found a lot of natural gas to replace coal. Bad Luck: Great Recession of 2008, which reduced industrial activity for several years. Today, the bad luck has run out and we’re increasing emissions again. We’re not leading anything.

    • Supreme ali

      March 2, 2019 at 1:28 pm

      +TheHealthPhysicist lowest levels since 1950. Leading the world. You couldnt be more wrong. Fracking cuts co2 in half. The us leads the world. All these things are facts.

    • Supreme ali

      March 2, 2019 at 1:28 pm

      @TheHealthPhysicist lowest levels since 1950. Leading the world. You couldnt be more wrong. Fracking cuts co2 in half. The us leads the world. All these things are facts.

  7. 김수완

    February 28, 2019 at 11:27 pm

    How the temperature data was estimated? can you also share the base of calculation? It is very threatening temperature increase.

    • Popular Science

      March 1, 2019 at 2:08 pm

      Here’s a deeper dive into the study, with supporting links:

  8. Jim R

    March 1, 2019 at 6:28 pm

    We can’t explain why global warming stopped 20 years ago. Our climate models completely fail at predicting the observed climate of the last 40 years. We can’t even tell you with much certainty if it will rain tomorrow… but we can definitely tell you with 95% certainty how hot your city will be 60 to 100 years from now. $Seriously, $you $can $trust $us.

    Funded by your $trillion $dollar $climate $industry.

  9. WS Intern

    March 1, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    You mean 2030 VERY VERY VERY BIG PROBLEM METHANE IS A BIG BOMB , every day coming 200.000 new polluters to this planet. Nobody will stop this and oil is used more and more. So take your health insurance cards, possessions, money, credit cards, language skills, diplomas and fancy titles. In 10 till 12 years you can burn it
    with the rest of this planet.

  10. Todd LP

    March 2, 2019 at 2:33 am

    What a farce.

  11. ambidex0

    March 2, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    left wing comspiracy

  12. Linda Ingle

    March 2, 2019 at 3:45 pm

    do your PART

  13. Dan Sherman

    March 2, 2019 at 4:54 pm

    So we’re moving the entire country towards the area of the world that everyone wants to go to for better weather? Sounds awesome. 😉

    Telling Las Palmas Mexico that they have a climate that Los Angeles is dreading, is kind of insulting.

    What “Climate Change” complainers don’t get is, WE ARE PART OF NATURE. So if the weather is changing because of our actions, then that is a “natural” process. Should we be responsible and do all we can to do right by our environment? Sure. Of course. But please stop the histrionics.

  14. Bill Stone

    March 2, 2019 at 5:17 pm

    this is nothing but a wag and is based on computer models! For those of you who don’t understand climate change takes place over millennia not years!

  15. htd2007

    March 2, 2019 at 6:27 pm

    let’s see worst case scenario for 2019

  16. Dave Carl

    March 2, 2019 at 7:26 pm

    Scientists are bad Prophets, nothing they have predicted in the passed 80 years has come true….
    They are just as accurate as mediums talking to the dead…..

  17. Aaron

    March 2, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    Yes, the impacts of climate change are beginning to manifest more and more, and will build and become more and more forceful. They are the result of humanity’s overuse and abuse of our life-sustaining natural world. I recommend you find out what to expect and how you can prepare by reading the groundbreaking publication (available free online) called “The Great Waves of Change” (dot org).

    • Mellany Travers

      March 4, 2019 at 2:04 pm

      Thank you, Aaron.

    • ALW ALW

      March 13, 2019 at 2:04 pm

      Thanks for the heads up on the Great Waves book. It really sums up what we are facing as a planet.

  18. Michael Mage

    March 3, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    This is why I cannot take Popular Science seriously. It is going to be way worse than this. In the next decade we will be already experiencing much of these effects. Forget the end of the century. By 2025, millions, perhaps even billions will already be dead due to famine and loss of habitat. Forget the idea of a degree and a half a la IPCC. We have already got 3 DEGREES baked into the global system.
    By 2050 there will be dire repercussions in the climate that will kill billions. THAT IS FACT.
    Beware the Methane Dragon kids, it’s on its way.

  19. Ben Dover

    March 3, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    Whether this “Hysteria” is real or not. . . ALMOST NOTHING will change the inevitable.
    There are just TOO MANY FACTORS at play here, with the greatest being the Population Explosion.
    Short of annihilating 3/4 of the World’s Population. . . No amount of Tax Dollars will curb anything.
    Other than make ignorant politicians wet themselves with glee.
    Ocean levels rising ? Move to higher ground.
    Can’t stand the heat ? Buy an air-conditioner.
    Look at the rhetoric of these ignorant politicians — The Al Gores, The Ocasio-Cortezs, with their “Doom & Gloom” scenario’s.
    We’re still here and will be in another 12 years !!
    Trump has the right idea. Taxing the “little people” to death over this issue will solve nothing.
    Too bad the Prime Minister of Canada thinks ramming a “Carbon Tax” down the throats of Canadians will solve everything.
     Yes, the World could very well be changing — Is mankind the sole contributor, or is it a “natural cycle” ?
    Either way, those politicians who believe that Tax Dollars will solve the World’s Problems — Are WRONG.
    Like I said, there are just too many factors (complex) at play here.

  20. thinkabout

    March 3, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    U R kidding me !!!! 2080 or even 2030 is way beyond the drastic effects of abrupt climate change when bread becomes $ 10.00 a loaf because of failure to grow crops at scale you will see what happens but then you still have the option of DENILE

  21. jerry camp

    March 4, 2019 at 5:38 pm

    Leaning heavily into the ‘popular’…and away from actual science.

  22. Micha EL

    March 6, 2019 at 4:13 am

    lol this pops up in my feed on the coldest day of the year ! rflmao

  23. Micha EL

    March 6, 2019 at 4:15 am

    Lemme guess, it will be hot ? Now hand over your cash for green credits or we’ll turn off your air !

  24. Al Tischler

    March 6, 2019 at 3:14 pm

    The ice caps were supposed to be gone already

  25. jeremyjw

    March 18, 2019 at 9:37 pm

    human over population is the cause of *every* environmental problem
    every person creates one “pollution unit”
    reduce the number of people, reduce the pollution

  26. NickyBeYondo

    May 26, 2019 at 6:21 am

    America isn’t a country. America is the entire continent. Our country is called: The United States “of” America. I wish popular science would stop spreading this misconception. No wonder our kids can’t even name the name of their country.

  27. Keith In Tampa

    June 1, 2019 at 2:34 pm

    What total horse hockey.

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