Maps Will Illustrate How the World’s Population May Shift by 2100 Due to Climate Change

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Weather patterns are changing, and whether one believes it is due to climate change or a trendy weather warfare perspective, the experience remains. The health hazards remain. The need for continual data remains. Change can’t be conjectured without viable statistics, viable data, and viable science. In the midst of too much misinformation, below are some fact checks from NOAA.

Fact check: Debunking weather modification claims

• CLAIM: The government is creating, strengthening, and/or steering hurricanes into specific communities.
• FACT: No technology exists that can create, destroy, modify, strengthen, or steer hurricanes in any way, shape, or form. All hurricanes, including Helene and Milton, are natural phenomena that form on their own due to aligning conditions of the ocean and atmosphere.

• CLAIM: NOAA modifies the weather.
• FACT: NOAA does not modify the weather, nor does it fund, participate in or oversee cloud seeding or any other weather modification activities. NOAA’s objective is to better understand and predict Earth’s systems, from the bottom of the seafloor to the surface of the sun. We are deepening our understanding and deploying new resources to improve forecasting and give communities earlier and more accurate warnings ahead of extreme weather events. NOAA is required by law* to track weather modification activities by others, including cloud seeding, but has no authority to regulate those activities.
  
  * The Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972 (15 Code of Federal Regulations § 908) requires anyone who intends to engage in weather modification activities within the United States, including cloud seeding, to provide a report to the Administrator of NOAA at least 10 days prior to undertaking the activity. Those reports are filed via email and may be found on the NOAA Central Library website.

We’ve been hit badly by hurricanes in the past year. The hard work and experience of cleaning up the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and riversides in Asheville and the surrounding areas remain following the most dramatic weather event that was Hurricane Helene. On day 140, 140 days after Hurricane Helene hit, the cleanup continues by Asheville volunteers. Overturned cars, trucks, and trains still remind us of the force of water and wind.

In the face of so many disasters, it is hard for many of us to grasp the sheer misinformation on this topic. So few people have integrated views on what is going on.

Yet, the mature world as a whole continues to progress, scientifically and in action. Experts are creating maps that will be used to anticipate the impact of climate change on the distribution of the world’s population by the end of this century. WorldPop, a research organization located at the University of Southampton, claims that the data will show the areas that are most likely to be adversely, even severely, affected in the future.

According to the demographers, who collaborated with the Wellcome Trust and the University of Bristol, the maps will offer comprehensive depictions of humanity by the year 2100, including estimated demographics such as genders, ages, and population proportions. The UN and other international governments currently utilize data from WorldPop to assess the effects of climate change on the planet.

“Climate change will have a fundamental impact on our environment, health, and society, but it will not be felt equally across the globe,” said WorldPop director Andy Tatem, Professor of Spatial Demography and Epidemiology at Southampton.

He added: “Our population data will be vital to understand and plan for the impact of future extreme weather and natural disasters, which have the potential to reshape settlements on earth.”

The Wellcome Trust has supported plans to create the maps by allocating £5.6 million in funding over the following seven years. It carries on WorldPop’s recent efforts to release data that has been utilized by governments and nonprofit organizations to provide emergency aid and assist rural populations. In the past ten years, its demographers have released almost 45,000 datasets utilizing census data, satellite imagery, and mobile phone data.

“The high-resolution maps developed by WorldPop will be able to estimate population sizes across the world down to 100m-by-100m grid cells for future scenarios. The project, which the team is calling FuturePop, will include experts who study climate and health to make sure the data is accessible to the scientific community.”

Co-lead Dr Laurence Hawker, a Research Fellow from the University of Bristol, says: “Many places where populations are changing the most are at the forefront of the climate crisis. This makes understanding these populations even more crucial so we can ensure future planning is targeted effectively to mitigate climate-related threats. WorldPop has a real role to play in understanding how humanity can mitigate the changes we will face across the next 75 years.”

Read more about WorldPop at www.worldpop.org.