A recent Financial Times report highlights cities deemed 'sitting ducks' vulnerable to climate disasters, specifically naming Amsterdam, Houston, and New York City for flooding risk, while Austin faces deadly infernos. Cities like Lisbon, Naples, Athens, and Christchurch are also at risk of heatwaves and flooding. Experts express uncertainty about when these disasters may strike, noting that conditions are worsening. Notably, Athens narrowly avoided catastrophe from a wildfire last year, emphasizing the precarious situation of densely populated urban areas threatened by climate change.
In the next year there's going to be a big wildfire destroying a big community. But we have absolutely no idea where that is going to happen.
What was missing was the wind element. Had there been strong winds, like the Santa Ana winds which drove the LA wildfires, the situation might have been far more severe.
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