Study: Pinal is 2nd most at-risk U.S. county for being uninhabitable
by Bob McGovern | inMaricopa
A recent study says Pinal County is the second most at-risk county in the United States of being uninhabitable in the near future due to climate change.
Five other Arizona counties, including Maricopa County, are also at risk, according to a ProPublica and New York Times Magazine analysis of exclusive climate data from the Rhodium Group, an independent data-analytics firm.
The study analyzed several metrics – rising temperatures, rainfall, agriculture yields and economic damages, for example – to predict those U.S. counties that could become uninhabitable in the next 20-40 years due to climate change.
