一些地方因為水太多（洪水、漲潮）感到恐慌，一些地方因為缺水（極度干旱、枯井）備受困擾。這不是圣經故事，而是世界各地人們因為氣候變化面臨的現實。

Weather.com新發表了一個系列專欄《出埃及記》，氣象數據工作者們在專欄中展示了一個令人心痛的全球現象。世界銀行的數據表明，截至2050年，將有超過1.43億人因為氣候變化的影響被迫離開家園，而這僅僅是拉丁美洲、撒哈拉以南非洲、南亞的數據。

當然，氣候變化的影響波及全球每一個角落，包括美國。

“我們會談到風暴帶來的立竿見影的影響，也會盡量用普通人可以理解的說法解釋氣候變化的長期影響，在一些案例中，氣候變化帶來了毀滅性的影響”，天氣頻道（The Weather Channel）的全球新聞主管兼主編格里格·吉爾德曼（Greg Gilderman）說。該頻道屬于同名的天氣公司（The Weather Company），該公司2015年起成為科技巨頭IBM的子機構。

目前，《出埃及記》為馬薩諸塞州的斯基尤特撰寫了專欄，去年冬天四場東北風暴襲擊了此地，房屋大量損毀。其中兩場風暴造成損失超過10億美元，31人死亡。

在馬里蘭州的埃里克特城，致命洪水頻頻肆虐，原因是氣候變暖讓美國東北部更容易下大暴雨，而在世界其它地方，約旦的干旱讓戰爭難民成為環境難民。農民被迫離開農村，去城里找生計，因為在極度高溫中莊稼根本無法存活。

未來的專題將會講述庫爾德斯坦、西西里、尼日利亞、孟加拉灣的故事，Weather.com的執行編輯凱文·海耶斯（Kevin Hayes）稱，他們希望在專欄結束時，其中一半是美國國內的故事，一半是其它國家的故事。

“我們想講范圍更廣、更多元、更全球性的故事，因為我們面臨的問題是多元的、全球性的、影響世界各地”，海耶斯告訴本刊。

盡管天氣公司認為氣候變化是科學事實，它也明白并非所有讀者都承認這一點。公司在《出埃及記》的介紹中寫道：“如果你不承認氣候變化正在發生這一事實，這個專欄很可能也無法說服你，因為其它事都沒讓你信服。但氣候失調的確給人類造成了混亂。”

盡管目前只發表了三個故事，但已經有幾百萬人次通過網頁、手機、社交媒體、視頻等公司的各個平臺看過《出埃及記》。

吉爾德曼說，“我確實覺得新聞機構在很多事情上都不能再閃爍其詞了，特別是在氣候變化的問題上”，他還說，這個系列并沒有用權威科學家的說法和否定氣候變化的說法對質。

《出埃及記》意在描述氣候變化用“微妙又直接”的方式迫使人們遷徙，這種說法在氣候科學中是有研究依據的。

“對我而言，能夠給人們講這些故事是我的榮幸”，海耶斯說，“這能讓他們接觸到氣候變化的現實。”（財富中文網）

譯者：Agatha

An excess of water (floods, rising tides) causes panic in some communities, while the lack of water (extreme drought, depleted wells) threatens others. This is not a biblical tale, but reality for people around the world facing the results of climate change.

In a new editorial series called Exodus, published on Weather.com, the people behind the meteorologists’ data show the sometimes heart-wrenching effects of a global phenomenon. According to the World Bank, more than 143 million people could be forced to relocate within their own countries by 2050 in response to the impacts of climate change—and that’s in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia alone.

Of course, the effects of climate change reach every corner of the globe, including the U.S.

“Much as we would cover the immediate impact of a storm, we’re commuting the long term effects—which in many cases are really devastating—of climate change, in what we hope are really human terms,” says Greg Gilderman, global head of news and editor-in-chief of The Weather Channel. The Weather Company, which publishes the channel of the same name, has been a division of tech giant IBM since 2015.

So far, Exodus has featured the community of Scituate, Mass., where homes were slammed by four nor’easters last winter. Two of the storms caused more than $1 billion in damage and killed 31 people.

In Ellicott City, Md., devastating floods hit every few years as a warming climate increases the likelihood of heavier rains in the northeast U.S., while across the world, in Jordan, droughts are turning refugees of war into refugees of their environment. Farmers have been forced to move to the city to find work, unable to grow crops in the extreme heat.

Future features will tell the stories of Kurdistan, Sicily, Nigeria, the Bay of Bengal. Kevin Hayes, an executive editor at Weather.com, says they expect to have half domestic and half international stories by the end of the series.

“We’re trying to tell stories that are broader and more diverse and more global, because the problem is worldwide, global, and diverse,” Hayes tells Fortune.

While the Weather Company addresses climate change as scientific fact, it’s aware that not all readers will acknowledge the truth. In its introduction of Exodus, the Weather Company wrote, “Look, if you’re reading this and you reject the fact that climate change is happening, these pieces probably aren’t going to convince you, because you haven’t been convinced by anything else. But climate disruptions cause human disruptions.”

With just three stories published, Exodus has already reached several millions viewers across all the company’s platforms: web, mobile, social, and video.

“I do think there was a demand…for news organizations to not equivocate on many issues, but particular on this issue,” says Gilderman, adding that the series does not put statements by credible scientists against those of a climate change denier.

Backed by climate science, Exodus aims to address the “subtle and direct” ways in which climate change is forcing people to migrate.

“For me it feels like a privilege to be able to tell stories to those people,” says Hayes, “and get them to interact with the reality of climate change.”