US Cities Most Vulnerable To Warming World Least Energy-Efficient

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Miami's vulnerability to the destructive force of wild weather was evidenced last September when large swathes of the city were flooded as Irma barreled into south Florida.

Atlanta and Phoenix are other cities experts often describe as the country's most vulnerable to extreme weather made worse by climate change, and whose energy consumption far surpassed the national average, according to Arcadia's data. Arcadia's ranking was based on the electricity consumption of its customers, who number some 70,000 nationwide.

Though the company's customers are renewable energy users, its data likely approximated behavior by households dependent on fossil fuel-generated energy, Arcadia said. The new figures provide a unique insight into electricity consumption at a city level, said Rizk.

Johanna Partin, director of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, said the findings should serve as a "wake-up call", pushing city officials to adopt more stringent energy-saving measures. "Even if they're doing a great job in going gang-buster on installing energy efficiency, they're going to have to do a lot more of that," she said by phone from San Francisco.

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