Where can I read about the impacts of climate change?

I want to plan for the effects of climate change. Where can I read what effects are likely to happen, when and where? I want to know what systems I can or can't rely on, which places will be more hospitable etc.

I'd like something concise and accessible for a lay person. A short book would be preferable.

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Where can I read what effects are likely to happen
Effects of climate change
Where can I read what effects are likely to happen, when and where? I want to know what systems I can or can't rely on, which places will be more hospitable etc.
The thing is, you can't rely on man-made systems when climate disasters hit your area. You have to be self-aware and self sufficient for a few days and cooperate with the people around you. You should also expect that no place is safe from climate disasters.
- You should also expect that no place is safe from climate disasters.
  Deserts and low-lying coastal regions are more susceptible, surely? There must be places that will be less at risk, even if not from human effects such as migration.
  
  Even at high altitudes, you are not safe from climate disasters, such as landslides, floods or the unthinkable like this
  https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lvipmejt7c2i
  it is very difficult to find a place that has a less risk from climate disasters. Even in places that are less directly at risk from climate disasters, we have to think about the impacts of crop failure, global famine or wars for water.
There are many regional studies, unfortunately where I am from (the US) it is only really insurance companies talking earnestly about how bad future climate change will be quantifiably in a given area, climate science is dead here otherwise by design. Where roughly do you live in the world?
- I keep my location quiet online, but insurance company reports is an interesting avenue
  
  That makes sense!
  Well here is an example from the company First Street in the US. This report has a breakdown for each state.
  https://firststreet.org/research-library/the-cost-of-climate
  (just search for "the cost of climate first street" the pdf is freely available you don't have to enter in nonsense name and email to get it from my link, I just don't want to randomly link to a pdf directly it feels sketch lol so I linked to the report information on their website)
  This is really the only place here that fossil fuel money can't obliterate the truth since Insurance companies are also very rich and actually have a vested interest in having a clear vision of the future risk environment (and for their customers having a clear vision of the future), the academic world is fucked and you can't really rely on them being able to tell you how it is actually going to be since they have no money and the institutions that should be defending science just rolled over to Trump soo.....
  Hopefully it is different elsewhere in the world :(
A quick search shows a book called How to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue might be a good place to start.
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells
- This is kind of the long and short of it. "Preparing for climate change" is doomsday prepping. There is no place you can move to and expect to never face struggle, if only because you will have to contend with refugees and a breakdown of critical supply chains, in particular food and clean water. "Land that is not underwater, on fire, or an unlivable desert" will be a prized commodity and you will be contested for it if you happen to be living on it.
- Reviews suggest it predicts extreme outcomes without communicating confidence levels, i.e. it's unrealistically alarmist. I might read it bearing that in mind.
  https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/
- Thanks, interesting. Written six years ago, has climate science changed its forecasts since then? I don't know how fast the science moves

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