Top 10 cities most and least prepared for climate disaster have been released

It appears as though Asia as a continent is generally screwed should a climate crisis occur.

Such dark news for the Asian population arrives via geospatial AI company AlphaGeo, which, per The New York Times, recently ranked 72 of the globe's biggest cities in terms of resilience.

Scoring was based on two things in particular: physical exposure to a list of climate risks (such as wildfires, hurricanes, drought and inland flooding) and the ability to adapt to them (early-warning technology and drainage systems).

AlphaGeo founder Parag Khanna commented: "Resilience equals risk minus adaptation. Everyone talks about resilience, but no one measures it."

Worryingly, the Top 10 of least resilient cities was exclusively made up of South Asian territories, beginning with the capital of Taiwan, Taipei, which has around 2.43 million residents as of this year.

Taipei is one of the least resilient cities on Earth when it comes to combatting climate disasters (Jimmy Beunardeau/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

Moving down the ranking, we have Chittagong in Bangladesh in at number 9 as another heavily compromised area.

Here's the full Top 10:

1. Ahmedabad, India
2. Hyderabad, India
3. Multan, Pakistan,
4. Dhaka, Bangladesh
5. Lahore, Pakistan
6. Kolkata, India
7. Faisalabad, Pakistan
8. Karachi, Pakistan
9. Chittagong, Bangladesh
10. Taipei, Taiwan

The reasoning for this apparent geographical weak point is all down to South Asia's problems with extreme flooding.

You'll have heard about the killer floods and mudslides in Nepal and Tibet this summer, and here's what Dr Khanna had to say on the topic: "Accelerating climate change inevitably means far more release of water upstream.

"In that region, towns are naturally built in the traversable valleys, but those are also the lowest point — and water naturally flows downward along the path of least resistance. We are literally an insignificant obstacle to nature."

The capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, is comfortably capable of withstanding climate disasters (Erkut Kargin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

So what about the hardiest cities we have when it comes to combatting weather? Interestingly, it's the 'Windy City' of Chicago that sits proudly at the top of AlphaGeo's ranking.

Just for starters, hurricanes aren't really a thing there and it's located at a nice latitude, while Chicago's gigantic Deep Tunnel Project essentially nullified all flood risk.

Check out the Top 10 below:

1. Chicago, US
2. Addis Abada, Ethiopia
3. Melbourne, Australia
4. Barcelona, Spain
5. Ankara, Turkey
6. Buenos Aires, Argentina
7. Paris, France
8. Istanbul, Turkey
9. Bogotá, Columbia
10. Nairobi, Kenya

In the case of Paris, the City of Love, climate disasters aren't likely to get much traction there because of a super focus on redesigning urban areas - cutting major transport emissions by prioritising pedestrianisation.

Extensive greening and cooling strategies are also in place to ward off rising temperatures.