We're Going To Need A Bigger Boat.

     The map above was used to illustrate an article in the N.Y. Times earlier this month. It supposedly shows the long-term--very long -term---impact of Climate Change on Alabama.

The article doesn't say, but all of that newfound waterfront property in Montgomery will come at the expense of, well, a lot of what you think of when you think of the city of Montgomery.

    When a city is marked on a map the dot that comes with the name is usually centered on the main post office. That would mean  the just opened Lynching Memorial, The Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center, The Hank Hank Williams Museum, the Alley entertainment zone, and the entire Capitol Building complex-- The Eastchase Shopping Center---and a whole lot more---- would become underwater attractions. 

     The Back Belt would become The Black Sea. 

     If.....if the article projecting change over the next 10,000 years is accurate:

"What would happen if the current growth trend in greenhouse gas emissions continues for the rest of this century before reversing? It’s a question worth pondering, especially with a president who has vowed to quit the Paris climate accord and is aggressively promoting the use of coal, gas and oil.

Our research with colleagues indicates that one consequence would be an unrelenting rise of the oceans for 10,000 years, ultimately reaching more than 170 feet above present levels, with half of that increase occurring in the next thousand years.

The map of the world would be redrawn. As Antarctica and Greenland lost nearly all of their ice, vast portions of the United States, some more than 100 miles inland, would be inundated."

Flooding in Elba, Alabama, in 1929, without Climate Change.

 The again none of us will be around for the end of that event...in the year 12,000 or so. And even if there is no flooding, none of the attractions I mentioned will last that long anyway. And, finally, most of the people reading this probably don't believe The ("lying") New York Times.