U.S. Climate Will Shift 1,000 Miles North

 

A new way, sort of a metaphor, for explaining where our climate is headed was expressed recently by a climatologist. She said Minnesota will become today's Texas. Rhode Island will become today's Florida.

Al Gore was criticized daily for his movie 20 years ago, "An Inconvenient Truth." As he pointed out recently, most of what he predicted, global warming, floods, storms, etc, have come to pass. The dates he gave were not precisely accurate but the consequences are. 

As the warmth moves north, it will leave behind an area of the U.S. too hot for people to survive. Food production in the South, including meat, will not be possible. The rise in sea levels will affect coastal areas in ways we are not prepared for.

We can only hope the future will bring the public on board for steps to offset the warming that is on its way. When the public wants something done politicians will follow.