Here is one climate projection for the United States:
![[Image: Koppen-Geiger_Map_USA_future.svg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Koppen-Geiger_Map_USA_future.svg)
in contrast to something more familiar (current reality):
![[Image: US_50_states_K%C3%B6ppen.svg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/US_50_states_K%C3%B6ppen.svg)
Such is the result of playing "greenhouse-gas roulette" Desert zones expand, appearing in places in which they are not in existence -- yet. Hot deserts expand in Utah, New Mexico, and western Texas (the Permian Basin). Semi-arid steppe The tropical zone reaches roughly Tampa-St. Pete and Orlando. Real winters disappear in Nebraska, Iowa, and the southern Great Lakes... but drought more than offsets a longer growing season in central Nebraska.
I concede that southwestern Alaska might be a good grain-growing area -- but soils are now poor and will not improve rapidly.
in contrast to something more familiar (current reality):
Such is the result of playing "greenhouse-gas roulette" Desert zones expand, appearing in places in which they are not in existence -- yet. Hot deserts expand in Utah, New Mexico, and western Texas (the Permian Basin). Semi-arid steppe The tropical zone reaches roughly Tampa-St. Pete and Orlando. Real winters disappear in Nebraska, Iowa, and the southern Great Lakes... but drought more than offsets a longer growing season in central Nebraska.
I concede that southwestern Alaska might be a good grain-growing area -- but soils are now poor and will not improve rapidly.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
