OT?: Climate change will push population north making the midwest the most habitable part of the country. Think of the recruiting implications!
https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/
Population has moved south over the years making the south a football recruiting hotbed. Well I've got good news! Climate change will cause much of the south to be unlivable and unfarmable while many living along the coast will find their homes below sea level and the midwest will become the most habitable section of the country. Take that SEC, soon* all the recruits will be in the B1Gs geography. Silver lining, guys!
Yes it is strange that I read this and thought of college football recruiting.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:04 PM ^
+1
Introspective.
September 16th, 2020 at 6:00 AM ^
Not true. I love The White Album.
September 16th, 2020 at 8:24 AM ^
Best advice on twitter is to never tweet. The mgoblog equivalent would be never comment. You could have posted something so much worse than nothing.
September 16th, 2020 at 9:13 AM ^
I was going for a Simpson's gif of "The South Will Rise Again"
September 15th, 2020 at 8:04 PM ^
+1
Informative.
September 15th, 2020 at 7:39 PM ^
Where will these people be employed?
September 15th, 2020 at 8:20 PM ^
World needs plenty of bartenders
September 15th, 2020 at 7:40 PM ^
Most habitable???
I think Michigan is more likely to get Northern Kentucky's climate than San Diego's climate.
Northern Kentucky: I lived there, I'd argue it's a WORSE climate than Michigan's climate. More humidity, less refreshing summer cool fronts, and just as many gray dank days in the cold season.
Plus, it still gets snow but not enough snow that anyone remembers season-to-season how to drive in it. Oh my God the drivers there ..........
September 15th, 2020 at 8:12 PM ^
September 15th, 2020 at 9:40 PM ^
This article has a nifty prediction map indicating that in 2050 Michigan's climate may be similar to current St. Louis.
September 16th, 2020 at 1:10 AM ^
I grew up in St. Louis. You guys in Michigan are fooked if that analysis is correct. Prepare thyself for constant swamp ass.
September 15th, 2020 at 7:45 PM ^
Vermont will be a CFB powerhouse in 2100
September 16th, 2020 at 12:55 AM ^
Yeah--stay the fuck out of Vermont. We're just fine without the influx.
September 16th, 2020 at 2:26 AM ^
Vermont. Where the leaves change colors but the people never do.
September 15th, 2020 at 7:49 PM ^
So we should all leave our cars running in the driveway at night?
September 15th, 2020 at 7:53 PM ^
You guys don't do that now?
September 15th, 2020 at 9:34 PM ^
Shhhhhh
September 15th, 2020 at 10:10 PM ^
They do that in Thompson, Manitoba in January.
September 15th, 2020 at 7:55 PM ^
This is terrifying, and not really a 'make lemonade from lemons' sort of topic.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:06 PM ^
Michigan has all the fresh water. Gotta protect that sh*t from interlopers.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:16 PM ^
In a related topic. My mother, who was born and raised in the midwest, said that while the general population in the midwest is dropping, people will have to come back to the midwest in a generation or two. Her quote, "the midwest has an over abundance of quite possibly the most precious resource in the galaxy (and probably universe): fresh water." You can't sustain life without it and as other parts of the country try harder to extract as much of it from the ground or sea water, the midwest will be sitting pretty.
Fresh water. The best recruiting tool.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:28 PM ^
No lie. On vacation I met a guy from Arizona that was complaining about the Great Lakes states not allowing the arid southwest to build a water pipeline so he can water his grass with Lake Michigan water.
I asked him why he expected to have nice grass when he lives in a desert, considering that lake levels can impact fish reproduction.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:44 PM ^
Not to mention the 2,000+ miles of pipeline lol!
September 15th, 2020 at 8:31 PM ^
Did anyone else see that 60 Minutes story about Mexico sending raw sewage across the border near Tijuana? Add that to XM’s litany of SoCal ills: raw sewage season.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:53 PM ^
There will be wars in our lifetime over fresh water. The value/importance of the Great Lakes basin will rise exponentially.
September 15th, 2020 at 11:53 PM ^
Yes, disturbing. I am very familiar with imperial beach. One of my good clients/friends is on the port of San Diego. When you talk climate change, some countries just don’t give a flying fuck.
September 15th, 2020 at 11:59 PM ^
I’ve been swimming in raw sewage. I love it! (Frank Drebin)
September 16th, 2020 at 7:27 AM ^
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:18 PM ^
Big 3 played the loooooong game to soften detroit winters
September 15th, 2020 at 8:22 PM ^
We're playing the long con on this one
September 15th, 2020 at 8:22 PM ^
I do my part everyday. I pollute so much to make Michigan a future recruiting hot spot. Go Blue!
In all seriousness I saw an article a few years ago predicting Michigan would be the most to benefit of any state by the year 2100 based on natural disasters, climate change, deadly insects, etc.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:24 PM ^
The exodus that started speeding up in the early 70s was not because of the weather. It was the unfavorable economic environment.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:33 PM ^
Climate change? You mean forest mismanagement.
September 15th, 2020 at 9:33 PM ^
it will be interesting to see the impact of these horrible fires on climate. bet it makes things a bit cooler in the short term. when i was a kid, the mt st helen's volcanic eruption was attributed to some global cooling. the big fear then was the pending ice age.
September 15th, 2020 at 9:57 PM ^
User name is spot on George.
September 15th, 2020 at 11:51 PM ^
He's right, climate change is not responsible for the western fires. More so forest management, there is just a large surplus in fuels. Though eventually additional CO2 will make the globe warmer and rise sea levels as well as expand severe drought.
September 16th, 2020 at 2:20 AM ^
Unraked forest floors do not make the climate hotter and drier for a longer part of the calendar, thus extending the burning season. If you think they do, please provide a proposed mechanism of action. I'd like to hear this.
September 16th, 2020 at 7:10 AM ^
I don't think that was his point. Forestry (like everything else managed by government in this country) is a mess. Management is a patchwork of national, regional, state, and municipal law and policy; resources are funded in the same way; and response to fires natural and manmade also follow that model (sound familiar?).
When I worked for a tech company in the mid-2000s, we did some consulting with FEMA to improve coordination of resource allocation and response as a result of lessons learned during Hurricane Katrina. While the U.S. Forestry Service and other state and regional agencies do a better job than others, and there is more coordination, they are not immune to politics and the whims of governors, legislatures, and the lunacy of DC.
We found real and entrenched competing interests. Add in deep mistrust on all sides, and disasters like this year's fires and their spread were inevitable.
September 15th, 2020 at 8:41 PM ^
I’ve always said that yes, there are certain other places that maybe I’d choose to live, but I’ll take a shitty winter over hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, droughts and volcanoes any day.
September 16th, 2020 at 8:13 AM ^
My college freshman daughter thanked me for living in Michigan for that exact reason yesterday. Smart kid.
September 15th, 2020 at 9:26 PM ^
Climate change doesn't exist so I'm gonna keep selling those condos in Boca.
September 16th, 2020 at 1:48 AM ^
You’re getting downvoted probably because you’re new and none of your comments match up. You seem like a troll with nothing else better to do.
September 15th, 2020 at 9:40 PM ^
I've got 10 acres at the end of a dirt road in Northern Michigan.
Stay off of my lawn please.
Have a nice day
September 15th, 2020 at 10:02 PM ^
Well, in 80 years when everyone moves here, imagine how much money your great grand kids will make!
September 15th, 2020 at 9:48 PM ^
In 2007 a meteorologist friend said that in 2030 Buffalo, where I live, would have the climate of 2007 Norther Virginia. At the time I figured it was a long ways off. Doesn’t seem that far away now. Since then I’ve been calling Buffalo the Miami of the North.
September 15th, 2020 at 10:13 PM ^
Don't be too quick to buy property in the midwest. I have it on authority of the POTUS himself that the climate is going to be cooling. Only suckers and losers would go long on the midwest b/c of global warming.
September 15th, 2020 at 10:13 PM ^
Michigan circa 2090: the Harvard of the West and the UCLA of the North.
September 16th, 2020 at 8:16 AM ^
i prefer stanford of the north.
September 15th, 2020 at 10:26 PM ^
I’ll be long dead by the time the Bible Belt become the happenin place to live
September 15th, 2020 at 11:03 PM ^
So Waterworld is actually a documentary?