OT?: Climate change will push population north making the midwest the most habitable part of the country. Think of the recruiting implications!

Submitted by Jonesy on September 15th, 2020 at 7:12 PM

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.

uminks

September 15th, 2020 at 11:46 PM ^

This will be a few hundred years away. I think Human innovation will solve our carbon emissions in the next 50 years. There are even technology that may capture CO2 from the atmosphere in the next 50 years that can reduce the greenhouse effect. I guess this climate migration could be a possibility after we are all dead, probably after 2120.  So may be your great, great, great, grand kids may see all the top recruits coming out of the Midwest. 

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MFun

September 16th, 2020 at 12:56 AM ^

So by 2070 we have a chance to play for a national championship!!!! :)   So happy.  

btw, for the most part, the western wildfires have very little (if anything) to do with climate change but instead the non-action to clear western forests of dead debris (fuel). It must be done or nature will do it. 

 

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bklein09

September 16th, 2020 at 1:26 AM ^

Regarding the fires, you’re wrong. Here in Oregon we had 3 days of 40-60 mph winds that hit right when the fires started. That is absolutely not normal in western OR and WA, and was the reason the fires got out of control. We were also in the mid 90s in September, and it hadn’t rained in two months or so. That’s also super abnormal for this part of the country. 

Forest  management probably plays a role. But climate change absolutely is making Oregon hotter and drier, giving us a climate similar to California.

And speaking of forest management, our democratic governor tried passing legislation to deal with that problem, but the republicans in the legislature staged a walkout over another issue so no bills were passed at all. I only mention that because I know how people like to blame the dems out here for everything. 

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