Climate Change Maps

ProPublica published a series of maps showing the expected impact of climate change in the United States over the next several decades.

[W]arming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.

The most suitable "niche" will change dramatically.

By 2040 to 2060, ProPublica reports, extreme temperatures will become the norm in the South and Southwest. But it’s not just heat that will drive Americans out of their homes: humidity and rainfall patterns will also make it difficult for the human body to control its own temperature for one out of every 20 days of the year in the Midwest and Louisiana by 2050. Farm productivity, of course, will also be exacerbated by this — much of the agricultural industry will be obsolete by then.

Meanwhile, satellite images show current disasters "before what is typically peak wildfire season in the West and with 2½ months left in the official Atlantic hurricane season".

Not to mention the emerging new climate in the Arctic and disintegrating glaciers in the Antarctic.

Update (September 18):  The disintegration refers to a PNAS study of the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers. They already contribute about five percent of sea level rise and would potentially add 4 feet of rise in total.