on January 14, 3008 Danny Bloom

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Interesting! Here’s one off-the-wall GW narrative: been thinking about this for about 12 months. Here goes:

Around 2150, with Greenland’s ice sheet gone and much of Antarctica’s ice sheets gone, and all of the Arctic ice gone of course, global warming begins to create a series of catastrophic events that lead to 1. a major rise in sea levels worldwide, flooding all coastal areas and cities and; 2. a rise in temperature to the extent that life in all tropical and temperate zones on Earth is no longer “livable” and; 3. forced migration of survivors to population retreats in northern zones along the Arctic Circle (Alaska, Canada, Norway, Russia, etc) and in some research stations in Antarctica; 4. where around 200,000 people (okay, maybe 1 million, maybe 1 billion) spend the next 500 - 1000 to 10,000 years living meaningful and purposeful lives as survivors of climate change, refuges of the Internatal Combustion Engine (ICE) age; 5. and who against all odds survive the Long Emergency and the Big Troubles, generation after generation until; 6. their descendants can return to the temperate and tropical zones again and repopulate the Earth for another try at “civilization” and 7. it all ends happily and life goes on, albeit with major changes in the way people in the future live. This narrative has a happy ending, despite a near-tragic start, so not to worry, all ends well and the human species survives, against all odds — because we have the gumption to survive!