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Brown grey death. Yep. This

wabby — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:29:52 +0000

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Brown grey death. Yep. This far north we are fortunate to make it to Halloween before the brown grey death descends.

As for me, personally, the trends for the future have much significance. I am generation number 3 to occupy our little piece of Earth. Our children are generation 4 and now there is a 5th generation that will know this place. So when you stop by for that glass of water, just ask for Cloudy and the Butter Bean. They'll be happy to help you out.

Agree with moat that these

artappraiser — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 06:27:04 +0000

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Agree with moat that these maps have lot of interesting trends to think about. As someone who is an avid gardener, and probably has to move from NYC in a few years and would prefer more indoor/outdoor living, they are also of specific personal interest.

But your point I'm good for about the next 50 years or so reminds me the opposite: these trends are not sure things to bet on, far from it. Because the main result of global warming for those of us who are not going to live for like, 200 years is: erratic, atypical, disastrous weather events. Which one cannot predict. A family member in the LA area suffering from paradise being turned into shut-in-because-smoke-everywhere-burning-eyes-and-lungs-land reminds me of that, too. As do the gardeners undoubtedly suffering from recent snow in San Antonio.and Atlanta.

It hit me: the long term predictions are fun but have little to do with us grownups, only maybe the little kids, if that? So if you want to start a three-or-four-generation family business or back-to-the-land farmstead for the grandkids, study up....even so, it's going to have to have all those high tech new invention thingies for avoiding massive loss from erratic weather events?

Gardeners in the lower northeast know: some years you can still have annual flowers in December with judicious use of plastic covers now and then. But then other years it's all brown grey death by October.

Those are some fine maps.

moat — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:25:13 +0000

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Those are some fine maps.
The average age of farmers as an overlay of the other data is interesting in the scary sense of the word.