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I think there is great value in trying to design future maps from the scientific constants that we know. There is so much ridicule connected with pointing out the obvious these days (i.e., the Earth is getting warmer, and that THAT might just be a precursor to much colder temps) that I think no one wants to discuss it. Then, there is the horror of what the truth CAN mean.

I have a tangental thought here, so here it is:

Let's say we bring it to the brink; as a species, we fuxit all up. Even if it ain't us - its some natural, 2012-type disaster scenario - eventually, given our rotation around the sun, the climate will stabilize. We exist at an optimum distance from our sun for the fast paced adaptation of carbon-based life, and we enjoy an atmosphere that reluctantly gives up its carbon cycles (barring collision, or really, really big surface or internal explosion - I don't think the PTB have the guts for me to believe it will come by war, after all, its their planet too). If the gators, crocs, turtles, frogs, lizards, and snakes have taught us anything, it is that there are places to survive the cold when it comes.

Let's say it melts completely, the water redistributes according to modern gravitational/torsion theory, and then refreezes, all within a decade - lets say the ends of the two climate extremes exist within a decade of each other. What kind of map would that look like? I bet we have computing power out there to measure all those variables.