Come the floods, Seattle will be in good shape

I don't want to make light of global climate change*.

But if global climate change continues and the seas rise further, Seattle will not be a bad place to be after the deluge.

via Crooked Timber's "Swimming with the fishes".

*(Yes, I believe the vast majority of scientists who both state that it is happening and that human agency is the major cause. It's a bit more of a question about what to do. The great failure of GW Bush, besides Iraq, is not that he rejected Kyoto but that he has not suggested anything to replace it. )