[txhurl]

I was pondering a Noah's Ark situation... what items to send into orbit that we'd use to re-biosculpt the damaged area (really the whole planet: 65m yrs ago the shrews re-engineered the biosphere)...theoretically it might take six months for water/wind/atmospheric systems to re-integrate into something vaguely familiar.

Looks like we really are going to lose California, but on the bright side, look what that Cretaceous monster did to develop tourism in the Yucatan.

[RightWhale]

The best things we can do in the near-term are to develop settlements off-planet -- on Mars and the moon. Self-sufficient settlements. That is, if we imagine that our world and our species are worth saving. Old Noah could have just sat on his country estate like everyone else, like we are doing now.

[Dimensio]

Looks like we really are going to lose California, but on the bright side, look what that Cretaceous monster did to develop tourism in the Yucatan.

You say "on the bright side" as though losing California wasn't good in and of itself.

*rimshot*