“are expecting that by the end of the century, which seems like a long way away, but, buddy, that's like less than that's like eight decades, seventy something years. Maybe even seventy seven, you could say, to be exact. But in seventy seven years, climatologists expect all of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, I'm guessing the southern half, to be tropical”
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By 2100, the climate classification of the specified southern US states matches tropical or subtropical conditions as measured by standard climate indices (e.g., Köppen-Geiger classification).
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