Climate change in Bama

Mobile's Press-Register newspaper reports on a new study examining climate change impact in Alabama. Reporter Sean Reilly writes:

Dauphin Island will be gone, submerged beneath the rising waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Chilton County peaches? Only a memory as central Alabama becomes too hot to grow them. North Alabama's hardwood forests of oak, hickory and walnut could retreat out of the state and part of the Black Belt may turn to desert.
Such changes would take many years to play out, if they occur at all, under a forecast by Larry Davenport, a Samford University biologist who will present his findings this week at a climate change conference in the nation's capital.

The professor's full report is here.