Now that the government recognizes Global Warming (Thanks, Gore.), it’s officially here and it’s time for you to make a buck — no, megabucks off global warming. Call it Global Warming or Climate Change — doesn’t matter, it’s coming. What kind of new, unusual opportunities are out there for the little guy to cash in on? Here are a few suggestions:

1) Sell refrigerators to Eskimos.

2) Make and sell dated-ahead maps, like in 2012 this part of the coast will be flooded. “Sell your property there now!” Then project ahead to 2020, to 2030 of what that area will look like, which part will be underwater. You could sell downloaded maps from the Internet. Call your Congressperson for some free maps for source material.

3) Sell refrigerators to the Eskimos.

4) Put together, to sell, a survivor’s kit. Just in case one is undulated overnight. Include a compass, life jacket, rubber inflatable raft, oars, rations, water bottle. It is surprising what insecure people will buy.

5)Sell refrigerators to the Eskimos.

6) Put together to put on sale a planter’s seed restarter package. This will include seeds to grown garden vegetables in a new, relocated place. Don’t forget to include bulbs and seeds for flowers, grass and weeds.

7) Sell refrigerators to the Eskimos.

Nostalgia souvenir photo books. Take shots of dilapidated buildings, vistas, mundane views of different parts of town or of a section of your city. Package the photos to show the kids and grandchildren the neighborhoods where they might have gown up. You can also set up a pay-for-view web site and make money in the modern way with your digital photos.

9) Sell refrigerators to the Eskimos.

10) Advertise for items (paying your fee of course) to be placed in a time-vault to be opened by divers 100 years from now. In other words, what item means so much to them that they want to preserve it. “Save a bit of you.”

11) Sell refrigerators to the Eskimos.

12) Collect as-told-to tales/folk stories from people who refuse to leave the area when flooded. The diehards. Morbid? Hey, death sells!

13) Sell refrigerators to the Eskimos.

14) Business of relocating graves. They might not want to run from the no-longer-there places without taking their dead folks with them. You shouldn’t need an undertaker’s license as you’re not burying them but digging them. Anyway, check this one out and verify laws for you county.

15) Sell refrigerates to the Eskimos.

Well, I think you get the drift. You probably can come up with your own surefire, moneymaking schemes to cash in on the Global Warming crisis. Others in other times have made bucks from misfortunate suckers. Why not you? Why can’t you make bucks, too, hey! make megabucks. You could someday retire to Florida — Whoops, retire to Kansas!

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