What images of underwater cities leave out

Providence, RI —

Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and when I get back to California, I'm certainly going to the combination Taco Bell-and-Pizza-Hut-AND-fast electric-vehicle charger but not for the food.

Two years ago, I asked the readers of the San Francisco Chronicle what questions they had about climate change, specifically in the Bay Area. But one reader went really local: they gave me their home address and asked if it would be underwater because of climate change.

This person's house was at nearly 1000 feet of elevation. Not even the direst uncertainties in the worst-of-the-worst case scenarios had the Pacific Ocean or Bay Area anywhere near their driveway. I wished desperately they had left their email address so I could tell them so — although arguably, I could have sent a letter.