This week, the New Yorker magazine glowingly profiled Jon Leland, who is “scaring people about climate change” by placing “This Place Will Be Water” stickers on buildings in Manhattan. Leland is obviously claiming that industrial, noncontaminant warming gasses will warm the air, melt the ice, and expand the water in the seas enough to inundate the Big Apple.

Before he starts his new “This Place Will Be Desert” campaign in the Midwest, I’d like to warn him that his stickers make claims that are scientifically dubious. They’re right up there with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her recent claim that “the world’s going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”