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Not to worry, there's only about 7m of sea level rise locked up in Greenland. Someone will be along in a moment to tell us this will be beneficial as we'll have

• pier25 7y ago
  Sea rise, while significant, is the least of our problems regarding climate change. Agriculture will be severely affected by drought, heatwaves and cold waves. This will have very serious consequences. For example, the 2010 heatwave in Russia produced wildfires which reduced its wheat harvest by 30%. Russia decided to stop exporting wheat which in turn increased global food prices. This incident is considered the be one of the causes of the Arab spring revolts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires Imagine something like this on a global scale.
• throwaway6668 7y ago
  The internet gives a disproportionate weight to contrarian opinions. The thing about climate change online debate is that a nexus seems to have formed between corporate interests, trolls and contrarians, and politicians who don’t understand the nature of the disinformation beast, and allow themselves to be influenced by it. Climate change may well bring some regional benefits, but a good way of dealing with climate trolls is to point out that they, personally, would probably lose out, once the regional impacts are clearer, while the rich would be able to buy themselves safety, their self-appointed internet footsoldiers would be left to fend for themselves.