When the Antarctic ice pack shrinks it's all over the news. "The sky is falling." But funny, now that the Arctic ice pack has increased over the last 5 years and the prediction that there would be no Arctic ice pack by 2014 we don't hear a fu**ing peep.
In a few years when the Antarctic ice pack increases that will no longer be in the news - but since the Arctic will start shrinking. "OMG. The sky is falling."
Did you know that coastlines have risen and fallen? that the period between ice ages are periods of ... gasp ... global warming; that ice ages are a recent phenomenon (last 2.5 million years) - probably due to continental drift and change of ocean/wind currents.
Here's the thing - people living in deltas have a very short time frame (geologically) before they have to start building dykes. Maybe, just maybe, people should not build mega cities in flood plains and then be surprised that sh*t happens. Islands will disappear under rising oceans as they have numerous times before; and in a short amount of time (geologically speaking) new land bridges will arise.
But no - lets not be concerned about dioxins, dumping nuclear waste on the ocean floor - let's take our eye off the pollution and spend our time, energy and money on global warming. YEAH!!!! Makes so much sense.