big empty words (Score 2, Interesting)

The alarm bells went off for me when I saw platitudes of "never" and "forever". Neither of those hold true when we talk about the earth. And this sort of thing is going to happen irregardless of mankind's contribution to global warming. No matter how much or little mankind is affecting the earth's temperature, it's clear the earth is on an up cycle and would be warming to large degree on it's own. That doesn't mean I reject the relatively youthful science about man's contributions, simply that if let's say that 75% of the warming would've happened on it's own, there are quite a few of these low lying areas that would be toast.