You've all missed the point. Last I checked, RIM is a CANADIAN company. Can't be trusted those canucks. Some of them speak French. And we all know what the "C" in Canada stands for.... those radical left wing... oh wait this is Obama.

The concern you state about Bangladesh assumes the water rises fast.

From what I've heard it's a gradual process that will raise sea level over several generations of human life, which means the generations of children of the 60 million people will settle elsewhere gradually. That is, some people will migrate out. Others will stick around until the last square inch is covered. It will become important to arrange marriages for ones children to "highlanders", families with holdings higher up.

Sure this means land prices rise, and there is more competition for land and more crowding in cities, but people adapt (with some suffering of course) to anything that happens gradually enough. Just look at the huge numbers of people migrating to cities around the world already. It's a slow but steady influx, and the cities are radically changed by it, but people keep coming. Some people will starve, some will experience stress that ruins their marriages, some will find opportunity selling property to migrants or otherwise servicing their needs. But nothing that is clearly catastrophic like a tsunami or volcano or earthquake or asteroid hit is happening here.

I'm not suggesting climate change is good. I'm totally aligned with the notion that the climate devil we know is better than a future climate devil we don't know. But almost anything that takes 200 years to happen is so slow as to be potentially dwarfed by many other causes of human suffering. Take volcano eruptions. One nice big one and this whole global warming trend could be set back 100 years. Who can say that in the 100 to 200 years all this is going to take that there won't be a big volcanic eruption. I won't count on it, but the point is there's lots of uncertainty in anything with a long time scale.

The big fear in climate change is sudden climate change, and climate destabilization leading to multi-year ice-overs and such, not gradual warming trends and gradual sea level rises over 100 years or so.

And, no, I don't drive a Hummer. I drive a Hybrid car. Runs off the fumes from the other cars on the road. :-)