Even if we concede that CO2 emmissions might cause the sea level to rise, what kind of an idiot is going to drown with the sea level encroaching 1/4 inch per year. That’s one stubborn individual.

If you really need something to worry about, climate cycles on a geologic time scale indicate it’s much more likely that we’re trending into another ice-age. We’re presently bouncing along at a climate “optimum”. The climate extremes of the next “inevitable” ice-age will create massive starvation and rapid exhaustion of our remaining fossil fuel. The inland progression of a few beaches will seem very minor issues compared to burying most of North America beneath a mile thick sheet of ice.

Wake-up folks. You’re being punked by pandering politicians and academics with their porcine heads in the grant money trough. We need to direct our limited intellectual and capital resources towards meaningful solutions to a real energy crisis that looms in the coming decade.

Wind and solar are not the immediate or even the longterm solutions. We’ll need nuclear, continued development of fossil, renewables and a lot of conservation to get through this. The only conservation that will work curb our waste of fossil fuel is a severe tax levied on the consumer.

In the mean time, you better hope we can stave off the next ice-age with a little man-made global warming.

You are wrong on tip number 1. Heat waves are the deadliest natural disaster in California, and maybe in the United States. Killing more people, too. Also, Arctic sales? I don’t think so. To move, boats use CO2. This throws the whole shield out of balance, and also gives us air pollution, which makes it unsafe for others to go outside. Earth’s “shield” generated by powerful magnetic forces inside Earth’s core is slowly fading because of global warming. If that shield fails, the poles reverse, which takes centuries, and will probably, in the end, make Earth look like Mars. It will evaporate water supplies, killing people. It will also make it much harder to have that “summer fun” that the author is talking about when there is a 70% higher chance of SEVERE sunburn caused by solar wind. There are NO good points to global warming.