unless there is an extreme reversal of the critical damage humans are wreaking on our spaceship earth.

I cannot believe places like Miami and Norfolk are still talking about building sea walls, etc. which would protect them from a foot or so of rising ocean levels; that insurers are still paying people to rebuild or repair flood damaged properties in those areas. The govt. should be putting programs in place to educate coastal populations on the need to relocate and giving them some tax breaks or other financial incentive to do so.

Meanwhile, if you have family or friends in these areas, particularly older people, do what you can to get them to sell out while they still can find foolish buyers, and move to higher ground.

And there is no political will to deal with the problem.

Only the free market is free. Congress is not.

I want to applaud Mr. Sinclairs efforts in producing this and the other videos he has made. They do a good job of conveying the character of some of the current research in climate and do it in an entertaining and engaging fashion.

It has been estimated that the total output of the glaciers in the Amundsen Sea embayment is at least equal to the ice mass in Greenland. Melting of the glaciers in the Amundsen would rise sea levels by 5 meters.

If you would like more information I would suggest the two following primers ...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-147

http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/icesheets.html

It's one thing to anticipate a gradual rise over decades, with occasional intervals of hurricanes and massive storm surges. But the concept of a meltwater pulse? particularly in low lying coastal areas like Florida with massive numbers of residents packed in close to the coasts?

We're so fucked.

This film follows a different scientific scenario as to cause of ice melt/ocean level rise:

did an excellent job on last night's Cosmos of explaining how humans are behind this trend, it's not just Mother Earth going through a natural climate change. He likened the amount of CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere to the cliffs of Dover. Anyone who missed it should check it out on Hulu.
The one thing I'm afraid they're not mentioning is that we may already be (probably are) past the point of no return. I weep for future generations.

become the new Venices of America while Venice disappears . And they are still building on the seashores and selling properties at inflated prices. When I wanted to buy a ocean side lot a few decades back, my parents told me that when they were growing up people avoided the shore and wise people would invest in property high and dry. Seems they were right.

But the asshats who sincerely, albeit stupidly and who drank deeply from the Kool-Aid, live out the centuries until WWIV occurs and there is nothing left of humanity but Einstein's phrase (I had no known of the previous statements of his quotes but his is the more profound, IMO; "I don't know. But I can tell you what they'll use in the fourth. They'll use rocks!&quot . Another variant ('I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones') is attributed to an unidentified letter to Harry S. Truman in "The culture of Einstein" by Alex Johnson, MSNBC, (18 April 2005). However, prior to 1948 very similar quotes were attributed in various articles to an unnamed army lieutenant, as discussed at Quote Investigator : "The Futuristic Weapons of WW3 Are Unknown, But WW4 Will Be Fought With Stones and Spears". The earliest found was from “Quote and Unquote: Raising ‘Alarmist’ Cry Brings a Winchell Reply” by Walter Winchell, in the Wisconsin State Journal (23 September 1946), p. 6, Col. 3. In this article Winchell wrote:

Joe Laitin reports that reporters at Bikini were questioning an army lieutenant about what weapons would be used in the next war.
“I dunno,” he said, “but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, they’ll be using spears!”

It seems plausible, therefore, that Einstein may have been quoting or paraphrasing an expression which he had heard or read elsewhere.