New Republic: On Monday, the New York Times reported on two new climate change studies that came to the same, terrifying conclusion: The heat-trapping gases could destabilize other parts of Antarctica as well as the Greenland ice sheet, potentially causing enough sea-level rise that many of the worlds coastal cities would eventually have to be abandoned.
Abandoned.
While actual abandonment would not happen for many years (were talking centuries), the studies warned that our actions now are irrevocable...