Melting Waters Run Deep: Especially when it just keeps getting warmer.Get the lifeboats ready, because if we keep polluting (or, uh, the cows keep farting), we're gonna be in for a wet time. From Scienceblogs.com:

Two studies were recently published, documenting changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, confirming that climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth's largest storehouses of ice and snow (Greenland pictured at top and right). As if there could be any doubt regarding their conclusions, NASA recently published a satellite study of both regions and goes so far as to directly tie these changes to global warming, describing the survey as "the most comprehensive" ever for both regions.

Say goodbye to New York. ...And I never even passed "Guppy" in swimming lessons.