If you've seen An Inconvenient Truth and were frightened by it, you'll really be frightened when you read this from the LA Times:

The ice is so massive that its weight presses the bedrock of Greenland below sea level, so all-concealing that not until recently did scientists discover that Greenland actually might be three islands.

Should all of the ice sheet ever thaw, the meltwater could raise sea level 21 feet and swamp the world's coastal cities, home to a billion people. It would cause higher tides, generate more powerful storm surges and, by altering ocean currents, drastically disrupt the global climate.

Climate experts have started to worry that the ice cap is disappearing in ways that computer models had not predicted.

By all accounts, the glaciers of Greenland are melting twice as fast as they were five years ago, even as the ice sheets of Antarctica — the world's largest reservoir of fresh water — also are shrinking, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Kansas reported in February.

Twice as fast as expected! Bye, bye Bangladesh. Bye, bye most of Florida. Bye, bye significant portions of Manhattan Island. As for me, hah. I'll have beach front property!

If you haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth, go see it. It's a must for everyone!

[A hat tip to Kevin Drum]