Well, the climate change has caused increased snowfall in antarctica. It's the North polar cap that's shrinking alarmingly. However, the snowfall in antarctica is not quite enough to prevent it from shrinking too, so I'm afraid that's wrong...not to mention a bit irrelevent, since the other pole is shrinking so fast. Once it's gone, then what?

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003293.html

They did think it was actually growing for a while, but the satellite data shows otherwise. It's not shrinking very fast, but it is losing mass. Which means all that water is still raising sea levels. But we knew that. Sea levels have risen 8 to 12 inches in the last century.
And the sea has swallowed its first country.
http://www.earth-policy.org/index.ph...s/2001/update2
Tuvalu is no more.

The tone of many reports on global warming has gone from histrionic to reassuring lately. I personally don't find that reassuring. <lol>
The scope of the up and coming disasters is so enormous, I don't think anyone can clearly imagine it all right now. The melting ice, rising ocean, and ocean acidification are a disaster likely to cause far more serious mass extinctions than the proliferation of humans has. The end of nearly all species of shellfish is expected within the next century, and we'll live to see the stocks drop to levels where harvest isn't possible any longer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

The fact that all of this is part of a natural cycle, and we've already done our part to aggravate it, doesn't matter. It's still a massive disaster, and the real truth is that it's too late for us to do anything to stop it.

If folks REALLY want to save the Everglades ecosystem, they are going to have to build an ark. They will need to take every species they can find into captivity and set them all up somewhere on high ground. Perhaps after sea levels stabilize, a new swampland will form and it can be re-seeded with the original Everglades inhabitants. It seems unlikely they will ALL survive the inundation and be able to move North, so this process would really be the only way to keep what's left. I find it unlikely that humans will move to make room for a new swamp, though.

This is all a lot of effort to save a very doomed ecosystem. I sometimes wonder if people ever take those things into consideration when they choose what to save. Take Yellowstone, for example--we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's going to eventually explode, vaporizing every last living thing for miles around the park--so all this work is just for some short term enjoyment, isn't it?

I think the alligator is one tough customer, and will easily make room for itself further inland, but some of the smaller species won't fare so well. Perhaps the reptile hobby should focus more on Everglades species--there may come a day when what's in our racks is all that's left of many of them.

The Burmese python is of laughable concern in the face of all this. It's a distraction--a gigantic example of serious denial on the parts of the government and citizens alike. Maybe if they ignore the real problem, it will go away?