But this is more like GRADUALISM.
Until:
As the polar ice melts and the salinity of the oceans drop...a vast change in the earth magnetohydrodynamics...
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Could be bad?
Depends on one's long-term plans.