Will that make it easier to drill for oil there? :p
Practically my first thought, too. :)
Well by then I'll be about 140 years old so it might be okay, old people like the heat. :P
No. That will make it 'wetlands'!
Probably, we've got lots of experience drilling in marshes and bogs.
Actually, if this holds up, it could be a precursor to the next ice age. There is some evidence that during an ice age, the arctic ocean is relatively free of ice and that clearing , caused by a long term warming trend, might be the trigger for ice age, which seem to come on rather quickly, at least in geological terms. I remember reading about this well before anyone used the term "Global Warming", at least in the sense that it was something caused by mankind. This sort of thing has happened before, when mankind was a mere pimple on the face of the earth, and likely it will happen again, maybe soon.