According to a study mentioned in this article, we will naturally see a northward migration, not only humans but animals and insects. It has already started:

“People, of course, have always adapted to changes in their environment. Half a million Oklahomans and other Southwesterners migrated to California during the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s. Thousands of New Orleans residents will never return to their Hurricane Katrina-devastated city.

As the United States gets hotter, people will try to move north, predicted Jay Gulledge, a senior researcher at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Arlington, Va.

“Unfortunately, all the good places are already taken,” he said. As a result, “Canada will be more populous 500 years from now.”

Animals, plants and insects already are migrating toward cooler climes.

Since 1975, 1,700 biological species have been moving poleward at an average speed of 25 miles per decade, James Hansen, a NASA environmental scientist, reported in this week’s edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”

They’re on their way and they’re headed right towards our neighborhood where, as he says, ‘all the good places are already taken’.

"A growing body of scientific opinion suggests the world may be about to experience not a gradual rise in temperatures over several decades but a wild careening into climate chaos.A growing body of scientific opinion suggests the world may be about to experience not a gradual rise in temperatures over several decades but a wild careening into climate chaos."

This balanced article (quote above is a LInk) notes a major concern: Though scientific opinion is divided on whether we face a gradual warming or a possibly rapid change, the political planners are only considering the gradual possibility.

Should those who see a ‘wild careening’ into massive changes be right, we will be totally unprepared to cope with those changes.

Wow, we’re starting to see the mad scientist ideas coming out of the woodwork. Let’s build huge artificial volcanos to spew dust into the atmosphere to cool the earth. The idea is to create a temporary slowdown of warming so we have more time to get our act together. Every couple of years they’d shoot more stuff into the sky. Am I crazy or does this seem like a pretty bad idea?

Shades of Professor Frink…

These pictures from a NASA satellite graphically show the degree of ice loss in one year- its frightening how fast this open water is appearing. Even more troubling is the feedback effect: Open water absorbs heat unlike ice which reflects it. This will speed up the melt even more.
Please note, this ice loss is perennial ice, ice that normally appears every year and will no longer do so.