Who Do You Believe?

After watching "An Inconvenient Truth", I can't stop thinking about our beach house on the Long Beach, Washington peninsula. According to the film, and to the scientists who did the research used by the film, once the ice of Greenland melts (and it's not a matter of if but of when), the oceans around the world will raise 20 feet. Well, there is only one place on the peninsula that is taller than that and it's not under our house.

This seems like such a deadly gamble to sit and wait for this event to occur because there will be no warning, or at least not enough to evacuate the single lane highway of all the peninsula's inhabitants at that time. Even if none of the family is there, we would still have missed any opportunity to sell the property prior to it being underwater.

Now, you could say for me to even think this way is somewhat unethical but my entire life has been about missing opportunities and this house all of a sudden being underwater would be another missed opportunity. Not only that, who is going to feel safe going to the peninsula once more press begins to cover this inevitable phenomenon?

I guess the real question is, will the rise in water level occur gradually over hundreds of years or suddenly within hours or at the most, days? Just talking about this makes me feel like a dinosaur just counting my hours.

Al Gore made the point throughout the film that we could still stop or at least slow down global warming if we would just quickly join together to take the necessary measures. But I don't see anybody joining to change or stop any of our environmentally destructive activities, do you?