Fossil Fuels and Sea-level Rise — Where's All This Going?

Per this article in Global Energy World, offshore drilling for oil and gas is predicted to expand at a CAGR of 10.6% between now and 2018, bringing it to $211 billion annually.  And here’s an article on sea-level rise, showing that this unwelcome phenomenon, the result of humankind’s addiction to fossil fuels, is growing with the same predictability.  Where will this end?

It’s a reminder of the carnival barkers of the old days: “Round and round she goes; where she stops, nobody knows.”