I remember when I was a kid they always showed the North Pole as an actual barber pole, stuck in the ice. That is very misleading to small children.
Have you ever been there? How do you know there isn't a barber pole there?
A bunch of buddies of mine packed up and trekked to the South Pole, only to find Dora The Explorer with her partner, Diego, already there. See the event on a commercial message preserved for posterity by an insurance company.
At that point I lost all my faith in Al Gore. At that point I realized that there is nothing wrong with seeing Miami as the Venice of the Western Hemisphere. Or growing orange groves in northern Alberta.
After all, what could be so bad, seeing that the climate change experienced a few million years ago left us the horrible mess we are in today.
We will always miss dodo birds, dinosaurs and passenger pigeons and to think that there may not be tiny critters that cause AIDS, cholera, small pox, yellow fever, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, syphilis and chicken pox is simply too unbearable to contemplate, seeing that all of those little critters are the children of Mother Gaia, known to ignorant rubes as Earth.