Twenty thousand leagues under the melting polar dead zone

In a short-sighted land grab, a couple of Russian scientists planted a titanium flag under the melting polar ice caps. While I would normally laud such an obviously worthwhile endeavor, I find other ocean-based news stories to be more alarming. I mean, sure, a high-stakes legal battle over one of the bigger oil reserves in the world is news, but what about the formation of a huge dead zone off the coast of Oregon or killer squid invading Monterey Bay. While the former isn't yet traced back to global warming and the latter will only result in the disappearence of fish sticks (a long time coming, in my opinion), you can't deny any longer that there will be some serious consequences due to global warming. Even if you aren't in the firing line for the next round of Mother Nature's revenge, I still think it's good that some people are planning ahead.