It will take energy to 'Cowboy Up' but in the long term well thought out efforts will be cost effective--carbon footprint and dollar wise. We need ice melt data for coastal city infrastructure planing among other things--likelihood of faster/slower sea level rise will impact bond underwriter and insurance company policy. That will impact construction, pushing it to lower risk zones. To 'Lay There and Bleed' any longer.(blissfully tooling along, behavior unchanging, in ignorance of the profound impact we--who are by orders of magnitude the most dominant land vertebrate this planet has ever experienced--are having on our home) is not a viable option if we wish to stay in business.