The arctic ice cap has receded to its smallest recorded size this year. The antarctic ice sheets are also " slipping into the oceans at unprecendented rates " as you can read about in this article: yohttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8173u - The small islands in Micronesia will go under the rising oceans first. A large extent of the world's populations, live on the coastal area's of the world.