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In the long run, they may be positive. In the short run, melting the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets means that most of Manhattan Island, most of Florida, and plenty of other very valuable developed land will end up underwater. The cost of relocating the inhabitants and rebuilding the infrastructure would be enormous, easily reaching into the trillions of dollars. Might as well drop a hydrogen bomb on New York City!
ETA: The "hydrogen bomb" comment was stupid and gratuitous. I blame sleep deprivation.
That would be a special sort of hydrogen bomb that expands by 3mm per year, I presume.
Okay, bad metaphor.
::sigh::
That's what I get for commenting when sleep deprived. :(