re: Glacial melt has tripled in the Amundsen Sea

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You've chosen to avoid both. Odd behavior indeed.

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What would the effects of a 200+ foot rise in sea level be?

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What is the time frame for your hypothetical question?

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Estimates are that should just the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melt, the resulting release of water to the oceans would raise sea-level by about 65 meters.

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You have continued to fail to address (or comprehend) that consumers won't continually buy products that economically damage themselves over the long term.

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Who is predicting that? The IPCC's most doomsday prediction

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If we can't adapt to that we suck as a species.

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Estimates are that should just the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melt, the resulting release of water to the oceans would raise sea-level by about 65 meters.

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The IPCC's most doomsday prediction (R8.5) only predicts a 0.53–0.98m rise in the next century.

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Latest Sea-Level Rise Estimates Still Too Conservative?

Despite the higher sea-level rise projections in the latest IPCC report and improved ability of models to reproduce historical rates of sea-level rise, some respected scientists maintain still that even the new AR5 numbers are too low.

Their argument primarily boils down to two different approaches: process models, which use climate models and physics to estimate sea-level rise, and semi-empirical models, which include evidence of past sea-level rise (mostly during the last ice age) to help determine the relationship between temperatures and sea level. Process models tend to produce lower estimates, empirical models higher ones.

The recently released IPCC Working Group I report discounts empirical models, saying that “Many semi-empirical model projections of global mean sea-level rise are higher than process-based model projections (up to about twice as large), but there is no consensus in the scientific community about their reliability and there is thus low confidence in their projections.” Researchers like Potsdam University Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, who have worked with semi-empirical models, argue that a wholesale discounting of these approaches is erroneous, and represents an overly conservative approach from the IPCC.

For now at least, it is still unclear just what exactly future sea-level rise will be, as uncertainty ranges remain large. At the same time, it is clear that the best estimates of future sea-level rise are considerably higher now than they were just five years ago. The level of sea-level rise by 2100 will mostly depend on which future emissions scenario societies follow, and it’s clear that significant efforts to reduce future emissions, coupled with well thought-out adaptation efforts, can significantly reduce future sea-level rise and its damaging impacts.

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Most predictions say the warming of the planet will continue and likely will accelerate. Oceans will likely continue to rise as well, but predicting the amount is an inexact science. A recent study says we can expect the oceans to rise between 2.5 and 6.5 feet (0.8 and 2 meters) by 2100, enough to swamp many of the cities along the U.S. East Coast. More dire estimates, including a complete meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet, push sea level rise to 23 feet (7 meters), enough to submerge London.

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