What would happen if all the ice in Greenland melted? Bruce Caron and his colleagues are exploring this using their Bryght VPS site, lightblueline, The light blue line is a line 7 metres above sea level, the point where the water would rise to should the ice on Greenland melt. The lightblueline folks are virtually painting seven meter above sea level light blue lines on the streets of the world starting with New York, Santa Barbara and Washington DC to remind everyone of the consequences of human induced climate change.

Bruce and his team are using the flexible taxonomy and tags of Drupal to tag both cites and topics of interest. This will easily scale from the current three cities to the 50 or so cities they plan to work up to in the future.

They are finding that Drupal's generation of RSS for every tag (part of why Drupal out of the box is so search engine friendly) is leading to higher search engine ranking and helping them get the word out.

All in all a very cool effort that is just gearing up. Closer to Bryght's home, it's interesting to note that Victoria, BC would be 9% flooded by a 7m rise in sea level and that we are very vulnerable in Bryght's headquarters of Vancouver which is a coastal city.