this is mentioned in An Inconvenient Truth and when I've mentioned it to people they don't seem to believe me.
Polar bears are drowing because there isn't enough ice in the Arctic circle. Story here.
(Link via Cleolinda.)
....and here's the same story from sctosman.com, in case you don't trust yahoo as a news source. Clicky.
ooooh, and this straight from reuters...after that big climate change meet in Australia, the scientists are a little less pessimistic. Looks like the sea level is only going to rise between 15 and 43 cms. (uhm, which is at the upper end still close to half a metre and likely to make a big difference to Tuvalu...)
story here