Global warming has given ideas to an online games site. It is now possible to bet on the rise in water level, on the extinction of polar bears or on the marketing of a car walking in the water.

In just three days, 3,000 bettors already have the money wagered on the site betus.com American, and sometimes on proposals as crazy as risky. Thus, against all odds, most of these online players predict that Manhattan will be submerged by the end of 2010, ie in less than four years ....

"Do not ask me why," acknowledged Reed Richards, a spokesman for the site BetUs.com.

Among the predictions that have been a resounding success, people bet 200 to 1 at the Cape Henry, Virginia, will be under water by 2015 and to 300 to 1 it will be the same for Cape Hatteras, in the Outer Banks, the string of islands located off the coast of North Carolina, on the same date.