I hope people dont push too much dev's on this. I admit, i'm a bit uppsett too, but then again, not much have actually happened yet, atleast not Atamara.
Something needed to be done and if you look outside your own box, this is pretty good solution. It is definately not going to fix the problem, but helps a bit results of the problem.
I will comment only from AT, cause i dont play elsewhere where this has effected, well on BT there was some rogue popups...
As long as its not major scale ice age, that it wont eat like 1/3 of the continent, example Darka should be ok. It weakens it, but i guess nothing dramatic. I know it hurts many players there, we have been fighting war for our survival for over 2 years and doing decently agains pretty massive alliance and now if we die something we cant as players/characters do nothing, it sucks.... but i bet ice age finns thought same thing, "Dammit, this sucks!" and they moved south. I do hope this ace age doesnt go forward very fast to give realms time to adapt situation, and i hope rogue infestions as well dont bee too harsh, unless it effects whole continent and keeps central fellows busy as well. These are my small hopes for my little poor realm which i love... 10+ years.