Given all of the things I write about, I feel required to bring the latest effort by scientists to encourage our serious response to climate change. Reality is often convenient to ignore, but the long view requires that we take collective action.
I read the analyses provided by Tom Friedman (Hot, flat & crowded) who is not a scientist, but has a great way of integrating the important factors shaping our future. The notion any of us has that we are doing the right thing by focusing on our own personal causes will simply not work. There are some things we all need to address.