(EE) Global Warming

I don't want to be alarmist, but there are solid, objective reasons to think things may be quite a bit worse than they seem. Here John Atcheson details why they likely are: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/03-0
 The point is not to foster despair -- in fact, despair might even turn out to be an attitude that an adequate ethic forbids us to indulge in: Rebecca Solnit suggests (in an essay I'll share with you later) that we may have a duty to be actively hopeful -- though it is important not to confuse hope with optimism.