But what is it that's coming? From the only real experience we've had with a period of extended warming (Medieval Optimum), GW looks like a good thing. There were no massively elevated sea levels, no global famine. In fact, for everywhere except Cent. America and the American SW, food supplies skyrocketed due to longer growing seasons. What we should be doing is finding the best ways to exploit this and provide people who need it with more food. But, that kind of approach doesn't keep the cash pipeline flowing for the scientists, so you'll never hear about it. What you will hear, however, is an unending spewing of doom and gloom. If GW is really happening, it will be one the biggest benefits to mankind that we've ever seen. Longer growing seasons, opening of new and more efficient seaways, lowered heating costs, increased food supplies, etc. So why aren't we hearing about this? Because it doesn't pay the big bucks to tell people that good times are coming. What pays the big bucks are prognostications of destruction.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."