available on the GISS web siteand some unpolished Q&A on the paper is also available." Sorry that all the links in the block quote I inserted above did not come through. TinaWrites I was a happy child until I read this book in the Seventh grade. It was so realistic about so many parts of man's inhumanity to man. The book ushered out my childhood. Do we all hold some "childhood" space within our intellectual space that seems to serve to protect us, but which really makes us tend to ignore really big realities like global warming and it's consequences? Rethugsrsheep The blame rests squarely at the feet of the ignorant T-Baggers who willfully deny science in favor of big oil profits. If Willard and Ryan have their way our entire country will be a dust bowl and our oceans already well on their way will be battery acid. ttp://twitter.com/BillLafayette Bill Rumbley I've read that Ayn Rand's writings are required reading for new members of Koch's "Americans for Prosperity." The philosophy that no man owes another anything and the idea that ethical behavior is defined by self-interest alone -- that can explain a lot of this willful ignorance and wishful thinking. Don_B1 This seems to be another place where Joseph Stiglitz's comment in the penultimate paragraph of his Vanity Fair article, "Alexis de Tocqueville once described what he saw as a chief part of the peculiar genius of American society -- something he called "self-interest properly understood." The last two