Thanks for visiting my web site.  In order to give you a better understanding of what I'm doing here, a few words of introduction are in order. When I began the journey that led me to create this site I had a very different view of the world than I have today. Looking back, I describe my outlook a few years ago as one belonging to "a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Bjorn Lomborg School of Don't-Worry-Be-Happy". I was living a contented throw-away lifestyle, secure in the knowledge that human ingenuity was boundless and that the world we lived in was more or less predictable. My major preoccupation was increasing my ability to consume, and I did fairly well at it. My employment in the telecommunications industry gave me faith in both the goals of our industrial society and our ability to achieve them. The only clouds that darkened my optimistic view were being stirred up by some malcontents who kept talking about something called "Global Warming". They didn't disturb my peace of mind too much though, because my casual reading on the subject also dug up a number of other people with impressive-sounding credentials who argued strongly and, to my willing ears, persuasively that the malcontents were mere provocateurs driven by Luddite agendas and a hunger for research grants and academic empires. I was raised in a strongly anti-authoritarian household, one that rewarded me for taking independent and contrarian positions, so the arguments of the naysayers fell on