The planet will live on in whatever state it is in, however, it is humanity that will suffer. And as I sit and wonder, like so many other people in this country, where are the marchers in the streets, where are the voices screaming for injustices to cease, for greed and apathy to let go of it's hold, I can only come up with one supposition: Perhaps we have lost our sense of who we were born to be and instead, are numbed out beyond recognition by the ceaseless chatter that is the soundtrack to our lives.

There you have it, from the mouth of that icon of "green living" and general frugality:  Sheryl Crow.  As she's got her wealth, she can chastise others who may only aspire to similar levels of comfort and lifestyle.  It's really nice that folks like Crow and AlGore have a lot of cash - they're living the American Dream, while telling you that you're greedy if you aspire to a tenth of what they have.

Everybody's equal - but some are more equal than others.

“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd,” Bryson continues. “Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”

Reid A. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education. Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology—now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences—in the 1970s he became the first director of what’s now the UW’s Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.” He has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world.

Oh, the decision is just so hard!  Al and Sheryl claim that global warming is All Your Fault.  Bryson says they're full of baloney.  It seems that the main difference is that he has the facts to back up his position, while Crow and AlGore rely upon emotion and political grandstanding.

Gee, how to decide?