Global Warming Demands Attention (Mountain Views‪)‬

OLEAN -- From the top-heavy Pile of Stuff I Never Get Around to Writing About in my office, here are some things that caught my eye in recent weeks: Global Warming--The outstanding environmental writer Bill McKibben, now a scholar in residence at Vermont's Middlebury College, is one of the better explainers of the fuss over climate change and global warming. He doesn't try to sow panic, but neither is he a denier of the problem who thinks the whole thing is a hoax made up by left-wing loonies. In the Sierra Club's summer newsletter, he tries to put the subject in perspective and writes about the recent scientific pessimism concerning this issue. He cites some numbers.