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I have not read the article referenced, but I have a hard time imagining anything which I would think of as being excessively cautionary at this point. This is mainly because every time I read about new findings in this area, they say that things are happening faster and the effects are larger than previously estimated. So, if anything, it seems that the scientists have been understating the problem, possibly in response to the outspoken claims that there was no such thing as global warming.

If anyone is being an alarmist, it is those who keep saying that taking action is going to destroy the economy and put us in a world-wide depression. How is that supposed to work? The only people I see being hurt by taking serious steps to reduce energy use are the oil and coal companies themselves. How is building more fuel-efficient cars, retrofitting building for less energy use, etc. going to hurt the economy? If anything this sort of thing should increase employment in those areas and then increase spending in other areas after people start realizing the savings from all this.

From what I see, the only alarmists are the ones profiting from keeping us from doing what needs to be done.

Tom Bradley