re: #676 LudwigVanQuixote

Perfectly reasonable. Just understand that the predictions, all of them are rather dire. Here is a great paper that looks at a large number of predictions.
[Link: www.pnas.org…]

As of November 2007, when the to which article you linked was published.

Subseque3nt climatological studies, most notably the July 2009 Bristol study, have served to temper these concerns.

Global warming remains a serious concern, but as not short-to-middle-term catastrophically so as was previously thought.