President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.

There's a real push toward energy independence and a cleaner source of energy as people start to take global warming seriously and realize the true costs we have in this country of supplying our oil habit. People are willing to pay a premium as a way to do their part, as a way to help solve that problem.

This winter makes global warming seem more real.

The ocean is like this black box. We just don't know what's going on out there. Is it global warming? Is it pollution? Predators?

These studies each quantify, in a variety of ways, the risks we are already dealing with in the global warming that is clearly well under way.

We're not convinced that global warming is playing an important role yet, or if at all, in this era of increased activity.