...almost every person of any sorta fame inspires hate speech by someone/group on the web.

Just bask in the fact that someone feels inferior enough compared to him that they feel their ego is threatened to the point that they haveta shout and rave in order to vainly try and defend their wimpy and selfish selves (since its the only way they can get any sorta attention).

I dislike you very much and wouldn't hurt a hair on you if my life depended on it.  You're too cute, like Odie the dog in the Garfield cartoon.  I think most folks feel more sad regret and sympathy than anger towards you.

I do wish you would stop inhaling glue fumes, though.

How Republicans always say that dealing global warming would be an "Economic Armageddon"?

And then turn around and say that following empirical science is "hysterical"?

-David Ahlport

Frankly, I doubt many people reading this thread understand what is at stake:

"Few seem to realise that the present IPCC models predict almost unanimously that by 2040 the average summer in Europe will be as hot as the summer of 2003 when over 30,000 died from heat. By then we may cool ourselves with air conditioning and learn to live in a climate no worse than that of Baghdad now. But without extensive irrigation the plants will die and both farming and natural ecosystems will be replaced by scrub and desert. What will there be to eat? The same dire changes will affect the rest of the world and I can envisage Americans migrating into Canada and the Chinese into Siberia but there may be little food for any of them." --Dr James Lovelock's lecture to the Royal Society, 29 Oct. '07

NASA's top climate scientist, James Hansen, says that the release of methane clathrates from permafrost regions and beneath the seabed will unleash powerful feedback forces that could produce runaway climate change that cannot be controlled - the so-called methane time bomb - a prediction of radical environmental transformation far worse than the worst-case scenarios theorised by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Current climate models don't take into consideration melting methane hydrate emissions, which will soon overwhelm any cuts we make:

There is an area six times the size of Germany containing about 540 billion tons of carbon off the Siberian coast. That submarine permafrost is perilously close to thawing. Three to 12 kilometers from the coast the sea sediment is just below freezing.  The permafrost has grown porous, there is a loss of rigor in the frozen sea floor, and the surrounding seawater is highly oversaturated with solute methane.

"If the Siberian (submarine) permafrost-seal thaws completely and all the stored gas escapes, the methane content of the planet's atmosphere would increase twelve fold. The result would be catastrophic global warming."  --"A Storehouse of Greenhouse Gases Is Opening in Siberia," Spiegel, 17 April '08

Such powerful truth has an equal and opposite social reaction.  People fear what they don't understand.  God bless Dr Hansen and Mr Bloom, they may become martyrs trying to prevent a massive natural cull of humanity.

"The alternative (to geoengineering) is the acceptance of a massive natural cull of humanity and a return to an Earth that freely regulates itself but in the hot state." --Dr James Lovelock, August 2008

I cant speak for the average reader here, but the average poster here DOES understand the stakes.