One more alarm sounds--how many times can you hit the snooze?

Doom and gloom for the day: Why Antarctica will soon be the only place to live - literally. Further warnings that we should think about what we do. There are Six Billion of us, and now more than ever our actions add up in a disturbing way.

Meanwhile over at the more staid CNN.com: Global warming debate aside, West is heating up, in which the loss of millions of trees in the American west to beetle infestation is described as a result of six years of drought, also possibly linked to human action. If something nice were possibly to blame for all of this, I could see holding off for more info, but it's cars and cows for crying out loud. I'll even give you cows, but cars are ugly, filthy, expensive, dangerous tools used by humans to substitute for their lack of personal integrity and intelligent thought.