Two Great Essays: One on Whether Global Warming is Real, the Other on What to do About it if it is

Is global warming real? Michael Crichton of Hollywood fame (co-wrote Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Coma, Westworld, Twister, Congo, Sphere and directed some of these) wrote an illuminating essay about the scientific case for global warming, humorously entitled "Aliens Cause Global Warming".

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/09/aliens-cause-global-warming-a-caltech-lecture-by-michael-crichton/#more-21629

If Global Warming is real, what should be done about it? Atlantic writer Clive Crook looks at the history of moralizing about what's bad and what they did about it, "Climategate and the Big Green Lie".

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/climategate-and-the-big-green-lie/59709