This issue of SR I am giving over to two pieces on Global Warming, both drawn from the most mainstream of traditional media. I am doing this because after eight years of covering this subject I sense a change in the zeitgeist, as it becomes clearer and clearer not only that Global Warming is real, whatever the few remaining, mostly right wing, naysayers may say; and that the time line has collapsed and these changes are coming far sooner than most people realize. — Stephan