What It's Like to Live on a Ship Sailing Through the Antarctic Ice - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

Antarctica's ice plays a vital part in maintaining global climate, sustaining life in lush, warm jungles, thousands of miles away...Brooks says that people often ask her "why I would want to work in Antarctica -- the windiest, driest, coldest continent on Earth."   [Wait, if destructive winds are blamed on CO2-induced warmth, why would the coldest continent also be the windiest continent?]

It's Time for the EPA to Bypass Congress and Regulate Carbon Emissions On Its Own | Mother Jones

why not simply have EPA mandate a national cap-and-trade system?  [Because we're not all OK with giving unelected EPA bureaucrats more power than Congress?]