yourself by reading the Newsweek article and checking the Web sites of National Audubon and National Wildlife Society.  Both have excellent background information, details on impacts to wildlife and ecosystems, lifestyle changes to reduce your personal carbon footprint, and information on current legislation that would begin to address the problem.

      The most important single action you can take is to write three e-mails or make three phone calls, one each to

You will learn that a well funded “denial machine” keeps Americans doubting.  The article concludes: “…the length of heat waves in Europe has doubled, and their frequency nearly tripled, in the past century.  The frequency of Atlantic hurricanes has already doubled in the last century.  Snowpack whose water is crucial to both cities and farms is diminishing.  It’s enough to make you wish that climate change were a hoax, rather than the reality it is.”

      What can individuals do about it?  A lot!  Inform