Climate change blues: how scientists cope—"It's as if scientists know a bomb will go off…"

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Here's an article I think many of us can identify with:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfDbOOosZBSfIIlTutM5m42eWhCQ

Climate change blues: how scientists cope

13 hours ago

COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Being a climate scientist these days is not for the faint of heart.

Arguably no other area of research yields a sharper contrast between a steady stream of "eureka!" moments, and the sometimes terrifying implications of those discoveries for the future of the planet.

"Science is exciting when you make such findings," said Konrad Steffen, who heads the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in Boulder, Colorado.

"But if you stop and look at the implications of what is coming down the road for humanity, it is rather scary. I have kids in college -- what do they have to look forward to in 50 years?"

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kick because I've been gone.

(2 weeks without looking at the news did NOT cheer me up, btw.)