Connect the dots

imagining DC without public transit
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2011/12/imagining-city-without-its-public-transportation/690/

Tea Party attacks urban planning
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2011/12/how-tea-party-upending-urban-planning/718/

methane clathrates bubbling
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/giant-plumes-methane-bubbling-surface-arctic-ocean-163804179.html

Added: Possible reassurance on the methane front: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/methane-time-bomb-in-arctic-seas-apocalypse-not/

Still, I wrote my GOP Senator Scott "I oppose cap and trade because jobs" Brown asking how many risks conservatives feel like taking with the environment. Odd that gay marriage is a major social threat, but Russian roulette with the atmosphere is hunky dory.