Modern humans have roamed the earth for the past 120,000 years. If we continue to act as we have in the past and as we are acting now, the scientific consensus is that there is now more than a 5% chance that human beings could be virtually extinct in as little as 90 years from now.

I'm not a climate scientist. Over the past four moths, I've spent a lot of time researching climate change and talking with the experts. I'd like to share with you the most important things that I learned:

This is a really long web page. But this page is about your future and the future of your children and their children. Trust me...it's worth the 20 minutes it will take you to read it so you fully understand what is at stake. It may be one of the most important web pages you'll ever read.

My personal rating of the candidates on the lastest evidence. Rating is based on their ability to solve the problems we face. I did not include stupid issues like haircuts, etc.

Before the 2000 Presidential election, I published an analysis of George Bush which urged people not to vote for Bush because he would be a disaster as President since he had a track record of ignoring facts, ignoring science, and twisting the facts to support his misguided beliefs. Even though the evidence was there for everyone to see, most people don't look beyond the sound bites and nobody else predicted this. As everyone now knows, I was right on the money with my prediction.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Twenty-five years ago Steven T. Kirsch built a better mouse. Now he believes he has found a way to create a better trap — for spam, not mice — if he has enough time to finish his project.