You mean like swatting?

As long as I am the one deciding which sites I don't want to access.

Why is water not an economic cost?

Indeed. But the OP has not provided the name of the bank? Why not? Afraid of the unknown potential consequences of doing so, I'll guess. This is the problem a libertarian would address.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

I think it is great that we can expand our understanding of how nature works, but sadly, this will just be another tool for scaring us.

"energy efficiency" implies carbon reduction. Try again.

Government Action can be anything - building seawallls and dykes, seeding the ocean with iron, mandating living in caves, resettling populations, handing out vouchers, giving contracts to lobbyists, doing nothing, adopting policies to reduce carbon emissions.

But this is never stated, which is damn annoying. Most people automatically assume the last option, which may well be the worst option, and then arguing over the details.

There is much bloviating over how much science has gone into proving AGW. But there is very little science indeed as to the optimal response.

Every week there is a news report of a "conservation easement" whereby land owners give up their rights (not ownership) in perpetuity. There are usually tax benefits.

How is this different to putting something in the public domain? Does it mean that Monty Burns' children can say they changed their minds and want their park back?

If Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, etc. stood together against government encroachment, the Feds would have to back down. The collateral damage to the US economy (read: taxes) would be huge if they were all shut down and their executives given orange jumpsuits.

For the sake of their long-term business interests, and our liberty, it is time for some civil disobedience from corporate America.

By skipping 9, they have indeed assured us of two duds in a row. Most people think 7 is ok, as was XP (5) before that, and so on. 8 was rubbish, together with Vista (6) and ME (4).

Everyone knows that an even-numbered Microsoft release is no good, starting with DOS 2.0.

My company uses Lotus Notes, you insensitive clod!

The meaning of "liberal", or "radical liberal" is the opposite of what you think.

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
  - H.L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken

They are priming the pump.