See also the section on anticipation: "...the pleasure derived from window shopping for a dress may exceed the pleasure from actually acquiring the dress." I get happiness from the process of comparison shopping. It is part of the anticipation. Perhaps this advice needs further qualification.
I'm surprised to find statements here such as "the existence of anthropogenic global warming is a fact". I'm new here, haven't read all the sequences, and this may seem obnoxious. But I'm testing my beliefs and willing to change my mind.
Let's start with the article linked to by the OP. It says that 4 degrees of warming is likely and bad. I'll concentrate on likely.
The argument for athropogenic global warming goes something like this:
I didn't notice at first, but only because I did notice that you were quoting the comment above which I had just read and skipped over the quote.