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starboardlight:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on July 29, 2006, 07:28:15 pm ---Oh, and to conserve energy....I recommend showering with a friend. ;)
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ha ha. David, you always have the best idea. I'll have to find a shower buddy then.
JennyC:
I finally saw “An Inconvenient Truth” last night. The movie is very engaging. Gore made a strong case of undeniable facts about global warming and its impacts. Everyone should see the movie.
Though I have already heard of the many facts presented in the movie already, some of them are still very shocking when you actually see them in the movie. Like the glaciers melting, the CO2 level in recent years so dramatically off the chart, US’s automobile fuel efficiency standard is much lower than that of some developed and developing countries, etc.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: JennyC on August 01, 2006, 08:33:53 pm ---I finally saw “An Inconvenient Truth” last night. The movie is very engaging. Gore made a strong case of undeniable facts about global warming and its impacts. Everyone should see the movie.
Though I have already heard of the many facts presented in the movie already, some of them are still very shocking when you actually see them in the movie. Like the glaciers melting, the CO2 level in recent years so dramatically off the chart, US’s automobile fuel efficiency standard is much lower than that of some developed and developing countries, etc.
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I agree. What I found the most chilling (no pun intended) were his slides of Mt. Kilamanjaro (sp?) in the early 70s compared with now. We all remember that iconic snow-capped monolith it once was. Now, the snow and ice are almost completely gone. And all those rivers and lakes dried up he showed, too. Heaven help us.
The other thing I had a hard time shaking (still do) is what a really good man he obviously is and how different things would be now had he won in 2000 - and not just here, but all over the world. Heaven help us, indeed.
nakymaton:
The thing that gets me is the sea ice disappearing in the Arctic. I remember reading about all the different attempts to find a Northwest Passage, some way from the Atlantic to the Pacific north of North America. And the ice that prevented it is disappearing.
Sixteen years ago, I spent some time in Nome, Alaska. The people there talked about going ice crabbing in the Bering Sea in May, when the temperatures warmed enough to go out on the sea ice without being totally miserable. They used to put styrofoam covers on the holes so they wouldn't freeze back up right away. I wonder what's happened to the ice crabbing since the last time I was there?
ekeby:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on August 01, 2006, 09:23:45 pm ---what a really good man he obviously is and how different things would be now had he won in 2000 - and not just here, but all over the world.
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I remember when he first ran for president (in the early 80s I think), stumping around in a red flannel shirt. I couldn't stand him-- because he was WAY too conservative for me (remember Tipper and the record lyrics biz?). Boy, is everything relative. How I wish he were in charge, what a different world this would be. Literally.
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