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It is a regular "Holywood style" movie about what could happen yes. However I watched the day after tomorrow before watching an inconvenient truth and was surprised to hear the same basic facts coming from both.

The day after tomorrow is a movie, An inconvenient truth is a documentary

Why is it called An Inconvenient Truth?

Because some have been trying for years to make people see that this is a real situation, trying hard to get real results. However for those that have their own agenda Global Warming is an inconvenient truth that can be (And sadly is) put off until the day after tomorrow.

One segment in An Inconvenient Truth shows a stack of gold bars on one side and planet earth on the other side of a set of scales.

Which is more important?

DUH

Global Warming my freaking A.., It's cold in the east, i mean really, really cold.




El Diablo

Uhhhhh

Certainly can't argue with that one.

Global warming and another Ice age may seem like a Paradox. However they are connected.

Hi there

Can you list the specific things that worry you about climate warming?

Thanks.

Oceans

Last night there was tons of snow here, about 6 inches on the ground this morning. I went out for a couple of hours and people had their sledges out, building snowmen, snowball fights, etc. Within the last three hours the sun has come out and the snow has just disappeared, like it never happened. That's really weird. A sure sign of global warming?

The massive build up of carbon dioxide in the past thirty years, in the atmosphere.

The diminishing forests which are the Earth's lungs.

The fact that money is more important than the health and well being of all the inhabitants of the earth, (humans down the bottom of the list).

The rapid melting of the Antarctic shelf, and subsequent drift of said breakaways...they are drifting away from the shelf, into the warmer curretns, not back to the shelf, as in predictable history of the natural cycles of the melts.

The subsequent rise in the ocean's temperatures which contribute to more and fiercer hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, and the added prevalence of them.

The dwindling glaciers and lakes, in many countries.

The excessive and long term droughts in the Southern Hemispere.

That's just off the top of my head....

It is Janurary and the middle of winter here in the UK...

The daffodils are flowering... Fruit trees have blossemed... and there is a honey bee on the patio!

Just how specific does a person need to be?

Hi, Jess,

Many thanks. It seems to me that the matter of putting money before anything else is the greatest problem of all that you listed, in part because it may be the one that drives all of our interaction with the environment. How in the world do we reverse this???? I do think we have to figure this one out.

I've given a couple of classes on Western culture and its impacts on the rest of the social and physical world. It is not a good situation, as 'Western culture' -- with all its dysfunctionalities, is still rapidly spreading beyond the West. I do see in some kids here in the US a reaction against Western culture -- sometimes th reaction is healthy, and at other times it seems to me to be as destructive as anything.

In a sense, some of the things you point to have been going on 'a long time' -- like the general patterns of cooling and warming -- and some even stranger ones, like the magnetic reversal of the poles. (What is THAT all about???). The temperature trends that we are now seeing are well within the pattern of the last 100,000 years, say. Of course, this doesn't mean that human beings won't be harmed of affected; it only suggests that only human activity is to 'blame' for these trends.

Will human beings become wise enough to 'manage' our environment effectively and beneficially? That is the big, question, IMHO. It is the question that I spend most of time trying to figure out and influence. And I still don't know how to answer it. What do you think?

Thanks again for your thinking, and for the thread.

Oceans

i think al gore is the one suffering from a global attention deficit disorder ...and not thw world....this universe takes care of itself i ways we humans can not controll.. ex el nino,sunamis,hurricane,typhoon etc.

i think al gore is the one suffering from a global attention deficit disorder ...and not the world....this universe takes care of itself in ways we humans can not controll.. ex el nino,sunamis,hurricane,typhoon etc.

"The Day After Tomorrow" was the crappiest movie I ever saw lol. Anyway, with global warming, the Earth can cleanse itself and "heal". And since all points say its irreversible than we can't really do much about it.

All I knoww is that by the time something life threatening does happen, I'll be long dead. Therefore, I don't give a shit.

I love watching documentaries but I tend to stay away the ones that are are extremely one-sided. An Inconvenient truth does not show the whole picture. And saying the earth is gonna be destroyed from GW 50 years from now is utter stupidity.

The Earth will be a remnant of it's former glory...destroyed? An academic argument, I think, depending on your perspective.

Your attitude reflects many others, ".........I'll be long dead. Therefore I don't give a shit." It is this attitude, belief, opinion, that is one of the major contributing factors to the escalating demise of this Earth.

Will the Earth be destroyed? No, probably not, but human life as we Westerner's see it, may well be. Along with thousands, (and I am erring on the side of caution here) of other species, that we have brushed aside as negligable.

The arrogance of assuming we are the major species, is our downfall, taking along with us many other species of plants and animals. We are a disease, a plague on this Earth, and our arrogance will be our own destruction.

14 below zero here..still waiting for global warming

ah.......er........um....... GOD Wills it!

It is quite possible it is going to get a whole lot colder for the Northern Hemispere, in the years to come


........... and yes, I can only imagine it must feel more like an Ice Age....there would be no warming except by the fire where you are, and it all must sound ridiculous to even consider it is possible, when the world outside your door is frozen.

were all gonna die but its alright loL enjoy it for now loL