Today I listened to David Suzuki talk about Earth Day. He's my favorite speaker
of all times. He gave an analogy of the test tube filled with food and bacteria
and of the Earth filled with people. In the sixty minute test, it took fifty
minutes for the bacteria to fill one quarter of the test tube. The bacteria
looked around and said "Look at all the space and food that we have". At fifty
eight minutes, the test tube was three quarters filled with bacteria and the
bacteria said, "We need to do something with the over population". So the
bacteria created three new test tubes completely filled with space and food and
divided it's population throughout the other test tubes. In just two more
minutes, all of the test tubes were completely filled and there was no more
space and no more food. But, David went on to explain that we are three
quarters filled with people now, but we cannot move our population to any other
place and we cannot create any other food.
What he was getting at was that we are in trouble and we are showing no
population decrease. I mentioned this to you before about the blight of 2008 on
African and Iranian wheat which killed off 80 - 100 percent of the wheat in
these countries. Today they said that it was not a fungus, but a virus. Last
year, in 2008, reminding about the eights, 80% of the Krill died off, this was
world wide. Also, the Ogalala Aquifer was 80% gone. On top of that the Tibetan
Plateau the glaciers were 80% gone. There were a number of 80% items that
happened and just 80% isn't the truth, because the rate of loss is not linear,
it's increasing. The huge increase, or loss, of these items had started in
about 1998, another eight. When we figure the time scale here, it will be in
less than two years before we feel the major effects of these losses.
In Africa people are being displaced by huge droughts and political unrest.
They are so hungry that many of them are eating dirt just to fill their
stomachs. Now, I am hearing that merchants are selling dirt cookies in their
stores there. If we have this wheat virus hit the United States, the bread
basket of the world will be nothing but dirt. When the Ogalala Aquifer goes
dry, the bread basket of the world will be nothing but dirt. When the glaciers
in Tebet melt, China and India will be nothing but dirt. The social unrest from
the hunger will cause huge riots and civil wars as people fight for the last
grain of rice and wheat. This is what we are looking at on a world wide scale
unless we act RIGHT NOW to stop global warming and also reduce the population of
the Earth. How do we do that? Well, that's academic, but you don't want to
hear my version.
Take care and don't let the Polar Berries dry up.
The background picture
was taking by the Webmaster on the North Pole Expedition of 2003, of the sea ice
while flying to the island of Spitsbergen, Norway in the Arctic Ocean. I
watched global warming happen in my nine years of North Pole Expedition
evolvement. It's real.
An Inconvenient Truth
DVD Documentary
With the fate of our planet arguably hanging in the balance, An Inconvenient
Truth may prove to be one of the most important and prescient documentaries
of all time. As he jokingly refers to himself, "former President-elect" Al Gore
felt an urgent personal calling to draw attention--as he had been doing
throughout his political career--to the increasingly desperate crisis of global
warming, and this riveting documentary is basically a filmed version (by
respected TV director Davis Guggenheim) of the PowerPoint lecture that Gore has
presented (by his own estimate, well over 1,000 times) to attentive audiences
all over the world. Considering Gore's amiable, low-key approach to charts,
graphs, statistics, and photographs that leave no room for doubt regarding the
reality (not "theory") of global warming as Earth's ultimate
environmental crisis, many viewers will be surprised by just how fascinating and
convincing this no-frills film really is.
As we learn about the milestone events that shaped his character
(including his sister's death and young son's near-fatal injuries after being
struck by a car), Gore sheds the stiff demeanor of his 2000 presidential
campaign and impresses us as a man with a mission, transcending partisan
politics with an impassioned plea for common sense, ethical forthrightness, and
passionate purpose in reversing the harmful effects of global warming through
personal and political responsibility. Some may accuse Gore of exploiting global
warming as a Democratic platform, but his honest conviction regarding this
"inconvenient truth" (i.e. overwhelming evidence of global warming that's
troublesome to those whose interests are threatened by Gore's irrefutable
message) is likely to silence all but the most obtusely stubborn detractors. By
taking the high road and discreetly avoiding a full-on assault against the
George W. Bush administration (which has steadfastly avoided "the inconvenient
truth" with obfuscating spin control and policies favoring the oil industry),
Gore effectively rises above political differences with a stern but hopeful eye
toward a better future for our children.--Jeff Shannon
Product Description
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with
Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of
global climate change in the most talked-about documentary of the year. An
audience and critical favorite, An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case
that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we
don’t act now. Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a
thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always
fascinating. In the end, An Inconvenient Truth accomplishes what all great films
should: it leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired.
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Latest YouTube video Look at this Arctic Ice Video between
2002 and 2007
The ice loss is way ahead of the most advanced climate change models.
