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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21312383/ But little rain is in the forecast, and without it climatologists say the water source for more than 3 million people could run dry in just 90 days.That dire prediction has some towns considering more drastic measures than mere lawn-watering bans, including mandatory rationing that would penalize homeowners and businesses if they don’t reduce water usage. “We’re way beyond limiting outdoor water use. We’re talking about indoor water use,” said Jeff Knight, an environmental engineer for the college town of Athens, 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, which is preparing a last-ditch rationing program as its reservoir dries up. About 26 percent of the Southeast is covered by an “exceptional” drought — the National Weather Service’s worst drought category. The affected area extends like a dark cloud over most of Tennessee, Alabama and the northern half of Georgia, as well as parts of North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia. The only spots in the region not suffering from abnormally dry conditions are parts of southern and eastern Florida and southeast Georgia. The Southeast Climate Consortium warns that a La Nina weather system is forming, which could bring drier and warmer weather for Florida and most parts of Alabama and Georgia. “When we need to recharge our water system, this is what we don’t want,” said state climatologist David Stooksbury, who predicted that it will take months of above-average rainfall to recoup the losses. suckage-_-;

definatly huge

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21223500/ WASHINGTON - The world isn’t just getting hotter from global warming, it’s getting stickier. It really is the humidity.The amount of moisture in the air near the surface — the stuff that makes hot weather unbearable — increased 2.2 percent in just under three decades. And computer models show that the only explanation is manmade global warming, according to a study published in Thursday’s journal Nature. To show that this is manmade, Gillett ran computer models to simulate past climate conditions and studied what would happen to humidity if there were no manmade greenhouse gases. It didn’t match reality. He looked at what would happen from just manmade greenhouse gases. That didn’t match either. Then he looked at the combination of natural conditions and greenhouse gases. The results were nearly identical to the year-by-year increases in humidity. Gillett’s study followed another last month that used the same technique to show that moisture above the world’s oceans increased and that it bore the “fingerprint” of being caused by manmade global warming. Climate scientists have now seen the manmade fingerprint of global warming on 10 different aspects of Earth’s environment: surface temperatures, humidity, water vapor over the oceans, barometric pressure, total precipitation, wildfires, change in species of plants in animals, water run-off, temperatures in the upper atmosphere, and heat content in the world’s oceans. It will only feel worse in the future, Gillett said. Moisture in the air increases by about 6 percent with every degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), he said. Using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s projections for temperature increases, that would mean a 12 to 24 percent increase in humidity by the year 2100. damn....

*beats sledge* *shows him 4 legged Ditto pics* *shows him Ditto vet bills* whose the 6 thousand dollar cat? >.< lil miss is cute and soooo happy to have a lovin home!

awww, shes cute! looks like a charcoal or soot smudge on her nose. cuuuute! rescued and saved animals know they were saved and in time love pours from that ditto is a bastard... but he's a grateful bastard

Black Lagoon ost tiiiiiiiiiiight!

I'm flat linein here. I'm so uninspired and up in the air. Wish I could, doubt I will >.<

amen to that brother >.<

he doesn't want to be prez he's already on a mission

http://stepitup2007.org//index.php Step It Up 2007! This is our organizing hub for a National Day of Climate Action--Novmber 3rd, 2007. On April 14, 2007, a citizen's movement was launched. On November 3rd we'll see which of our politicians will join us in taking on the greatest challenge of our time. We'll gather at places across the country named after historic leaders to demand that our representatives address three key priorities to stop global warming. It will be a historic day in every way.

http://www.climateprotect.org/ As you might have heard, Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless efforts to help solve the global climate crisis. But he's not working alone -- millions of people across the country and around the world know that climate change is a critical issue that we need to act on, and now. With the proceeds of his Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore founded the Alliance for Climate Protection. You can do your part today by joining the Alliance's mailing list. You'll receive important news and be given the chance to take actions that will help stop global warming. http://www.climateprotect.org/signup Mr Gore said it best: "We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level." Please sign up now to stand with Al Gore and make important contributions to the urgent, but solvable, global warming crisis. Our increasing numbers will demonstrate to leaders in every time zone and on every continent that halting climate change is a top priority.

Hey Dx http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2007/10/road-to-riches.html http://www.nature.org/magazine/summer2007/features/ and yeah it all works! http://www.exxposeexxon.com/highlights.html

hmmm... one more reason I should pursue a career in villainy

4real this is taking forever >.<

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congrats! enjoy that big kitchen! ^__________^

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and in my email..... Dear Michelle, I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis--a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level. My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis. Thank you, Al Gore

OSLO, Oct. 12 — Former Vice President Al Gore, who emerged from the 2000 presidential election debacle to devote himself to his passion as an environmental crusader, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists. The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised both “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.” The prize is a vindication for Mr. Gore, whose frightening, cautionary film about the consequences of climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won the 2007 Academy Award for best documentary, even as conservatives in the United States denounced it as alarmist and exaggerated. “I will accept this award on behalf of all the people that have been working so long and so hard to try to get the message out about this planetary emergency,” Mr. Gore said in a brief appearance on Friday, Alto... standing with his wife, Tipper, and four members of the United Nations climate panel. “I’m going back to work right now,” he said. “This is just the beginning.” The award was also a validation for the United Nations panel, which in its early days was vilified by those who disputed the scientific case for a human role in climate change. In New Delhi, the Indian climatologist who heads the panel, Rajendra K. Pachauri, said, that science had won out over skepticism. Mr. Gore, a vociferous opponent of the Bush administration on a range of issues, including the Iraq war, is the second Democratic Party politician from the United States to win the peace prize this decade. Former President Jimmy Carter won in 2002. Mr. Carter, himself a critic of President Bush, was 78 when he won the prize. But Mr. Gore is just 59 and an active presence in American politics, if only as a large thorn in Mr. Bush’s side — and in the side of Democrats worried that he might challenge them for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Gore, who lost the 2000 election to Mr. Bush after a bitter electoral dispute that had to be resolved by the Supreme Court, has regularly said that he will not run for president again. But Friday’s announcement touched off renewed interest in his plans. Upon hearing the news, Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, did not go overboard in his praise. “Of course we’re happy for Vice President Gore and the I.P.C.C. for receiving this recognition,” he said. In Oslo, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the peace committee, was asked whether the award could be interpreted as criticism of the Bush administration and the United States, which do not subscribe to the Kyoto treaty to cap greenhouse emissions. He replied that the Nobel was not meant to be a “kick in the leg to anyone” — the Norwegian expression for “kick in the teeth.” “We would encourage all countries, including the big countries, and challenge them to think again and to say what they can do to conquer global warming,” Dr. Mjoes said in a news conference in Oslo. “The bigger the powers, the better that they come in front of this.” The four other members of the peace committee generally refuse to comment on the thinking behind the award, which in recent years has moved toward issues at a degree of remove from armed conflict, like social justice, poverty remediation and environmentalism. But in a telephone interview, Berge Furre, one of the four, said, “I hope this will have an effect on the attitudes of Americans as well as people in other countries.” In its formal citation, the Nobel committee called Mr. Gore “probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.” It praised the United Nations panel, which is made up of 2,000 scientists and is considered the world’s leading authority on climate change, for creating “an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.” While the world’s major environmental groups all heaped praise on Mr. Gore for his role in raising public awareness, they praised the panel for, in the words of Greenpeace International, “meticulous scientific work.” The two approaches, however different, both play a part, scientists said Friday. The Nobel Prize “is honoring the science and the publicity, and they’re necessarily different,” said Spencer A. Weart, a historian at the American Institute of Physics and author of “The Discovery of Global Warming,” a recent book. Mr. Gore, who announced he would give his portion of the $1.5 million prize money to the nonprofit organization he founded last year, the Alliance for Climate Protection, said he was honored to share the prize with the panel, calling it “the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis.” Mr. Pachauri said, “The message that it sends is that the Nobel Prize committee realized the value of knowledge in tackling the problem of climate change.” He said the award was an acknowledgment of the panel’s “impartial and objective assessment of climate change.” The climate panel, established in 1988, has issued a series of increasingly grim reports in the last two decades assessing scientific, technological and economic issues surrounding climate change. It is expected to issue another report in the next few months, before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Indonesia on Dec. 3. Some 180 countries are scheduled to begin negotiations there on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the climate adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and a leading contributor to the United Nations panel’s reports, said they were the result of “a painstaking process of self-interrogation.” The committee acts at “about the highest level of complexity you can manage in such a scientific assessment,” said Dr. Schellnhuber, who is the director of a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said in a telephone interview from Milan. “We want to be absolutely sure that we have turned over every stone.” For a scientist, he said, taking part on the I.P.C.C. entails considerable personal and professional sacrifices. “It drives you absolutely crazy,” Dr. Schellnhuber said. “You fly to distant places; you stay up all night negotiating; you listen to hundreds of sometimes silly interventions. You go through so many mundane things to produce the big picture.” The Nobel prizes are meant to be apolitical, and are, in any case, awarded independently of one another (the peace prize is awarded in Oslo, while the other prizes are awarded by various academies in Sweden). However, a number of recent winners have expressed their opposition to Bush administration policies. The 2005 literature winner, the British playwright Harold Pinter, turned his Nobel address into a blistering indictment of American foreign policy since the Second World War. The co-winner of the peace prize that year, Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, made no secret of his opposition to the United States invasion of Iraq and has angered the Bush administration by his measured methods for trying to rein in nuclear proliferation, particularly in Iran. In its citation today, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said that the United Nations panel and Mr. Gore both have focused “on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby reduce the future threat to the security of mankind.” It concluded, “Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/13nobel.html?ex=1207800000&en=a09d6d4a2d4bb2ed&ei=5087&excamp=GGGNalgorepeaceprize&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=GN-S-E-GG-SEM-KP-1055490488-S-NA-al_gore_peace_prize

fuckin a right! X'D happy period my ass!

oh pfffft! I have 2 kids, a man, 2 cats, a dog, a little squeak, a home, a garden, a yard, and meself to take care of! the average time I spend on email campaigns is probably less less then an hour a month. sign up for the shit yer down with and when they send you an email asking for your help its 2 clicks! ez squeezy yo X'D Off Topic: I'm on a number of different mailing lists, I'm a nosey bitch and I like to complaine X'D I think I get more email from Hillary Clinton (her office and her campigne) then I do from my own family. ps if we have another ice age reguardless of how mini my home is fucked. every blade of grass I mow and flower or tree I tend is dead, gone, buried under the ice. I've lived here all my life, what the glaciers made. to think of it all being scrubbed away by ice is really frigin depressing

look at the links I sent you and poke around this forum. Its all here and yes I wholeheartedly agree making food fuel is probably the worst idea in a long history of bad ideas. ethanol seems to be a decent next stepping stone. they're talking willow tree farms up here. Land ice would have to melt too and empty into the ocean for that to happen or more sea ice melting in the antarctic Dx! Join up with an online activist group. The email campaigns do make a difference

Ussop's already negative! OMg that killed me

see, the book is always better