Happy Feet is so much cooler.

There will be no more happy feet if the polar ice caps in antarctica keeps breaking at this pace

Disney is soooooooooo racist.

i saw it last year in the cinema with my skool. its definitily a more hard hitting documentry. It really raised more awarness which is good. i laughed at bush trying to dampen it out by marking it as entertainment rather then documentry. Apart from Al Gore promoting himself a little, its people like him which makes me think there is still hope for this planet to survive

Of course the planet will survive. It survived molten rock pouring over its surface and and multiple ice ages.

Humans are the people who wont survive, we're like a mild case of Eczema to the earth.

^Good post! People who want to 'save the planet' aren't really after saving the planet because it's mostly a big chunk of rock, metal and water and it is perfectly capable of saving itself. No, they probably realise that humans are heading more and more towards creating a planet which isn't very inhabitable by humans.

I personally don't care that much because I''m a very good swimmer (I'll survive floods!) and cope very well with extremes of heat, but people who need airconditioning are going to be screwed when the fuel runs out and they find the unconditioned air around them is in the high 30s/low 40s all year round. Remember, if you're the type of person who gets heat exhaustion you won't last long when the world heats up!

I was thinking more of the particle accelerator up in the North that scientist are trying to use to recreate the Big Bang.

It just doesn't seem like a clever thing to do.
Human curiousity will kill humans.

I havent seen an Inconvenient Truth.. i want too, though it seems to me a bit melodramatic.

Im doing a uni module called Climate Change Science.. its an entirely factual based module using IPCC data and climate prediction models. none of this "50 squirrels die every time you take a bath" kind of stuff.. but studying the data and the graphs of the changes that have already happened and whats going to happen.

i think that global warming is partially natural. looking at the cycle we were always due for a warm spot around this time.... but not as warm as what we're going to get, and thats down to man.

It'll be a long time until the earth does get too warm to actually live on, but the effects of increased ocean acidity, reduced arable ground and melting ice caps arent too far off.

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"well" he said, "I used to be a conservationist. I used to weep and wail about people shooting bald eagles with automatic shotguns from helicopters an all that, but I gave it up. There's a river in Cleveland which i so polluted that it catches fire about once a year. That used to make me sick, but I laugh at it now. When some tanker accidentally dumps its load in the ocean, and kills millions of birds and billions of fish, I say, 'More power to Standard Oil,' or whoever it was that dumped it." Trout raised his arms in celebration. "'Up your ass with Mobil gas," he said.

The driver was upset by this. "You're kidding," he said.
"I realized," said Trout, "that God wasn't any conservationist, so for anybody else to be one was sacrilegious and a waste of time. You ever see one of His volcanoes or tornadoes or tidal waves? Anybody ever tell you about the Ice Ages he arranges for every half-million years?...(more stuff along those lines, i'm getting tired of typing).

The driver was impressed. "come to think about it," he said, "I don't think there's anything about conservation anywhere in the Bible."
"Unless you want to count the story about the Flood," said Trout.



^Amazing book, a good read for anybody. I just thought that passage fit this thread and was slightly humorous.