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Yes, exactly. Hmm.. You shouldn't need to download any plugins to be able to view these images... Your Vista must really be acting weird..

Arctic sea ice is melting faster than climate models predicted and there is less sea ice in the Arctic now than at any time since records began. http://www.theecologist.org/news_detail ... nt_id=1038

You, me and everybody else’s life is about to change and have an effect on us in a near future because of global warming, even if you don’t care about it. What we will see is drastic drought or floods, a higher risk of bigger and more powerful storms, changed climate zones that will change whole ecosystems or destroy them. It is a massive global change that Mark Lynas is trying to describe about in this book High Tide. And he manages to do that in a very personal and readable way. High Tide never gets boring or monotonously like all the other fact books easily can turn out to be when they begin to pile lot’s and lot’s of numbers and tables to describe the subject. No, High Tide is extremely exciting and in some parts of the book really scary. This is probably because Mark Lynas is a journalist so he knows how to write stuff to get people’s attention. Instead of writing up a lot of boring sheets and numbers (You know, generally boring information) in the book he takes you on a journey around the world to let you as a reader meet the people and their environments that is drastically changing because of global warming. Lynas begins his journey in Great Britain who hasn’t experienced a real winter in ages. Instead of snow and real winter weather they get more and more rain, floods and mountains that transforms to muddy and lethal avalanches. Several tree kinds and animal species will disappear because it will be to hot for them to live where they normally lived before. After Great Britain Lynas takes you to Antarctic where the frost in the ground is melting and causes huge consequences for the communities’ infrastructure and everyone who lives there. You also get to meet people from the island paradise of Tuvalu who will be the first country in the world to disappear because of global warming. The islands will soon be flooded by the ocean and disappear because the ocean deep is rising every day because of the greenhouse effect. You will then follow Lynas hunt for storms and hurricanes in the southern parts of America. Lynas also meets several scientists and hurricane hunters that warn that America will face more and stronger hurricanes in the future (Just what is happening today!). But it’s not over yet. Lynas also take you on a journey to China were the drought and sandstorms is spreading more and more and swallows whole villages, cities, rivers and lakes. This is something that you won’t see in the news but is a really big problem in China. The final place Lynas takes you to is to the mountains in Peru where the glaciers is melting away. In Peru, Lynas tries to find a big glacier that his dad photographed in the 1980’s. But in the end he finds out that the glacier has completely melted and disappeared. But in all this Lynas skilfully succeeds to mix in real facts and science reports about climate change. He also let’s critics say their meaning in the book. All of this makes the book seem trustworthy and not exaggerated. In the end of the book Lynas talks about how we can make the consequences of global warming less tough. Because we can’t stop the global warming anymore, we can only prepare for a tougher life as best as we can. The language in the book is modern and is extremely alive and is very easy to read in a smooth way. The well-written descriptions about the different environments Lynas experiences never end. Lynas manage to make High Tide extremely exciting but nonetheless full of information and facts. Every page you read takes you one step closer to the judgement day. “High Tide. News from a warmer world” is a great book that I can really recommend to people who is the slightest interested about what is happening to our world. http://www.marklynas.org/2004/3/19/high-tide

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The summer sea ice in the Arctic is melting at a rate never before seen by experts, setting a record low the last two days that's likely to continue through September, top sea ice experts said in two new reports that suggest mankind's emissions of greenhouse gases are at least partly responsible. The National Snow and Ice Data Center on Friday said conditions on Thursday and Friday were already below the 2005 record and would likely stay that way through the end of summer. “Today is a historic day,” said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist with the center, which is located at the University of Colorado-Boulder. “This is the least sea ice we’ve ever seen in the satellite record and we have another month left to go in the melt season this year.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20316390/

From Gore: Polluters Manipulate Climate Info[/url:50c73] Research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming is part of a huge public misinformation campaign funded by some of the world's largest carbon polluters, former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday. "There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community," Gore said at a forum in Singapore. "In actuality, there is very little disagreement." Gore likened the campaign to the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco companies years ago on creating the appearance of scientific debate on smoking's harmful effects. "This is one of the strongest of scientific consensus views in the history of science," Gore said. "We live in a world where what used to be called propaganda now has a major role to play in shaping public opinion." After the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of the world's top climate scientists, released a report in February that warned that the cause of global warming is "very likely" man-made, "the deniers offered a bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could crank out and get published somewhere," Gore said. "They're trying to manipulate opinion and they are taking us for fools," he said. He said Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is one of the major fuel companies involved in trying to mislead the public about global warming. "Some of the tobacco companies spent millions of dollars to create the appearance that there was disagreement on the science. And some of the large coal and utility companies and the largest oil company, ExxonMobil, have been involved in doing that exact same thing for the last several years," Gore said. ExxonMobil said the allegation was "completely false." "The recycling of this type of discredited conspiracy theory diverts attention from the real challenge at hand: how to provide the energy needed to improve global living standards while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions," company spokesman Gantt Walton said. Last year, British and American science advocacy groups accused ExxonMobil of funding groups that undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. The company said the scientists' reports were just attempts to smear ExxonMobil's name and confuse the debate. Walton said the company's financial support does not mean control over any group's views, and that ExxonMobil believes that the risk that greenhouse gas emissions is contributing to climate change warrants taking action to limit them. Gore said that with growing awareness of climate change, the world will see an acceleration in efforts to fight the problem, and urged businesses to recognize that reducing carbon emissions is in their long-term interest. But while Washington should lead by example, he said developing nations also have to play a part. "Countries like China, just to give an example, which will next year be the largest emitter in the world, can't be excluded just because it's technically a developing country," Gore said. "When you look at the absolute amount of CO2 each year and going forward, China will soon surpass the U.S." Gore said that as the Asian giant's economy expands, China faces an increased risk from climate change and must leapfrog old, polluting technologies while maintaining growth. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said in June that China overtook the United States in carbon dioxide emissions by about 7.5 percent in 2006. China was 2 percent below the U.S. in greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, the agency said.

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I personally think Al Gore would be the best president for the USA. Hillary just seems to want some powers, I dont think she will be able to change much. Sure, it would be awesome with a female president, but then again... Obama also seems pretty cool. But oh well I rather want Al Gore. The problem isn't really Bush. It's their whole political system. It's not good when big companies like Exxon can buy presidential candidates.

I personally think that you can't have politics as a work. It's something you do for a period and then get back to your normal work. That way you as an politican would understand how "normal" people have it and we might would get more "action" in the politics. Recycling just makes sense. In Sweden companies have even started to fight about who will get peoples waste so that they can make energy[/url:1743c] from it..

Thats is true. But I am allergic so summers it's hard for me to jogg outside.. By the way, just as a fun thing. Which Sport do you guys and girls think is the most environmental friendly to practise?

Yeah, LocalCooling is a good program. If you want to join our group and help us reach top 10 you can find more information about that and more over here. ANOTHER GREEN TIP: - Don't buy water on bottle.

I like Wordpress the most. I haven't rally given B2evolution any chance to show me what it can... I choose WordPress for my blogs and Drupal for my CMS sites.

The simple answer is No. The free forums have come a long way and usually offers the same features as the paid ones. SMF is a good forum software. But I like phpBB the most. It's easier to theme and there are hundreds of mods for it. I also think phpBB3 that soon will be released will be one huge success. THis forum currently uses the latest candidate version of phpBB3 and it looks overall like one of the paid forum softwares.

Hi Shawn and welcome to the forum! I hope you will have a great time here. I would just like to mention; if you are interested in more general weather talks Shawns forum is the place to hang out at.

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Too bad Al Gore wont be running in the 2008 presidential elections...

Well, Greenpeace doesn't rank LG very good in their Green Electronics Guide. :(

Yeah I know. I can't wait! I wan't an Mac you know..

I second that! By the way, check this out: Ford to Attempt Land Speed Record in Fuel Cell Car[/url:e4b97]

The elections take place next year. But you can already now follow the presidential debates over at YouTube[/url:a1496].

I agree with you Daim. But maybe we need to wait until another major city, like New York floods before the (white) politicians in charge decides to actually do something?