can you hear the pulse of excitement? (Page 2)

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*was it insanely disturbing or what??

well.....LOL

i just like all the science he presents in the film and he connects the recent weather patterns with global warming...i thought it was interesting...

it does say something though, i was watching the news last night and it showed how Tony Blair came to California to meet up with some world and business leaders where they discussed Global Warming....all of them said Bush was unresponsive to any request to join these talks...

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drinking.........what makes you think I'm drinking............

lol

just beer...I'm working on my gut...besides I'm too hot and to lazy to mix anything.....I'm seriously melting here...it's disgusting- drinks get warm in like 2 minutes and the condensation from the bottle alone is creating a large pool of water on the coffee table.....

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its been that hot here for the past month....usually every summer (since the mid 90's) we would have like two weeks of intense, ridiculous, i just want to walk around naked heat.....but this summer its lasted from late june all the way up to about maybe a week ago, but its getting hot again 😢

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all of them said Bush was unresponsive to any request to join these talks...

This is true!!!!! fkingbushwhakkker!!!! He doesn't want tanything to do with it!! He makes love to vats of oil...it makes me sick- you know- AL G was at least ecologically minded...I think things would be different...

yes...anyway...the longer bush stays the faster we melt

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we are in the midst of record heat this week and it is just ridiculous...there were maybe one- two days a summer like this when I was a kid- but never WEEKS like this!!

I constantly need to resist the temptation to shower every 3 minutes...

and I actually LIKE the humid weather...but even this now is getting to be a little much

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well his family made money from oil...

Algae does a good job in the film (its his afterall) but its sort of sad no one has gone to see it...the information is pretty important...

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i remember being a kid in the 80's and it didn't get THIS hot....this type of heat started in the mid 90's (at least here)

i talked to some older people and they all told me it never got this hot before the 90's...and it gets colder in the winter now...California's weather used to be really mild, now its very much at extremes during the seasons...

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HAHAHAAA

Algae!! GAWWWD- HOW did I miss that one??

*bows to you*

and you are right! the info is important and I really do think a diff could be made if we had a leader who gave a ratsass about the earth- you know...people really DON'T realize how serious this stuff is...

*pours draino out into the lawn and tosses the container into a shrub*

anyway...it's just really too bad.....

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*pours draino out into the lawn and tosses the container into a shrub*

hahahahahha....yeah its pretty bad....but shit, at this rate if nothing happens we'll still have at least another 20 years (maybe) not bad....hopefully my liver will last that long also....

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20??

what did they say in the film?

I think the worst thing is going to be when certain areas just get dried up- like the midwest- getting the water is going to suck- and it will be expensive

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they didn't say that in the film...but he had charts where they measured the heat of the past 2000 years, and there is a dramatic increase in the heat of the last 15 years, heat we have never seen before, which is consistent with all our "heatwaves"

there will be water...lots of it....the heat is melting alot of the polar ice caps (the huge ones) and that's making the water levels increase....that's why we have had soo many hurricanes, i'm not exactly sure on what causes it, but it has something to do with the increased water levels and winds caused by the heat...

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Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This is a good thing because it keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth?s atmosphere and temperatures are rising.

The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real, it?s already happening and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable.

We?re already seeing changes. Glaciers are melting, plants and animals are being forced from their habitat, and the number of severe storms and droughts is increasing.

-The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
-Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Colombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
-The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade.
-At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles.

If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic consequences.

-Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years -- to 300,000 people a year.
-Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and
Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.
-Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
-Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
-The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.
-More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.

i got this from the website....its more reliable than my memory...

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well...I'm certainly going to see it...I love feeling doomed- I get a real high off of it

did you read fastfood nation? same scary shit...just with the meat instead of motherdirt

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*did you read fastfood nation?

-i'd like to read it, since i see it all around me...i feel bad for all these fat little kids trying to run (but really just waddling) around me...their parents should really know better...

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*DOUBLE— in 25 years!!

-the numbers now are ridiculous...more people should be upset...makes me almost want to trade in my jeep for something smaller, less gass guzzling and most importantly more gay...

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READ IT!!

I could not put it down...page after horrifying page...you will never be the same...it almost made me a vegetarian...almost...okay no- but seriously it is really sickening and disturbing...naturally a captivating read o_O

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*what could be gayer than a jeep??

-don't make me start posting pics...anyway, i'm not one of these people who believes u are what u drive (like everyone else in Cali)

-i'm moving out of this state....

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you may have the imaged obsessed folk out there but the east coast is postively weighted down by assholes - cold, bitter, tight assholes that no amount of global warming will ever relax

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*people suck ALL across this great nation!!

-good point....its just that there is ALOT of people here....it feels crowded....i feel more relaxed once i leave the city and enter a rural area....but the downside is that those areas are insanely boring....

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If I didn't like eating out so much I would probably move to a more remote location...
okay...well...I also like eating out LATE and being able to get food at 2a if I want to...so I guess I really do need to live near a shitty

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i met some woman at work who was from New York....her accent gave her away, she was telling me how she likes the people here better, we're "nicer"....so i guess u might be right about what u are saying about the east coast....but i have a feeling people there are smarter....its a theory....

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well...I grew up near the sticks...I get really homesick for the nightcritter sounds and crickets and stuff...the quiet nights...but then- you're right- there is the insanely boring aspect! Though...I did get used to disco bowling fridays and as the night life...

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well its the oldest part of the country.....most of the ivy leagues are there so u have that educational culture....anyway, its a theory, i've never been so i don't know for sure....i thought English people were smarter until i visited England and found out they are just as stupid as everyone else...but they dress better...

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well...gem- there are plenty of shit colleges out here too- and a whole lot of bumfuckin woods to play in at that...I wouldn't say that people out here are as open minded as they are in cali...

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well u been here, i've have never been there...so your opinion has more weight....but i'll make it out there sometime...I'll go to that giant ashtray New York.....i want to see it before it gets enveloped by the ocean 🙂