THIS IS WHAT GLOBAL WARMING LOOKS LIKE

[kpete]

Run time: 01:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG41xDxrzI8   Posted on YouTube: September 20, 2010 By YouTube Member: NRDCflix Views on YouTube: 312   Posted on DU: September 21, 2010 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 3388

 

[indimuse]

1. KNR! n/t

[lysosome]

31. Even democrats are falling to the propaganda.

http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming

[kestrel91316]

2. I'm still car-free in Los Angeles, 385 days and counting......

[JDPriestly]

7. How are you doing it? Bicycle? Public Transportation?

Do you live near your work, doctors, etc.?

[kestrel91316]

10. Feet, public transportation, some cycling, rarely friends' cars for heavy errands.

Not terribly difficult, though last winter when I had a nasty cold was challenging. And our 6 days of heavy rain a year is pretty sucky.

[JDPriestly]

13. Wonderful. Do you live near your work?

[kestrel91316]

23. 2 miles, on a major bus route. In good weather I walk home. In bad,

I take transit. I get in almost 6 hours a week of brisk walking, helps to maintain my girlish figure.

[hourglass1]

11. congrats amazing

very valiant ... having been raised in los angeles i wonder how on earth you do it?

powerful presentation, by the way

[kestrel91316]

22. Mass transit: major bus lines 5-12 minute walks in 3 directions;

feet still highly functional; bicycle useful at times (though hazardous in traffic), currently needs minor repairs so out of use.

If someplace can't be reached by mass transit and feet, I probably don't need to go there anyway.

[civilisation]

20. I'm 40 now and have not driven since I was 20,. thats 20 years now.

I have not owned a car since I was in university, when that car died of old age, I never got another. I ride bike mostly,. I have lived in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and usually live in the core,. (although currently am in a suburb) where I can walk or ride my bike to everything,. in for long trips or in bad weather, (and the winter) I use the bus/commuter trains. I have driven other peoples cars, and get rides with others,. but I have no intention of ever owning a car again. I would rather get a horse! It is much nicer to walk or ride my bike, I just buy food and beer more often, like every couple days. Fresh food is better anyway! I go to local markets for produce, getting nice organics. I have a big bike-bag that I can carry almost anything in,. I suggest getting a job near where you live or moving close to where you work. I have stopped working for others and now do contract work from home so that makes it even easier,. cars are evil. grow your own food,. Permaculture is the bright green future. Peace.

[Turborama]

3. Rec'd & It Stayed At +1? WTF?

Seriously, :wtf:

ETA Thanks for posting. I've rated on YouTube, faved and posted it on Facebook.

[lumpy]

6. Kick- maybe the naysayers will get a peek at this.

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[Turborama]

4. The details from below the vid...

Globally January through August 2010 was the hottest such period on record, according to NASA. This comes on top of the warmest decade on record (2000-2009), which surpassed the previous record set by the 1990s, which itself supplanted the 1980s as the warmest decade on record at that time.

And global warming is dangerously disrupting our climate in many others ways. Because the atmosphere can hold more moisture as it warms, there is more rapid evaporation when it is dry and more intense rainfall when it is wet. The result is an increase in severe droughts and floods. As we have seen this year with our own eyes in Russia, Pakistan, China, and the United States, the results can be tragic.

We can't attribute any specific extreme event to global warming with confidence, but we know that we are loading the dice. More record heat and more extreme droughts and floods can be expected in the future as heat-trapping pollution continues to build up in our atmosphere. The Earth is saying something. Will we listen?

Please join with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and take action to protect our planet -- it's the only one we have. Take action here: http://bit.ly/bArcGx.


Credits:
Concept: Dan Lashof;
Director & Producer: Francesca Koe;
Creative Direction: the Compound;
Editor: Enzo Semmens;
Photographs: Getty Images with permission;
NRDC Communications Director: Phil Gutis

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[JDPriestly]

8. K&R

[jimlup]

9. Wish we could get this information to the mainstream populous

I don't know why but they can't seem to integrate information and draw logical conclusions. We need summaries like this in front of their eyes.

I'm not sure about the "arctic ice lowest level ever" statement. I think deniers would target this one and claim all of the info was invalid as a result. Total arctic ice is at an all time minimum because the mass is lower than it has ever been but the arctic ice extent was not (it appears to be tied for 3rd though it may yet see 2nd place). The problem is most people are not sophisticated enough to understand why mass is a more important measurement than extent.

[tclambert]

15. You know there is an active propaganda campaign by oil companies and right wingers

Oil companies and coal companies because they don't want to admit they are a big part of the problem. Why, if people believed in global warming, they might actually want to conserve fossil fuels. The right wingers have to oppose it ever since Al Gore came out with that movie. If Al Gore is for it, they must be against it, no matter what the facts are. I knew they would react this way, too, and thought Gore might be doing environmentalists and climate scientists a disservice. This should be a science issue, but it has become a partisan issue.

[autorank]

12. k*r

It's all there if people will look.

[time_has_come]

14. they dont care nt

[nradisic]

16. Wake up folks!

Global warming is real....and it ain't all about the heat either. Weather patterns are going wacko...

[dotymed]

17. According to George WILL (yuck)

It doesn't matter what humans do to earth. The Earth is on a "cycle" (mense?) and it will repeat (and overcome anything humans have done), I bet there are many idiots who believe georgie "silver spoon" Wills.
How sad for our world.

[chervilant]

25. hmm...

In one sense, it doesn't matter what humans do to Earth. When our species has thrown our ecosystem too far out of balance, Gaia will simply roll over and scrape us off her backside--and we'll just have to go along for the ride. We're witnessing the beginning of this process, and should anticipate that it will get far more challenging over the next decade.

BTW, has anyone noticed that the MSM has been completely silent about the ongoing and still inexplicable disappearance of significant percentages of honeybees? As of the last compilation of data (2009-10), another almost 40% of commercial hives has 'gone missing' in a bizarre process that is now called 'colony collapse disorder.' Without honeybees, our agriculture base will shrink drastically and we will be unable to feed the burgeoning masses.

We've had better than fifty years of warnings about the dangers of overpopulation, yet here we are, whinging about global climate change. Kelly was so spot on when he wrote, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

[ProudDad]

29. George Will's right, if the Earth acts in time

to throw off the contamination...

Before we reach the tipping point...

And end up with another Venus...

Go, Earth, Go!!!

It appears that the big-brained bipeds are another evolutionary dead-end...

But it's all ok, there's another Earth somewhere...

[pleah]

18. K&R

[ensho]

19. props to who ever picked the background music

it fit just right

the tipping point has long tipped. we are on the survival side now.

[bertman]

21. Excellent video. Rec. nt

[perdita9]

24. Facts mean nothing to crazy people

If you want the government to do something about global warming, stop sending nutballs like Senator Inofe (OK - Insane) to Congress.

[earcandle]

26. Well done! I bought a Hybrid.

[DeSwiss]

27. K&R

Kpete, the climate-change deniers don't agree with these numbers. They DO agree with the numbers being dumped into their bank accounts for the lies that they tell.

- But they could care less about how many people suffer and die for their goddamned lies......

[ProudDad]

28. Mother Nature bats last... (n/t)

[butterfly77]

30. Kicked&Recommended!!!