NBC is doing an alarming report about melting Antarctica right now

[Stephanie]

I have a hard time watching this it scares me so much.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. You know, you'd think we'd be out there harvesting the stuff.

Bottle it and save it for later. Easier to purify water to drink, than to desalinate.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Global Warming......Good!

[Stephanie]

3. this report was so urgent

they literally said there are just a few years left to intervene. and yet it was one of the last stories in the show. why isn't this screaming headlines every single day?

[katty]

4. why? same reason why Bush has been impeached by now!

[Gabi Hayes]

5. it's already too late....been that way for awhile

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=603975

The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already.

The countdown to climate-change catastrophe is spelt out by a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the world - and it is remarkably brief. In as little as 10 years, or even less, their report indicates, the point of no return with global warming may have been reached.

The report, Meeting The Climate Challenge, is aimed at policymakers in every country, from national leaders down. It has been timed to coincide with Tony Blair's promised efforts to advance climate change policy in 2005 as chairman of both the G8 group of rich countries and the European Union.

And it breaks new ground by putting a figure - for the first time in such a high-level document - on the danger point of global warming, that is, the temperature rise beyond which the world would be irretrievably committed to disastrous changes. These could include widespread agricultural failure, water shortages and major droughts, increased disease, sea-level rise and the death of forests - with the added possibility of abrupt catastrophic events such as "runaway" global warming, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, or the switching-off of the Gulf Stream.

[Stephanie]

6. see i can't even read that

i burst into tears after just reading a little and i can't read more it's too frightening

[Gabi Hayes]

7. just think....if you were somebody like Ann Coulter, you'd

make a joke about not having to club the harp seals anymore....they'd just drown!

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_big_teaser/international/photosvideos/photos/greenpeace-worker-holds-the-te



EDIT for nausea at noticing sponsors of above pic

[mom cat]

8. If Antarctica melts, the sea levels would rise 200 feet. To see what that

would look like in your area, click on this tool:
http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/education/quest/


then click on MENU>DATA SETS>TOPOGRAPHY> SHOW SEA LEVEL CHANGE>CHANGE IN SEA LEVEL> set # of meters.
200 ft is about 61 meters. There is a US map with a 61 meter rise in sea level:
http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/education/quest/

[killbotfactory]

12. If I had money, I'd be investing in soon to be beachfront property...

[mom cat]

13. Florida will be gone, so will Louisiana and all the cities on the east

coast:
Boston, Providence, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Charlestown,
And the Gulf coast too: Houston, Galveston,Corpus, Brownsville, Beaumont
Etc,etc,etc,
The San Fernando Valley will be an inland sea.San Francisco and LA and San Diego Portland and Seattle all gone.

[tom_paine]

14. Depending on where you live, it could shortly BE beachfront property

[Toots]

9. Pretty sure Bush* and Cheney own stock in an air conditioner company

He mentioned air conditioning as a solution to Global Warming one time.

[Rainscents]

11. Did he really said that?

He truly is a idiot!

[Kansas Wyatt]

10. Anybody remember Gorbachev awhile back making a comment

About the oil supply problem in the world and the chaos it is causing, will be nothing compared to the fighting over who will control the world's WATER supply?