11th Hour (Everyone should see this film. Check your local library.)

SWIMMING LESSONS

LEARNING TO SWIM

Climate Change - Shlimate Change!

Here's the thanks we get from nature for us doing nothing about climate change (emphasis added):

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Oceans rising faster than expected as climate change exceeds grimmest models

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.

And it's not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the dozen years leading up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen:

The world's oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.

No surprise there.

Maybe we need to fudge further the science of climate change in order to finally manage to shape the reality that we want?

I suppose we'll finally accept the fact that we should've done done something about this catastrophe once we'll be several feet under water ...

(Cross-posted from APOV)

A New Film - HOME by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

HOME official website

Sign the 350 Survival Pact

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