tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599649.post115730230074954561..comments2023-10-28T05:17:57.307-07:00Comments on Random Rants and Reflections: A Permanent ShiftUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599649.post-1157492774086686682006-09-05T14:46:00.000-07:002006-09-05T14:46:00.000-07:00movie moved me too: global racist destruction. for...movie moved me too: global racist destruction. for a sec i thought eco president gore! but woke up quick: mann's katrina book points to bush/clinton/gore's white southern racist roots. it reminded me environmental justice's importance: fix planet & socio-economic problems. & recycling @APEN's party!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599649.post-1157488131431710842006-09-05T13:28:00.000-07:002006-09-05T13:28:00.000-07:00Rona, I agree and so do the majority of scientists...Rona, <BR/>I agree and so do the majority of scientists who have looked into global climate change (a term I prefer than global warming*), including Dr James Hanson, the top government climate scientist responsible for making sense of all the data. His scientific reports to congress were censored every year by political (non-scientist) operatives in the Bush Administration. 60 Minutes showed examples of his original reports and what they looked like after the Bush people were through. Hanson is one of a number of scientists that believe we are close to the tipping point -- the point at which the global effects will accelerate dramatically.<BR/><BR/>I too hope more people, especially the undecided, watch the film.<BR/><BR/>*By the way, I prefer global climate change rather than global warming. Global warming is scientifically correct but it makes people think that the main effect is that it will be warmer locally, which may not necessarily be the case for others in the world. In other words, although the average global temperatures are increasing, what it means to people locally vary --some will definitely experience hotter summers and increased desertification<BR/>in other places, but for others, it may mean more massive rains, etc. And if the oceanic thermocline is shut down because of the melting of glaciers, parts of Eurasia and North America will experience extreme colds -- yet it is all a result of global warming.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>JorgeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599649.post-1157487859861766932006-09-05T13:24:00.000-07:002006-09-05T13:24:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599649.post-1157431812424227242006-09-04T21:50:00.000-07:002006-09-04T21:50:00.000-07:00I too saw the movie this summer and was shaken. I'...I too saw the movie this summer and was shaken. I've always been one who resisted putting energy into what I dismissed as "personal solutions to social problems" but recently I read something that seemed to apply:<BR/><BR/>An environmental writer named Bill McKibben wrote "Individual action is a kind of calisthenics before the big event, which must be political." I can relate to that concept.janinsanfranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599649.post-1157309131110523962006-09-03T11:45:00.000-07:002006-09-03T11:45:00.000-07:00Rona. Thank you, sister for such a poetically writ...Rona. Thank you, sister for such a poetically written blog. I also enjoyed an Inconvenient Truth, although I was somewhat annoyed by the plug for his candidacy again. But apart from that, it is a wake up call to all of us. And I totally agree with you about all the waste that is generated by all of our conferences. Not only that, but the bad food we serve--the non-ecologically sustainable food, food high in sugars and trans-fatty acids in processed foods--we need to be doing better. All of us, if we are to acheive the change we really wish to see in this world. Love and hugs, ChristineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com