An inconvenient follow-up

I watched the supplemental material from "An Inconvenient Truth" tonight and it fired me up again.  HIs stats (if correct) on Global Warming are astounding.  If we keep pumping 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day, disaster looms ahead.  The melting of Siberia's permafrost alone could release another 70 million tons of methane into the atmosphere.  35 glacial earthquakes measuring 5.0 or higher on the Richter scale (the most ever) were recorded last year on Greenland.

I'm usually not an alarmist.  In fact, I tend to be a little conservative by nature.  But Gore paints a pretty grim picture backed up by quite a bit of fact in this film.  If you haven't seen it yet, grab a friend and watch it together.  You'll need someone to help close your mouth when it's over.

But maybe all is not lost.  According to this MSNBC article, both consumers and companies might be waking up.  Sales of Hummers are down 10.9 percent this year (so why do I see SO many in my neighborhood?).  Several large US corporations have joined forces to petition for a national limit on carbon emissions.  Is this just lip service?  How are they going to police this?  If the theory on melting ice shelves is true, you'd think it'd be the insurance companies with clients on the coastline pressing for carbon limits.

So in the spirit of the future, I whipped up a new site banner tonight using a few borroed images and the free CTP of Microsoft's Expression Graphic Designer.  If you haven't tried it yet, you're missing out!