Adventure Books of Seattle is assembling a book right now on global warming.
It's titled "A Thousand Voices - A Testament on Global Warming.'

Scientists, children, truck drivers, housewives, even a guy stationed on the coast of Antarctica have submitted their opinions and views.

There are no rules. The webform asks your first name and initial, (last name is optional) and the city/state or if you are outside the US, your city/country.

Then... you fill the message box with whatever you wish to say about Global Warming. The first 1,000 will be published in the book.

So...come on over and say what you wish and get into print.

Geoff Nelder of England, a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and the author of two reference books on the weather will be helping to edit this book.

The book is fully illstrated, using images depicting the effects of global warming, especially before-and-after images.
Become part of something good...you won't be sorry, I promise!

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I would think that the current world situation is more important than discussions about global warming. Al Gore seems to be on that global warming bandwagon as if he's run out of things that he is in control of. So what! If the unrest in the world gets totally out of hand and they start lobbing nuclear tipped missiles you can forget about any debate about global warming. Then again there will be that and nuclear winter as well.

But isn't global warming part of the current world situation? And Al Gore isn't really on a bandwagon--he's been studying the environment and ways to preserve it for decades.

lmskipper- Yep! It's part of the current world situation. Al Gore not really on a bandwagon but studying the environment and ways to preserve it for decades? Okay, I'll agree. But since all of life and death onthis planet hang in the balance of a single hour's notice, while the environment has a much different time frame, I would tend to entertain the shorter time situation as being far more alarming and so very much more noteworthy.

Not too closely related to Bradbury, is it? With the age of the earth and geologic records, I think there's a better than 50/50 chance that the earth's temperature fluctuates as a natural part of it's history.

Now you’re talkin’. I say we’re still recovering from the last ice age.

I think in the past, the fluctuations were very gradual. Right now, the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate. As the oceans and the atmosphere fill with more moisture, more drastic unpredictable weather will occur. At first it will be very hot, but after the tipping point, when oceans and atmosphere fill, it will go the other way and get cold. Similiar to nuclear winter or a large meteoric event. I know, we are responsible for doing this. All you need do to know it is true, is open your eyes and read what the scientist's have written. Complacency will put a period at the end of man's existence on this shiny ball of blue.

Just the beginning folks, wait 'till the pole shifts, again. Any doubts that this has happened in the past? There is a lot of good data that says it has, many times. When that big piece of ice that currently lays over Antartica slips into the southern ocean, there will be a major world-wide upheaval. Global warming is just a trigger mechanism, wait for the real show.

Robert Lincoln, still nuclear threat is greater than global warming threat. And there are so many other threats. Medicines that are causing germs more durable and robust life. A formitable emaciation of individual personalities world-wide thru pervasive pornography, especially on the world wide web. (the future of psychiatry never looked so good.) Enemies all around the world that hate American-style culture. (Will the experiment of America last unto 250 years?) If weather is all you are looking at, during your walk
outdoors, don't fall into that hole someone dug while you were'nt looking.

"I believe," said the first lady, "that our souls are in our hands. For we do everything to the world with our hands. Sometimes I think we don't use our hands half enough; it's certain we don't use our heads."
'Embroidery', by Ray Bradbury

Bot,
"I know, we are responsible for doing this. All you need do to know it is true, is open your eyes and read what the scientist's have written."
First, ONE volcanic eruption like that of Mt. Pinatubo a few years back, does more to our atmosphere than all of mankind through all his history has done.
Second, not ALL the scientists agree. Those who want to blame the U.S. and get money for ther research, tours, conferences, etc, certainly do agree.

Patrask,
"...When that big piece of ice that currently lays over Antartica slips into the southern ocean, there will be a major world-wide upheaval."
Ever study physics? (Should be "LIES over AntarCtica", by the way). Take a full glass of water with an ice cube floating in it. Does the water spill over when the ice melts?

I'm not asserting that things aren't changing; rather that we are more bystanders than instigators.
We are called to be stewards (and fail in this), but I do not believe there is one societal problem that cannot be solved by consideration for others; and that this should more properly be our focus.

An interesting site:

http://www.junkscience.com/

B-Two, all good points, I just beleive that we are hurrying a process that would have been much more gradual without our carelessness. I totally concur with you on our failure to be stewarts of this great ship called planet Earth with our emissions and pollutants. I also agree with all the other examples shown of possible threats to our existence like war, famine, plague, and topsy terviness(?) of the poles. With the technology of today, I think its tantamount to giving a two year old a gun. Might not be up to the task at hand. I just think(wish)that the stewartship part of taking care of Mother Earth wouldn't take a backseat to money and greed, but at the same time, I am zen enough to know that things are what they are. In other words, as is. We can all do our parts individually no matter how small it seems. The reason we are here is to observe and love (like Ray says). Paramount is love! Contrary to what I beleive is happening, I am not a naysayer, maybe just a realist. Like Jerry Garcia once said, "nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile."

I think Jerry said that right after a big hit of N2O!
But the philosophy holds.
Wasn't there a thread about once-popular songs that had to do with smiles?

Well...
I had forgotten that I posted up something here about the book.
Let me make something clear about the book. Adventure Books takes no position about GW (global warming) in the book. We are merely collecting the thoughts of people who DO have something to say. Even the messages from people who do not believe in GW get published.The only ones we delete are the messages from obvious wackos...

Whether I think GW is real is irrelevent. AB is just publishing the book. Our only opinion here is that this particular book NEEDS to be written. There are already enough books out there by scientists lecturing us on the subject. To date, we have filled more than 200 of the available 1,000 slots.

It is remarkable how people from so many different places on the planet are sounding off about the changes in the weather in their neighborhood. Makes you wonder...

To Embroiderer: Just because Earth may have more than one major problem going does not mean that another problem should be ignored.

The book offers no solutions to GW, other than what may be contained in some messages. It is a testament, a collection of witnesses on both sides of the fence. It will be interesting to see the final result when the book comes out.

To get into the book, you answer two easy questions: What is your name? (last name optional) and What City/State or City/Country do you live in. The location is needed only to give reference to the message, such as when someone starts talking about the changes in the weather where they live.
Then, you fill in the text box with whatever you wish and hit the submit button. That's it...you are IN the book.
We keep a running total at the website on how many messages have been processed out of a thousand, and how many slots remained to be filled. I think we are well over two hundred now.
They come from everywhere, from people in all walks of life. Most are well-thought out and fascinating. My sincere thanks goes out to everyone who have contributed to the book, and to those who will...

To add your bit for print, just go here:
Adventure Books' Global Warming Project

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B-Two, thanks for that link too, very interesting. I had to pause and go, "hmmmmm."

Robert, thank you too. I went to the website and I put in my two cents worth. Please keep us posted on that. Very dynamic website too! Take care and keep reaching man!!

Here's my post:

"I don't know whether there is global warming or not. I don't know whether human activity is causing it (assuming it exists) or not. I do know that earth's temperatures have fluctuated throughout it's geologic history--long before man had much more than clubs polluting the environment with dead pre-squirrels. Many pontificate that scientists agree with the phenomena. This is a ridiculous claim. Many reputable scientists dispute many of conclusions and deductions of those touting this as a man-made crisis that will shortly doom the earth. The much-touted Kyoto treaty exempted significant portions of the world from compliance and laid the burden of compliance on a minority of nations. There is clearly a political and cultural agenda being driven here--no matter how often chicken-little proponents repeat their claims, how many times they make a movie, or how many pseudo-treaties they try to force down the throats of the industrial nations."

NOW . . . back to Bradbury and his literature!