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    Al Gore GPS Backpack Looks Like a C4 Bomb

    Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming

    Former Microsoft Technology Chief Wants To Block Out the Sun With Liquid Sulfur

    Obama Considers Zany Climate Engineering Gadgets to Fight 'The Warming'

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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    10/22/09

    In reply to Al Gore GPS Backpack Looks Like a C4 Bomb
    And yet, it is still more interesting than Al Gore. #algorebackpack
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/21/09

    In reply to Al Gore GPS Backpack Looks Like a C4 Bomb
    If you can't laugh, you may as well give up and die, dude.

    No tragedy, not even the end of the world, is above humor. #algorebackpack
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    10/21/09

    In reply to Al Gore GPS Backpack Looks Like a C4 Bomb
    how's he going to place it inside a glacier? are they going to melt a hole in it? place it in a crack? (sorry, can't be bothered to RTFA). If they put it in a crack, they should know that natural shifting will likely crush the thing. If current cooling trends continue they might never see it again. #algorebackpack
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    Edited by chauncy that billups at 10/21/09 4:48 PM chauncy that billups was starred chauncy that billups was unstarred
    Image of mricyfire mricyfire
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    scientist always looking unrealistically into the futures...100 years is a long ass time 2109 to be exact im sure we will have technology to adapt to these conditions. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    10/17/09

    @mricyfire: we wont have the tech if nobody cares about it and puts it off till then.... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    10/17/09

    @mricyfire: I believe the technology for the Maldives to adapt to rising ocean levels exist.

    Boats. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Identity (reclamation) promoted this comment SEDAGIVE?! was starred SEDAGIVE?! was unstarred
    Image of Ghede Ghede
    10/18/09

    @SEDAGIVE?!: "Although they first appeared around 2100, the sea gypsies did not appear from nowhere. There was once an island..." #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of Aishar Aishar
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    climate change may be or may not be myth... but why the hell should the maldivians and other low lying nations bet on that questions with their lives ?
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    switchblade saints promoted this comment Aishar was starred Aishar was unstarred
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    10/17/09

    @Aishar: migrate. Why go down with the sinking ship, regardless of what sinking it? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of PhantomTrace PhantomTrace
    10/17/09

    @Aishar: How about renewable energy for every country to attain as power consumption... excluding non-renewable for only post Armageddon events. Save the Earth. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    10/17/09

    @PhantomTrace: what is this Norway? Thats crazy talk #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    Maldives was a city, landlocked,
    hundreds of miles from the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean. Yet so desperate the city's desire for tourism, that they moved offshore, becoming an island and an even bigger Delta hub. Until the city overdeveloped and it started to sink. Knowing their fate, the quality people ran away: Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca Cola, the magician
    And the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were,
    And also Jane Fonda was there.

    *I have nothing of worth to contribute to this post. I'm sorry. I've got no place else to go. And I never learned to read.
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    Identity (reclamation) promoted this comment Edited by otko at 10/17/09 3:00 PM otko was starred otko was unstarred
    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    "in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to join me is more than welcome."

    "sign here if you are in" #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    10/17/09

    @switchblade saints: I know the movie you speak of, but I have not seen it. Worth watching? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    10/18/09

    @mattycakes: yes indeed #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    "coffee or tea anyone? Cookies? the meeting will start shortly when Mr. Johnson gets in to call the meeting.." #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    10/17/09

    @switchblade saints:

    "SHAAAAAAAAARK!!" #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    Global warming is funny, because most of its main proponents do nothing but profit from the idea.
    They shouldn't be believed because of that.

    Also, when you tell me a glacier in peru is melting, yes, ice melts over time.
    This doesn't mean the communists are corrupting your precious bodily fluids.
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    Edited by Demonbird at 10/17/09 2:54 PM Demonbird was starred Demonbird was unstarred
    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    10/17/09

    @Demonbird: yes, couldn't have said it better myself. One bad tsunami or typhoon and that island is toast. "global warming" has nothing to do with it. Seriously, people are still peddling that sack of shit? Don't they know it's called climate change now? You kind of have to rename it; cold temps are breaking records all over the world and global mean temps have not risen since 1998. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of fogmaster fogmaster
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    except for the fact that there is no proof of global warming... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    switchblade saints promoted this comment fogmaster was starred fogmaster was unstarred
    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    10/17/09

    @fogmaster: there is proof that temperatures were way warmer 10 years ago then they are now. We should be freaked out about global cooling

    HA #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of fogmaster fogmaster
    10/17/09

    @switchblade saints: If I remember... we are overdue for another ice age here... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    10/17/09

    @fogmaster: indeed. I'm spraying CFC's just in case #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of skierpage skierpage
    10/18/09

    @switchblade saints: 1998 was the warmest year ever. You can look at the graphs at NASA GISS but if you don't trust your government, here's what the UK Met Office says "All the years from 2000 to 2008 have been in the top 14 warmest years on record."

    The retreat of glaciers and reduction in arctic ice will continue unless temps drop a LOT more. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of pwnerjam4.0 pwnerjam4.0
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    global warming = bogus #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    switchblade saints promoted this comment pwnerjam4.0 was starred pwnerjam4.0 was unstarred
    Image of PN - gooapplesoft PN - gooapplesoft
    10/17/09

    @pwnerjam4.0: you = troll. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    10/17/09

    @PN - gooapplesoft: Stating a prominent opinion amongst climatoligists is trolling? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    chauncy that billups promoted this comment SEDAGIVE?! was starred SEDAGIVE?! was unstarred
    Image of iMiiTH iMiiTH
    10/17/09

    @pwnerjam4.0: You=True #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    switchblade saints promoted this comment chauncy that billups approved this comment iMiiTH was starred iMiiTH was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    Gwynne Dyer, a Canadian military and foreign affairs journalist, once suggested an interesting possibility for the future:

    That a number of these poor countries most at risk from rising sea levels might join together and engage in an individual process of geo-engineering, like unilaterally launching missiles that will carry a reflective dust into the upper atmosphere.

    To be fair, since they're facing being wiped out by an industrial process they're not benefitting from, and since the major industrial countries are effectively sacrificing them, it's not outside the realm of possibility. Everyone gets to fight for existence. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of PorkPie PorkPie
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    Hey, how do we stop the planet from changing due to forces that may or may not be under our control?

    I know! A publicity stunt! #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Pope John Peeps II promoted this comment PorkPie was starred PorkPie was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/17/09

    @PorkPie: Hey man, when you're poor and rich countries won't listen to you, you don't have many options.

    What would YOU suggest? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of PorkPie PorkPie
    10/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I don't think no one is listening to them. Anyone who's on the global warning train should be well aware of the hypothetical rising sea level. Mostly, the hundreds of millions of other people living within 3 feet of sea level outweigh the 350,000 Maldives.

    Send an emissary to the climate change summit. Arm him with a computer model.

    If you were authoring a global initiative on environmental concerns regarding climate change, would you be more moved by a demonstration of what would happen to maldives if the sea level goes up, or a couple of photographs of an underwater board meeting? #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/17/09

    @PorkPie: Nobody gives a shit about climate change meetings. Nobody in the industrial world gives a shit about port cities. Nobody gives a shit about anything. So why the fuck NOT have an underwater cabinet meeting?

    To be frank, THIS will make it into about 80 bajillion more news outlets than a "Climate Change meeting", which will make it into approximately....oh.... ZERO. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of PorkPie PorkPie
    10/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: It absolutely will. As a sideshow. If exposure is all you're looking for, you might as well do it naked, too, because it doesn't lend any credibility to your cause. Why not do it? Because it costs money and won't do anything. That's why not. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/17/09

    @PorkPie: Well, it's great of you to be so high and mighty.... except for the fact that we're talking about this. You saw this. And what's the last "climate change meeting" you talked about? The last one you saw?

    I don't think I have to make the argument when the argument is ACTUALLY SELF-EVIDENT. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/17/09

    @PorkPie: "I don't think no one is listening to them."

    Tuvalu disagrees. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of skiterr skiterr
    10/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Last time I checked media and the government is yakking about the climate change 24/7, Al Fucking Gore won a Noble prize for raising awareness about global warming - and that was just last year. Nobody is talking about these meetings because except for the media, nobody believes in global warming. And you know why nobody believes it, because it's not happening, even the inventors of global warming don't believe it, that's why they renamed it "climate change". #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    10/17/09

    @skiterr: "the inventors of global warming", lemme guess, they come from the same place as "The Elders of The Internet"?
    The issues isn't whether or not there is Global Warming, but why it's being caused.
    Its potentially a natural cycle for the Earth, like the middle of the Ice Ages, Or it could be cuased by increased industrial activity by man.
    Or a large amount of rice n cows.
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    switchblade saints promoted this comment Edited by deanbmmv at 10/17/09 2:41 PM deanbmmv was starred deanbmmv was unstarred
    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    10/17/09

    @deanbmmv: 98% of carbon emission is released from dying plants and volcanoes. Forget the 2% or so that man creates, we need to plug those volcanoes and keep all the plants alive!

    war on volcanoes!!! ha #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/17/09

    @skiterr: Oh please. Nobody's talking shit about Global Warming. There's nothing in the media of any substance, no calls for any reduction, no coverage of pollution accords between countries, nothing nobody nothing anywhere. For you to say there is just proves how unbelievably biased you are against climate science.

    And Global Warming IS an inaccurate term. It's a little silly. Climate Change is far more appropriate. it's a deadly problem, and to be honest, there's no way to get it through to idiots like you. You're like Birthers, or Truthers, or weirdo Creationists - just totally fucking reamed by your own self-importance.

    Just admit that you WANT not to believe in Climate Science, and then you'll be able to find loads more evidence to support yourself. You're already inventing things, just be honest about it.

    I'll be honest: 98% of carbon emission being released from "volcanoes and dying plants" is maybe the stupidest, dumbest bullshit I've ever heard in my entire life. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    10/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I was being sarcastic, poking fun at Ian Plimer's claim of this to be true. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of Oxidesnake Oxidesnake
    10/17/09

    In reply to Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming
    So what's the problem? Obviously they just proved that the could carry on with their lives underwater... #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    92BuickLeSabre promoted this comment Oxidesnake was starred Oxidesnake was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/17/09

    @Oxidesnake: Indeed. I know feel reassured and am headed outside to idle my car for no apparent reason. #maldivesunderwatercabinetmeeting...
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    Image of Monty Monty
    10/15/09

    In reply to Former Microsoft Technology Chief Wants To Block Out the Sun With Liquid Sulfur
    Well, this is exciting since Microsoft controlling the climate means that I could potentially destroy the entire world with a tiny bit of code submitted to the heavens. I like it. Let him have his Stratoshield. [insert evil laughter]

    As silly as it might sound, there is a lot of "crazy" ideas being discussed on how to save the planet from ourselves. That is the human way -- continue to live the lifestyle we want, and any problem that comes up we will leave it to the evil geniuses to fix for us. #stratoshield
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