Inconvenient

I saw "An Inconvenient Truth" this weekend -- all I can tell you is, GO. It will truly open your eyes to the danger we are in for our future. Those on the right who go after it because it involves Gore should be forced to live in Bangladesh as punishment. It really isn't partisan to want to save the fuckin' planet.

And an indication of how bad it is getting was given yet again...

CHICAGO (AFP) - Two environmentalists became the first people to reach the North Pole by canoe and on foot in summer, in an expedition aimed at drawing attention to how global warming is threatening polar bears with extinction, the explorers said in a satellite telephone interview.

When they got there on Saturday, the Pole was covered with water.

"What really surprised us was the state of the ocean," said Lonnie Dupre, 45, a carpenter from the Midwestern state of Minnesota.

"We've seen the ocean bursting up under our feet," he said. "We expected flat, condensed ice from about 86 degrees north but when we got here the ice was completely pressured and fractured everywhere."

I don't find puddles at the North Pole comforting.

(AP Photo/Greenpeace, ZUMA Press, Eric Larsen)