Lights Off: Mission Complete. | Voxy.co.nz

My girlfriends and I personally rediscovered how to make a dog, a gorilla, a lama, a bird and a thumbs up on the wall as shadow puppets. It was a good hour.

Now, I feel like I did something. I give a damn, and it was an easy damn at that. However, where do we go from here? Is there more easy damning I can do?
Here’s the dilemma or the misconception I think a lot of people like me have- I know there’s this problem called Global Warming. I don’t fully understand it, although a lot of very patient scientists and reporters, and Al Gore, keep trying to educate me.
However, I really don’t want to start wearing sackcloth and have to go live in a forest. I want baby steps, at least until we collectively decide we actually have screwed ourselves over and have to go share bush real estate with Bambi.

“Monsters Vs. Aliens”: Creatures great and small come alive, and all in 3-D

Here is a movie where emergencies are denoted by panicky little men screaming “Code Nimoy!” And where the president of the United States (Stephen Colbert, no less) thinks he’s going to charm a space robot by dancing to the theme from “Beverly Hills Cop.” And where they can sneak in an Al Gore global warming joke so fast you barely notice.

Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard: Climate change and rising sea level - San Jose Mercury News

Until somewhat recently, climate change seemed to be happening fairly slowly, but many indicators are showing more rapid change than most scientists had predicted. We should be hoping for the best but planning for the worst.

Gary Griggs is director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Long Marine Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz.

Obama: We're watching rising rivers - CNN.com

"Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respond and respond urgently," Obama said Saturday in his weekly webcast.