The Office of an Environmentalist

Recycle bins? Low-energy computer monitor? The idea of the paperless office finally put into practice?

Think again. Mr. Al Gore's office... and part of his contribution to his $30,000/year utility bill:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/gore_life/20.jpg

ALARM! The World is Melting!

Well, no, it's really not. However, for a 1-week period in 2005 some parts of Antarctica reached 41 degrees which, of course, will cause a little melting. You have to read between the lines on this one. "Antarctica has shown little to no warming in the recent past" -- yeah, well, what about the long past? Also, there has been NO melting there in the two years since this incident, which is a good term to call it. An anomaly.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/070515_antarctic_melt.html

Japan's oceans are in a sky-rocketing warming trend! Yeah, they use the word "fast" right there to describe 100 YEARS! And how much did it warm up by? A whole .7 to 1.6 degrees Celsius. Whew, that's a lot! Remember when we used to go ice fishing off the coast of Japan in 1907? Oh, and get this... "But the areas surveyed were so small that we cannot say the rise in the water's temperature has been caused entirely by global warming."

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST27270120070515?feedType=RSS&rpc=22