Global Warming? More Like Global Boiling Over!!
Mari
Okay, I gotta go see Leonardo DeCaprio’s new movie The 11th Hour - my friends tell me it’s a must-see.
Leo appears to pick up where Al Gore left off… or at least expand upon his work. What I love about Leo’s project is his vibrant, interactive website with *tons* of ideas and suggestions we can implement immediately to contribute to the SOLUTION. ‘Cuz right now, we’re all mostly contributing to the problem.
Today at Santee Lakes - it registered 115F (46C) in the shade. That’s ridiculous. I’ve never felt so blisteringly hot. Even with the AC on full blast, the indoor temp was like 90F at one point. Whew! This is not normal.
Two days in a row, us RVers blew the power supply here. (The rangers give us a telling off for using two AC units on our coaches! Hmph.) Of course, we’re sucking electricity which is a drain on resources - right? Hey, I wonder if you can get solar-powered air-conditioning units?
It boggles my mind to think how many billions of years the planet has existed. And all the changes mother earth has endured, from the ice age to stone age to the apparent oneness of the continents at one point. Human life could be a mere blip on the timeline of our cosmos. Hmmm. What do you think?
Are we just going to fry to death? Ugh.
It’ll be interesting as Ty and I begin our travel adventures shortly — to see just what our fellow inhabitants of this wonderful country are doing to help save the planet… or not.
Stay tuned.
Meantime, I went out today and bought a couple of polycarbonate water bottles. (They’re non-porous; no leaching of plastic chemical gunk into your water). No more bottled water for us - it’s actually pricier than gas, you know! Not to mention all the dreaded landfills.
Posted on: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 12:18 am 
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