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A new trailer is out for the upcoming movie, I AM LEGEND, based on the short story by Richard Matheson. The story is about Robert Neville, the last human on Earth, and his lonely survival among vampires. One of the points I read into the story points to the evolution of species - will humans survive the problems we’ve created? From the Earth’s and Universe’s point of view, it may or may not matter, because life will surely continue in one form or another. Who is to say that we are the latest and greatest?

This is fun:

Visit the Official I Am Legend Website

In contrast to the recent Nobel peace price awarded to Gore and the IPCC, and this week’s Planet in Peril on CNN, this comes as a horrific dissapointment:

Scientists Denounce Global Warming Report ‘Edits’
Public Health Experts Say Edits Represent Censoring of Science

from the article:
The problem, according to the unedited version of the testimony, is that climate change is likely to have a significant impact on health — and not only due to heat waves and disease epidemics.

The CDC report highlighted other issues addressed in the IPCC report, including how extreme weather events such as floods and hurricanes will cause deaths, large-scale population displacement and contamination of drinking water. Other concerns included how increases in temperatures encourage the formation of ground level ozone, the primary ingredient of smog which can cause permanent lung damage and aggravate chronic lung diseases, such as asthma.

Read the article

Beth and I have created this: really, Beth is the show stopper here. I simply help with marketing, ideas, and I get to be the student.

From Beth: Our lifestyles are so diverse, many things occupy our lives everyday, career, significant others, children, family, bills, friends, holidays, errands, working out, eating well, energy, or lack of, environment, community, vacations AND sleep.  Where do you fit in?  How can you continue to manage everything on a daily basis and still have time to feel good about yourself, to know yourself, and to live life with love and energy? 

Beth Turgeon is launching http://www.holifit.net a personalized program for your specific needs.  Holifit is based on holistic health and integrates health, balance, nutrition, environment, fitness and yoga. It’s really an amazing program coming from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

The Younger Set

You’ve probably seen how Stephen Colbert is running for president. You may even have seen this Rasmussen poll that has Colbert pulling down a respectable 13% of the vote in a hypothetical Rudy-Hillary match-up.

But look at this paragraph down into Rasmussen’s write-up (italics in the original) …

Colbert does particularly well with the younger voters most likely to be watching his show and therefore most aware of his myriad presidential-like qualities. In the match-up with Giuliani and Clinton, Colbert draws 28% of likely voters aged 18-29. He draws 31% of that cohort when his foes are Thompson and Clinton. In both match-ups, Colbert has more support with young voters than the GOP candidate.

There’s something appropriate in this. Americans in their twenties would prefer a normal person pretending to be a Republican buffoon than the real thing.

From http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

CNN is airing what looks to be an important series this Tuesday and Wednesday. Below are some other important tidbits.

Anderson Cooper on the Colbert Report

See: CNN’s Planet in Peril

The Planet in Peril Trailer

Disclaimer to those who don’t believe in the Earth:
If you are one of the few people who don’t yet understand what climate change is, don’t feel lonely - there are actually millions of rural people in very undeveloped parts of the world who don’t understand that what they do there (in China’s most poluted cities, for example) can possibly affect any other country in other parts of the world. So, you’re not alone, at least not for long. It’s true - we live on the Earth, and we humans interact with the environment and are affecting the system. I invite you to contemplate this: Imagine living in a home without access to new fresh water, new food, or new air. You are not allowed to leave and must do everything in your life with what you have in that home. Every day, the waste from your activities, your excrement, and yes, your innovations too, all pile up. How long would you stand to let this accumulate before you realized that you ought to do something about the mess? Yes, I wouldn’t want to live like that either! Here is a new opportunity to catch up on what the leaders, business people and so many young and old people know:

Worldchanging

For those of use who understand that we ARE the environment, and for anyone who has never considered themselves environmentalists,
here is a new resource that bridges the understanding that we must take action and combines it with a good understanding of reality:

http://www.worldchanging.com/

Heard of PBS? Yes, the PBS that for decades has created programs and education services enrich the lives of all Americans:
They have the following expose available online:

HOT POLITICS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/view/

As more and more Americans look for a response to the realities of climate change, FRONTLINE correspondent Deborah Amos investigates the political decisions that have prevented the United States government from confronting one of the most serious problems facing humanity today.

In February 2007, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that the science on global warming is “unequivocal” and asserted with 90 percent confidence that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activities, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, have been the main cause.

Yet, since 1992 — from President George H.W. Bush’s insistence that the first world climate change treaty make CO2 emission targets voluntary, through former President Bill Clinton’s failure to pass a promised energy tax or to push for U.S. Senate ratification of the Kyoto treaty, through President George W. Bush’s 2001 reversal of a campaign pledge to push for mandatory limits on CO2 emissions and his complete withdrawal from Kyoto — the executive branch of the U.S. government has failed to join in climate change agreements adopted by much of the rest of the world.

Hot Politics goes behind the scenes to examine the forces behind the inaction, including a well-financed energy industry campaign that challenged the broad scientific consensus on the human causes of climate change in an effort to stall federal regulation. Fossil fuel companies funneled millions of dollars to the institutes of global warming skeptics, including former President of the National Academy of Sciences Frederick Seitz, who cast doubt about the science in media reports on climate change.