我是在11月27日那天熬了一夜看电视连续剧《蜗居》后，28日早上迷迷糊糊去得机场，飞机晚点了，我在机场又接着看了阿里巴巴的创始人马云激情澎湃的宣讲，带着不同的思绪我在飞机上沉沉地昏睡醒来，就被会务的接站车拉着去酒店了，这就是成都了和沈阳一样的高楼大厦宽阔马路车水马龙。

    成都市位于四川省中部，是四川省省会，中国副省级城市之一，四川省政治、经济、文教中心，是中国西南部重要的交通枢纽，也是国家历史文化名城。成都古为蜀国地，秦并巴、蜀为蜀郡并建城，汉因织锦业发达专设锦官管理，故有“锦官城”之称，五代蜀时遍种芙蓉，故别称“芙蓉城”，简称“蓉”，1921年设市。自古被誉为“天府之国”，是中国开发最早、持续繁荣时间最长的城市之一，有详细史料可考的成都建城时间是公元前316年张仪筑成都城，至今已有两千三百多年，依据成都市境内如金沙遗址等文化遗迹推算，成都市出现高度发达文明的时间至少已有四千年。

    在这四千年里，这片土地上盖过多少房子？有过多少人住在这些房子里？都发生怎样的故事？从入住的芙蓉丽景酒店14层楼的房间望去，看着眼前这些和沈阳大致相同的房子，不同的是这里的树叶还有，有黄有绿的让我们这些从北方来的人感到新奇，还有那些散落在这些房子中间的历史古迹，诱惑着我这个好奇的人去探访。

味道很好可以用麻辣香来评价，价格还不贵，这么一大盘才4.5元。

    30号的课在下午4：30就结束，我和一个来自上海的姑娘相伴来到了位于成都市西北角的文殊院，它是川西著名的佛教寺院,前身是唐代的妙圆塔院，宋时改称“信相寺”。后毁于兵灾。传说清代有人夜见红光出现，在红光中有文殊菩萨像，康熙三十六年（1697年）集资重建庙宇，称文殊院至今，够有历史的了，300多年比美国建国的时间都长。

    我们到时文殊院已经关门，好在我们俩不是虔诚的佛教徒，只是对这里的人文气氛感到新奇，一直逛到月高风黑灯火通明。

    成都美食有川菜、小吃、火锅三大类。以味取胜，其“一菜一格，百菜百味，擅用麻辣”，做工精细，色鲜味佳，我尝到与沈阳不一样的味道。

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I have something I want to tell you.

- Yes, Michael.

- I’m not like other guys.

- Of course not. That’s why I love you.

- No, I mean I’m different.

- What are you talking about?

- Ok, everybody, that’s a wrap.

- Music videos used to just be you, used to just be people singing their song until you came along and changed music videos. Did you know when you first conceived your first one that’s what you were doing?

- Yeah, the idea was to make something that was a story, so it had a beginning, a middle and an ending. And it felt like a mini movie. That’s what I wanted to do. And that’s what we did with Beat It, and Thriller, and Smooth Criminal, and all those type of things.

- So when you start to look at a piece of work or look at a piece of music, are you already thinking about how you’re going to? - Sometimes, yes, yes. That’s very true.

- I wonder what it feels like

– I will never know since I cannot sing one thing – but what it feels like to be on…

When you stood on stage with a sea of people, a sea of people. One of the things that has impressed me in putting the pieces together for you is all around the world the response to you is so incredible. I just wanted to, for the rest of you in the world who haven’t seen how people respond to Michael Jackson to take a look. (He waved to me and said hello. I can’t believe it.)

- So when you’re standing there, and there’s a sea of people responding to you, screaming your name as they were. What does that feel like?

- Love, you feel lots of love, and I feel blessed and honored to be able to be an instrument of nature that was chosen to give them that, what I give them. I’m very honored and happy about that. - An instrument of nature? That’s an interesting way to describe yourself. -

 Thank you. - Yeah. Are you very spiritual?

- In what sense?

- I mean, do you meditate, do you understand that there is something bigger than yourself at work here?

- I believe in god absolutely, absolutely, very much.

- And I believe everybody comes to the world for a reason. I think most of us spend our lives trying to figure out what the purpose of our being here is. What do you think yours is? "

- My purpose? Oh boy. I think to give in the best way I can through song, and through dance, and through music. I mean I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has, as its ultimate goal, the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world, to children of all ages and adults and teenagers.

- Do you think that by talking now, setting the record straight for yourself that maybe people will be able to focus more attention on your music and not judge you for anything other than the kind of music that you play? - I would hope so. I would love that.

- Well, I hope that comes out of this, too. I’m also excited that the world is watching and because the world is watching we thought this was a good time to let the world see the world premiere of Give In To Me.

Give in to me

 She always takes it with a heart of stone, Cuz all she does is throws it back to me, I 've spent a lifetime looking for someone. Don t try to understand me Just simply do the things I say. Love is a feeling. Give it when I want it. Cuz I m on fire Quench my desire. Give it when I want it .Talk to me woman Give in to me. Give in to me. You always knew just how to make me cry. And never did I ask you questions why It seems you get your kicks from hurting me. Don' t try to understand me Because your words just aren t enough. Love is a feeling. Quench my desire. Give it when I want it Takin me higher. Love is a woman I don t want to hear it. Give in to me .Give in to me. You and your friends are laughing at me now .But it s Okay Yes it s Okay. You won t be laughing girl when I m not around. I ll be Okay And I I d never find Gotta Some peace of mind Oh. Don t try to tell me. Because your words just aren t enough. Love is a feeling. Quench my desire. Give it when I want it. Takin me higher. Talk to me woman. Love is a feelin. Give in to me Give in to me. Give in to me Oh. Love is a feeling I don t wanna hear it. Quench my desire. Takin me higher. Tell it to the preacher. Satisfy the feeling. Give in to me. Give in to me I don t wanna I don t wanna I don t wanna hear it. Give in to the fire. Talk to me woman. Quench my desire. Act like a lady. Talk to me baby. Give in to me. Give in to the fire. Give in to me. Give in to me. Give in to me. Love is a fool. Give in to me. Give in to me. Give in to me. Give in to me. Cuz I m on fire. Talk to me woman. Quench my desire Give in to the feeling .

- So we want to know how it starts on a piece of paper, quench my desire, and turns into that.

- Well, Give in to Me, I wanted to write another song, you know, that was kind of exciting, and fun, and had a rock edge to it, you know, when I did Beat It and Black or White. And Slash, who is a dear friend of mine, we love animals and things like that. He wanted to play guitar and I wanted him to play guitar on it. We got together, and we went to Germany, and we shot this thing in just like two hours. We had no time at all to shoot it. We wanted it to be something exciting and fantastical, and fans, you know, like it’s our rock concert. And that’s how we end up…that’s the result.

- You mentioned animals and I know everyone is going to ask me when I leave here, “where are all the animals?” I said, in the opening, I expected chimps to be jumping all over the living room, and I didn’t see any. Where’s Bubbles?

- Well, the animals are everywhere. They are in their habitats. They are all over the ranch, and they come out in the daytime, and they play and they jump around. They have their own playground and area.

- Why were you so fascinated by animals, do you think?

- Because I find in animals the same thing that I find so wonderful in children, that purity, that honesty where they don’t judge you, they don’t want anything from you, just to be your friend. And I think that’s so sweet. - I do, too.

 And you know the number of those that disagreed with the scientific consensus that we're causing global warming and that it's a serious problem? Out of the 928, zero. The misconception that there's disagreement about the science has been deliberately created by a relatively small group of people. One of their internal memos leaked. And here's what it said, according to the press. Their objective is to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact. This has happened before. After the Surgeon General's report. One of their memos leaked 40 years ago. Here's what they said. "Doubt is our product, "since it is the best means of creating a controversy in the public's mind." But have they succeeded?

You'll remember that there were 928 peer-reviewed articles. Zero percent disagreed with the consensus. There was another study of all the articles in the popular press. Over the last 14 years, they looked at a sample of 636. More than half of them said, "Well, we're not sure. It could be a problem, may not be a problem." So no wonder people are confused.

Hey. What did you find out? Working for who? Chief of Staff? I'm gonna...

That's the White House environment office. American Petroleum Institute. It's fair to say that's the oil and gas lobby. Is that fair? Totally fair.

Do a little bit more and see who his clients were. So he was defending the Exxon Valdez thing. Uh, very. Thank you.

Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it.

Why do you directly contradict yourself in the testimony you're giving about this scientific question? The last paragraph in that section was not a paragraph which I wrote. That was added to my testimony. If they force you to change a scientific conclusion, it's a form of science fraud by them. You know, in the Soviet Union, ordering scientists to change their studies to conform with the ideology... I've seen scientists who were persecuted, ridiculed, deprived of jobs, income, simply because the facts they discovered led them to an inconvenient truth that they insisted on telling.

He worked for the American Petroleum Institute. And in January of 2001, he was put by the president in charge of environmental policy. He received a memo from the EPA that warned about global warming and he edited. He has no scientific training whatsoever. But he took it upon himself to overrule the scientist. I said, "I want to see what this guy's handwriting looks like." This is the memo from the EPA. These are his actual pen strokes. He says, "No, you can't say this. This is just speculation." This was embarrassing to the White House, so this fellow resigned a few days later.

And the day after he resigned, he went to work for Exxon Mobil. You know, more than 100 years ago, Upton Sinclair wrote this. That it's difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

The second misconception. Do we have to choose between the economy and the environment? This is a big one. Lot of people say we do. I was trying to convince the previous administration, the first Bush administration, to go to the Earth Summit. And they organized a big White House conference

to say, "Oh, we're on top of this." And one of these view graphs caught my attention. And I want to talk to you about it for a minute. Now here is the choice that we have to make according to this group. We have here a scales that balances two different things. On one side, we have gold bars. Don't they look good? I'd just like to have some of those gold bars.

On the other side of the scales, the entire planet. I think this is a false choice for two reasons. Number one, if we don't have a planet...

The other reason is that if we do the right thing, then we're gonna create a lot of wealth - and we're gonna create a lot of jobs. - Yes. Because doing the right thing moves us forward.

I've probably given this slide show 1,000 times. I would say, at least 1,000 times. Nashville to Knoxville to Aspen and Sundance. Los Angeles and San Francisco. Portland, Minneapolis. Boston, New Haven, London, Brussels, Stockholm, Helsinki,Vienna, Munich, Italy and Spain and China, South Korea, Japan. Thank you.

I guess the thing I've spent more time on than anything else in this slide show is trying to identify all those things in people's minds that serve as obstacles to them understanding this. And whenever I feel like I've identified an obstacle, I try to take it apart, roll it away. Move it. Demolish it, blow it up. I set myself a goal. Communicate this real clearly. The only way I know to do it is city by city, person by person, family by family. - Bye-bye. Thank you again. - Bye.

And I have faith that pretty soon enough minds are changed that we cross a threshold. Let me give you an example of the wrong way to balance the economy and the environment. One part of this issue involves automobiles.

Japan has mileage standards up here. Europe plans to pass Japan. Our allies in Australia and Canada are leaving us behind. Here is where we are.

Now there's a reason for it. They say that we can't protect the environment too much without threatening the economy and threatening the automakers.

Because automakers in China might come in and just steal all our markets.

Well, here is where China's auto mileage standards are now. Way above ours.

We can't sell our cars in China today because we don't meet the Chinese environmental standards. California has taken an initiative to have higher-mileage cars sold in California. Now the auto companies have sued California to prevent this law from taking effect because, as they point out, 11 years from now this would mean that California would have to have cars for sale that are as efficient 11 years from now as China's are today.

Clearly too onerous a provision to comply with. And is this helping our companies succeed? Well, actually, if you look at who's doing well in the world, it's the companies that are building more-efficient cars. And our companies are in deep trouble. Final misconception.

If we accept that this problem is real, maybe it's just too big to do anything about. And, you know, there are a lot of people who go straight from denial to despair without pausing on the intermediate step of actually doing something about the problem. And that's what I'd like to finish with. The fact that we already know everything we need to know to effectively address this problem. We've got to do a lot of things, not just one. If we use more efficient electricity appliances, we can save this much off of the global warming pollution that would otherwise be put into the atmosphere. If we use other end-use efficiency, this much. If we have higher mileage cars, this much. And all these begin to add up. Other transport efficiency, renewable technology, carbon capture and sequestration. A big solution that you're gonna be hearing a lot more about. They all add up, and pretty soon we are below our 1970 emissions. We have everything we need, save perhaps political will.

But you know what? In America, political will is a renewable resource. We have the ability to do this. Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each of us can make choices to change that. With the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive, we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero. The solutions are in our hands.

We just have to have the determination to make them happen. Are we gonna be left behind as the rest of the world moves forward? All of these nations have ratified Kyoto. There are only two advanced nations in the world that have not ratified Kyoto, and we are one of them. The other is Australia.

Luckily, several states are taking the initiative. The nine northeastern states have banded together on reducing CO2. California and Oregon are taking the initiative. Pennsylvania's exercising leadership on solar power and wind power. And US cities are stepping up to the plate. One after the other, we have seen all of these cities pledge to take on global warming. So what about the rest of us?

Ultimately this question comes down to this. Are we, as Americans, capable of doing great things even though they are difficult? Are we capable of rising above ourselves and above history? Well, the record indicates that we do have that capacity. We formed a nation, we fought a revolution

and brought something new to this Earth, a free nation guaranteeing individual liberty. America made a moral decision. Its slavery was wrong,

and that we could not be half free and half slave. We, as Americans, decided

that of course women should have the right to vote. We defeated totalitarianism and won a war in the Pacific and the Atlantic simultaneously. We desegregated our schools. And we cured fearsome diseases like polio. We landed on the moon. The very example of what's possible when we are at our best. We worked together in a completely bipartisan way to bring down communism. We have even solved a global environmental crisis before, the hole in the stratospheric ozone layer.

This was said to be an impossible problem to solve because it's a global environmental challenge requiring cooperation from every nation in the world.

But we took it on. And the United States took the lead in phasing out the chemicals that caused that problem. So now we have to use our political processes in our democracy, and then decide to act together to solve those problems. But we have to have a different perspective on this one. It's different from any problem we have ever faced before.

You remember that home movie of the Earth spinning in space? One of those spacecraft continuing on out into the universe, when it got four billion miles out in space, Carl Sagan said, "Let's take another picture of the Earth." You see that pale blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies. All the wars, all the famines. All the major advances. It's our only home. And that is what is at stake. Our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization.

I believe this is a moral issue. It is your time to seize this issue.

It is our time to rise again, to secure our future.

There's nothing that unusual about what I'm doing with this. What is unusual is that I had the privilege to be shown it as a young man.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Al Gore. It's almost as if a window was opened through which the future was very clearly visible. "See that?" he said, "See that? "That's the future in which you are going to live your life."

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking?  "Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?"

We have to hear that question from them, now.

简介：

导演：Da.vis Guggenheim
主演：阿兰·戈尔 Al Gore
映时间：2006年5月24日
剧情：导演戴维斯·古根海姆巧妙地把全球变暖的种种自然现象与戈尔先生的个人历史，以及他长期以来致力于警示和改善全球变暖现象的行动交织在一起，构成了一部具有强烈震撼力的纪录片。作为一名资深的环保主义者，戈尔先生在本片中站在一个具有思考深度和令人注目的方式，向大家展示了大量有关全球变暖给人类带来巨大危害的，无可争议的事实和信息。“戈尔先生在本片中完全脱离了政治性演讲的外壳，充分地展示了他的个人魅力，以一种幽默而又客观的态度给观众们罗列了种种事实，让他们自己去得出结论。到了最后，所有的观众都被这些让人难以忘怀的画面深深打动，以至于他们都在座位上坐不住了”，导演古根海姆如是说。“难以忽视的真相”并不是一部表现绝望情绪的电影，但也不是仅仅喊出一个保护地球的口号而已。“很显然，我们现在面临着一个逐步加深的全球气候危机，这需要我们尽快地行动起来，以最聪明有效的方式解决问题”，戈尔语重心长地对观众说。

It's extremely frustrating to me to communicate over and over again, as clearly as I can. And we are still, by far, the worst contributor to the problem. And I look around and look for really meaningful signs that we're about to really change. I don't see it right now.

 A number of very reputable scientists have said that one factor of air pollution is oxides of nitrogen from decaying vegetation. This is what causes the haze that gave the big Smoky Mountains their name.

 Thank you very much, okay. This guy is so far off in the environmental extreme, we'll be up to our neck in owls and out of work for every American. This guy is crazy. Even if humans were causing global warming, and we are not, this could be maybe the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. We're dealing with something that's highly emotional.

If an issue is not on the tips of their constituents' tongues, it's easy for them to ignore it. To say, "Well, we'll deal with that tomorrow." So the same phenomena of changing all these patterns is also affecting the seasons. Here is a study from the Netherlands. The peak arrival date for migratory birds 25 years ago was April 25th, and their chicks hatched on June the 3rd. Just at the time when the caterpillars were coming out.

Nature's plan. But 20 years of warming later, the caterpillars peaked two weeks earlier, and the chicks tried to catch up with it, but they couldn't.

And so, they're in trouble. And there are millions of ecological niches that are affected by global warming in just this way. This is the number of days with frost in Southern Switzerland over the last 100 years. It has gone down rapidly. But now watch this. This is the number of invasive exotic species that have rushed in to fill the new ecological niches that are opening up. That's happening here in the United States, too. You've heard of the pine beetle problem? Those pine beetles used to be killed by the cold winters, but there are fewer days of frost, and so the pine trees are being devastated. This is part of 14 million acres of spruce trees in Alaska that have been killed by bark beetles. The exact same phenomenon. There are cities that were founded because they were just above the mosquito line. Nairobi is one, Harare is another. There are plenty of others. Now the mosquitoes, with warming, are climbing to higher altitudes. There are a lot of vectors for infectious diseases that are worrisome to us that are also expanding their range. Not only mosquitoes, but all of these others as well. And we've had 30 so-called new diseases that have emerged just in the last quarter century. And a lot of them, like SARS, have caused tremendous problems. The resistant forms of tuberculosis. There are others. And there's been a re-emergence of some diseases that were once under control. The avian flu, of course, quite a serious matter, as you know. West Nile Virus. It came to the eastern shore of Maryland in 1999. Two years later, it was across the Mississippi. And two years after that, it had spread across the continent. But these are very troubling signs. Coral reefs all over the world, because of global warming and other factors, are bleaching and they end up like this. And all the fish species that depend on the coral reefs are also in jeopardy as a result. Overall, species loss is now occurring at a rate 1,000 times greater than the natural background rate. This brings me to the second canary in the coal mine. Antarctica. The largest mass of ice on the planet by far. A friend of mine said in 1978, "If you see the breakup of ice shelves along the Antarctic peninsula, "watch out "because that should be seen as an alarm bell for global warming."And actually, if you look at the peninsula up close, every place where you see one of these green blotches here is an ice shelf larger than the state of Rhode Island that has broken up just in the last 15 to 20 years. I want to focus on just one of them.

It's called Larsen B. I want you to look at these black pools here. It makes it seem almost as if we're looking through the ice to the ocean beneath. But that's an illusion. This is melting water that forms in pools,and if you were flying over it in a helicopter, you'd see it's 700 feet tall. They are so majestic, so massive. In the distance are the mountains and just before the mountains is the shelf of the continent, there.

This is floating ice, and there's land-based ice on the down slope of those mountains. From here to the mountains is about 20 to 25 miles.Now they thought this would be stable for at least 100 years, even with global warming. The scientists who study these ice shelves were absolutely astonished when they were looking at these images. Starting on January 31, 2002 in a period of 35 days this ice shelf completely disappeared. They could not figure out how in the world this happened so rapidly.And they went back to try to figure out where they'd gone wrong. And that's when they focused on those pools of melting water. But even before they could figure out what had happened there, something else started going wrong. When the floating sea-based ice cracked up, it no longer held back the ice on the land, and the land-based ice then started falling into the ocean. It was like letting the cork out of a bottle. And there's a difference between floating ice and land-based ice.

That's like the difference between an ice cube floating in a glass of water, which when it melts doesn't raise the level of water in the glass, and a cube that's sitting atop a stack of ice cubes which melts and flows over the edge.That's why the citizens of these Pacific nations have all had to evacuate to New Zealand. But I want to focus on West Antarctica because it illustrates two factors about land-based ice and sea-based ice. It's a little of both. It's propped up on tops of islands, but the ocean comes up underneath it. So as the ocean gets warmer, it has an impact on it.

If this were to go, sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet. They've measured disturbing changes on the underside of this ice sheet. It's considered relatively more stable, however, than another big body of ice that's roughly the same size. Greenland would also raise sea level almost 20 feet if it went. A friend of mine just brought back some pictures of what's going on on Greenland right now. Dramatic changes.

These are the same kinds of pools that formed here, on this ice shelf in Antarctica.And the scientists thought that when that water seeped back into the ice, it would just refreeze.But they found out that actually what happens is that it just keeps on going. It tunnels to the bottom and makes the ice like Swiss cheese, sort of like termites.This shows what happens to the crevasses, and when lakes form, they create what are called moulins.

The water goes down to the bottom and it lubricates where the ice meets the bedrock. See these people here for scale. This is not on the edge of Greenland, this is in the middle of the ice mass. This is a massive rushing torrent of fresh melt water tunneling straight down through the Greenland ice to the bedrock below.Now, to some extent, there has always been seasonal melting and moulins have formed in the past, but not like now.

In 1992, they measured this amount of melting in Greenland. Ten years later, this is what happened.And here is the melting from 2005.

Tony Blair's scientific advisor has said that because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.

If Greenland broke up and melted, or if half of Greenland and half of West Antarctica broke up and melted,this is what would happen to the sea level in Florida.

This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay. A lot of people live in these areas. The Netherlands, one of the low countries. Absolutely devastating. The area around Beijing that's home to tens of millions of people. Even worse, in the area around Shanghai, there are 40 million people. Worse still, Calcutta, and to the east, Bangladesh, the area covered includes 60 million people.Think of the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugees when they're displaced by an environmental event. And then imagine the impact of a hundred million or more.

Here's Manattan.This is the World Trade Center memorial site. And after the horrible events of 9/11, we said, "Never again." But this is what would happen to Manattan. They can measure this precisely, just as the scientists could predict precisely how much water would breach the levees in New Orleans. The area where the World Trade Center Memorial is to be located would be underwater. Is it possible that we should prepare against other threats besides terrorists?

Maybe we should be concerned about other problems as well. 1.3 billion people. An economy that's surging. More and more energy needs. Massive coal reserves. The coal belt in Northern China, - Inner Mongolia. - Right.

Then there's Shaanxi province. - And also biggest coal mine here. - Up here. - Yeah. - Now, is that an open pit mine? - Yes. - Yes. Every time I've visited China, I've learned from their scientists. They're right on the cutting edge. Give me some sense of the numbers of new coal fire generating plants. Well, I have to say that the number is enormous

because it's so profitable. This issue is really the same for China as it is for the US. We are both using old technologies that are dirty and polluting. ...more flooding and more drought and stronger storms is going up, and global warming is implicated in the pattern. And if you were to give some suggestions to everybody here about, like, what we can do for the situation now. Separating the truth from the fiction and the accurate connections from the misunderstandings is part of what you learn here. But when the warnings are accurate and based on sound science, then we as human beings, whatever country we live in, have to find a way to make sure that the warnings are heard and responded to. We both have a hard time shaking loose the familiar patterns that we've relied on in the past.

We both face completely unacceptable consequences. And there are three factors that are causing this collision, and the first is population.

When my generation, the baby boom generation, was born after World War II, the population had just crossed the two billion mark.

Now, I'm in my 50s, and it's already gone to almost six and a half billion. And if I reach the demographic expectation for the baby boomers, it'll go over nine billion. So if it takes 10,000 generations to reach two billion and then in one human lifetime, ours, it goes from two billion to nine billion, something profoundly difference's going on right now.

We're putting more pressure on the Earth. Most of it's in the poorer nations of the world. This puts pressure on food demand. It puts pressure on water demand. It puts pressure on vulnerable natural resources, and this pressure's one of the reasons why we have seen all the devastation of the forest, not only tropical, but elsewhere.

It is a political issue.This is the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. One set of policies here, another set of policies here. Much of it comes not only because of cutting, but also burning. Almost 30% of all the CO2 that goes up each year into the atmosphere comes from forest burning. This is a time-lapse picture of the Earth at night over a six-month period showing the lights of the cities in white and the burning forests and brush fires in red. The yellow areas are the gas flares, like these in Siberia. And that brings me to the second factor that has transformed our relationship to the Earth. The scientific and technological revolution is a great blessing in that it has given us tremendous benefits in areas like medicine and communications. But this new power that we have also brings a responsibility to think about its consequences. Here's a formula to think about. Old habits plus old technology have predictable consequences. Old habits that are hard to change plus new technology can have dramatically altered consequences.

Warfare with spears and bows and arrows and rifles and machine guns, that's one thing. But then a new technology came.

We have to think differently about war because the new technologies so completely transformed the consequences of that old habit that we can't just mindlessly continue the patterns of the past. In the same way, we have always exploited the Earth for sustenance. For most of our existence, we used relatively simple tools. The plow, the tractor. But even tools like shovels are different now. Shovel used to be this. Shovels have gotten bigger. And every year, they get more powerful. So our ability to have an effect, in this case on the surface of the Earth, is utterly transformed. You can say the same thing about irrigation, which is a great thing.

But when we divert rivers without considering the consequences, then sometimes rivers no longer reach the sea.There were two rivers in Central Asia that were used by the former Soviet Union for irrigating cotton fields unwisely.

The Aral Sea was fed by them. It used to be the fourth largest inland sea in the world. When I went there, I saw this strange sight of an enormous fishing fleet resting in the sand. This is the canal that the fishing industry desperately tried to build to get to the receding shoreline.

Making mistakes in our dealings with nature can have bigger consequences now because our technologies are often bigger than the human scale. When you put them all together, they've made us a force of nature. And this is also a political issue. This is a computer map of the world that distorts to show the relative contributions to global warming.In our country, we are responsible for more than all of South America, all of Africa, all of the Middle East, all of Asia, all combined. The per capita average in Africa, India, China, Japan, EU, Russia.

There's where we are. Way, way above everyone else. If you take population into account, it's a little bit different. China's playing a bigger role, so is Europe. But we are still by all odds the largest contributor. And so it is up to us to look at how we think about it,because our way of thinking is the third and final factor that transforms our relationship to the Earth.

If a frog jumps into a pot of boiling water, it jumps right out again because it senses the danger. But the very same frog,if it jumps into a pot of lukewarm water that is slowly brought to a boil, will just sit there and it won't move. It'll just sit there, even as the temperature continues to go up and up. It'll stay there, until... Until it's rescued. It's important to rescue the frog.But the point is this. Our collective nervous system is like that frog's nervous system. It takes a sudden jolt sometimes before we become aware of a danger. If it seems gradual, even if it really is happening quickly, we're capable of just sitting there and not responding. And not reacting.

I don't remember a time when I was a kid when summertime didn't mean working with tobacco. It was just... I used to love it. It was during that period

when working with the guys on the farm seemed like fun to me. Starting in 1964, with the Surgeon General's report, the evidence was laid out on the connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer.We kept growing tobacco. Nancy was almost 10 years older than me, and there were only the two of us. She was my protector and my friend at the same time. She started smoking when she was a teenager and never stopped. She died of lung cancer. That's one of the ways you don't want to die. The idea that we had been part of that economic pattern that produced the cigarettes, that produced the cancer, it was so... It was so painful on so many levels. My father, he had grown tobacco all his life. He stopped.Whatever explanation had seemed to make sense in the past, just didn't cut it anymore. He stopped it. It's just human nature to take time to connect the dots. I know that.

But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly. There are three misconceptions in particular that bedevil our thinking. First, isn't there a disagreement among scientists about whether the problem is real or not?

Actually, not really. There was a massive study of every scientific article in a peer-reviewed journal written on global warming for the last 10 years. And they took a big sample of 10%, 928 articles.

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I had such faith in our democratic system, our self-government. I actually thought and believed that the story would be compelling enough to cause a real sea change in the way the Congress reacted to that issue. I thought they would be startled, too. And they weren’t. The struggles, the victories that aren't really victories, the defeats that aren't really defeats. They can serve to magnify the significance of some trivial step forward, exaggerate the seeming importance of some massive setback.

April 3, 1989. My son pulled loose from my hand and chased his friend across the street. He was six years old. The machine was breathing for him. We were possibly going to lose him. He finally took a breath. We stayed in the hospital for a month. It was almost as if you could look at that calendar and just go... And everything just flew off. Seemed trivial, insignificant. He was so brave. He was such... He was such a brave guy.It just turned my whole world upside down and then shook it until very thing fell out. My way of being in the world, it just changed everything for me. How should I spend my time on this Earth? I really dug in, trying to learn about it much more deeply.

I went to Antarctica. Went to the South Pole, the North Pole, the Amazon. Went to places where scientists could help me understand parts of the issue that I didn't really understand in depth. The possibility of losing what was most precious to me. I gained an ability that maybe I didn't have before. But when I felt it, I felt that we could really lose it, that what we take for granted might not be here for our children. These are actual measurements of atmospheric temperatures since our Civil War. In any given year, it might look like it's going down, but the overall trend is extremely clear. And in recent years, it's uninterrupted and it is intensifying. In fact, if you look at the 10 hottest years ever measured in this atmospheric record, they've all occurred in the last 14 years.

And the hottest of all was 2005. We have already seen some of the heat waves that are similar to what scientists are saying are gonna be a lot more common.

Couple of years ago in Europe they had that massive heat wave that killed 35,000 people. India didn't get as much attention, but the same year the temperature there went to 122 degrees Fahreneit. This past summer in the American West, there were a lot of cities that broke all-time records for high temperatures and number of consecutive days with a 100-degree temperature or more. Two hundred cities and towns in the west set all-time records. And in the east there were a lot of cities that did the same thing.

Including, incidentally, New Orleans. So the temperature increases are taking place all over the world, including in the oceans. This is the natural range of variability for temperature in the oceans. You know, people say, "Oh, it's just natural."It goes up and down, so don't worry about it." This is the range that would be expected over the last 60 years,

but the scientists who specialize in global warming have computer models that long ago predicted this range of temperature increase.Now I'm gonna show you, recently released, the actual ocean temperatures. And, of course, when the oceans get warmer, that causes stronger storms.

We have seen in the last couple of years a lot of big hurricanes. Hurricane Jeanne and Frances and Ivan were among them. And the same year that we had that string of big hurricanes, we also set an all-time record for tornadoes in the United States. Japan again didn't get as much attention in our news media, but they set an all-time record for typhoons. Previous record was seven. Here are all 10 of the ones they had in 2004. The science textbooks have had to be rewritten because they say that it's impossible to have a hurricane in the South Atlantic. But the same year the first one ever hit Brazil. Summer of 2005 has been one for the books. The first one was Emily that socked into Yucatan. Then Hurricane Dennis came along and it did a lot of damage, including to the oil industry. This is the largest oil platform in the world after Dennis went through. This one was driven into the bridge at Mobile. And then, of course, came Katrina.

It's worth remembering that when it hit Florida, it was a Category One. But it killed a lot of people and caused billions of dollars' worth of damage. And then what happened? Before it hit New Orleans, it went over warmer waters. As the water temperature increases, the wind velocity increases and the moisture content increases. And you'll see Hurricane Katrina form over Florida. And then as it comes into the gulf over that warm water, it picks up that energy and gets stronger and stronger and stronger. Look at that hurricane's eye. And, of course, the consequences were so horrendous, there are no words to describe it.

Yeah, we're getting reports and calls that are just breaking my heart. From people saying, "I've been in my attic. I can't take it anymore. "The water is up to my neck. I don't think I can hold out." And that's happening as we speak. We told everybody the importance of the 17th Street Canal issue. We said, "Please, please, take care of this."We don't care what you do. Figure it out."

Something new for America. But how in God's name could that happen here? There had been warnings that hurricanes would get stronger. There were warnings that this hurricane, days before it hit, would breach the levees, would cause the kind of damage that it ultimately did cause. And one question we as a people need to decide is how we react when we hear warnings from the leading scientists in the world. There was another storm in the 1930s of a different kind. A horrible, unprecedented storm in continental Europe, and Winston Churchill warned the people of England that it was different from anything that had ever happened before and they had to get ready for it. And a lot of people did not want to believe it. And he got real impatient with all the dithering. And he said this, the era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close in its place we are entering a period of consequences. Making mistakes in generations and centuries past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore. We didn't ask for it, but here it is.

Al Gore is the winner of the national popular vote.But the state of Florida, whom ever wins there wins the White House. We call Florida, in the Al Gore column... Bulletin: Florida pulled back into the undecided column. George Bush is the president elect of the United States. He is... Florida goes Bush. The presidency is Bush. That's it.

And at 2:18 this morning, we project... All right, we're officially saying that Florida is too close to call. While I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it. I accept the finality of this outcome. ...do solemnly swear... I, George Walker Bush, do solemnly swear... ...that I will faithfully execute the Office of President... Well, that was a hard blow, but... What do you do? You... You make the best of it. It brought into clear focus the mission that I had been pursuing for all these years, and I started giving the slide show again. One often unnoticed effect of global warming is it causes more precipitation, but more of it coming in one-time big storm events. Because the evaporation off the oceans puts all the moisture up there, when storm conditions trigger the downpour, more of it falls down. The insurance industry has actually noticed this. Their recovered losses are going up. You see the damage from these severe weather events?

And 2005 is not even on this yet. When it does, it'll be off that chart. Europe has just had a year very similar to the one we've had where they say nature's been going crazy. All kinds of unusual catastrophes, like a nature hike through the Book of Revelations.

Flooding in Asia. Mumbai, India this past July. Thirty-seven inches of rain in 24 hours. By far, the largest downpour that any city in India has ever received. Lot of flooding in China, also. Global warming, paradoxically, causes not only more flooding, but also more drought. This neighboring province right next door had a severe drought at the same time these areas were flooding. One of the reasons for this has to do with the fact that global warming not only increases precipitation worldwide, but it also relocates the precipitation. And focus most of all on this part of Africa just on the edge of the Sahara. Unbelievable tragedies have been unfolding there, and there are a lot of reasons for it. But Darfur and Niger are among those tragedies. And one of the factors that has been compounding them is the lack of rainfall and the increasing drought.This is Lake Chad, once one of the largest lakes in the world. It has dried up over the last few decades to almost nothing, vastly complicating the other problems that they also have.

The second reason why this is a paradox. Global warming creates more evaporation off the oceans to seed the clouds, but it sucks moisture out of the soil. Soil evaporation increases dramatically with higher temperatures. And that has consequences for us in the United States, as well.

 So this is the Carthage exit. When I was 14 years old, I totaled the family car right there. Went off that shoulder, turned it over.And see this Black Angus bull? We raised Black Angus.

My father was named Breeder of the Month. He grew up on a farm. All through his career in the Senate he continued to come back here and raise cattle. Learning it from your dad on the land, that's really something special. My childhood upbringing was a little unusual in the sense that I spent eight months of each year in Washington DC in a small little hotel apartment. And then the other four months were spent here on this big, beautiful farm. I had a dog here. I had a pony here. I could do shoot my rifle here. I could go swimming in the river here. Go out and lay down in the grass. As a kid, it took me a while to learn the difference between fun and work. The places where people live were chosen because of the climate pattern that has been pretty much the same on Earth since the end of the last ice age 11,000 years ago. Here, on this farm, the patterns are changing. And it seems gradual in the course of a human lifetime but in the course of time, as defined by this river, it's happening very, very quickly.

Two canaries in the coal mine. First one is in the Arctic. This, of course, is the Arctic Ocean, the floating ice cap. Greenland, on its side there. I say canary in the coal mine because the Arctic is one of the two regions of the world that is experiencing faster impacts from global warming.This is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.It just cracked in half three years ago. The scientists were astonished. These are called drunken trees just going every which way. This is not caused by wind damage or alcohol consumption. These trees put their roots down in the permafrost, and the permafrost is thawing. And so they just go every which way now. This building was built on the permafrost and has collapsed as the permafrost thaws. This womars house has had to be abandoned. The pipeline is suffering a great deal of structural damage. And incidentally, the oil that they want to produce in that protected area in Northern Alaska, which I hope they don't, they have to depend on trucks to go in and out of there. And the trucks go over the frozen ground. This shows the number of days that the tundra in Alaska is frozen enough to drive on it. Thirty-five years ago, 225 days a year. Now it's below 75 days a year because the spring comes earlier and the fall comes later and the temperatures just keep on going up.

 I went up to the North Pole. I went under that ice cap in a nuclear submarine that surfaced through the ice like this. Since they started patrolling in 1957, they have gone under the ice and measured with their radar looking upwards to measure how thick it is because they can only surface in areas where it's three and a half feet thick or less. So they have kept a meticulous record and they wouldn't release it because it was national security. I went up there in order to persuade them to release it, and they did. And here's what that record shows. Starting in 1970, there was a precipitous drop-off in the amount and extent and thickness of the Arctic ice cap. It has diminished by 40% in 40 years. And there are now two major studies showing that within the next 50 to 70 years, in summertime it will be completely gone. Now, you might say, "Why is that a problem?" And "How could the Arctic ice cap actually melt so quickly?"When the surs rays hit the ice, more than 90% of it bounces off right back into space like a mirror. But when it hits the open ocean, more than 90% of it is absorbed. And so, as the surrounding water gets warmer, it speeds up the melting of the ice. Right now, the Arctic ice cap acts like a giant mirror. All the surs rays bounce off, more than 90%. It keeps the Earth cooler. But as it melts and the open ocean receives that sun’s energy instead, more than 90% is absorbed. So there is a faster buildup of heat here, at the North Pole, in the Arctic Ocean, and the Arctic generally than anywhere else on the planet.

That's not good for creatures like polar bears who depend on the ice. A new scientific study shows that for the first time they're finding polar bears that have actually drowned, swimming long distances, up to 60 miles, to find the ice. And they didn't find that before. But what does it mean to us? To look at a vast expanse of open water at the top of our world that used to be covered by ice. We ought to care a lot because it has planetary effects. The Earth's climate is like a big engine for redistributing heat from the equator to the poles. And it does that by means of ocean currents and wind currents. They tell us, the scientists do, that the Earth's climate is a nonlinear system. Just a fancy way they have of saying that the changes are not all just gradual. Some of them come suddenly, in big jumps. On a worldwide basis, the annual average temperature is about 58 degrees Fahreheit.

If we have an increase of five degrees, which is on the low end of the projections, look at how that translates globally. That means an increase of only one degree at the equator, but more than 12 degrees at the pole. And so all those wind and ocean current patterns that have formed since the last ice age and have been relatively stable, they're all up in the air and they change. And one of the ones they're most worried about, where they've spent a lot of time studying the problem, is in the North Atlantic where the Gulf Stream comes up and meets the cold winds coming off the Arctic over Greenland. And that evaporates so that the heat out of the Gulf Stream and the steam is carried over to Western Europe by the prevailing winds and the Earth's rotation. But isn't it interesting that the whole ocean current system is all linked together in this loop?

They call it the ocean conveyor. And the red are the warm surface currents. The Gulf Stream is the best known of them. But the blue represent the cold currents running in the opposite direction, and we don't see them at all because they run along the bottom of the ocean. Up in the North Atlantic, after that heat is pulled out, what's left behind is colder water and saltier water because the salt doesn't go anywhere. And so that makes it denser and heavier. And so that cold, dense, heavy water sinks at the rate of five billion gallons per second. And then that pulls that current back south. At the end of the last ice age, as the last glacier was receding from North America, the ice melted and a giant pool of fresh water formed in North America. And the Great Lakes are the remnants of that huge lake. An ice dam on the eastern border formed and one day it broke. And all that fresh water came rushing out, ripping open the St. Lawrence there, and it diluted the salty, dense, cold water, made it fresher and lighter, so it stopped sinking. And that pump shut off. And the heat transfer stopped. And Europe went back into an ice age for another 900 to 1,000 years.

And the change from conditions like we have here today to an ice age took place in perhaps as little as 10 years' time. So that's a sudden jump. Now, of course that's not gonna happen again because the glaciers of North America are not there, and... there any other big chunk of ice anywhere near there?

Oh, yeah. We'll come back to that one.

I took part in a lecture about the climate change, the speaker spoke of An Inconvenient Truth by Da.vis Guggenheim and Al Gore. Thanks for getting it easily on internet. I spent all night to watch it, I was touched by it and like to study it more carefully later, so I down them to my blog, I like to watch it again.

You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds. You hear the tree frogs. In the distance, you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It's quiet. It's peaceful. And all of a sudden,it's a gear shift inside you. And it's like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh, yeah, I forgot about this." This is the first picture of the Earth from space that any of us ever saw. It was taken on Christmas Eve, 1968 during the Apollo 8 Mission.

 ...within relatively comfortable boundaries. But we are filling up that thin shell of atmosphere with pollution.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Al Gore. I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States Of America. I don't find that particularly funny. I've been trying to tell this story for a long time, and I feel as if I've failed to get the message across. I was in politics for a long time and I'm proud of my service. You gotta be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country, and get their... moving to New Orleans. That's them thinking small, man, and this is a major, major, major deal. What do you need right now? There are good people, who are in politics in both parties who hold this at arm's length because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable. ...unless you fix the biggest damn crisis in the history of this country.

 ...scouted out landing spots and they lost radio contact when they went around the dark side of the moon. And there was inevitably some suspense. Then when they came back in radio contact, they looked up and they snapped this picture, and it became known as Earth Rise. And that one picture exploded in the consciousness of humankind. It leads to dramatic changes.Within 18 months of this picture, the modern environmental movement had begun. The next picture was taken on the last of the Apollo missions Apollo 17. This one was taken on December 11, 1972, and it is the most commonly published photograph in all of history. And it's the only picture of the Earth from space that we have where the sun was directly behind the spacecraft so that the Earth is fully lit up and not partly in darkness.

The next image I'm gonna show you has almost never been seen. It was taken by a spacecraft called The Galileo that went out to explore the solar system. And as it was leaving Earth's gravity, it turned its cameras around and took a time lapse picture of one day's won'th of rotation,here compressed into 24 seconds. Isn't that beautiful? This image is a magical image in a way.It was made by a friend of mine,Tom Van Sant. He took 3,000 separate satellite pictures taken over a three-year period, digitally stitched together. And he chose images that would give a cloud-free view of every square inch of the Earth's surface.

 All of the land masses accurately portrayed. When that's all spread out, it becomes an iconic image. I show this because I wanna tell you a story about two teachers I had. One that I didn't like that much, the other who is a real hero to me. I had a grade school teacher who taught geography by pulling a map of the world down in front of the blackboard. I had a classmate in the sixth grade who raised his hand and he pointed to the outline of the east coast of South America and he pointed to the west coast of Africa and he asked, "Did they ever fit together?" And the teacher said, "Of course not. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard." That student went on to become a drug addict and a ne'er-do-well. The teacher went on to become science advisor in the current administration. But, you know, the teacher was actually reflecting the conclusion of the scientific establishment of that time.

Continents are so big, obviously they don't move. But actually, as we now know, they did move. They moved apart from one another. But at one time they did, in fact, fit together. But that assumption was a problem. It reflected the well-known wisdom that what gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so. This is actually an important point, believe it or not, because there is another such assumption that a lot of people have in their minds right now about global warming that just ain't so.

The assumption is something like this. The Earth is so big we can't possibly have any lasting harmful impact on the Earth's environment. And maybe that was true at one time, but it's not anymore. And one of the reasons it's not true anymore is that the most vulnerable part of the Earth's ecological system is the atmosphere. Vulnerable because it's so thin. My friend, the late Carl Sagan, used to say, "If you had a big globe with a coat of varnish on it, "the thickness of that varnish relative to that globe "is pretty much the same "as the thickness of the Earth's atmosphere "compared to the Earth itself." And it's thin enough that we are capable of changing its composition. That brings up the basic science of global warming. And I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this because you know it well. The suns radiation comes in the form of light waves and that heats up the Earth. And then some of the radiation that is absorbed and warms the Earth is reradiated back into space in the form of infrared radiation. And some of the outgoing infrared radiation is trapped by this layer of atmosphere and held inside the atmosphere.

And that's a good thing because it keeps the temperature of the Earth within certain boundaries, keeps it relatively constant and livable. But the problem is this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by all of the global warming pollution that's being put up there. And what that does is it thickens this layer of atmosphere, more of the outgoing infrared is trapped. And so the atmosphere heats up worldwide. That's global warming. Now, that's the traditional explanation. Here's what I think is a better explanation.

You're probably wondering why your ice cream went away.Well, Susie, the culprit isn't foreigners. It's global warming.- Global... - Yeah. Meet Mr. Sunbeam. He comes all the way from the sun to visit Earth. Hello, Earth. Just popping in to brighten your day. And now I'll be on my way. Not so fast, Sunbeam. We're greenouse gases. You ain't going nowhere. Oh, God, it hurts. Pretty soon, Earth is chock-full of Sunbeams.

Their rotting corpses heating our atmosphere. How do we get rid of the greenhouse grasses? Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last-minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063, we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then. Just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning. And then he gets mad. Of course, since the greenouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Thus, solving the problem once and for all. - But... - Once and for all!

This is the image that started me in my interest in this issue. And I saw it when I was a college student because I had a professor named Roger Revelle who was the first person to propose measuring carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. He saw where the story was going after the first few chapters. After the first few years of data, he intuited what it meant for what was yet to come.They designed the experiment in 1957. He hired Charles David Keeling who was very faithful and precise in making these measurements for decades.

They started sending these weather balloons up every day and they chose the middle of the Pacific because it was the area that was most remote. And he was a very hard-nosed scientist. He really emphasized the hard data. It was a wonderful time for me because like a lot of young people, I came into contact with intellectual ferment, ideas that I'd never considered in my wildest dreams before. And he showed our class the results of his measurements after only a few years. It was startling to me. Now he was startled and made it clear to our class what he felt the significance of it was. And I just soaked it up like a sponge. He drew the connections between the larger changes in our civilization and this pattern that was now visible in the atmosphere of the entire planet. And then he projected into the future where this was headed unless we made some adjustments. And it was just as clear as day. After the first seven, eight, nine years,you could see the pattern that was developing.

But I asked a question. Why is it that it goes up and down once each year? And he explained that if you look at the land mass of the Earth, very little of it is south of the equator. The vast majority of it is north of the equator, and most of the vegetation is north of the equator. And so, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, as it is in our spring and summer, the leaves come out and they breathe in carbon dioxide, and the amount in the atmosphere goes down. But when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, as it is in our fall and winter, the leaves fall and exhale carbon dioxide, and the amount in the atmosphere goes back up again. And so, it's as if the entire Earth once each year breathes in and out. So we started measuring carbon dioxide in 1958.

And you can see that by the middle '60s, when he showed my class this image, it was already clear that it was going up. I respected him and learned from him so much, I followed this.And when I went to the Congress in the middle 1970s, I helped to organize the first hearings on global warming and asked my professor to come and be the leadoff witness. And I thought that would have such a big impact, we'd be on the way to solving this problem, but it didn't work that way. But I kept having hearings. And in 1984 I went to the Senate and really dug deeply into this issue with science roundtables and the like. I wrote a book about it, ran for President in 1988, partly to try to gain some visibility for that issue. And in 1992 went to the White House. We passed a version of a carbon tax and some other measures to try to address this went to Kyoto in 1997 to help get a treaty that's so controversial, in the US at least.

In 2000, my opponent pledged to regulate CO2 and then... That was not a pledge that was kept. But the point of this is all this time you can see what I have seen all these years. It just keeps going up. It is relentless. And now we're beginning to see the impact in the real world. This is Mount Kilimanjaro more than 30 years ago and more recently. And a friend of mine just came back from Kilimanjaro with a picture he took a couple of months ago. Another friend, Lonnie Thompson, studies glaciers. Here's Lonnie with a last sliver of one of the once mighty glaciers. Within the decade there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.

This is happening in Glacier National Park. I climbed to the top of this in 1998 with one of my daughters. Within 15 years, this will be the park formerly known as Glacier. Here is what's been happening year by year to the Columbia Glacier. It just retreats every single year. And it's a shame 'cause these glaciers are so beautiful. But those who go up to see them,here's what they're seeing every day, now. In the Himalayas there's a particular problem because 40% of all the people in the world get their drinking water from rivers and spring systems that are fed more than half by the melt water coming off the glaciers. And within this next half century those 40% of the people on Earth are gonna face a very serious shortage because of this melting.

Italy, the Italian Alps. Same sight today. An old postcard from Switzerland. Throughout the Alps, we're seeing the same story. It's also true in South America. This is Peru 15 years ago. And the same glacier today.This is Argentina 20 years ago. Same glacier today. Seventy-five years ago in Patagonia on the tip of South America. This vast expanse of ice is now gone. There's a message in this. It is worldwide. And the ice has stories to tell us. My friend, Lonnie Thompson, digs core drills in the ice. They dig down and they bring the core drills back up and they look at the ice and they study it. When the snow falls, it traps little bubbles of atmosphere and they can go in and measure how much CO2 was in the atmosphere the year that that snow fell. What's even more interesting, I think, is they can measure the different isotopes of oxygen and figure out a very precise thermometer and tell you what the temperature was the year that that bubble was trapped in the snow as it fell.

When I was in Antarctica, I saw cores like this. And a guy looked at it. He said, "Right here is where the US Congress passed the Clean Air Act." And I couldn't believe it. But you can see the difference with the naked eye. Just a couple of years after that law was passed, it's very clearly distinguishable. They can count back year by year the same way a forester reads tree rings. And you can see each annual layer from the melting and re-freezing, so they can go back in a lot of these mountain glaciers 1,000 years. And they constructed a thermometer of the temperature. The blue is cold and the red is warm.

Now, I show this for a couple of reasons. Number one, the so-called skeptics will sometimes say, "Oh, this whole thing, this is a cyclical phenomenon. "There was a medieval warming period, after all." Well, yeah, there was. There it is, right there. There are two others. But compared to what's going on now, there's just no comparison. So if you look at 1,000 years' won'th of temperature and compare it to 1,000 years of CO2, you can see how closely they fit together. Now, 1,000 years of CO2 in the mountain glaciers, that's one thing. But in Antarctica, they can go back 650,000 years. This incidentally is the first time anybody outside of a small group of scientists has seen this image. This is the present day era, and that's the last ice age. Then it goes up. We're going back in time now 650,000 years. That's the period of warming between the last two ice ages. That's the second and third ice age back. Fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh ice age back. Now, an important point. In all of this time, 650,000 years, the CO2 level has never gone above 300 parts per million. Now, as I said, they can also measure temperature. Here's what the temperature has been on our Earth. Now one thing that kind of jumps out at you is...

Well, let me put it this way. If my classmate from the sixth grade that talked about Africa and South America were here, he would say, "Did they ever fit together?" "Most ridiculous thing I've ever heard." But they did, of course. And the relationship is actually very complicated. But there is one relationship that is far more powerful than all the others and it is this. When there is more carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer because it traps more heat from the sun inside.

n the parts of the United States that contain the modern cities of Cleveland, Detroit, New York, in the northern tier, this is the difference between a nice day and having a mile of ice over your head. Keep that in mind when you look at this fact. Carbon dioxide, having never gone above 300 parts per million, here is where CO2 is now. Way above where it's ever been as far back as this record will measure. Now, if you'll bear with me, I wanna really emphasize this point. The crew here has tried to teach me how to use this contraption here. So, if I don't kill myself, I'II... It's already right here. Look how far above the natural cycle this is, and we've done that. But, ladies and gentlemen, in the next 50 years, really, in less than 50 years, it's gonna continue to go up. When some of these children who are here are my age, here is what it's going to be in less than 50 years.

You've heard of off the charts. Within less than 50 years, it'll be here.There's not a single fact or date or number that's been used to make this up that's in any controversy. The so-called skeptics look at this and they say, "So? That seems perfectly okay." Well, again, if on the temperature side, if this much on the cold side is a mile of ice over our heads, what would that much on the warm side be? Ultimately this is really not a political issue so much as a moral issue. If we allow that to happen, it is deeply unethical.

I get this from http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/china-town-hall. I like Obama not only for he is the US President but also for he is a handsome man. Especially he is a man who has a wonderful wife and two lovely daughters. I like his smile and his voice, I hope someday in China we will have politicians as him. Obama is visiting China.On November 16, 2009 in Shanghai he took questions from Chinese youth.I like to know what our youth ask the president Obama and what are his answers.

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
AT TOWN HALL MEETING WITH FUTURE CHINESE LEADERS
 Museum of Science and Technology Shanghai, China

      PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Good afternoon.  It is a great honor for me to be here in Shanghai, and to have this opportunity to speak with all of you.  I'd like to thank Fudan University's President Yang for his hospitality and his gracious welcome.  I'd also like to thank our outstanding Ambassador, Jon Huntsman, who exemplifies the deep ties and respect between our nations.  I don't know what he said, but I hope it was good.  (Laughter.) 
   What I'd like to do is to make some opening comments, and then what I'm really looking forward to doing is taking questions, not only from students who are in the audience, but also we've received questions online, which will be asked by some of the students who are here in the audience, as well as by Ambassador Huntsman.  And I am very sorry that my Chinese is not as good as your English, but I am looking forward to this chance to have a dialogue.
    This is my first time traveling to China, and I'm excited to see this majestic country.  Here, in Shanghai, we see the growth that has caught the attention of the world -- the soaring skyscrapers, the bustling streets and entrepreneurial activity.  And just as I'm impressed by these signs of China's journey to the 21st century, I'm eager to see those ancient places that speak to us from China's distant past.  Tomorrow and the next day I hope to have a chance when I'm in Beijing to see the majesty of the Forbidden City and the wonder of the Great Wall.  Truly, this is a nation that encompasses both a rich history and a belief in the promise of the future. 
    The same can be said of the relationship between our two countries.  Shanghai, of course, is a city that has great meaning in the history of the relationship between the United States and China.  It was here, 37 years ago, that the Shanghai Communique opened the door to a new chapter of engagement between our governments and among our people.  However, America's ties to this city -- and to this country -- stretch back further, to the earliest days of America's independence.
    In 1784, our founding father, George Washington, commissioned the Empress of China, a ship that set sail for these shores so that it could pursue trade with the Qing Dynasty. Washington wanted to see the ship carry the flag around the globe, and to forge new ties with nations like China.  This is a common American impulse -- the desire to reach for new horizons, and to forge new partnerships that are mutually beneficial.
    Over the two centuries that have followed, the currents of history have steered the relationship between our countries in many directions.  And even in the midst of tumultuous winds, our people had opportunities to forge deep and even dramatic ties. For instance, Americans will never forget the hospitality shown to our pilots who were shot down over your soil during World War II, and cared for by Chinese civilians who risked all that they had by doing so.  And Chinese veterans of that war still warmly greet those American veterans who return to the sites where they fought to help liberate China from occupation.
   A different kind of connection was made nearly 40 years ago when the frost between our countries began to thaw through the simple game of table tennis.  The very unlikely nature of this engagement contributed to its success -- because for all our differences, both our common humanity and our shared curiosity were revealed.  As one American player described his visit to China -- "The people are just like us…The country is very similar to America, but still very different."
  Of course this small opening was followed by the achievement of the Shanghai Communique, and the eventual establishment of formal relations between the United States and China in 1979.  And in three decades, just look at how far we have come.
   In 1979, trade between the United States and China stood at roughly $5 billion -- today it tops over $400 billion each year. The commerce affects our people's lives in so many ways.  America imports from China many of the computer parts we use, the clothes we wear; and we export to China machinery that helps power your industry.  This trade could create even more jobs on both sides of the Pacific, while allowing our people to enjoy a better quality of life.  And as demand becomes more balanced, it can lead to even broader prosperity. 
    In 1979, the political cooperation between the United States and China was rooted largely in our shared rivalry with the Soviet Union.  Today, we have a positive, constructive and comprehensive relationship that opens the door to partnership on the key global issues of our time -- economic recovery and the development of clean energy; stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and the scourge of climate change; the promotion of peace and security in Asia and around the globe.  All of these issues will be on the agenda tomorrow when I meet with President Hu.
    And in 1979, the connections among our people were limited. Today, we see the curiosity of those ping-pong players manifested in the ties that are being forged across many sectors.  The second highest number of foreign students in the United States come from China, and we've seen a 50 percent increase in the study of Chinese among our own students.  There are nearly 200 "friendship cities" drawing our communities together.  American and Chinese scientists cooperate on new research and discovery.  And of course, Yao Ming is just one signal of our shared love of basketball -- I'm only sorry that I won't be able to see a Shanghai Sharks game while I'm visiting.
     It is no coincidence that the relationship between our countries has accompanied a period of positive change.  China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty -- an accomplishment unparalleled in human history -- while playing a larger role in global events.  And the United States has seen our economy grow along with the standard of living enjoyed by our people, while bringing the Cold War to a successful conclusion.
   There is a Chinese proverb:  "Consider the past, and you shall know the future."  Surely, we have known setbacks and challenges over the last 30 years.  Our relationship has not been without disagreement and difficulty.  But the notion that we must be adversaries is not predestined -- not when we consider the past.  Indeed, because of our cooperation, both the United States and China are more prosperous and more secure.  We have seen what is possible when we build upon our mutual interests, and engage on the basis of mutual respect.
   And yet the success of that engagement depends upon understanding -- on sustaining an open dialogue, and learning about one another and from one another.  For just as that American table tennis player pointed out -- we share much in common as human beings, but our countries are different in certain ways. 
    I believe that each country must chart its own course.  China is an ancient nation, with a deeply rooted culture.  The United States, by comparison, is a young nation, whose culture is determined by the many different immigrants who have come to our shores, and by the founding documents that guide our democracy.
    Those documents put forward a simple vision of human affairs, and they enshrine several core principles -- that all men and women are created equal, and possess certain fundamental rights; that government should reflect the will of the people and respond to their wishes; that commerce should be open, information freely accessible; and that laws, and not simply men, should guarantee the administration of justice.
     Of course, the story of our nation is not without its difficult chapters.  In many ways -- over many years -- we have struggled to advance the promise of these principles to all of our people, and to forge a more perfect union.  We fought a very painful civil war, and freed a portion of our population from slavery.  It took time for women to be extended the right to vote, workers to win the right to organize, and for immigrants from different corners of the globe to be fully embraced.  Even after they were freed, African Americans persevered through conditions that were separate and not equal, before winning full and equal rights.
      None of this was easy.  But we made progress because of our belief in those core principles, which have served as our compass through the darkest of storms.  That is why Lincoln could stand up in the midst of civil war and declare it a struggle to see whether any nation, conceived in liberty, and "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" could long endure. That is why Dr. Martin Luther King could stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and ask that our nation live out the true meaning of its creed.  That's why immigrants from China to Kenya could find a home on our shores; why opportunity is available to all who would work for it; and why someone like me, who less than 50 years ago would have had trouble voting in some parts of America, is now able to serve as its President.
    And that is why America will always speak out for these core principles around the world.   We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation, but we also don't believe that the principles that we stand for are unique to our nation.  These freedoms of expression_r and worship -- of access to information and political participation -- we believe are universal rights.  They should be available to all people, including ethnic and religious minorities -- whether they are in the United States, China, or any nation.  Indeed, it is that respect for universal rights that guides America's openness to other countries; our respect for different cultures; our commitment to international law; and our faith in the future.
    These are all things that you should know about America.  I also know that we have much to learn about China.  Looking around at this magnificent city -- and looking around this room -- I do believe that our nations hold something important in common, and that is a belief in the future.  Neither the United States nor China is content to rest on our achievements.  For while China is an ancient nation, you are also clearly looking ahead with confidence, ambition, and a commitment to see that tomorrow's generation can do better than today's.
    In addition to your growing economy, we admire China's extraordinary commitment to science and research -- a commitment borne out in everything from the infrastructure you build to the technology you use.  China is now the world's largest Internet user -- which is why we were so pleased to include the Internet as a part of today's event.  This country now has the world's largest mobile phone network, and it is investing in the new forms of energy that can both sustain growth and combat climate change -- and I'm looking forward to deepening the partnership between the United States and China in this critical area tomorrow.  But above all, I see China's future in you -- young people whose talent and dedication and dreams will do so much to help shape the 21st century.
   I've said many times that I believe that our world is now fundamentally interconnected.  The jobs we do, the prosperity we build, the environment we protect, the security that we seek -- all of these things are shared.  And given that interconnection, power in the 21st century is no longer a zero-sum game; one country's success need not come at the expense of another.  And that is why the United States insists we do not seek to contain China's rise.  On the contrary, we welcome China as a strong and prosperous and successful member of the community of nations -- a China that draws on the rights, strengths, and creativity of individual Chinese like you.
    To return to the proverb -- consider the past.  We know that more is to be gained when great powers cooperate than when they collide.  That is a lesson that human beings have learned time and again, and that is the example of the history between our nations.  And I believe strongly that cooperation must go beyond our government.  It must be rooted in our people -- in the studies we share, the business that we do, the knowledge that we gain, and even in the sports that we play.  And these bridges must be built by young men and women just like you and your counterparts in America.
    That's why I'm pleased to announce that the United States will dramatically expand the number of our students who study in China to 100,000.  And these exchanges mark a clear commitment to build ties among our people, as surely as you will help determine the destiny of the 21st century.  And I'm absolutely confident that America has no better ambassadors to offer than our young people.  For they, just like you, are filled with talent and energy and optimism about the history that is yet to be written.
    So let this be the next step in the steady pursuit of cooperation that will serve our nations, and the world.  And if there's one thing that we can take from today's dialogue, I hope that it is a commitment to continue this dialogue going forward.
     So thank you very much.  And I look forward now to taking some questions from all of you.  Thank you very much.  (Applause.)
     So -- I just want to make sure this works.  This is a tradition, by the way, that is very common in the United States at these town hall meetings.  And what we're going to do is I will just -- if you are interested in asking a question, you can raise your hands.  I will call on you.  And then I will alternate between a question from the audience and an Internet question from one of the students who prepared the questions, as well as I think Ambassador Huntsman may have a question that we were able to obtain from the Web site of our embassy.
    So let me begin, though, by seeing -- and then what I'll do is I'll call on a boy and then a girl and then -- so we'll go back and forth, so that you know it's fair.  All right?  So I'll start with this young lady right in the front.  Why don't we wait for this microphone so everyone can hear you.  And what's your name?

    超有才搞笑的中国足球主教练辩论赛，看得我好开心，这帮孩子真有才太搞笑了。人大的学生，我羡慕你们啊，想当年我的大学生活枯燥孤独，唉，我孩子的大学生活该是怎样的？但愿将来的学生们都有开阔的思绪快乐无为的心态。

Diamonds are hard to find but not hard to Break.

What is the hardest thing to break then?
The answer is: HABIT!
If you break the H, you still have A BIT .

If you break the A, you still have BIT.

If you break the B, you still have IT! )Hey, after you break the T in IT, there is still the 'I'.

And that (I  ) is the root cause of all the problems.

Isn’t it right?!
Now you know why HABIT is so hard to break….

Its destiny is in its name!

 读完这封短信，我知道人最难打破的是自己的习惯思维和做法，尤其是活到中年的人，有多少情不自禁的习惯，在这些重重叠叠的习惯中，形成了表面的我掩盖了原始真实的我，现在我最想知道的是：原始真实的我是什么样子，我敢面对原始真实的我吗？

   

    忘了在那里看到以下的话语，现在依旧很欣赏！

   “真理只在爱她的人面前赤身裸体，带她去见生人时一定要给她穿上合适的衣服。”有创意！

    “能够战胜黑暗的不仅仅有光明，还有比黑暗更黑的黑暗。”以牙还牙？

    “ 要犯就犯美丽的错误。”好浪漫的想法！

    “ 合适的才是最好的，有序的才是最快的。”真的了解自己的感叹！

    “  不要用对方承受不了的方式施予爱与怜悯。”善良的人善良的心！

    “ 人不怕广结善缘，怕的是在不该用情太深的地方用情太深。”“无原则的行善收获的往往是恶果。” 这是教训啊。

    “ 真正伟大的国家能够用实力保护世界，用价值观征服世界，用制度与规则架构世界。”我们的国家什么时候能这样呢？作为贫民百姓的我的愿望是“真正伟大的国家能够用实力保护它的百姓，用价值观授益于百姓，用制度与规则使百姓平等享受生存的权益。”

    我也希望能“  纯粹地做事，把事情做纯粹，是多么幸福啊！”

    自己对每句话的评论无论是想了解自己呢还是告诫自己，我都希望自己没有麻木，对事物有所感悟，有欣赏还有行动,急忙记录下来，这是我的读后感。

You think it is a frog and I think it is a horse!

                                                                  Wait for a while

Moral: We have to respect each other's opinion and view; as you can see it clearly in the above picture. We just need to wait and listen actively to others' point of view!

桥上站着你、我、他

不同的人看着不同的方向

说话

你说日出彩霞

他说沧海浪花

我说夕阳西下

语言的桥

连接了你、我、他

你游荡江湖

他漫步天涯

我独守在家

语言的桥

拥挤地堵塞了

你说着大话

他说着酒话

我说着梦话

超重的桥坍塌

日、英、德、法

你不懂我我不懂他

语言中有多少虚假

多少事实被语言夸大

语言是通往心灵的桥吗

你在语言的桥上畅想

他在语言的桥上翱翔

我在语言的桥上迷茫

语言的桥啊

我们的心灵昏暗狭小

可我们却奢望四通八达

    朋友推荐我部美国电影《消防员》（FIREPROOF），是对婚姻、爱情的指导篇，有些婚姻家庭生活中的问题，朋友想让我知道并学着去面对和解决。

    电影里面的几个对话很经典，我决定记下：

Michael：Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come，　but that when it comes you will be able to withstand it。

迈克尔：“灭火并不意味着让所有的火灾都不会发生，而是当他发生时，你有能力去扑灭它。”
    我有这种能力去面对生活中的不如意或灾难吗？

Michael：A woman's like a rose。If you treat her right， she'll bloom。 If you don't，　she'll wilt。
迈克尔：“一个女人就像一朵玫瑰，如果你悉心照料她，她就会盛放，如果不，那么她就会枯萎。”
    真欣赏这句话，那个女人不希望自己是朵玫瑰花被悉心照料，然后盛放，我是朵快要枯萎的玫瑰，我被告知我是个欲壑难填的人，我真的是贪婪自私不值得疼爱的女人吗？想到这里就有点想哭，自己的眼泪能浇灌自己吗？

Michael：Don't just follow your heart，man，because your heart can be deceived。
迈克尔：“不要只是跟着你的心走，伙计，因为你的心有时候会被误导的。”
    我想跟着我的心走，只要知道自己心里装的是什么，就不会被误导了，但真的知道自己心里的真正需要并能明确表达吗？

Caleb：I am sorry，I have trampled on you with my words and my actions。
凯勒：“对不起，我用我的语言和行为伤害了你。”

    不良行为能伤害人，不注意的语言也能伤害人，为什么那么怕说错什么或作错什么，因为我不想伤害人，也不想被伤害。难、难、难！怎么办？

    还看了《惊涛大冒险》（Guardian），一部让人感觉男人责任与情怀的片子，喜欢片尾的歌曲，这也是我想知道的我能否这样。

                  《Never Let Go》  永不放弃
Can you lay your life down              你能牺牲自己的生命

So a stranger can live                  只为一个陌生的人

Can you take what you need              你能在取自己所需是

But take less than you give             总是获得少于给予

Could you close every day               你能愉快结束劳累的每一天

Without the glory and fame              在没有任何荣誉的情况下

Could you hold your head high           仍旧高抬着你的头

When no one knows your name             即使没人知道你的姓和名

That’s how legends are made            传说就是这样形成

At least that’s what they say          至少他们是这么说的

We say goodbye                          当我们说再见

But never let go                        但不是放弃

We live, we die                         我们活着我们死去

Cuz you can’t save every soul          因为我们不能拯救每一个灵魂

Gotta take every chance to              只想有这样的机会证明

Show that you’re the kind of man who   你是这样的男人

Who never look back, never look down    永不退缩不沮丧

And never let go                        也永不放弃

Can you lose everything?                你损失了什么

You ever had planned                    你从来没要求什么

Can you sit down again?                 你能否停歇下来

And play another hand                   一起享受我们的美好时光

Could you risk everything?              你在冒险什么

For the chance to be in loan            任何机会都有代价

Under pressure find the grace           在巨压下优雅地展示

what you come undone                    你克服了艰难

That’s how legends are made            传说就是这样形成

At least that’s what they say          至少他们是这么说的

Never let go                            永不放弃

Gotta take every chance to              只想有这样的机会证明 

Show that you’re the kind of man who   你是这样的男人

Who never look back, never look down    永不退缩不沮丧

And never let go                        也永不放弃

Never look back, never look down        永不退缩不沮丧

    我想知道我能永不退缩不沮丧也永不放弃吗？我想知道能有怎样的机会证明：我是这样的女人---向玫瑰一样娇艳脆弱但又能永不退缩不沮丧也永不放弃，在没人知道我的姓和名，没有任何荣誉的情况下，仍旧高抬着头不计较获得少于给予？

         易中天经典搞笑语录

1、记得刚毕业不久的一天，女友给我发了一条短信：“我们还是分手吧！”我还没来得及伤心呢，女友又发来一条：“对不起，发错了。”这下可以彻底伤心了……

2、如果你看到面前的阴影，别怕，那是因为你的背后有阳光！

3、听君一席话，省我十本书！

4、我们产生一点小分歧：她希望我把粪土变黄金，我希望她视黄金如粪土。

5、读10年语文，不如聊半年QQ。

6、早晨懒床，遂从口袋里掏出6枚硬币：如果抛出去六个都是正面，我就去上课！思躇良久，还是算了，别冒这个险了……

7、我花8万买了个西周陶罐，昨儿到《鉴宝》栏目进行鉴定，专家严肃地说：“这哪是西周的？这是上周的！”

8、问：你喜欢我哪一点？答：我喜欢你离我远一点！

9、跌倒了，爬起来再哭~~~

10、世界上难以自拔的，除了牙齿，还有爱情。

11、生，容易。活，容易。生活，不容易。

12、年轻的时候，我们常常冲着镜子做鬼脸；年老的时候，镜子算是扯平了。

13、拍脑袋决策，拍胸脯保证，拍屁股走人。

14、我们走得太快，灵魂都跟不上了……

15、不要和地球人一般见识~~~

16、小时候我以为自己长大后可以拯救整个世界，等长大后才发现整个世界都拯救不了我……

17、有钱的都是大爷！但是欠钱不还的更是！

18、生前何必久睡，死后自会长眠……

19、时间是最好的老师，但遗憾的是——最后他把所有的学生都弄死了。

20、钻石恒久远，一颗就破产！

21、和谐校园里，骑自行车的也许是位博导，而开奔驰的则可能是个后勤……

22、是金子，总会花光的；是镜子，总会反光的……

23、别和我谈理想，戒了！

24、玫瑰你的，巧克力你的，钻石你的。你，我的！

25、所谓惊喜就是你苦苦等候的兔子来了，后面跟着狼！

26、什么是幸福？幸福就是猫吃鱼狗吃肉，奥特曼打小怪兽！

27、别以为穿着脏衣服就可以做污点证人；别以为穿着木制拖鞋就是“木屐”证人。

28、如果有一天我变成流氓，请告诉别人，我纯真过……

29、你可以像猪一样的生活，但你永远都不能像猪那样快乐！

30、如果幸福是浮云，如果痛苦似星辰。那我的生活真是万里无云，漫天繁星……

31、孤单是一个人的狂欢，狂欢是一群人的孤单。

32、女人一生喜欢两朵花：一是有钱花，二是尽量花！

33、偶尔幽生活一默你会觉得很爽，但生活幽你一默就惨了……

34、某女大学生不当尼姑的原因是她四级没过，庵里不收。

35、睡眠是一门艺术——谁也无法阻挡我追求艺术的脚步！

   我也要去觉觉了，工薪族的我天亮还得去上班挣钱，挣钱也是一门艺术——谁来阻挡我追求艺术的脚步？给我这门艺术一个永恒牢靠的一步到位呢？期盼啊！！！

    我头上带的生日帽是妈妈给我买的生日蛋糕的附属品，我带上它给妈妈看，喜欢妈妈高兴。我的小同事知道我的生日蛋糕由我老妈买时感叹：现在怎么全颠倒了，你也啃老了。我不是啃老，是我妈自愿买给我的，妈妈对我有一种愧疚，因为小时候我不是她带大的，现在非常想弥补特宠着我，如果听到我在电话里对人大喊大叫，那人一定是我妈，无论我怎样暴躁她都不生气，还认为我这是在替她操心心疼她呢，不管什么我都是对的，差点要被她惯坏了。看我妈多得意，我女儿多不乐意，我的狗狗也不怎么愿意。

    记得小时候和外婆在一起，每当我过生日时外婆都说：儿的生日，娘的苦日。当了母亲后才真正明白这句话，这一天妈妈真的经受了很大痛苦，那种疼，在生女儿时恨不得把她的小名：乐乐，改成：哭哭，怎一个“哭”字了得。所以在我生日的这天，我要给妈妈买双合适的新鞋，陪穿着这双新鞋的妈妈逛超市，我生日的上午就这么度过了，在超市里看着妈妈象个刚会走路的小孩那样对她的鞋子十分关注，左顾右盼满意地看来看去，我偷偷地落了泪。

      夏天为妈妈买双旅游鞋时，她也是这么兴高采烈，还无比自豪地穿着去参加单位为离退休老同志组织的旅游活动，回来向我吹说和别人的鞋比谁的鞋底不打滑，她这双鞋如何轻便又防滑。这不，冬天来了，我这当女儿的能不张罗为她换鞋吗？她都跟别人说了她女儿知道什么鞋最好最适合老人穿了，我的妈呀。

    下午在家收到朋友同事的问候短信，有些思念有些感动有些遗憾有些等候，我多么希望有些惊喜有些意外，只是一个人一点点就够了，可惜没有，发出几个带有抱怨的短信，回信告诉我是乱码，不知道我在说什么，真的吗？那是老天爷在不让我抱怨不让我贪婪，算了，无意中看到一个公益广告我最需要：友爱互助，用爱相处！眼泪润湿了我的眼睛。

      这也是我为什么爱带墨镜的原因，HENK为我照这张照片时，我们就在讨论这个墨镜问题，他说他喜欢透过墨镜看人，尤其是看美丽的女人，墨镜不仅能遮住他的不好意思，好象还能增加他脸皮的厚度，我响应我也是，我也喜欢透过墨镜看人，尤其是看英俊的男人，墨镜不仅能遮住我的贪婪和心虚，还能帮我掩盖真实的情感和懦弱，我不愿意别人看到我眼里的泪水，我需要墨镜伪装我的坚强。

    我告诉爱人今天我过生日，不想承担太多家务，只想干想干的事、说想说的话，他说：好吧，然后用沉默支持我的行动，我感觉无比失落，看来不能有其它奢望了。我已经有不错的生日了，上周就开始为自己筹备舍宾计划，昨天还去参加校友会，想见的该见的人都见到了，想说的该说的都说了，混进年轻人的队伍，和一个非常相似的校友回忆大学青涩的美好时光，我们在汗蒸房里热泪盈眶地出着汗，汗透了情未了，我知道我又艰难迅速地长了一岁，心又沉淀了许多，人也老练豁达了许多，还有了这些可爱的亲人和朋友。

    对了，女儿还送了我副手套，告诉我英语的手套叫GLOVES，她的意思是通过手套给我爱GIVE LOVE TO ME，，我也愿意接受和传递这种爱，女人是为爱而生而活的，我是这样的女人，这样过了我的生日。

不是我非要装得很阳光

我知道你担不起我的忧伤

那灰暗的沉重的过去

早已在记忆中深藏

何必要翻浆出来

对比现在有多不一样

现在在继续

未来的故事以前的幻想

你不明白你讲的不是事实

是虚构的向往

非分的欲望

却被你当作神圣的真理敬仰

我能说什么呢

说我无名的弱小的忧伤

在急速的悠久的时间里缓慢游荡

用我最大的耐心

换回一点生存需要

陪伴无奈的人们东游西逛

我的忧伤我不愿讲

语言太苍白行动太愚懦

思想又高高在上

你不是太阳不是月亮

只是颗灼热暂短的流星

瞬间的光芒

担不起我好长的忧伤

    我想起01年离开我们的爸爸，想起我的外公、外婆，这些我亲近的却不能再相见的亲人。在回家的路上，我急忙给我妈妈打电话，告诉她我想她想见她。路过乐购超市时，我去为妈妈、老婆婆、老公公买礼物，我希望能给他们带来惊喜和快乐。

    虽然我只是为两个妈妈买了围巾，给爸爸买个绿鸟鸡，看到他们的笑脸时我感到很幸福。我是如此幸运我的老人们如此容易满足，一点点礼物一个小小心意，他们却如获至宝，自豪骄傲地对外人展示。我感到惭愧，我知道老人们对我们关心和照顾远远超过我们的这点回报。有孩子后我真正体会到了“不养儿不知父母恩”。回报从点滴做起，在老人们的有生之年，尽力对他们好，让他们的日子过得舒心愉快。这是我对自己的又一个需要写下记住的嘱咐。

    我们现在已经很习惯阳历公元多少多少年、今天是星期几了，说起阴历大多数人记得的有春节、元宵节、清明节、端午节、中秋节，这些有各种食品代言的节日。还有人记得自己的生日是在阴历几月几号。我们还有什么用阴历的传统节日？七夕节(七月初七)、重阳节(九月九日)等。记得我爸曾说过：所有节日都是古代人们想改善生活，为自己找个大吃大喝的理由。虽是玩笑，但人们的确需要有些特殊的日子，大家堂而皇之互为提醒地去做一些事情，重阳节就是一个这样让大家互相惦记的节日。

    关于重阳节的诗句里，我们喜欢这些。

王维的《九月九日忆山东兄弟》

独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。

遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人。

    不过节还不知道少谁吧？

    宋朝李清照的《醉花阴·重阳》

薄雾浓云愁永昼，瑞脑消金兽。
佳节又重阳，玉枕纱厨，半夜凉初透。
东篱把酒黄昏后，有暗香盈袖。
莫道不消魂。帘卷西风，人比黄花瘦。

    思念很凄美和折磨人吧，要想“人比黄花瘦”最好的减肥是思念和失恋。

    《采桑子 重阳》出至毛泽东的诗：

人生易老天难老，岁岁重阳，

今又重阳，战地黄花分外香。

一年一度秋风劲，不似春光，

胜似春光，寥廓江天万里霜。 

    毛泽东是个充满幻想的浪漫诗人。当我们老了的时候，能用这种充满幻想的浪漫情怀去寻找夕阳红，去过属于我们的重阳节吗？从现在起我们就应该向这些美丽的菊花这样去生活吧。