In the Rough - The Blog of Joel McDonald Jr.

Yesterday afternoon, I sat down with a movie that I had been wanting to see for quite a while, “An Inconvenient Truth”. This film captures Al Gore as he travels the world presenting “the slide show” in an attempt to educate the world on the real and present danger of global warming and the possibilities of reversing our accelerating path to a global climate crises.If you haven’t seen this movie, see it soon, today if possible. There is a reason this man, and researchers on the topic, won the Nobel Prize last year. The evidence, undeniably stunning correlated data, that our actions are having a huge impact on the climate is impossible to ignore. This is not theory, it’s not political. Global warming will change our world as we know it if we do not take the necessary steps to reverse our impact.

See the movie, make whatever changes you can, and tell people about it. Write your elected officials and demand that we unite in a War Against Climate Change. I am convinced that we must change, immediately.

Another activity I finally got around to is checking out World of WarCraft, and seeing if it really is as good people claim it is. I spent a good chuck of hours playing last night, and as far as I can remember, my character is a priestly Night Elf. If you want to look me up, his name is Abelzier. World of WarCraft is a subscription based game, but they are offering a 10 day trial. I was up and running very quickly, and game-play has been very smooth, even though I didn’t download the full (4GB) program. Who knows how I’ll feel about the game after my trial period is over. For now, I can admit that it is mildly addicting, as there is always something to do!