Oh, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt: You don’t know it yet, but you will be the most beautiful girl in the entire world.

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I saw X-Men 3 today and it was a bust. Lame acting (Okay, Halle, we get it. Monster’s Ball was a fluke. You really can’t act. You don’t have to convince us anymore.), which was definitely not helped by any type of decent writing (”Offense is the best defense!”)

I was thoroughly disappointed. If I remember correctly, the first two movies were decent summer fun. Thumbs up to Famke Janssen, though.

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Before that movie, I actually saw another movie, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. See this movie. It may be the most important film you ever see. The effects of global warming on our planet are frightening and will end up spelling the doom of the human race if left unabetted. If you think that’s an exaggeration, SEE THIS FILM. In the last five years, we’ve done more damage to the environment than we’ve managed to do in the past century.

Antarctica and the Greenland glaciers are melting rapidly, to the extent that sea levels will rise twenty feet within the next fifty years, putting the land that 100 MILLION people stand upon underwater. The arctic ice also deflects I think 90% of the solar rays that hit it, keeping the Earth cool, but since they’re melting, more and more rays are hitting the ocean, which absorbs around 90% of those same rays. The effect of this absorption is a raising of the oceans’ temperatures, changing the route of currents and making hurricanes and tornadoes volatile.

All ten of the hottest years in history have been within the past 14 years, with 2005 being the worst by far. Worldwide temperatures are getting hotter and hotter, and this is not cyclical, this is a result of global warming.

America is one of only two developed nations in the world which haven’t signed the Kyoto Treaty; the other is Australia. Every other major country in the world has placed restrictions on their automobile manufacturers. We can’t even sell our automobiles to China because we don’t meet their emissions standards. In fact, the dying American automotive industry is so off that a lawsuit has been placed against the state of California for passing a law requiring emissions standards by 2011 that China already has today. Rather than catch up with the rest of the world and create more efficient vehicles, they’re grasping at straws and trying to save their asses without a true effort to evolve. And is it working? Let’s just say sales of Honda and Toyota are significantly up, while Ford and GM have plummeted.

You know, I probably didn’t lay out all of those facts correctly, and there is so much more information than what I shared, so do me a favor and see this film. Tell everyone you know to see this film. The factual information–scientific data, statistics–is presently so objectively. It’s not a political issue; it’s a matter of life and death, really. I kind of feel a responsbility to pass along information after seeing the film, and hopefully everyone else will, too. There are things that we all can do to help fx the problem, via riding our congressional representatives’ asses and limiting out personal carbon emissions.

Please, visit ClimateCrisis.net and read up on the issue. It’s scary stuff.