Planet Hot

When I first saw the headline, Study: Global Warming Boosts Poison Ivy, I thought we might be in for more of those cheesy movies that alternately had Drew Barrymore, Alyssa Milano, and Jaime Pressly (nsfw clips and pics from the movie) getting down and dirty as they infiltrated the lives of some poor rich family. (Actually, I don't recall much of the plot other than that... but they were memorable.) But sadly, the headline says nothing about us getting more genius B movies. We're only going to get more itch.

Uh-oh. Deserts may be creeping closer to cities, the Associated Press reports. To lift a quote: "Deserts in the American Southwest and around the globe are creeping toward heavily populated areas as the jet streams shift." And, "as the atmosphere warms, it bulges out at the altitudes where the northern and southern jet streams slip past like swift and massive rivers of air. That bulging has pushed both jet streams about 70 miles closer to the Earth's poles." What this means? More powerful storms, less food, and cranky European skiers who won't have snow in the Alps.

Oh, and that's Clara Morgane, surely helping the rise in global temperature. (nsfw link)

I have been awful about writing new entries in the last week. Sorry about that, I feel like a douchebag. I promise change.

And speaking of douchebags, there's this hilarious site, appropriately titled Hot Chicks With Douchebags that you have to check out. Pic on the left is only the tip of the iceberg.

A new study suggests that climate change, not humans, caused the extinction of mammoths, wild horses, and other large mammals after the last Ice Age. Furthermore, it suggests that climate change has been in process for a long time, and we are still seeing some of the effects. At first, this seems like good news. The study doesn't take into account the speeding up of climate change due to humans, but it does offer a tantalizing prospect -- namely, that maybe we're not to blame if the earth heats up and a few species disappear forever.

But here's the catch. Humans are large mammals too. What's to prevent us from getting wiped off the face of the earth if conditions change too much? Sounds kind of out there, but it's not outside the realm of possibility.

It would be sad to see hot women like Keeley Hazell go. Especially with her big, large... personality. You can watch her talk about her personality here in this NSFW movie. I give it two big thumbs up.

"Go bananas while you still can. The world's most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble. Its genetic base, the wild bananas and traditional varieties cultivated in India, has collapsed .... Now the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that wild banana species are rapidly going extinct as Indian forests are destroyed, while many traditional farmers' varieties are also disappearing. It could take a global effort to save the bananas' gene pool."

Yikes! This is scary. If there are no bananas, what fruit will be left for hot chicks to pose with suggestively?!

Actually, this is a perfect example of us getting bit in the ass by the unintended consequences of our actions on nature.

What would Gisele Bundchen do?!

How should the U.S. strive to be more like the U.K.? Well, for starters, our women should aim to look as good in a cowboy hat as Jakki Degg, who makes me wonder why I've been blind to British babes for so long. I blame all the folks who made me think Brit women were all pasty whiteness and bad teeth. Stereotypes are ugly folks, especially when they lead to ignorance of hot chicks with funny accents.

Actually, what prompted my question was the news that in Britain even the conservatives agree that climate change is a problem. In fact, they're even making it a political issue in their effort to oust Tony Blair from his spot as prime minister. And, while the jury is still out on whether they really mean their newfound greenness, there's one sure benefit: this climate change crap is getting discussed.

Hail to the Queen. And Jakki. Definitely Jakki.

Today Space.com reports that human-caused global warming is diminishing the trade winds. Sounds pretty non-important at first, but consider this:

• The trade winds supply vital nutrients to surface ocean ecosystems. Those ecosystems support fish life. Take away those nutrients, and you lose fish -- a catastrophic loss of a major food source.
• Christopher Columbus relied on the Atlantic's trade winds to carry him to North America. The same trip might not have been successful today.
• The already weak winds are expected to decline another 10% at least by the end of the century.
• The causes are definitely man-made. Oops.
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And, perhaps most important, Brazilian model and actress Barbara Borges (nsfw gallery) thinks this is a very serious issue, as she explains in this video (nsfw) for her Playboy shoot.

At least I'm pretty sure that's what she's talking about. I don't speak Portugese.

Dresses made from inner tubes? iPod covers made from recycled plastic? Belts made from used tires? This relates to global warming how, you ask? Well, it turns out it's all part of a neo-green movement in fashion, as featured in this Wired article. I'm not sure how viable this all is, but they say it's an attempt to get people to be green with their purchasing power.



And yes, that's the inner tube dress to the left. I don't know about you, but it still kinda looks like an inner tube to me. A bigger gal could really sell the resemblance, I think.










Now, you get Victoria's Secret model Oluchi Onweagba to wear an inner-tube dress and maybe I'll take it seriously. Though, in doing my -ahem- research, I found out that Victoria has a dirty little secret.


(More good pics of Oluchi here.)