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Hey folks, after a much needed break I'm back. And while I was gone, it seems that Sara Jean Underwood from an earlier post got mighty popular. You folks must dig women into that higher education thing. I'll make sure to go scrounge up some more juicy pics of her for you, but in the meantime go ahead and have a gander at these Playboy shots that didn't make the U.S. magazine at Playboy.co.uk.



And moving on to global warming, while I was gone I discovered yet another fascinating possible fix to global warming: CO2 Capture, which is basically scrubbing the air of carbon dioxide with huge filtering machines. Klaus Lackner of Columbia University thought up one approach to the idea, detailed here in a story from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. It's available both as a transcript and streaming video. Pic of the machine is to the left and clicking it will link you to a BBC article on the idea.

Hey folks, Mr. Getdown is going on a little sabbatical. Expect me back in a week or two.

In the meantime, I leave you with Estela Pereira of Playboy Brazil. (link is NSFW gallery)

I think the reason is evident, but I have always wanted to go to Brazil.

And for today's climate bit, check out this humorously titled article from the L.A. Times, "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming."

Abigail Precioso (nsfw gallery) is muy precioso. Definitely a natural resource worth protecting.

Another natural resource I'm all about protecting are the coral reefs, particularly because they don't get a lot of press and people don't seem to get what terrible danger they are in. This probably has something to do with the fact that they are freakin' under water and we can't see how sick they are.

Anyway, here's the problem: global warming is causing slight changes in ocean temperature and currents. Doesn't sound like a lot right? Well, as I've mentioned before, just a slight change in environment can cause massive die-offs of coral organisms and kill entire reefs. What's worse is that coral only grows back at a rate of about a patch the size of a dime per year. No coral equals a decline in reef habitat, and a decline in reef habitat equals less fish to eat.

Now for today's bad news: Caribbean Sea temperatures have reached their annual high two months ahead of schedule — a sign coral reefs may suffer the same widespread damage as last year.

What to do?

While I could be talking about the certain lovely attributes modeled here by Playboy Cyber Girl of the Year Monica Leigh (nsfw), it's something else that's on my mind.

Like most Americans, I like beating the world at just about everything, but I was stunned to see how bad we kick the ass of the rest of the world when it comes to being polluters. To wit, the Washington Post reports that "Americans represent 5 percent of the world's population but contribute 45 percent of the world's emission of carbon dioxide."

Holy crap.

The reason given here is that we like to drive big cars. More specifically, we like to drive our big cars more than anyone else drives their big cars, little cars, and freakishly small european cars combined.

Our big cars are also the most inefficient cars, and we have a lot of them.

A breakdown:

ABC reports (with video via site) that global warming could be causing the western wildfires by turning our national forests into tinderboxes. Remember that when you shoot off your fireworks this Fourth of July. Remember, keep the fire in the grill.

Anyway, have a happy Fourth of July! And God bless America, and god bless women like Jessica Simpson who dress up in star-spangled bikinis. (Gallery is bikini-safe for work. Not that you're working today, come on.)


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Oh, and for further proof that fireworks can be dangerous, here's a video of an incredibly stupid guy getting roman candles shot at him. Did I mention this is stupid?




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