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  • 0:24 Santana`s mom 

  • i wanna go to the island FUCK-HER-OVA

  • ur moms disappearing

  • I'm interested in some of your backgrounds that have posted on my brief/vague comment that got so many people so worked up... Please let me know so I can know more about you.

    Me, I'm not a drunk, and do save on resources and unfortunately do smoke, but have cut back tremendously over the past five years.

    I am a student pursuing RN degree and have served as a Line Medic for the Army NG. Served one tour in Iraq and helped w/ Katrina refugee's. I have majored in Chem, Physics, MicroBio, & Bio

  • @tim79338 I agree also that there are many issues going on, however, my main concerns are that my family and fellow soldiers are taken care of. Currently they are taking large amounts of funds from soldiers and their families from already failing Veteran programs. These issues are much more of a priority to me. So many families and soldiers are just thrown out there, not even knowing about 'secret' benefits/treatments that they are entitled to as is.

  • @tim79338 I agree also that there are many issues going on, however, my main concerns are that my family and fellow soldiers are taken care of. Currently they are taking large amounts of funds from soldiers and their families from already failing Veteran programs. These issues are more of a priority to me. So many families and soldiers are just thrown out there, not even knowing about 'secret' benefits/treatments that they are entitled to as is. The economy is failing making it rough for all!

  • @tim.

    Certainly one of the indirect costs of war is caring for the injured and economically "damaged" long after they've come home. This can be said for climate change too. An indirect cost of burning fossil fuels is a degraded habitat. Since we only have the one to keep us alive we'd better pay the costs up front so we curb the later effects.

    In that light, giving tax breaks to the wealthy and "dirty" industries needs to end. The revenue should be invested in paying these current costs.

  • @ReduceGHGs

    I very much enjoy nature and do agree that people in general are wasteful and trashing our environment, but with all the all the inflation on resources, they are definitely paying for it now. Unfortunately, it's up to big businesses (which are just going to raise their prices even more) and individuals to take care of their 'messes' which honestly isn't really a priority for most.

  • (cont)

    It doesn't really matter what NAS, NASA, and NOAA have to say because of who they work for/get funding from, the same politicians that push this.

  • 2:02 lol

  • Global warming is a joke. Everything in this world goes through cycles, no different than the planet that we inhabit, and everything has a beginning as well as an end.

  • @tim79338 .

    Global warming may seem like a joke if you aren't informed about it.

    Yes, it's true that the earth goes though natural climate cycles. They are mainly due to variations in the earth's orbit. They have been taken into consideration.

    And no kidding everything will end. You can use that reasoning to keep smoking, drive drunk, or consume all resources without consideration for future needs. That wouldn't be reasonable would it?

    Read what NAS, NASA, and NOAA have to say.

  • @ReduceGHGs

    The comment I made has nothing to do with drunk drivers, smokers, or using up all the resources. And definitely doesn't have anything to do with me. So, if it really makes you feel better, go hug a tree. Anyone that knows anything at least somewhat general about the atmosphere and pollutants in the air know that it is absorbed, then rains (usually slightly acidic because of the Carbon Dioxide), then flushed into the ocean and used up by marine plants and coral.

  • @tim79338 Did a little deeper than the narrow, biased minds of the NAS, NASA, and the NOAA and you might just find some real facts.

  • @ReduceGHGs (cont)

    It doesn't really matter what NAS, NASA, and NOAA have to say because of who they work for/get funding from, the same politicians that push this on people. And since when have we been able to trust a politician?

  • And these small islands may have only contributed 1 in a billionth percent of the cause of Global Warning. How ironic and sad.

  • arent THEY the freaken reason for global warming? im glad that they are getting oceans high and etc. i rather watch THEM suffer and drown then see that island suffer

  • @damptbunana247

    You are a very ignorant selfish human. Your karma will make you suffer for what you wished them.

  • @jeanniealbert yea but they are the reason why their island has global warming. if they dont want that then why are they continuously doing what they do to their reefs and nature?! they are taking advantage of what nature gave them, a beautiful island in the middle of a wonderful looking ocean

  • @damptbunana247 GLOBAL WARMING EFFECT THE WHOLE WORLD and cause by selfish and stupid human -.-

  • @TheMetaldriger 'Global warming' does effect everyone, and yes humans tend to be stupid and selfish, but that's the problem, but not in the way that most think it does or how most say it does. Yes, pollution is bad, yes, people are disgustingly messy, so on...

    This island is extremely beautiful and I would be sad that 'if' it does go under, but I don't think it will be because of 'global warming' as most know it.

  • @tim79338 Global warming is a hoax.Don't believe what the media tells you all the time.

  • @damptbunana247  are you an idiot?? do you even know what global warming is or what it is from?? Go open up a text book or something. Stop falling asleep in class. LOOK IT UP!!! It is not cause by islanders fishing or clam diving.

  • @damptbunana247 are you an idiot?? Do you even know what global warming is or what it is caused by?? Open up a text book, stop falling asleep in class, LOOK IT UP!!! Cause it is def not caused by islanders surfing or clam digging.

  • oh come on global warming isnt that bad

  • lol it's like Team Aqua is winning...

  • Yes he claims it's pure fiction.Campaign on the beach with the Serbs.The seventy two polls make up voters.The really still growing weeks and the wounds they protect these kids there.Big money line from his plan would vote and sell one.Ryan,white meat of coconut coopers, W'ell produce one hundred cents a month.A new economy has boomed to voters.Once plan is below the surface,each forrester,he's a paradox in the midst of a giant sea of balloons

  • you are welcome to fuck her ova!

  • he sells 100 SACKS on FUCKarava!!

  • Fuckarava 2:04

  • I like this nara.

  • For F**k sake advertisements should NOT be allowed on YouTube!

    2:04...lmao

  • gotta pay the bills some how. Least they last way less time then on TV

  • LOL WTF at 2:04 Lol fuckuraver Lol Wtf xD

  • lol at 2:04 xD

    And yup I do agree what's in this video, especially global warming, full-heartedly

  • toe ow lol he kicked a rock

  • haha he said fuck arabia

  • Its Beautiful isnt it =)

  • what did he say at 2:04 lol ahahahaha XD

  • rofl

  • I think he said Island of "FUCK-HER-OVA"

  • 0:24 - 0:35 AWESOME

  • LOOOL LMFAO!!!

  • fuckurava FTW

  • naa if you want real paradise islands you want maldives

  • as long as i get to see bora bora or hawaii i dont care

  • 2:04 lol wtf did he say? xD

  • lol he told u to fuk a rava

  • yea your not funny.

  • fuckarava

  • What a trip! People travel to see the paradise home of others before it is destroyed and are contributing to the destruction that is destroying it, because they want to see it before it is destroyed. Oh yeah, all of the pollution does not harm the earth! Rather the earth is just killing it self after all, it made the oil we burn.

  • lol nice fakarava

  • Woah. O_o

    Those old ladies freaked me out.

  • Same here.

  • damn

  • oh yes I am American

  • Global bullshit. Enviromental gangsterism. No proof, no agreement, pure speculation. A world that's lost its mind.

  • @garybsg

    Couldn't agree more.

  • wtf? they went to mars so they can find life u retard

  • typical American mentality, scorch the land and move on.

  • have u been to america? trust me, most of us are not as stupid as that guy.

  • Is it typical for people from Singapore to stereotype other cultures?

  • yea - we learnt it from the Americans .

  • Well that's sad. There are a lot of other redeeming qualities you could have learned but you choose one of the worst.

    I, however, do not think that you are typical of Singaporeans. The ones I know aren't as prejudiced.

  • Ever heard of the word Kiasui?

  • Whenever I hear the phrase "scientists agree" I say, "oh no, here we go again" I can give you a list as long as my arm of things scientists have agreed upon. None of them materialized. Fortunately for them they are a little smarter this time. All their predictions are for dates long after their deaths, so they will never be held accountable for their alarmist speculations.

    SARS anyone? Y2K? New Global Ice age?

  • whats the name of this island again ? :x

    I might pay it a visit before it drawns lol :D

  • fucking hell

    don't get your knickers in a knot

    he only made a spelling mistake

  • dude calm the fuck down its not like you never spelled n e thing wrong!...dam

  • island of fuckorawa xD lol

  • This is what the Arctic region is going to be like after a few more years of global warming.

  • this is rubbish, because as sea rises, there will be new "paradises". Like have you heard that the frozen regions of northern canada might be the new "fertile and food growing" region of north america? yeah with this global warming, there comes bad and good. But i do have to say, the tropical islands we have now are beautiful... wouldn't really want to lose em'.

  • island of fuckarava lol .awesome vid though.

  • first off no body knows if god is real or not and secondly don't try and force ur stupidity on others about ur fake ass religions but u never know 1 might be true and i we shouldn't give a shit sure u can beleive in ur own religion just don't talk ask or force others to

  • yes, i can answer it the same way you can answer it. It was magic. Some magician in the sky who has lived for,,,infinity? just got bored one day during the life span of 14 billion years old universe and about what, i dont keep up to date on the nonsense that is christianity, but like 6,000 years ago is when you think god finally got around t snapping his fingers and popping evrything into existence? what about dinosaurs? It fascinates me how little common sense people, its ok, its just MAGIC.

  • Not all Christians are creationists, in fact most Christians I've met totally accept the big bang, evolution etc etc. They would see those as the methods by which the universe was created.

    The bible itself is very unclear and contradictory on the topic, and the creation story is best regarded as a piece of symbolic folklore rather than a literal record of history.

  • that doesn't change the fact that you believe in magic fairy tales that aren't grounded in reality. So you don't believe god created earth in 7 days but you believe in a magic place in the sky called heaven? makes alottt of sense there.

    you take the easy way out by believing ina nice comforting place afterlife because we all know tha there is nothing after life, just darkness...yet that is scary, that cant possibly happen to you, so you create god and heaven. Its natural yet obsolete today/

  • First of all, I didn't say anything about what I personally believed.

    Secondly, you're missing the point of religion for many people.

    Many people don't see religion as an explanation or comforter, they see it as a way to explore morality. A lot of religious texts don't directly tell you how to behave, they present provocative moral dilemmas which they expect you to think about and solve. In Christianity these are the parables, but most religions have something similar.

  • if that was the point that you were trying to previously make than i agree with you.

  • I'm not defending anyone in particular, just trying to mention that religions are far more diverse than people give them credit for. Some religions have no concept of a god or afterlife for example.

    Even within a religion you'll get so many different wings and sects that it's almost meaningless to lump them all together.

  • i told you they were blinked into creation by an evil cosmic magician who realized he messed up and had to start all over again...?

    FAIL MINUS

  • Very nice place peaceful but not safe too much water those fish were beautiful poor things. Very Lovely place!(:

  • this is what god made

  • and what made god? himself?

    FAIL

  • people made god

  • ding-ding-ding!

  • What is nature anyway? Why does it deserve to be appropriated a gender?

    Nature is known to be supportive of life. It works to create equilibrium and relatively stable environments. The largest CO2 sinks in the world are oceans. CO2 goes up, you need more water to store it in. Thus CO2 goes up, the thermostat goes up, the ice melts, you get more water, nature restores equilibrium. Pesky humans drowned in the process. Equilibrium is restored.

    "Better luck next time evolution!"

  • would the overflow of water cause a new ice age? or would it slow the currents and the sun boil up the water?

  • Its difficult to say for sure. Water absorbs a LOT of radiation, which means more UV radiation / heat will be trapped, especially as water expands through thermal expansion, and ice melts.

    Currents (better known as the thermohaline conveyer) are likely to stop as the salinity of water is reduced through melting ice, meaning temperature will vary considerably in certain areas.

    More water will be evaporated, which may give increased cloud cover + precipitation.

  • Who's to say. I dont think we will be able to tell, because we will die before we see the real dramatic after math of global warming. My grandkids might if the human race doesn't do something to slow the process.

  • It's possible. Historically, ice ages have been preceded by the melting of all ice during a heating period, followed by a massive cooling period. The last time this occurred was about 10,000 years ago. We're actually overdue for an ice age, and a major epidemic. As the water temperature increases it'll mess with major ocean currents, and there's a good chance some of these currents will cease to transport cold and warm water, which drives lots of processes and will have huge impacts on migration

  • Equilibrium is never that simple.

    Warmer water is less soluble to gases, meaning less CO2 can be held.

    Increased CO2 absorption makes water more acidic, with the likelyhood of reducing biodiversity to ocean life.

    CO2, CH4, and other gases are trapped within the ice. When the ice melts, these gases are released.

    Its not as simple as water goes up CO2 goes down, even a 17 year old A-level student knows that.

  • That's true, biodiversity will be affected by warming oceans, just look at the effects on coral reefs already. Less CO2 will be held by the water once it's several degrees warmer, but the body of water will increase so vastly in size relative to the increase of CO2 from ice stored deposits of CO2 and CH4, the point still stands. I never said as water volume goes up CO2 goes down. I said water volume goes up & equilibrium is restored. This is a very long process, and won't happen in my lifetime.

  • After hundreds millions years, O2 concentrations high enough to support life, read; marine then terrestrial, & thus with an earth covered in trees, the O2 conc is now high enough to support complex life forms like humans. We're complex, and yet incredibly stupid. In 100 years we've undone tens of thousands of years of atmospheric CO2 conversion. That's right, tens of thousands of years worth of CO2, & people are wondering why there are dire consequences? Now we must try to reverse it. Period.

  • I can't fit this in 1 post, so bear with me. 99% of the water on earth has been here for millions if not billions of years. The water molecules (H2O) present on earth trace back to the coalescence of Earth, about 1% is accounted for from asteroidal collisions. Hundreds of mya (millions years ago), atmospheric concentrations of CO2 were relatively VERY high. Oxygen concentration was very low. "Extremophiles"- micro-organisms, consumed CO2 and produced O2, thus O2 went up, CO2 went down. Cnxtpost

  • Save the planet? The Planet is going to be fine as soon as humans are gone. Islands are flourishing where atomic bombs were tested 60 years ago.

  • technically speaking, no. because of the hydrologic cycle (aka the water cycle) the water that we have on earth is the same water we have had for thousands and thousands of years. but if there is extreme drought due to raising temperatures then there is a slight possibility that we could see less water on earth.

    nature isnt doing that itself!

    it becuz of global warming!

    its this generations fault!

    i just copied u ^^

  • green house gases trees takes it all in.

  • scary = (

    why can't things stay the way they are

  • omq! we need to end this now! its really sad!

    plez end this now!

    i meen wats going on in the world!

  • You Cant stop it. Believe It or Not, Global Wariming is a naturally occuring phenomenon

  • we have to do something!

  • How do you intend to stop something nature is doing herself?THe ony think you could do is build a wall around the island. And I dont see that happening.

  • nature isnt doing that itself!

    it becuz of global warming!

    its this generations fault!

  • global warming is a natural process; without global warming the earth would be too cold to sustain life. However, recent human activities have increased certain greenhouse gases that warm the earth (Chemical fertilizers and burning fossil fuels release Nitrous Oxide, a more harmful gas than carbon dioxide). And it is not the sea glaciers that are a concern; it's the and glaciers that are causing a rising sea level. and the wall is a bad idea because of the effects it could have on the ecosystem

  • nature isnt doing it herself. its a reaction to the amount of chemicals many people are releasing into the air.

  • help!!!

  • Beware: this is not science. This is entertainment for the American taste. It illustrates lifestyles for the Americans, not natural or social reality.

  • I thought this was going to be something cool like watching an island actually sink inside the ocean then floats up again. -.- But Global Warming is a concern to everybody...

  • so did i

  • the sun gets closer to the earth and pulls back and forth as it has been. its fact That every so many thousand years it gets a lot hotter before it gets colder.Global warming is just a scare tactic to tell us how to live and what to do thats all it is.Just a bunch of people nothing better to do that is wasting time on cow farts.

  • Naturals global temperatures mouvements are really slowest than "actual global warming" due to oure increasing pollution. We accelerate naturals global temperature mouvement. How can you think that it's just political tactic? I don't understand how we can yet hear some stupidity like that...poor planet leaded by humans who think have knowledge but who really don't understand anything.

  • Global Warming has been happening since the ice age. But we sure are speeding up the warming

  • Global warming is real you dumb fucks. You're the same kind off people that say the holocaust didn't happen.

  • Open your eyes fella, global warming was an invention of conspiracy by the CIA. The truth is the planet is getting colder and the only way to keep it normal is by driving more SUV's and smoking cigars. Read a book now and then, huh?

  • Ok mabey i exagerated a little. But gobal warming will be a problem so ineogough

  • Global Warming and the Holocaust are two different things. They don't even share a single similarity.

    If you're going to come up with a statement, at least make it seem realistic.

  • Please read "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and the Enviroment" and get better educated on the subject of global climate change. Can't all you believers see the truth? All this carbon footprint and carbon offsets are a great scam created by people trying to get rich by scaring people. It all finally comes down to eco-socialism in the end. Scarey "Watermelons". (Green on the outside, Marxist red on the inside).

  • I with you 100%. I wish people would see this is probably one of this biggest hoaxes created by the radical left. You and I know it's a huge scam to tax the middle class and to stop industrializing nations from developing any further.

  • I love it when all these enviromentalists try to demand we believe their silly theory on global warming. I guess none of them have heard of Solar Flares and ocean currents. They talk about melting ice caps in the north pole and ignore growing ice caps in the south. Funny how they feel politicians (Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi) and poets (Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka) and "artists" (Barbara Streisand, Tim Robbins) know more then the 400 geologists, climatologists, and others who disagree.

  • i agree. and there is recorded activity of an increase in solar flares and sun spots which is causing the earth to be warmer because of the greenhouse gases being released into the earth's atmosphere. BUT to sit here and deny that human activity has not in impacted the earth in the slightest way is complete bull! don't tell me that adding greenhouse gases will not harm the enviornment and cause major weather changes throughout the planet because you're contradicting yourself

  • what do you think should be done to stop global warming then?

  • global warming is a lie! It is caused by Haarps! please do researching in this, do not be a sheep and be brain washed by your TV.

  • global warming is awesome. i want to ride my motorcycle without a jacket year round

  • AGREE'd No one talks about the benefits if this "global warming" were true. These ECO-terrorist want to go GREEN and switch to ethanol, well if it were warmer the Midwest could increase they're growing season to create more fuel for the eco-terrorist.

  • global worming is destroying our planet...we are destroying our planet...wake up people

  • wake up guys! help the nature! this is very alarming..

  • wow

  • For everyone who's saying that global warming is mostly nature, its not. Scientists have taken that into account. The average temperature has gone up a lot and gone down a lot over the history of the Earth, but never has changed so rapidly. Its not because of nature, its because of man.

  • that is correct. If people can not recognize the Industrial Revolution alone...than they lack common sense.

  • Making up excuses--such as the cows methane in their poop, the exhalation of human beings around the world, and volcanic eruptions--for the current situation where in some cites you can barely see past a few city blocks, where some kids grow up never seeing a full night sky, where people develop health problems, where your actions affect your Earth neighbors is naive, idiotic, it shows ignorance and fear.

  • The Earth is made up of 75% water oceans. The weather experienced around the world varies, and the oceans play a big role in your local weather. Climate Change or "Global Warming" is the average increase in the Earths temp over a period of time. Since oceans make up a big part of our world, they will be the first to feel the impact. International weather will vary, from extremely cold in Chicago (and if I recall it was 60 degrees for the first few days in January) to extremely hot in Europe.

  • "since oceans make up a big part of our world, they will be the first to feel the impact"

    Take a physics class. A cubic inch of water has 800 times the thermal inertia of a cubic inch of air. I'll use smaller words so your head doesn't hurt - it stays whatever temperature it currently is longer than air or land. Climate change is a natural phenomena that has been going on for millions of years. We're nothing new or special in the equation. Are we screwed? Probably. Is it our fault? Nobody knows

  • From my observations, an enormous number of reputable scientists say that major temperature changes are caused by the thermal temperature of ocean currents which in turn is affected by solar flares, etc. Man's contribution to all of this is far less than cow farts.

  • Until hurricanes come by.

  • Until the hurricans come.

  • Scientists stated that a volcanic eruption in the 1800s, released more carbon than man has made in 200 years.

    It's not all about man here. Nature takes it course, and can help increase "Global Warming"s speed.

    Personally, I think Global Warming is exaggerated enormously.

  • I agree, volcano's in new mexico put more polution in the atmosphear than the humans ever have.

  • they release more carbon BUT there weren't billions of cars and deforestation and burning of fossil fuels going on at the same time. in the past the earth has been able to repair itself. if we continue to kill the forests through deforestation and pollution we will have no way of cleaning our air. Just please do your research on the subject of "global warming" BEFORE you make these sorts of comments. See both sides of the story (research who is funding the "global warming 'disbelievers'")

  • I'm not a liberal, i'm not a conservative, i'm a moderate. I believe I do more than the elite liberal to stop "gloBULL" warming. I drive a 4 cylinder car, I ride my bicycle whenever i can. I buy food from local farmers, I recycle whenever possible, and i re-use anything i can. I don't have unnecessary lights on in my house when i don't need to. I'm sure my "carbon footprint" is less than most of the elitist, but i'm not even trying.

  • Where was global warming this winter when the City of Chicago went over budget for their snow removal program. By mid February we were 1.8 million dollars over budget. Can anyone explain how Global warming caused record snowfall? If the weather goes up, it's because of global warming, if the weather goes down, it's because of global warming. If there's record rainfall or record drought, it's because of global warming. I say gloBULL warming.

  • that is global warming taking effect. when the ice caps melt the ocean rises, when that happens it gets colder but usually for about 1 or 2 seasons and the process will repeat until there is no more ice to melt and global warming will take it's greatest effect

  • thank you america for not stopping or at least regulating your pollution!

  • Witch hunt.

  • Its not all from one place... other countries and continents do just as much

  • yes i am sad on that!

  • The oceans have risen a whopping 8 inches over the last century. The threat is greatly exaggerated. It's all about money.

  • is there anyway to decrease the water level?

  • sea water level ? are you kidding ?

  • Search Wikipedia for "sea level rise".

  • drink it all

  • technically speaking, no. because of the hydrologic cycle (aka the water cycle) the water that we have on earth is the same water we have had for thousands and thousands of years. but if there is extreme drought due to raising temperatures then there is a slight possibility that we could see less water on earth.

  • Check out the description - "...book a flight soon."

    In the next 50 to 100 years the ocean may rise a few feet and wash over an island. Maybe.

    The narration ends: "... it (tiny spits of land some call 'paradise') may soon change - forever."

    NAT GEO is chock full of far Left alarmists too.

  • Don't worry about it folks, sea temps have actually declined slightly in the past 4 years.

  • So.. as a polynesian, what does this mean for my home, the island of Samoa? not to mention the rest of the Polynesian islands?.. Tonga, Fiji?.. Cookislands?..

  • 2:03...fucker what?

  • i wished i could play guitar liek dat woman

  • i'm living on an island and this thing got me worried

  • Cervix

  • the island of Fukarava?

  • lulling

  • thats the paradise tourists are looking for-not hawaii

  • the water is cool

  • chewbacca

  • man........

  • wow look how clear tht water is

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