The Global Warming Swimming Pool: Swimming Above a Submerged City

No, New York is not underwater (yet, anyhow) - that's a clever ad for HSBC by Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai ad agency in India. The bank wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming, so the clever ad guys glued an aerial photo of a city's skyscrapers to the base of a swimming pool ... the effect of a submerged cityscape is fantastic!


If that was New York under water, the water wouldn't be clear, what with all the vegetation, chemicals, oil, grease, muck, dead bodies, slime, and every disgusting thing you can think of floating about.

And if it was way into the future...
the buildings wouldn't be there anymore.
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I seriously doubt that anyone would want their pool to be full of polluted water and crumbled "buildings", flip no matter what point they are out to make. Lighten up.
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Flip's glass is 1/2 empty. And filled with vegetation, chemicals, oil, grease, muck, dead bodies, slime, and every disgusting thing you can think of floating about.
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Global warming? Are people REALLY still clinging to that foolishness? It is over. It is gone. It was a part of Earth's natural cycles. Go to these sites and get the truth.(close the gaps in the URLs)
http: //www. co2science. org/index. php
http: //www.globalwarminghoax. com/news. php
http: //scienceandpublicpolicy. org/monckton/goreerrors. html
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This is a bad way to make a global warming statement. Any person with their own critical thinking can imagine a very different picture. NYC would not look like a fun crystal clear pool, and no one would want to go swimming in it. If anything these guys are mocking global warming by depicting fake images to put into consumers heads.
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It looks cool yet at the same time it would creep me out too much to swim. Even worse would be if they did something similar and put images of coral reefs and deep underwater fish and stuff, that would really freak me out!
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You had to know that the comments would end up being a global warming debate or armchair critiques. Sure, the post itself is about a pool whose entire point is to raise awareness of global warming. It's just not enough for some people to take it for what it is. It's suddenly crap because it's not changing the world, sending the wrong message and mocking because no one is intelligent enough to figure out that NYC underwater would be catastrophic,or unrealistic because no one wants to dump a few gallons of toxic waste in it.

It's a cool looking and interesting pool inspired by the concept of global warming and I am glad we got a chance to see it.
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You guys are idiots. 1st don't tell others to check out websites that you found to support your point...THEY ARE BIASED sites. 2nd if you are ignorant as to the science behind behind global warming....SHUT UP...neither side needs your ignorance. 3rd do your own research....sorry to inform you but TEMPS are up, there is no disputing that FACT. Is warming a cycle...yes knuckleheads it is have you ever heard of an ice age....DUH. Do we contribute to carbon emissions...of course...you are breathing aren't you... some of you I wonder. We have an effect but we are not the cause....we do need to do good by our earth...doing good (reduce, reuse,recycle) is never a bad thing!
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You know, 2008 was the coldest year in a decade. Just sayin.

Remember, back in the 1970s, there was a global temperature dip, and everybody was freaking out about the "next ice age".

Then we had to go and invent these damned cars and smokestacks in 1975, and now look, global warming all over the place.
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I would swim in that pool! and you guys need to lighten up.. they just wanna show people what they think..

i think its great to warn people what might happen if we arent carefull!

have a nice day. :)
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I'm $ure the creator$ or de$igner$ of that will never "$$$$ink". Many citie$ will be at the bottom of $wimming pool$ from now on. Will they be "worried" about the global waming???

Greeting$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
& $aludo$ de$de E$paña.
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Ok... Neat idea, I like it.
I don't believe in global warming for a number of reasons, but I'm not here to debate.
I'm here to comment the damn swimming pool lol.
I'd like to see more of these, with different images. Its a really cool idea.
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@ madmen

I work for the company, and as part of our "green" intiative they're encouraging us to turn off lights when not needed. I now pee in the dark, because someone turned the bathroom lights off and I can't find the switch to turn them back on.
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I think some of you people are idiots if you don't think global warming exists.
I love the pool design its a nice idea, no imagination ayee? must be some boring life =)
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So, basically when you live in a northern state, and you see temps in the winter not being so cold say -20 is becoming rare, and we have mild winters. One doesn't complain, but wonders why is January so warm? Why don't we have snow on Christmas anymore? Yet it's not warm enough to swim in that cool pool, it's just brown grass waiting to be covered with snow. Yep Global warming doesn't exist. It's a flux yes in the environment there have been others but have the numbers been this high? Umm NO I see birds not flying south, or as further south and dying when we do have the one day that it is -20 or with windchill -35 or something. Then in the Summer we notice it's not as warm, the AC isn't on as much ( well good for the environment) Not recycling, not reusing or trying to do one thing that is "green" isn't asking much it's just simply taking care of what we have maintain it. I want my kids to see a White Christmas someday, not some Christmas surrounded by bare trees brown grass, and just plain cold. So don't tell me Global warming doesn't exist. Live somewhere that it is noticeable. YES I do know that it's a natural cycle, but since it's higher then usual past numbers at least maintain if not anything better then like lower it.

love the picture, but I would so get sea sick swimming in that pool.
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Stop being a tool flip, I can't wait to drown NY with my global warming CO'2, Right now I have my car running just for the hell out it!.
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Does anyone know if this is true?

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogilvy_&_Mather

"(snip) Ogilvy have also been involved with the notorious Asia Pulp & Paper, a large logging company that has been convicted of illegal logging in three countries, and has recently built roads illegally into the last remaining habitats of the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger, but spent large sums on global advertising campaigns claiming 'sustainability beyond compliance'[5]. Following breaches of local law in February 2008, a group of environmental organisations have called for all businesses to cease connections with the company. Staples and Office Depot have already cut ties, though Ogilvy are thought to still be involved with the company."
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actually recycling contributs to green house gases even more. recycling saves resource but has nothing to do with gw. come on guys this is tpical hs science.
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Global warming is a joke, a lie. do some research for yourself. The world is cooling because of the sun. Just how in the hell did a horse and carriage pollute co2 500 years ago to give northern England a chance to grow grapes and make wine year round. I suppose the same reason that many of the planets in our solar system are growing ice caps just as much as here on Earth!
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I find that first picture slightly creepy... I'm not a big fan of swimming pools to begin with AND now it seems like you're way up in the sky too?
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Good to see so many not buying into the GW BS.

Hell ...soil puts plenty of carbon into the atmosphere....
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1946410.htm

The world is cooling and one day will warm again. Carbon is natural and the world needs it to survive.

This whole climate change hoax is going to be very costly. Its hard to say just how much harm has already been done.
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It's made a lot of people a lot of money, J. That's what's scary about the GW thing. It's too profitable for people so they deny actual warming and cooling trends that have been going on since before humans arrived on the scene.
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Its a stunning bit of art & great concept for a fantasy pic not the future; anthropogenic global warming is a myth. Al Gore's main adviser was caught falsifying records. Gore's Movie has been utterly debunked as a docudrama filled with false facts/statistics & all the trends are pointing towards a cooling trend. Co2 is an effect of the weather not a cause. Just watch the "great global warming swindle" or read "Unstoppable Global Warming" the real science has been censored in the media because of politics and selective funding. The debate is only said to be over because the left can't defend its argument against real science. I live in California & its been the coldest its been in a while & no where near as warm in the summer as I remember in my childhood.
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I've studied life sciences and global warming. It is as real as the keyboard your typing on. However there are some half-truths to those who way it is a hoax.

Global warming and cooling DOES happen naturally, BUT the problem is the RATE at which it is happening. It doesn't give species populations the time to ADAPT. Thus they go extinct and the whole ecological biosphere goes into a tailspin. We can already see this with coral reefs as they are the most prone to temperature change. To put is simply: The coral microbes die -> the coral dies -> the fish die -> the ocean becomes a barren wasteland.

Human activity is accelerating this global climate change. The world as a whole WILL survive, but will it survive the way we want it to? Rich, diverse, and beautiful
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Big deal if global warming is happening, continents slowly shift, volcanoes erupt, ch-ch-ch-chaanges.
Maybe it will drown all the Jews and they'll quit stealing all of our money. (Not really my opinion, but the be nice message prompted me to rebel)
Actually I guess it will be the inbred cannibalistic Eskimos that get get dicked over by climate change, oh no, what a horrible trade for me getting a nice beach in western Pennsylvania. (Actually is my opinion.)
More importantly than the slow changes that may or may not be taking place is our reaction. By "protecting the ozone" or whatever the fuck all of those hippies and al gore want to spend time on, we're really just sticking it to the undeveloped countries. Denying them of the crude first steps of energy production that we used before advancing to "greener" methods.
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totally shopped how did they get all that water in nyc without killing everyone...

This is just an aside, but I think people who type in all caps are
mental patients.

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Whenever I encounter angry arguments that involve name calling, I am pretty sure the anger is covering up for biased thinking. The angry writer is usually trying to bully others into believing his viewpoint.

Based on this thread, the pool *did* promote awareness!
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aweeee////......see the water is full of acid. the SOx And NOx and CO2 and GHG will finally form acids. look the face of liitle ones......
Love Green.........Be veg......Hari Om Hari
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In winter 2006-7 it was the first time that I saw rain in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Russia past the month of November. In fact, that and the following winter were both so unusually warm, that no snow was seen until late January. Snowboarders were really unhappy to travel almost all the way to Arkhangelsk to see it. Actually, only this summer enough ice in Greenland melted to show that global warming is happening a lot faster then scientists originally thought. Thank you for those, who express doubts, but, unfortunately, GB is a fact that has been proven wrong only by that research that was payed for by Exxon http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/exxonsecrets . For anyone who has studied even the basics of physics and chemistry, GB should not be a problem to grasp. If you are having trouble with that, please see chapter one of your biology textbook from fifth grade.
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We in the swimming pool industry (in California) are doing our part by installing energy-efficient pumps with variable speeds, and low nitrous oxide (Lo-nox) pool heaters that burn a much cleaner fuel through gas-air mixture. Let's see if our planet can become a we more than an I, and make changes necessary for our survival. BTW, that is a gorgeous pool I would love to swim in!
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In California, we have pools the shapes of guitars and pianos, some that look like a theme park in a backyard, some with beautiful tile mosaics, but never have I seen anything so exciting as a city-lined swimming pool. Love the creativity!
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Do you not understand how seriouse this is? all of you say global warming is a hoax

LOOK AT THE FACTS!!
its not over, and were not helping
thoguh it could be natrual

i tihnk not
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Please recall basic earth science principals:

- the greenhouse effect occurs all the time controlling the temperature of the earth. CO2 and O3 (amongst others) create a barrier that allows some radiation to be trapped and other radiation to leave... supposed to maintain a sort of homeostasis. If we didn't have the GE... we'd be like mercury... super hot in the day, super cold at night.
- Venus - a planet whose atmosphere is almost completely CO2 - much more so than ours. Amazingly hot, trapped radiation keeps the planet at a steady high temp.
- Homeostasis is a natural balance.

Why is it so hard to see that humans are creating an imbalance? We are pulling carbon from the earth to burn (only usually happens with volcanoes and such). We are disrupting homeostasis. Yes... there is a natural cycle, but CO2 is well above where it normally should be. Even if you don't "believe" (science is rooted in fact derived from experimentation - not opinion based) that global warming is happening... you shouldn't be wasteful.
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The Great Russian empire, that grand Soviet Socialist Republic collapsed, - and along with it, the illusionary dreams and wishes of hundreds of thousands of North American communist wannabes. What could they do now? They floundered as left behinds until they found another cause to try to bring their hated capitalism down! Environmentalism.

This new cause also become a global movement because socialists live in every country. I'll add socialism in this new guise would never have risen worth a pile of Co2 beans unless appeasing, unprincipled businessmen and politicians fed it - just like businessmen pragmatically feed every sick movement for lack of their own integrity - Socialism, Nazism, communism, statism and now environmentalism.

The irrational cannot and does not stand on its own. It takes compromise from the good to live like environmental vampires from the blood of the productive.

Environmentalism is vile hatred of all things productive and living. It is hatred of man and his ability to live well.

I say, live free! Enjoy your plastics, rev your engines, enjoy your lights! Stomp your carbon footprint all over this planet! Refuse to accept empty guilt for being human!

I'm Ted Harlson and I fully approve this message.
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People like to hate socialism right now. It's absurd to make some of the conclusions you make.

A vast majority of scientists agree with the amazingly vast quantity of evidence pointing towards human contribution to global warming. I suppose you know better than them what the empirical evidence means??

Your apathy is disconcerting.
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My comments weren't exxageration. The political movements of these left-behind socialists did flounder until they found environmentalism. However, politicians who believed them formed the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) It was a panel by politicians FOR politicians, wrought (I say rot) with evasion of facts, editing of crucial scientific conclusions and dismissing scientific evidence.

Politicians have a political agenda, not a factual agenda.

Global "warming" has been cooling for ten years now, yet "cap & trade" legislation is still being implemented - for controls.

The following site will explain in further detail. One very good note I'll add is scientists have decided to form their own Panel - a global scientific panel that is not in any way affiliated with politicians. This way, politicians cannot edit scientific truths after the fact to suit their agendas.

Most of the environmental scare has generated via 'computer models' that PREDICT environmental conditions. These models are easily manipulated.

Science, real science, however still depends on the proper methods of evidence and confirming analysis by other scientists.

Here is a small example of what scientists state when free of political manipulation,

"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."

That is part of a petition of over 30,000 American scientists and about 10,000 with PHD's.

http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5591

I've come to learn in my best searching, global temprature increases are due to increased sunspot activities, certainly not man who contributes a piddling .054% of carbon in the air. There has been no - zero - sunspot activity this June, so this summer has been a little cooler than last year. As soon as the suns' heat streams re-surface, and solar flares erupt, then we will see a continuation of global temprature inceases, - on Mars, other planets and here it will be time to hit the beaches.

Atmosperic carbon increases actually FOLLOW earths temprature increases. 95.5% of the carbon in the air is from volcano's, dead leaves, breathing, but mostly from the deep ocean's fluctuating temprature cycles measured in hundred of years.

Good luck folks in your search for the truth. It shouldn't be hard to find. The Great Global Warming Swindle is all over youtube and the internet. All that remains is for you to reason it out.

Ted.
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That thing is rad.

And for the record I believe the term used is climate change not global warming because some myopic idiots love to take things literally and then argue against them in literal terms. And before the kooks start babbling about cows farting and dirt (damn, too late)... there are natural components to our plant's ecosystem and then there are those that are not natural. For example, radiation occurs naturally so therefore you should not give a damn about a nuclear melt down or nuclear weapons right? Oh, wait, you do worry about those? I wonder why. Yeah we're not affecting the planet or the environment at all. Nope. Like I said. Kooks. I'm not saying that the earth is going to blow up tomorrow but saying "we're not doing squat, it's all a myth" is beyond terrible, it's asinine.

And speaking of myths, idiots and taking things literally - is it a coincidence that many of the same people who rail against climate change as a myth are also members of some "god" fearing group or another? Wowza! XD

A song comes to mind - Joseph Smith was called a prophet - dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb... (Insert any faith's corporeal representative).
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