Greenpeace

The current Time Magazine cover story on global warming says it all, “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.”  But if you’ve ever wondered how the United States could have fallen so far behind in addressing this threat, a handful of publications (willing to accept the risk of frivolous lawsuits) are starting to tell the whole sordid tale.  ExxonMobil has spent millions of dollars funding front groups to lie about the truth of global warming.  They’ve confused the public and stalled action and played the Bush Administration like Yo-Yo Ma plays his cello.  Details at:  www.exxonsecrets.org  Seems ExxonMobil doesn’t like to be outed so it funded an effort to get Greenpeace audited.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has got herself into some deep water after hitting a Capitol Police officer with her cell phone when she was stopped from rushing through Capitol security.  It appears that with a new hairdo and no Congressional pin, the guards didn’t recognize her.  Congressman and Civil Rights Hero John Lewis recommended that she get some non-violence training.  So here is a standing offer from Greenpeace: Congresswoman McKinney, we’ll do the training for you any time you like.  We modeled it after the Civil Rights non-violence training (although we’ve modernized it to include the proper use of a cell phone) and move dozens of people through it every year.

Lastly, what about hope?  Global warming got you down? Think of the bright side, no, not that Castro will be flooded out or that Florida’s butterfly ballot precincts will become coral reefs, but that dealing with global warming gives us a way to create a whole new generation of jobs to produce clean cars and homes, an entire industrial infrastructure not dependent upon our fighting wars in the MidEast.  That stuff’s only good for Haliburton.  Nobody says it as eloquently as Kevin Sweeney, idea man to great politicians and smart companies.

By the way we came through our IRS audit with flying colors - but I’m still grumpy that Exxon could pay someone to get the IRS to do it.