A Note Excusing Me From Earth Hour
You celebrate your way, I’ll celebrate mine….
Dear Planet,
Please excuse Mark Jabo from Earth Hour this year. While he understands this is a great excuse for a party, he is a big basketball fan and is not willing to miss part of the UCLA-Xavier game based on the dubious goal of calling attention to climate change.
Mark is well aware that the climate has been changing for the past few billion years and fully agrees that it will continue to do so.
While the official Earth Hour policy is to urge people to replace standard bulbs with CFL bulbs, Mark would like to point out the dubious merits of taking a step against a projected climate threat and replacing it with the more immediate and proven danger of mercury contamination.
Mark is also a little ticked off at Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes for not laughing Al Gore off the program when he suggested that anyone who doubts climate change is man-made is akin to someone who still believes the Earth is flat.
Mark would suggest the more accurate analogy would be to compare the Church’s opposition to the science-based thinking of Galileo to the cult-like devotion of a politician who continues to cling to a rigid dogma and ignore all evidence that contradicts “what he knows in his heart to be true.”
Mark is somewhat amused that a guy who managed to pull gentleman’s Cs in college has become the evangelical spokesperson for a point of view that is challenged by hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists with advanced degrees in the topic.
Please accept this note as an excuse for future Earth Hour and Earth Day celebrations and also any Earth Nanoseconds or Earth Bicentennials planned in the future.
If there is a permission slip for the field trip to the rain forest, please be advised I will be happy to sign it because Mark thinks it would be really cool to see an anaconda.
Sincerely,
Mark’s Brain
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April 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 am
I have a confession to make…I watched basketball too. I didn’t send in my note, though. I think I’m getting points off my final grade. Damn you, Al Gore. *shakes fist*
On another note, I took over Greener Assets at b5, so I’ll be seeing you around the channel. Yay!
Unless, of course, you were only nice to me before because I was offering prizes.
*Awkward silence*
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*walks away*