Happy Earth Day!

I discovered it was Earth Day because the Google logo was a melting iceberg, I figured something was up. Evidently, Earth Day has become Global Warming Day, in the past we would celebrate Earth Day by figuring out ways to recycle or use less of Earth's resources but today, let's all think of ways that we can celebrate the day by reducing our carbon footprints. Here are some suggestions how to observe the day:

Why not cut down some trees to celebrate?

Or go appliance shopping. (What do you do with the old one? Don't they just sit around rusting in land fills?)

You could replace your light bulbs with energy-efficient light bulbs.

Or how about a barbecue? Now, I know what you're thinking but following the example of Gore and carbon offsets, it really is eco-friendly because there is one less cow producing greenhouse gas, which should offset the smoke from the grill (and if you are like me and use a smokey joe, you recycle the smoke so that you aren't releasing too much into the environment).

Fell like that's not enough? How about spending the day worrying about the polar bears and the ice caps?

Now, global warming is heating up as an issue. News about melting glaciers and ice caps and endangered polar bears have had a huge impact on our psyche. The UN studies are unsettling, even if some question the data.

Or determining which candidate cares the most about the environment:

Change can be measured in the way the presidential candidates are practically falling all over themselves to come up with new proposals. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced a new initiative on Friday to establish a national low-carbon fuel standard based on a California proposal. By 2020, Obama would require that all transportation fuels sold in the U.S. contain 10 percent less carbon.

In a new idea, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign announced it would go "carbon neutral" beginning today, meaning it would offset electricity generated with fossil fuel with purchases of "clean energy" electricity (such as wind).

Republican Sen. John McCain has long been one of the leaders in Congress in pushing for a ceiling on carbon-dioxide emissions and a trading system where clean-energy credits can be bought and sold. Other GOP candidates are jumping on that bandwagon, as Obama and Clinton already have, along with other Democrats.

Can you imagine a separate presidential debate on global warming? Well, if the warnings issued by the United Nations are to be taken seriously, the candidates should be dealing more seriously with the issue.

But doesn't Clinton know that the windmills kill the birds and are an unsightly eyesore to Kennedy and Cronkite? And with the amount of travel that she and her campaign will be doing, that's a lot of windmills!

And who knew that a Republican would be a leader in this fight against global warming?

You could also spend the day contemplating how successful the MSM have been in brainwashing the American public about this issue:

New polling has documented the shift in the public's attitude. A Washington Post, ABC News and Stanford University poll showed that a third of Americans now say that global warming is the world's single largest environmental problem, double the number of a year ago.

The poll showed that seven in 10 Americans want more federal action on global warming. About half of those surveyed said that believe the government should do much more than it is now. Some 52 percent said the issue is "extremely" or "very" important personally, double the percentage recorded a decade ago.

Or you could observe the day by taking tomorrow off from work:

For most of us facing gridlocked roads and packed trains, the Monday morning commute is a more pressing concern than climate change.

But there may be a single solution to both, according to business leaders.

The Institute of Directors is calling for flexible hours and more home working to help tackle global warming.

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I'm sure that your boss would think that was a great idea, especially when you tell him that you're doing it to save the planet.