Tell a joke, save the world.

I have my doubts about exercises like this. It's too much like those awful Captain Planet cartoons that Ted Turner peddled (the voice actor credits read like a DNC donors list).

Love NYT articles with quotes like these, though:

Laurie David, the executive producer and wife of a certain "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star, is making it her life's work to draw attention to the growing risks of the earth warming through unchecked emissions of carbon dioxide. She flips the finger at people driving gas guzzlers. She holds seminars and fund-raisers in her home. She sponsors a Web-based "virtual march" on Washington (www.stopglobalwarming.org) that has drawn more than 150,000 participants. She arranged with Fox News to present a serious hourlong show on global warming earlier this week.

Well, she flips the finger at drivers of gas guzzlers, she's doing her part to save the world (and will she fly commercial, instead of jetting about in private jets? (so far the answer has been NO)).

Also of note, she worked hard (at least according to the reporter, my guess is that there will plenty left in) to keep out the Bush, Republican, and Oil company bashing and presumably any comic who strayed off the script (I'm talking to you Mr. Maher) will most likely be excised from the televised show.

Wonder if there will be demands to go nuclear like our French and Japanese allies?

(still the best carbon free alternative available, and there are some great designs whose safety studies are available for perusal at the IAEA website that also double as desalination plants (2.2MB PDF at link))