On a tip from Sondra K:

I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on. …

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.

I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.

I would personally like to invite all citizens of Chad to go live in Big Al Gore’s mansion. It has plenty of hot & cold running water, and uses electricity by the bazilowatt. Best of all, you will be fully protected from the ManBearPig. I’m cereal.

Few climate actions, however, come close to the travesty being played out in nearby Chad. There the government has banned the manufacture, importation and use of charcoal – the sole source of fuel for 99% of Chadians.

“Cooking is a fundamental necessity for every household,” its Environment Minister pronounced. But “with climate change every citizen must protect his environment.”

The edict has sent women and children scavenging for dead branches, cow dung, grass and anything else that burns. “People cannot cook,” said human rights activist Merlin Totinon Nguebetan. “Women giving birth cannot even find a bit of charcoal to heat water for washing,” said another.

The government admitted it had failed to prepare the public for its sudden decree, but announced no change in plans – saying only that scarce propane might be an alternative for some. When citizens protested, they were violently dispersed by police.

No need, Chadians, to bring your own cow dung. Al Gore has enough bullshit for everyone.

This is the law of unintended consequences. When white liberal guilt over some imaginary wrong (be it Native rights, spanking kids, peanut allergies or global warming) gets out of hand, it is always the very poorest who suffer. No, not TaLinda and DaShawn in some ghetto slum paid for with welfare dough in a rich city in a rich country like America. I mean places like Africa, where people are really poor, but it doesn’t matter because we can’t see them, so fuck ‘em.

We scream about the atrocities in Darfur, but the best we can send by way of aid is Matt Damon. We wail about what happened in Rwanda, yet it was white liberals who tied the hands of the UN forces and made them impotent. We worry about the millions of deaths caused by malaria, but cannot bring ourselves to use DDT, lest a few hundred people have a bad reaction to it and die. We lament about the amount of people who contract AIDS, but we pooh-pooh Uganda’s successful ABC (Abstinence, Be faithful, use Condoms) abstinence education (pretty simple, really: If you don’t have sex, you don’t get sexual diseases).

Time after time our experiments in white guilt have led to things we really ought to feel guilty about. But because they happen so far away, we really don’t care. Let ‘em starve. Let the women and babies have their infections because the most rudimentary disinfection provided by boiling water has been denied. At least we won’t be using coal, which will hurt people.

I just read an article in my Google Reader about record snowfalls in Europe and America this year, and its effect on the ski industry. I hit the link so I could include it in my post here, but the page no longer exists. So I went direct to the Daily Mail site in an effort to get the story (it also includes a pic of kids playing in the snow). Though it is listed on their home page, the link is still defunct.

Hmmmm… If I believed in conspiracy theories…

Sigh. Oh well, it could have been worse. It could have been Ahmedinejad.