Thursday, September 13, 2007

Glacier Point



This stark landscape seen above was forged by glaciers. That's right I said glaciers. But the glaciers are all gone now. Thanks to the Republicans in Washington and there Big Oil taskmasters, over the last several million years these glaciers have melted; leaving nothing but this.

Please people, do something; sign up for Green Mountain Energy, buy a Prius. Just do something to reduce your carbon footprint. If we all act together, maybe our grandchildren will see Yosemite as it is meant to be – ensconced in glacial ice.

4 comments:

jtingermany said...

Do you mean do something like driving cross-country in a SUV, alone, with the air conditioning running?

I'm just askin'.

swcook said...

How dare you sir. Is Al Gore's message any less valid just because he has a 40,000 sq ft house, flies around the world in his own private jet and appears to have eaten an entire herd of buffalo?

jtingermany said...

those buffalo were producing a lot of methane -- a greenhouse gas. and it's his pilot that is to blame for all that flying. Al is just hitching a ride.

Anonymous said...

Remember that Germany's beer, pretzel and sausage consumption is responsible for appoximately 1/3 of the methane on this planet.

Al Gore being responsible for the other 2/3.

(The word verification for the comment is ndyfat. I don't know why that's funny.)

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