It's gettin' hot in herre

It's a safe assumption that the current administration despises Al Gore at the moment... First, An Inconvenient Truth was wildly successful, winning 2 Oscars and 16 other awards, grossing nearly $24M at the box office, and generally being critically acclaimed.

Then the Live Earth concerts are a success--at least by number standards: Millions of people attended the shows and thousands more organized parties to tune in--MoveOn.org members had more than 30,000 participants at 1,300 Parties for the Planet in 50 states. We even hosted one here in Radford!

But while this sounds great and can almost convince you that most people are on board for change, we can't forget that until our legislators listen and enforce higher industry standards the fight isn't over.

I was reminded again this morning when I read about the former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona's testimony to the oversight committee in the NYTimes article, Surgeon General Sees 4-Year Term as Compromised:

On issue after issue, Dr. Carmona said, the administration made decisions about important public health issues based solely on political considerations, not scientific ones.

“I was told to stay away from those because we’ve already decided which way we want to go,” Dr. Carmona said.

He described attending a meeting of top officials in which the subject of global warming was discussed. The officials concluded that global warming was a liberal cause and dismissed it, he said.

“And I said to myself, ‘I realize why I’ve been invited. They want me to discuss the science because they obviously don’t understand the science,’ ” he said. “I was never invited back.”

So don't sit back and assume Al Gore's army will fix it--get involved!