While President-Elect Barack Obama certainly has a lot on his plate, hopefully, once in office, he can solve multiple problems in one bite with Al Gore’s proposal to move to 100% clean energy.  Just as President John F. Kennedy propelled us to the moon with a 10 year ultimatum, Gore insists that a complete transition to zero-carbon electricity with the same timeline is the only way to ween us from climate changing fossil fuels, and create a prosperous green economy.  In the latest issue of Mother Jones he explains:

We should speed up this transition by insisting that the price of carbon-based energy include the costs of the environmental damage it causes. I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes with the difference made up in CO₂ taxes. We should tax what we burn, not what we earn.

It’s going to take some radical thought

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We finally found a video preview of An Inconvenient Truth, the Opera! Well, it’s actually more parody than preview by Australian comedy show The Mansion” of the anticipated film-turning-musical.   Think tenor polar bears crying their cute little eyes out about losing their families on melting ice:

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Whether you’re backing Barack, holding up Hillary or maintaining for McCain, you probably can’t think of anyone better to head the EPA than Al Gore. Sadly, Al has dashed our dreams for such a prospect in an interview with the The Sun UK. Obama promised a cabinet position to Al Gore at the beginning of the month, but when asked about the offer in the interview, Gore had this to say:

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