Earth Day After Action Report

The indefatigable Roy Spencer offers a roundup of Earth Day cartoons yesterday on his site DrRoySpencer.com, reminding us along the way that folks who drove their cars to tree-planting ceremonies undoubtedly released more CO2 than the tree will ever absorb, before inevitably dying someday and releasing most of that CO2 into the atmosphere again anyway.  This one is especially good:

Earth Day Cartoon 1 copyBut this is not satire: in the “Life-Imitates-Art” Department, behold the mess at Fort Mason park in San Francisco after last year’s Earth Day festivities:

Earth Day Mess copyMeanwhile, enjoy some other helpings from Dr. Spencer’s stash:

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Earth Day Twitter copy

Because, you know, the Internet and wireless communications don’t use any coal at all.

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