This week Global Cool [1] got help from Hollywood star Josh Hartnett and singer KT Tunstall, both of whom are excited to join the fight against global warming [1]. Hartnett said, "The change in temperature has been dramatic. You can call it a fluke, but it's been consistent." He went on to announce a campaign in which he's requested that 1 billion people reduce their carbon emissions by about 2,000 pounds every year [2], to which 8.5 million people responded, "Who?"
Film director M. Night Shyamalan, famous for his movies Signs and The Sixth Sense, pitched a new horror movie with an ecological spin and was given the red light this week [3]. Green Planet supposedly featured an alien invasion in which aspects of the Earth's environment lead human kind to its doom. Apparently studio executives recognized that the horror depicted within the movie could never compare to the fright associated with the thought of sitting through it.
On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched a targeted attack [4] on a major oil company, widely known by environmentalists as a gigantic eco-enemy. Mr. Kennedy accused the corporation of spending millions of dollars first to misinform Americans about the threat of global warming and then to undergo green washing for the sake of its image. Rumors suggest that next Kennedy will accuse the sky of being blue.
Actress Thandie Newton claims to have written letters to several other celebrities [5], such as Tom Cruise, Robin Williams, and Madonna, pleading with them to make environmentally conscious automobile choices. "I didn't get one letter back," Newton said. According to the pitifully optimistic, Thandie's fellow stars are making her suggested changes and were so inspired that they didn't want to waste the paper required to write back.
Former Next President Al Gore was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize [6] in Norway Thursday for his work to educate society about the dangers presented by global warming. "A pre-requisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference," said one Norwegian Member of Parliament. It remains unclear whether "promoting peace" is another pre-requisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, or if there simply are no global warming skeptics in Norway.