I received this in my email today from a friend.

'For all of you out there across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus god you worship named 'Climate Change” or 'Global Warming”, there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process. But it is my duty to pass it on to you anyway.

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, in it's first week of spewing volcanic ash, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God, in it's first week, has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.

I know, I know.... (Have a group hug)...it's very disheartening to realise that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's 'The Green Revolution” science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your 4WD and speedboat, going on holidays to a national park instead of flying overseas, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs .....Well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tube in just the first week.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in the first week has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And, those thousands of jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses... you know, the ones that are now creating even more emissions than when they were creating jobs, well that must seem really worthwhile now.

I'm so sorry. And I do wish that there was some kind of a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season will start again in about six months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years.

So, give the world a hug, and have nice day!”

Dennis Kelly, Cambridge Heights