Seattle's mayor Greg Nickels has come up with a psychotic plan for saving the planet from global warming.  He is going to ban car driving on certain streets during certain times.  He wants his constituents to "keep an open mind."

He wants people to keep an open mind because he is not willing to listen to reservations anyone else may have on his idea.  So, he doesn't practice what he preaches.

The first victims here are the small businesses who rely on customers to be able to get to them.  The next victims, the restaurant servers whose earnings are made up of the tips that some people leave, have had their earnings cut.  The third victims are the car-owners of the residents who were not allowed to park on these streets.  That means in order to get people to drive less, these car-owners had to drive their cars out of the area and then back again for car-less streets!  And to add insult to injury, those cars that were not moved were towed.  How much extra CO₂ was produced for that?  How much money went into the tow-truck drivers' pockets and the city coffers?

Flyers were handed out for this event.  What was that carbon footprint worth?  Police were hired to enforce this.  How much money went to that?  How did they get there?  They drove. 

This fiasco doesn't end there.  The ban had to be lifted two hours early due to the rain.  Well, if they can't predict the weather 24-hours ahead, perhaps their 100-year prediction is also flawed.

We don't need another plan to save the planet.  We need to be saved from our politicians who are running amuck based on bad science propagated by-- another politician, a has-been politician at that.