CNN excitedly reports:


Michael Esposito rides his bike all the time — from cold nights when leaving his old job at a natural food store to warm days while passing shops selling yoga clothes and soy drinks.

So the 67-year-old is excited about a new plan to reduce this countercultural haven’s net carbon dioxide emissions to zero within a decade, an ambitious attempt to erase the town’s “carbon footprint.”

“It’s more than important,” Esposito said. “It’s a necessity.”

The goal might sound as unlikely as stuffing smoke back into a smokestack. Even sympathetic experts call it challenging. It likely would require many of the town’s roughly 6,200 people to install solar panels and geothermal hookups. But it’s tough to find a resident who doesn’t support the project.


No globaloney reporting would be complete without the completely overblown, garbage statistics:


For instance, one person driving 2,000 fewer miles prevents about a ton of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere. And a compact fluorescent bulb will keep half a ton of carbon dioxide out of the air over its lifetime, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.


But this is the clincher ? this is the whole omigod-the-world’s-warming-we-gotta-do-SOMETHING movement in a nutshell:


“What’s not to like? How could anybody be against it?” Robin Kramer asked. “I’m just skeptical that it will work.”