From the London Telegraph, on the amazing story of Irena Sendler who displayed incredible courage during her actions in helping Jewish children escape the Warsaw ghetto. Her incredible story could very well be made into a motion picture. The amazing thing? She lost the Nobel Prize to Al Gore last year. From the article:

Here, though, is the sentence that leapt off the page at me: “Last year she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, eventually won by Al Gore.” Al Gore! I mean, nothing against the old lardbutt – it’s nice to see ex-politicians doing something they believe in rather than giving themselves over wholly to the getting of personal wealth – but making a film is not the same thing as donning a yellow star and smuggling babies past enemy soldiers.

And in other global warming news, also from the Telegraph, we have the story of Sir Paul McCartney and his hyprid-Lexus limousine. To reward him for his work to help the environment Lexus created a special hybrid vehicle for McCartney. The only problem is they flew it to London– from Japan.

Carbon offsetting firm CO2balance.com said the plane journey would have caused a carbon footprint of 38,050kg, compared to 397kg for a three-week boat journey… Co2balance.com Director Mike Rigby said: “That is the equivalent of driving the car around the world six times.”

Hey may have to leave it in the garage for a while.