I am forced to admit that the Neil Young fan in the family is my wife. But who can’t love a guy who going release in April an entire concept album on electric cars. The picture is of Young with his ’59 Lincoln, which has been converted to an electric hybrid, the Linc-Volt (video here, info here).

You can watch a video of his new single, “Fork in the Road” (here), with the great chorus, “There’s a bailout coming, but it’s not for you.” And it has a lyric that will be CP’s unofficial new tagline: “Keep on blogging ’til the power goes out.”

So perhaps it’s not a surprise that on Thursday, Neil Young News wrote a post, “The secret is now out: We’ve got a job to do” about Shakey the eco-visionary, the Friedman piece, and CP:

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I just watched one of the most charming, funny, and educational climate videos ever.

Lanny Smith, an award winning, earthman suit wearing, hip hop rhyming climate change educator combines music, video, and visual arts with excellent web design to explain the complexities of climate change with surprisingly clarity — all without dropping a beat. He manages to take even some of the more complex aspects of climate science (like how melting sea ice creates feedback loops by decreasing the average albedo of the earth’s surface, thus accelerating warming), and makes them accessible through rhyme at the middle school level.

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