I have a feeling I've just seen all the good parts of 2012. The music really makes it! This was originally produced for io9.

I'm posting this story In the Name of Love and massive carbon footprint...

Environmentalists and fans of Earth, you have a new enemy: U2.

It has just been reported U2's latest world tour will not help Earth have a Beautiful Day. So Bono, Edge, Adam and the other guy, get ready for War.

According to the folks at carbonfootprint.com, as U2 walk on their 100 date, 18 month world tour, their carbon footprint will equal the yearly output of 6,500 people.

Blimey Gloria, call the Angel of Harlem! This will Bullet the Blue Sky!

"The carbon footprint generated by U2's 44 concerts this year is equal to carbon created by the four band members traveling the 34.125 million miles from Earth to Mars in a passenger plane."

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That's Bad.

Worse, the tour continues well after New Year's Day 2010 finishing around October of next year. Spew Carbon spew!

Now much of the tour's carbon footprint won't coming via Mysterious Ways. It's from transporting the three 390-ton stages, using 3286.60 tons of CO2, with another 916.07 tons for extra equipment. Then pile on all the Electric Co. costs of power stadiums and arena's. Wow, out of control!

I guess when Bono said last year that we all need to "become better at looking after our planet" he wasn't including his band in the mix.

Now for the good news: If U2 want to offset their emissions they won't need a Miracle Drug. They'll just have to visit Van Diemen's Land, find One Tree Hill and plant over 20,000 more around it.

Course One will be a start.

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We are not hip.

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Evil Richard here. I know, I know, it's been a long time since I've posted anything. And I'm not sure when or if "Wednesday is New Comics Day" will be returning. (Free tip: Go pick up DC's Wednesday Comics book today) But, Scaramouch gave me permission to stop by and fill you in on what I've been up to. Especially since I got some exciting news about it last week.

Nathan Sorry is an online graphic novel that I've been working on for a while now and is just starting to ramp up. It's about a guy named Nathan Sorry who should have been in the World Trade Center on 9/11 but instead disappears with a new identitiy and $20 million stolen through a Ponzi scheme. Two months later a guy named James Goode shows up in a small town in North Carolina and shakes up the lives of a few of its residents.

Last week, Warren Ellis, writer of such famous comics as Transmetropolitan, Planetary and The Authority, mentioned Nathan Sorry on his website as a webcomic worth watching.

Come check it out here. I'm working towards getting to a 1 page per week schedule as there's a lot more stuff to tell. Stolen and confused identities, online sex ads, an unsolved murder, cheating hearts and the War in Afghanistan all play a big part in the story to come.