Via Orbusmax, KVI talk show host Kirby Wilbur in Seattle heard from a listener who attended Mayor Greg Nickels’ Christmas holiday tree-lighting ceremony. All religious references are discouraged by the local government–except if the religion is environmentalism. So Nickels used the event to preach the evils of global warming to the kids in attendance. He warned the children that if they don’t use energy-efficient light bulbs (Gore bulbs), Santa and the reindeer will perish amid melting icecaps. Here’s the clip recounting Nickel’s grinchy lecture:

Leaning Straight Up points to Nickel’s “Letter to Santa“–an epistle of self-congratulation wrapped in eco-sanctimony:

Can’t Christmas be Christmas without Al Gore wannabes polluting the air and scaring the kids?