I confess, I’m somewhat of a Type A personality meaning, among other things, my clocks are perfectly synchronized to internet time so after one pounce of the snooze button and exactly 9 minutes later, I can wake-up all over again just-in-time to hear the 680 News top-of-the-hour beep-tone reminding me it’s still only – but precisely – 5 a.m. and I can at least pretend I heard the news.

Okay fine! I confess again, I discovered long ago that if I only listen ’til 5:06, paying just enough attention to know the world didn’t end while I slumbered, it’s actually possible to hit the snooze-button six more times before I pay full attention to the 6 o’clock news and learn that Hell really has frozen-over, or at least Vancouver. That’s the bad news.

The good news, apparently, is how a few downed trees in Stanley Park has served as a ‘wakeup call’ to John Baird and the Harper government.

Rest easy, Mr. Gore, turns out we didn’t you to churn out millions of copies of An Inconvenient Truth pointing out the Larsen B ice-shelf or any one of the dozens of other environmental disasters, because now, according to John Baird, he has all the scientific proof he needed: “You know, in Ottawa … I haven’t taken my winter boots out this year, most days you don’t need a winter coat and that causes a huge amount of concern.”

Appears I’m not the only one who knows the inners workings of a snooze-button. The difference is, if I don’t get downstairs to my office and check my email until say 6:30, assuming it’s not a work in my jammies kind-of-day, the advice I give clients isn’t of global importance. At least it didn’t used to be. But Lord-love-a-duck, you mean to tell me all this time Stephen Harper has been doing the same thing, pouncing on a snooze button?

Don’t know about you, but I get all warm-and-fuzzy just knowing the people in power who three months ago said we could keep snoozing ’till 2050, or who earlier this week saw nothing alarming in announcing we’d be 50% worse than Kyoto by 2012, now say they hear this faint ringing sound and that “it isn’t just about communication.”

With all the scientific evidence previously laid out before Ms./Mr. Ambrose-Harper, the best  they could muster was the infamous Clean Air Act? Message to my good friend Garth Turner, the PMO did not ignore your 9 blogs dated July 30, August 28, August 29, September 27, September 28, October 10, October 11, October 13, and October 17, they were all just snoozing, except, of course, unless the call-display said “Charles McVety.“