From here, and here, and here:

Press Announcement:

“We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate,” the message said. “This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration. We ask for respect for our privacy and that of our family, and we do not intend to comment further.”

Well, Al.  As much as I like to ripp on you and your religion, too bad about the divorce thing.  I hope for it to go as painlessly for your family as possible.  I mean that.

As far as privacy goes, unlike Sara Palin, I’m sure your media flunkies will give you a great deal.

In completely unrelated news Elsa Wenzel at GreenTech.com talks about how divorce “pains the planet”:

As if the burden of divorce weren’t bad enough, people with failed marriages can be blamed for global warming, according to a study by Michigan State University.

Divorced couples use up more space in their respective homes, which amounts to to 38 million more rooms worldwide to light, heat and cool, noted the report.

And people who divorced used 73 billion kilowatt-hours more of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water than they would otherwise in 2005.

Dissolving a marriage also means doubling possessions, from the lowly can opener to the SUV. The report, however, did not estimate how many more natural resources the children of shared-custody parents consume by getting birthday and holiday gifts twice.

Nor did it count the greenhouse gases spent to shuttle kids between their pair of energy-hogging households. (Tip for carbon offsetting services: the domain name OffsetMyDivorce.com is available.).

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yea.  That’stoo easy.

Oh well.  So what if Al Gore contributes to the very thing he is looking to end.  If you watch the Google Advertisements, you can click on an ad for Al Gore’s website so he helps keep the lights on here too.

Do it for the children.