Quick, Grab Your Hairspray and Save the Planet!

Remember when they told you that eating oat bran would lower your cholesterol. Oat bran showed up in everything from cereal to ice cream, and then lo and behold, it turned out to be bogus. Oat bran did nothing.

Remember when they told you that greenhouse gases would cause the planet to overheat and kill us all? So we started to dramatically cut greenhouse gases and guess what, the lack of greenhouse gases is threatening to turn the planet into an ice ball:

The planet could face a freeze worse than an Ice Age starting in as little as 10,000 years, giving future societies a headache the opposite of coping with global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.

The researchers, based in Britain and Canada, said that now-vilified greenhouse gases might help in future to avert a chill that could smother much of Canada and the United States, Europe and Russia in permanent ice.

Quick, go start your SUV, blast your hairspray into the air, burn something on your barbecue - anything to save the planet for the children!