The usual shrill babble and punchy trailer clips are flogging John Carter, Disney’s remake of Edgar Rice Burrough’s 1917 novel Princess of Mars, but it looks like a kiddie combo of Hercules and Avatar.
The bad guys burn coal, you see, and are damaging the Martian atmosphere. Uh oh. John Carter is a Confederate soldier mysteriously transported to Mars. There he engages in a lot of sword play, some love scenes steamy enough for 14-year-old boys, and I’ll bet more than a few ecology speeches about sustainability and global warming. Face palm.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Least they don’t burn trees. Or do they?
Almost forgot: a somehow related story:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/
The silly thing to the mars claim is that the White House responded. The coal refers to Obozo’s promise to put the coal industry out of business (and EPA is working on it) because coal emissions create global warming, etc. Of course most of our electricity comes from burning coal and solar and wind cannot replace it.