Forget Super Bowl Sunday. Supermoon Saturday is gonna be a way bigger deal, mark my words! I'll explain: Astronomers call it a 'supermoon' when a full moon happens at the same time the moon is orbiting closest to the earth. Because the moon looks about 16% bigger and 30% brighter than usual, non-astronomers who happen to be outside after dark usually just call it a 'Holy #$&*! The moon is attacking us!'

Anyway, this year's supermoon is just days away (Saturday, May 5, at 11:35 p.m.), and since a supermoon is basically a full moon on steroids, that means you can expect one hell of a wild weekend. Yes, seriously. Remember the Creedence Clearwater Revival song?

I see the bad moon arisin'
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Yikes! I'm with John Fogerty. I see trouble on the way, too. In fact, I see morning-after headlines looking something like these:

If you live in California or Nevada, you got one hell of a wake-up call Sunday morning when, oops, a giant meteor the size of a minivan exploded into a billion bits over your populated towns and cities. Scientists have confirmed that an asteroid blazed through the sky in a red, white, and green blur until it exploded, releasing with it a force one quarter the strength of an atomic bomb. People in Reno, Nevada and Northern California called 911 when their windows and houses started shaking inexplicably.

See? There are such things as UFOs, and they just happen to be intensely dense astronomical objects that may or may not detonate over your house at any given moment. Science!

WHOA. Apparently the incredibly rare all-white killer whale spotted today in the seas off eastern Russia is a really really big deal. And not just because the whale -- named Iceberg -- is the first all-white male orca to be documented, ever.

Oh no, that's just the tip of the ... iceberg (sorry!). The all-white orca's appearance implies some pretty intense stuff. Check this out: Traditionally, just about every culture revered all-white animals as sacred. In India, Buddha's mother dreamed of a white elephant before giving birth. In medieval Europe, white mice were said to embody the spirits of departed children. For some Native Americans, the birth of a white buffalo calf is considered "the most significant of prophetic signs." 

All-white animals have been considered both blessings and warnings; it's been said that "the appearance of these white animals heralds a time of great urgency for the Earth and humanity as a whole."

Or, to put it more bluntly: WAKE-UP CALL!

Miranda Kerr
Earth Hour is tonight, March 31, from 8:30 - 9:30 p.m. (your time, wherever you are). Started 5 years ago by the World Wildlife Fund in Sydney, Australia, more than 5,400 cities now participate in Earth Hour, the world's largest voluntary mass event to support the planet.

Hundreds of millions of people, and many of the world's most popular landmarks turn out their lights for the occasion -- including Washington's National Cathedral, Big Ben, the Great Wall of China, the Sydney Opera House, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, Tokyo Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, and many more.

The purpose behind the event is to raise awareness for climate change and motivate ongoing action to help the planet. (Dear Debbie Downer: No, no one thinks turning out all these lights for an hour is going to save the planet, the point is to inspire all of us to make positive environmental changes in our lives.)

Even Dr. Suess is getting involved.

The price of oil made me sell my favorite car. Five years ago, I bought a large full-size SUV with three rows, plenty of space for my three car seats, and a couple of grown adults in the back. As much as I loved my car, the gas prices were killing me. It was the summer when gas was over $4.50 a gallon. I would stop the tank when it reached $100 as I couldn't stomach the idea of knowing how much a full tank actually cost me. We didn't want to drive my big spacious car meant specifically for our many road-trips. I kept it in the garage and we stayed home that summer. We were far from happy about the situation and ultimately sold the car two years later. What was the point of it anymore?  

But whom did I blame for ruining our summer fun or having to sell my car? Not George W. -- who was coasting along in his last term in office as president.

A recent trip to Costco reminded me of the gas lines from my childhood. The price of gas is a beastly burden on families today. I’m not well versed enough in economics, foreign relations, or commodities and futures trading to speak of the finer points of gas prices, but I do know that no one has a magic switch to make gas $2.50 a gallon.

If this were true, every president would have flipped that switch during his term.

I’m not sure what secret Newt Gingrich has to make gas cheap again.

Here's a problem most of us will never, ever in our lives face: The nation of Kiribati may soon find itself entirely under water! The small nation looks like paradise right now. It's a series of tiny islands (atolls) in the South Pacific, near Fiji and Papua New Guinea: White sands, warm, crystal waters, palm trees. But it would be hell if your WHOLE COUNTRY became under water. 

Thank climate change for this unhappy situation. Climate change, urg! Why are you so pervasive and nasty? It's causing ocean waters to rise world-wide, and since the atolls of Kiribati are already very close to sea level ... shudder. What are the Kiribati people going to do? 

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is nothing new -- the two ginormous patches of garbage floating in the ocean between California and Japan that are EACH roughly the size of Texas. But it's making news today because it's about to get a whole lot bigger. Some experts are predicting that millions of tons of debris from Japan’s tsunami last March are inching across the Pacific. About 1 to 5 percent of that junk could end up on the western coast of the United States (not exactly a comforting thought, although there's supposedly little chance of radiation contamination). But the majority will join the garbage flotillas ... and then what?