Gryffn Musings

Whose stupid idea was this anyway?

You do know that you can't just throw these in your regular trash, right? You do know that you have to take them to a Collection Center that deals with mercury, right? You know that they contain toxic mercury? What happens if one breaks?

According to the EPA Mercury/CFL pages:

Never use a vacuum cleaner, broom, or put it down the drain.
Never wash clothing or other items that have come in direct contact with mercury. You must throw it away.
Um, where?

This what they say we should do:
Before cleaning up, air out the room. All people and pets should leave the room. Shut off forced-air heating/AC.
Pick up the shards with cardboard or poster board and place them in a jar and seal it with a metal lid.
Use sticky tape to get the small pieces.
Wipe the area with wet paper towels and place them into the glass jar.

Let's see what to do when a regular incandescent bulb breaks:
Sweep or vacuum up the glass. Go over the surface with a wet paper towel. Throw it all away in your regular trash.

Hmmm, which do you prefer?
Which is safer for people, pets, and the planet?

Yet we are being forced to use this polluting and inferior product.
Why? To make people like Al Gore rich?

In a word, yes.

Since mercury is such a bad pollutant, why are we supposed to use these products?

The government is pushing hard to make us use them. While some big cities may have facilities for dealing with Mercury, how do you enforce people actually taking the time to travel and responsibly dispose of old and broken CFLs?

What about the vast rural areas who only have landfills. They will be polluting the planet and growing areas – thus polluting our food supply.

For example, here is a map of Collection Centers in Iowa.

Who is really going to travel up to 150 miles to throw away CFL lights? Some places will even charge you a fee to take them.

Whose stupid idea was this anyway?

In addition to triggering seizures and migraines, in addition to requiring an entire page of EPA instructions on cleanup should you break one of these mercury-laden wonders, in addition to the lies about how long they last, in addition to the fact that they throw the most putrid of lighting, and in addition to the fact that they will be The Law in 2012 and we can’t recycle them, we now have another advantage to CFL light bulbs.  Fire Hazard.
— Build a home, work on it day and night, stick a Walmart CFL in it and burn it down

And this is what you are left to deal with when you decide to be Al Gore green. We’ve returned a lot of them and we still have these,. So it makes you wonder if you are saving any money at all by purchasing these toxic little pigs.
— Watt the CFL… Walmart’s Trying To Kill Me!

So, whose stupid idea was this anyway??

Finally reasonable people are speaking out and demanding an end to this hysteria that has made Al Gore rich.

Billions of dollars of grant money (your tax money) are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. It is all designed to get your money and then guilt you into living your life a certain way — like Obama’s light bulbs. And let us not forget that Gore charges $100,000 at each stop on his tour across the nation.

But 30,000 scientists are suing Al Gore for fraud. Right On

Al Gore on Tuesday compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.

The idiot accused us and the rest of the world of lacking the political will to act and dared compare himself to Winston Churchill.

Then he had the nerve, the gall, to say politicians were exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid difficult decisions. When he, AL Gore, has been exploiting the world, using doctored data and fear mongering to make himself a cozy few million.

What an unmitigated ass you are. To diminish the million of Jews slaughtered. To minimize the millions that lost their lives in that war — all to bolster your ego.

You have made enough money from your hoax. Considering that the earth’s temperature has gone DOWN over the last 11 years, GO AWAY! Oh, that data is from satellites, not your stupid incorrect chart and stepladder. Who is the real Nazi here?

And Obama, take your Cap and Trade and SHOVE IT.

This huge tax bill is totally unnecessary. The stress and pain caused for most of us is all for nothing.

The Global Warming Hoax/ Fraud

In the face of name-calling and worse, I have always maintained that Al Gore perpetrated the biggest scam on us and the world. What caused us to lap it up like Pavlovian dogs? Say the words "planet" "save" and we all salivate and believe everything we are told. How ludicrous. How stupid!

The science, the real science, behind this global warming stupidity is now collapsing. The most reliable satellite weather data shows that global atmospheric temperatures have declined over the last 11 years — that means the temps are getting colder!

Science also shows that the temperature patterns of the 20th century correlate with natural causes, not this global warming nonsense.

Temperatures did not increase steadily throughout the last century — even though carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases did.

Temperatures in the U.S. were stable until 1920, and then soared to produce the hottest decade of the century during the 1930s — all way before the rapid increases in greenhouse gas emissions.  Gee, Al, how do you account for that?

The climate then cooled during most of the period from 1940 until about 1977. Temperatures climbed upward from 1977 until 1998, except for a sharp downturn from about 1988 until about 1995. Temperatures are down again over the past decade — down over the last 11 years. It’s cycles folks! Nothing to worry about.

Forget that hysteria of floating polar bears and ice caps melting (oh the sky is falling) The polar ice caps are not melting. The melting of glaciers still going on is because those glaciers are from the last age age — which ended (thankfully) and, therefore, not due to global warming. Sea levels rose 400 feet, but over the last 18,000 years!  Furthermore, the rise has been decelerating over the past 5,000 years, and now is 1.8 mm per year – millimeters, regardless of global temperature fluctuations. What that means is the oceans would rise 9 inches over the next 100 years. Oooo, watch out for those floods!

This record is more consistent with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a long-term pattern of ocean currents that turns from cold to warm back to cold every 20 to 30 years, and with variations in solar activity, particularly sunspots. Indeed, our current accelerating temperature decline correlates with an extended trend of slowing sunspot activity, which may portend another Little Ice Age, as happened from the early 1400s to the late 1800s. Indeed, a full-blown ice age is now overdue based on historical patterns. –Spectator

In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming….Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion."– WSJ

What? The EPA suppressed a report they did not want released because Obama wanted to go ahead and impose the largest tax on us ever? And for nothing? Yup.

You know he (Obama) will keep trying. The hell with the truth! He got it through and by the idiots in the House, but luckily, the Senate (and Jim Inhofe) are smarter.

According to this report, the earth is actually cooling, not warming. So crank up those cars and have fun!

Sen Inhofe has called for an investigation – like who will be investigating? Do you really think anyone has the guts to tell the truth?

Anyway, this 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, says that the data the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined. 

The Email Trail

According to internal e-mails that have been made public by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Carlin’s boss told him in March that his material would not be incorporated into a broader EPA finding and ordered Carlin to stop working on the climate change issue or be fired. The draft EPA finding released in April lists six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, that the EPA says threaten public health and welfare.

Carlin said he doesn’t know whether the White House intervened to suppress his report but claimed it’s clear "they would not be happy about it if they knew about it" and that his boss seemed to be feeling pressure from somewhere up the chain of command. 

Carlin said his boss, National Center for Environmental Economics Director Al McGartland, told him after pulling him off the climate change issue that he had to do it. 

"It was reassigning you or losing my job, and I didn’t want to lose my job," Carlin said, paraphrasing what he claimed were McGartland’s comments to him. "My inference (was) that he was receiving some sort of higher-level pressure." 

Carlin said he personally does not think there is a current need to regulate carbon dioxide, since "global temperatures are going down." He said his report expressed a "good bit of doubt" on the connection between the two. 

Specifically, the report noted that global temperatures were on a downward trend over the past 11 years, that scientists do not necessarily believe that storms will become more frequent or more intense due to global warming, and that the theory that temperatures will cause Greenland ice to rapidly melt has been "greatly diminished." 

Carlin, in a March 16 e-mail, argued that his comments are "valid, significant" and would be critical to the EPA finding. 

McGartland, though, wrote back the next day saying he had decided not to forward his comments. WHY? Cover up the truth. Who needs the truth?

"The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision," he wrote, according to the e-mails released by CEI. "I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office." …and… "I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research, etc., at least until we see what EPA is going to do with climate," McGartland wrote.

He later wrote an e-mail urging Carlin to "move on to other issues and subjects." 

The EPA said in a written statement that Carlin’s opinions were in fact considered, and that he was not even part of the working group dealing with climate change in the first place. 

"Claims that this individual’s opinions were not considered or studied are entirely false. This administration and this EPA administrator are fully committed to openness, transparency and science-based decision making," the statement said. "The individual in question is not a scientist and was not part of the working group dealing with this issue. Nevertheless the document he submitted was reviewed by his peers and agency scientists, and information from that report was submitted by his manager to those responsible for developing the proposed endangerment finding. In fact, some ideas from that document are included and addressed in the endangerment finding." 

The e-mail exchanges and suggestions of political interference sparked a backlash from Republicans in Congress. 

"He came out with the truth. They don’t want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla, a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he’s ordered an investigation. "We’re going to expose it." 

The controversy comes after the House of Representatives passed a landmark bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, one that Inhofe said is "dead on arrival" in the Senate despite Obama’s energy adviser voicing confidence in the measure. 

Reps. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., also wrote a letter last week to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging the agency to reopen its comment period on the finding. The EPA has since denied the request. 

Citing the internal e-mails, the Republican congressmen wrote that the EPA was exhibiting an "agency culture set in a predetermined course." 

"It documents at least one instance in which the public was denied access to significant scientific literature and raises substantial questions about what additional evidence may have been suppressed," they wrote. 

In a written statement, Issa said the administration is "actively seeking to withhold new data in order to justify a political conclusion." 

"I’m sure it was very inconvenient for the EPA to consider a study that contradicted the findings it wanted to reach," Sensenbrenner said in a statement, adding that the "repression" of Carlin’s report casts doubt on the entire finding. 

Carlin said he’s concerned that he’s seeing "science being decided at the presidential level." 

"Now Mr. Obama is in effect directly or indirectly saying that CO2 causes global temperatures to rise and that we have to do something about it. … That’s normally a scientific judgment and he’s in effect judging what the science says," he said. "We need to look at it harder." 

Tuesday at the third International Conference on Climate Change:

Global warming skeptics, the ones with some common sense who kept demanding hard-science evidence to refute doomsday predictions from alarmists, have some new information.

The 250 people listened to a dozen elite scientists refute the claim that global warming is either man-made or would have harmful effects on Earth.

But we still have a problem because of intended legislation based upon this doomsday stupidity.

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