The green grinch
Energy-guzzling Christmas light displays are one holiday tradition that makes this mostly festive blogger cringe. How do you feel about Griswald-esque lawn spectacles?
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Amy,
You are going to see a lot more of this sort of comment. Many, many people are tired of being preached to by folks like you. Those of your belief (the Greens) have lied in the referred journals, lied about data manipulation and lied about the raw data.
Are there environmental problems? Yes, for certain. But the driving force that would make all of us poor and living a 19th Century energy consumption life (not so very nice even if you assume the bogus claims of the.... More
"Nothing is so obnoxious as a fanatic who believes in a falsehood."
Except, WJR, you are promoting multiple falsehoods here:
1. Cleaning up our energy system, including energy efficiency, will lead to an improved quality of life, not "19th century". The National Academy of Sciences recently reported that the pollution impacts of US burning fossil fuel costs at least $120 billion per year in health impacts -- alone. Our wasteful energy habits make us less competitive.... More
Oh my. Struck a nerve, did I?
There a few reality based things that need to be dealt with in regard to you counter post.
Let's break your first comment up into two parts.
The first is, what amounts to, a delivery argument. No one wants waste of any resource. However, waste occurs for physical reasons. Given our current technology -- i.e. lacking room temperature super conductors -- there is no power grid design that can even approach a fraction of optimum energy transfer..... More
the real question is: if you don't believe in global warming and you have no desire to make measurable changes in your life to help combat the real threats that exist to our planet, then why are you reading this blog or this site? have you nowhere else to express your idiotic vitriol? yes, cindy dear, it is totally up to each person to decide what they put on their property and how they use their energy. but if every person had your small brain and bad attitude, then the environment would be.... More
when i said that i hoped the green grinch's children were electrocuted, i actually just meant the nasty commenter who wants the author of this post to do something unnatural with a light bulb. my error!
Wow... to everyone posting angry go **** yourself sort of messages, what is it about the idea of possibly saving a little energy that makes you so angry? I agree it is a persons right to put up as many and what ever type of lights they want, but that doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. And for those of you who want to start with the "global warming for sure doesn't exist crap", I seriously doubt you have done enough or even any research to come to that point of veiw. And even, for the.... More
The suggestion that these lights be restricted or totally banned is what set people off. Just another lefty\greeny trying to control other peoples lives.
I doubt that. Really just another arrogant greenie with an enormous sense of guilt about not living in a cold cave.
Go get a life and quit it with the self flagellation.
Enter your comments here Go **** yourself with a broken lightbulb.
Apparently the Enviro-Nazis haven't educated themselves about the CRU-East Anglia email leak and what it shows - THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING. So, I guess we should all curtail our Christmas celebrations and decorations to help combat a problem that doesn't even exist. Insane.
...that worrying about one man's christmas lights is going overboard.
But blanket statements of "global warming doesn't exist" which most likely is based on the email feud between scientist in Britain, is just a really foolish statement.
I more concerned about gasbags like Al Gore & Nancy Pelosi flying to Copenhagen for the afternoon, than some poor guy who likes to put up Christmas lights once a year (and has .oooooooooooo1% of their "carbon footprint")
I think it's none of your darn business what others choose to do on THEIR property with energy they PAY FOR.
You can have my incadescent c9 lights when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
Since man-made global warming is total bunk, I say bring on the lights. The more the merrier!
Two years ago when the lights around our outside garland went we decided not to replace them. Now we just do a few candles in the windows, a lit wreath on the door and the Christmas tree lights that can be seen through the living room window.
As for replacing regular strings of lights with LED's - I believe they should only be replaced once they go bad. Here's why. If you replace your lights, you can donate your old ones, but then someone else will still be using them. You can throw.... More
