Television Sets Cause Global Warming

Photo of Noel Sheppard.

You can add another thing to the growing list of causes of global warming: television sets.

I kid you not.

Frankly, I think the climate alarmists are going too far with this one, for a nation hooked on TV doesn't seem likely to change its viewing habits to save the planet.

Of course, I could be wrong about how folks will respond to what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported Thursday (emphasis added):

The gas, widely used in the manufacture of flat screen TVs, is estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide.

Ironically, NF3 is not covered by the Kyoto protocol as it was only produced in tiny amounts when the treaty was signed in 1997.

Levels of this gas in the atmosphere have not been measured, but scientists say it is a concern and are calling for it to be included in any future emissions cutting agreement.

Turn off the TV, the party's over!

*****Update: My colleague Jeff Poor has found the actual study cited in this report. Also, he accurately points out that one of the study's authors is a proud member of the UN's infamous IPCC.


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Well,

Now I have the perfect reason to buy a second plasma tv, so thanks, NS.  

What will be the next "culprit" that's responsible for increasing global warming?  I think we need to start a pool.

My entry:  Dry cleaning.  Commercial Laundry.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

My nomination is whatever

My nomination is whatever the gas is that they're using in air conditioners instead of freon. 

 

Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson

Good one, mb

My point was that anything that makes the "ordinary American's" life easier or better, in the most marginal way, is baaaaaad.  It's fine for Vinny Barbarino and Babs Streisand (200 bath sheet sized towels freshly laundered backstage...sheesh!), but for thee & me, NO

Idiots.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

My guess....Oxygen causes global warming

It's obvious... Mars has almost no oxygen and is much much colder than earth. Must be the oxygen.

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

The next thing to cause global warming will be

breathing by humans.  If we could reduce the number of humans by abortion or euthanasia, the Earth would be much better off.

Remember what Gordon Gecco said in Wall Street?  "They love animals, they hate people."  Truer words, my friends.

Happy 4th to all from your friend

Jeff Lebowski

www.angrywhitedude.c...

Breathing humans, eh?

IMHO the biggest culprit is living breathing Al Gore.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Oxygen on Mars, Warming on Jupiter

Unfortunately, Mars too is warming and the only vehicles up there tend to get most of their power via solar energy!

And Jupiter is seeing equatorial warming, which is causing an outbreak of more "red spot" storms!  Albeit it was argued back in 2004 that Jupiter's warming would decrease the number of spotted storms.  So much for consensus!

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 The lazy, beer-guzzling,

 The lazy, beer-guzzling, good for nothing couch-potatoes who lay there and watch their plazma tvs everywhere will become the next culprit..it's only a matter of time..

 

 

"...white man's greed runs a world in need."  Barack Obama

Typical pseudo-science and fear mongering

They do not know what this gas does (if anyhing) but are "fearful" about it in the atmosphere. This guy has no idea how much is even released into the atmosphere, but the reporter says "A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming."

All with no data. Hmmmmm?

I bet that NF3 isn't even stable in the atmosphere for very long.

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

There is not a lot of data

There is not a lot of data on this substance. This paper is about the best I could find.  It contains no estimate of the functional greenhouse effect of this gas upon the atmosphere.  The 17,000 number is very misleading.  NF3 will not produce 17,000 times as much warming as CO2.  It will only block whichever wavelengths it absorbs at a rate per unit concentration about 17,000 times that of CO2.  If these wavelengths happen to overlap with CO2 or H2O, there will be NO net effect.  The total maximum effect it can have is to block its absorptive wavelengths 100%.  This might only increase the greenhouse effect by 1 degree K.  There simply is not enough data in the paper above for me to guess what this might actually be.  Notice the researchers didn't try to quantify the potential effect in the abstract either.

To give you an idea about what Liberal tripe the Wikipedia really is, look at its page about NF3.  Look in the references.  You do not see the above linked paper there, but you do see leftist news articles such as the UK Guardian linked.

isn't even stable in the atmosphere for very long

neither are the nut jobs that publish this crud

The tipoff is the word "estimated". Every time you see it you know they pulled it out of a methane orifice - strictly fiction, and it stinks.

This is just another fund raiser.

Global Warming

The environmentalists want us all to go back to

the cave man days, so they can take over the

earth and live their luxurious lifestyles.   What

a joke!   Also, air conditioning should be banned

according to one columnist yesterday.   Sure,

the folks in Florida and Texas will appreciate

that.

Liberalism causes Global

Liberalism causes Global Stupidity.

http://www.globalclimatescam.com/?p=167

This is scientific. The

This is scientific. The word "causes" should be replaced with an equal sign

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

TV

They can have my tv, there's nothing worth watching anyway.

I was watching Hannity & Colmes last night.  (Michael Steele was covering for Sean).  They had on Michael Dukakis.  Everytime Steele said something about red state / blue state, Dukakis would whine "We've got to stop labeling everything.".  I noticed Dukakis had no problem using the term "Republican smear machine".

I don't want "change" ... I want my money's worth!

That's because the left are the ones doing all the smearing. Deep down a lot of Dems don't want an Africkin-American president, or a tax increase.

The gas used to manufacture Bullsh*t causes stupidity.

Fluorescent  television is they way to go! Lets face it any human activity is bad for the planet and we should stop reproducing  ... but, we must not lose a single soldier; Sayeth the lib. 

Brain Farts

 Liberals suffer from acute flatulance of the brain which causes brain farts as they are speaking, which results in a foul vapor around they're countenance, this vapor is released into the atmosphere which in turn causes global warming and it also chaps my a--.

(GRINS)  kilrod

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

Energy sucking manbearpig

TV's cause global warming. I wonder what the over/under is on the number of TV's Al Gore owns?

Dang! Where's AlGore when you need him?

And the temperatures in Charlotte, North Carolina hit record LOWS overnight!

http://www.charlotte.com/news/story/695929.html

Dang! Where's AlGore when you need him?

"Everything you know is wrong!" - Firesign Theatre (and liberals)

 

 

No worries

No worries; I'll just crank the A/C whenever I turn the TV on.

Problem solved. 

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

Watch it, Hero!

The Obamamessiah says we can't just drive our SUV's and turn our thermostats down to 72 degrees just because we feel like it.

What's the matter with you, you bitter or something, or didn't you get the O'Memo? 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

I'm bitter cold... and I'm

I'm bitter cold... and I'm loving every minute of it!

I have to turn the thermostat "up" to 72 degrees. 

I think my O'Memo is in a landfill somewhere.

Steven Wright once said he likes to put a humidifier and dehumidifier in the same room and let them fight it out. I wonder if that joke is now considered ecologically insensitive.

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

Get Ready for More!

I bet that microwave ovens, stoves, ovens, washing machines, dish washers, DVD/CD players, refrigerators or anything that Americans use on a daily basis will cause global warming at some point.  I say if they are such a problem then liberals can stop using them.  I won't, but they can.

 Well, the good news is;

 Well, the good news is; cows, and certain people I know, are off the hook.

darn it!

Just when I was about to have a breakthrough in my invention of the bovine catalytic converter. Bummer.

Had Direct tv cancelled

Had Direct tv cancelled yesterday because my checkbook was overheated. Guess I'll have to buy an antenna so that I won't be considered an environmental nut.

I'll help by turning off

I'll help by turning off the news...wait, I already do that.

-- Lostone

Newsprint and global warming

If we could only get a story out about how newsprint causes global warming, we could finally kill off the NYT, LAT and WaPo!

Promoting such a story shouldn't be that difficult.

And wouldn't it be great if hemp caused global warming!  A report like that would almost immediately put a halt to any more stories on climate change.

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We Gave Them Enough Rope

And they're hanging themselves. The Democratic party is tied to and heavily financed by the loons pushing this garbage, and they will be forced to defend it. Let's just see what happens when they do.

Television sets and GW

When I'm watching TV, I'm generally not driving my auto.

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of course TV causes GW

Not the gas in the TV but the garbage the MSM has on it. With them constantly spewing the AGW fear trash, the idiots of the world are buying the whole stupid theory......

→ Eureka Jersey

They created the myth.

They fabricated the visual proof.

They cherrypiked the "experts"

They decide the benchmarks.

They decide what is reported

I'm thinking this game may be rigged.

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I dare say any one

I dare say any one television broadcast station has a larger "carbon footprint" than the production of many televisions receiving their signal.

Lee T.

"Democrats, there is one reason Obama is your party's nominee, and it's not because he's black -- it's because he's not Hillary Clinton." -- Rush Limbaugh, 6/2/08

 

THIS IS FUNNY...

This story makes me feel much better about paying off my 40" Samsung flatscreen, I wish I could add 4 or 5 more to do my fair share for "global warming".

This story reminds me of moronic stunt that NBC pulled during it's Sunday Night Football studio show when they dimmed cut most of the lights in the studio, but has a giant flatscreen behind them flashing images. I was laughing at them, yelling at my TV, "...what's the effing point??!!". I still laugh at that.

Here is all you need to know... "Global Warming Alarmist = Anti-American Marxist.

 

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

danybhoy...

 "Global Warming Alarmist = Anti-American Marxist."

Exactly. You have obviously been paying attention.

 

45 Communist Goals for America http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goals.htm

Wow, this is great news, as I almost never watch the idiot box.

And I now drive a car that gets over 35mpg on the highways.

They can't blame AGW on me! :-)

The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz

RD... Wanna bet? You

RD...

Wanna bet? You don't fit there mold so nothing you do will please them. Unless you go around praising Al Gore.

 45 Communist Goals for America http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goals.htm

Noel, LOL-didja hafta show a pic of Vick?

Cruel, that is. :-)

The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz

The Planet can HANDLE it...MSM cannot

Bring on the Flat Screen revolution......my Workploace is FULL of them...

The Republican Revolution will not be Televised