Posted on 12/27/2008 9:48:19 AM PST by andrew roman
Being good for the sake of goodness alone - without all of that God nonsense mixed in - may indeed be one of the more industrious advertising campaigns implemented by atheists this holiday season, but fear not ... environmentalists aren't too happy with Christmas either. In fact, according to scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) of Australia, Christmas may be ruining the planet.
If you happen to be one of those self-involved, less-than-conscientious observers of Christmas who bothers to decorate his or her home with holiday lights, without as much as a stitch of consideration for what you are doing to the environment, you are dead-red guilty of contributing to the demise of the Earth.
In other words, your string of Christmas lights is killing us.
From the Courier Mail in Australia:
Scientists have warned that Christmas lights are bad for the planet due to huge electricity waste and urged people to get energy efficient festive bulbs.
CSIRO researchers said householders should know that each bulb turned on in the name of Christmas will increase emissions of greenhouse gases.
Dr Glenn Platt, who leads research on energy demand, said Australia got 80 per cent of its electricity by burning coal which pumps harmful emissions into the atmosphere.
The culprit here is electricity - or rather, "centralized carbon intensive, coal-based power stations" that produce the electricity needed to power these little flickering balls of grim death.
"Energy efficient bulbs, such as LEDs, and putting your Christmas lights on a timer are two very easy ways to minimize the amount of electricity you use to power your lights."
Dr Platt added: "For a zero-emission Christmas light show, you may consider using solar powered lights ..."
That sounds so remarkably festive, doesn't it? A "zero-emission Christmas light show." Someone ought to compose a song.
While the increase of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has not - repeat not - been proven to cause a rise in surface temperatures (as the Al Gore Green-o-crats would have you believe), I'm willing to pretend for a moment it does.
My question then would be ... can we possibly get more cars on the road? More smoke stacks a-pumping? More incandescent light bulbs a-burning?
If growing carbon dioxide levels do lead to rising temperatures, we need more of it here in the United States.
I assure you, I did my part. I even had Christmas lights burning inside the damn mailbox.
And to all of you across the nation who experienced some of the worst ice storms in decades, please accept my most sincere apologies. I strung up as many lights as I possibly could.
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Heh heh heh. You can’t make this stuff up folks.
These guys don’t even think about what they spew any more. I’ll bet they are all Mensa members. LOL!
But it's STILL way too cold to suit me, even if it IS Alaska. And we even got 5" of snow on Christmas day. More lights, fellers! We need more lights!
This made me wonder if the people on that commission were related to the dimbulb who pronounced that our corn and other domestic and commercial crops in the fields were using up way too much sunlight, and leaving nothing for the wild things to use.
Not all Mensa members are idiots
Nobody seems to complain about the pollution caused by newspapers. I canceled mine years ago for the sake of the trees ....and of course...the children.
Dear Grinchie people,
I like that string of Christmas lights...
It reminds me of the birth of my only Begotten Son, Jesus..
The night He was born of the Virgin Mary, there was a brilliant light that shone down on that lttle rough stable in Bethlehem...
Since that time Christians have remembered the birth of their Savior in many different ways over the centuries...
Candles on living trees in Medieval Germany, once placed there by pagans to worship unknown gods, have become strings of small electric lights, both colored or plain white, and placed on Christmas trees and houses...
Now they celebrate the birth of the Christ child...
If I’m not mad at the people, who do you think you are to complain?
Like I said, I like it...
Where’s your string of Christmas lights?
Your house looked gloomy and cold this year...
Reflected your gloomy and cold heart...
What did you say your name was?
Scrooge?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Thought I had already taught him a thing or two...
Well, leave that string of Christmas lights alone...
Go out and hit the stores instead...
There’s big sales on...
There’s a special on Christmas lights...
Go get you some...
For next year...
Love,
God
Didn’t say they were.
But seems a lot of them are like Isaac Asimov. High IQ but believed that socialism was a superior economic system. Is such a person really intelligent?
IQ testing is highly overrated.
Oh don’t get me wrong. Most mensans I have met are imbeciles but hopefully this mensan has a little more common sense that the usual member
no but what egos....
“...I’ll bet they are all Mensa members...”
Perhaps they took a Mensa test that had no science in it.
Isaac Asimov...I have pretty much all the issues of IASFM from 1980-1993. Two things about that magazine’s run stand out : One, a crappy , trite story with cardboard characters and crappy dialogue will happily be published so long as it bashes Christianity (that may have been Shawna Mccarthy’s doing, not IA’s) and two, Mr Rocket Scientist/Foundation Series Novelist mocking the guy who sent in a letter expressing a wish for a cable station devoted to science fiction films and TV series. IA stated (very condescendingly) that there just weren’t SF fans in the USA to make such a station a financial success..Just a few years before the Sci Fi channel started its long and successful run. (Though I will concede that the Sci Fi channel seems to show a lot more horror and fantasy than SF/sci fi, but whatever....)
“YOUR STRING OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IS KILLING US”
Piano wire would be quicker.
I know wehat we can do. Lets hang radical environmentalists instead of Christmas lights.
Well. You’re a Freeper, right? There’s no greater case for superior intelligence. LOL!
We own most of the IA SF mags too. It was pretty good I thought until IA croaked and it went down the sexual content path. I used to have great fun reading IA’s letter feedback. He sure was one arrogant cuss.
He wrote some excellent pioneering stories that I grew up on so I’ll always thank him for that. But he had so many screwy social ideas that he seemed like a demented idiot sometimes. His hatred of Reagan was clinically psychopathic.
He was a great writer but, alas, someone who would starve to death in a room full of jars of peanut butter and loaves of bread.
These people need to be flogged.
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