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EDITORIAL: Global warming catches fire
The Washington Times ^ | January 8, 2013 | Editorial

Posted on 01/08/2013 5:51:44 PM PST by jazusamo

Crusade against carbon dioxide threatens the environment

Technologies advanced as the solution to the purported global warming problem are catching fire — just not in the way intended. Bureaucrats are quickly learning that their regulatory offerings designed to entreat Mother Nature into bestowing cooler temperatures upon the planet have created environmental hazards of their own.

It’s well-known that the fluorescent light bulbs being foisted on a reluctant public spread deadly mercury when dropped. In March, the administration will be free to enforce a federally imposed ban on the manufacturing of warm, pleasing and affordable 100-watt light bulbs. This will force more highly toxic substances into millions of American homes.

Another hazard is being created for automobiles sold in Europe — and eventually in the United States.

Several German automakers, including BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen, have expressed skepticism toward a European Union mandate telling the firms that their in-car air-conditioning systems must be more environmentally friendly. In particular, they are being pushed into deploying a more politically correct refrigerant known as R-1234yf, which regulators insist is perfectly safe.

Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz sedans, raised the alarm when the firm’s own testing revealed the substance increases the risk of vehicle fires. “In the new real-life test scenario, the refrigerant is dynamically dispersed at high pressure near to hot components of the test vehicle’s exhaust system,” the company explained in a statement last year...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: airconditioning; biggovernment; cafe; econuts; envirowackos; epa; globalwarming; ightbulbs; mandates; nannystate; r1234yf; refrigerant
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To: 4FreeSpeach
Ahem! Please provide a credible/peer reviewed reference for this statement.

LMBO!!
If "climate scientists" don't have to legitimately prove anything, why should anybody else?

21 posted on 01/09/2013 5:58:57 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: jazusamo

I’ve been loading up on my incandescents, especially the 75w kind.


22 posted on 01/09/2013 6:02:15 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: 4FreeSpeach
Rush. First hour. Tuesday.

Huh?

Rush. First hour. Tuesday.

23 posted on 01/09/2013 6:09:25 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

I hear ya, Lancey. We’re just not happy with the curly cues.


24 posted on 01/09/2013 6:14:14 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

Last week I replaced a burned-out government light bulb and my wife says, “I don’t think you’re supposed to throw those in with the regular trash.” I laughed and threw it in with the regular trash. “Let Ubama worry about the trash,” I explained.


25 posted on 01/09/2013 6:25:23 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: eyeamok

That is awesome. Stupid envirowhackers.


26 posted on 01/09/2013 6:30:16 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: 4FreeSpeach

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-1097.2012.01192.x/abstract


27 posted on 01/09/2013 6:36:25 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: 4FreeSpeach

I don’t know one way or the other but the article in Scientific American was quoting the research done at Stony Brook University and that explains it better.

http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SBU_Study_Reveals_Harmful_Effects_of_CFL_Bulbs_to_Skin.shtml


28 posted on 01/09/2013 6:40:23 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: Lancey Howard

The link you cite has many stories which appear to be irrelevant to the topic at hand. Could you be so kind as to explicitly cite the specific peer reviewed article that supports excessive UV emissions by compact fluorescent bulbs?


29 posted on 01/09/2013 7:43:59 PM PST by 4FreeSpeach
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30 posted on 01/09/2013 7:52:13 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: listenhillary

The article states:” Measurements of UV emissions from these bulbs found significant levels of UVC and UVA (mercury [Hg] emission lines), which appeared to originate from cracks in the phosphor coatings, present in all bulbs studied. “

To cite some article in this context based on a potential failure of the design is irresponsible on your part. Before you make another posting, please answer what percentage of CFL bulbs fail in exactly this mode?


31 posted on 01/09/2013 7:55:54 PM PST by 4FreeSpeach
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To: 4FreeSpeach

Lighten up Francis. I’m a freeper not a PhD Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

Do your own research. What’s the matter? Huge investments in squiggly florescent bulb manufacturing?

I was just attempting to reference the study to see if that would make you happy. Stop being such a ... never mind.


32 posted on 01/09/2013 8:08:29 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: listenhillary
The problem is that capricious irresponsible postings like yours undermine the credibility of everyone else’s contributions to this forum. Unless you back off, I think you are an excellent example of what undermines FR! What say you?
33 posted on 01/09/2013 8:23:25 PM PST by 4FreeSpeach
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To: 4FreeSpeach

I say you are a person that takes life and yourself so seriously that you are impaired.

Posting the link to that published paper by the original author after you questioned the original source is undermining Free Republic?

I think you need to get over yourself.


34 posted on 01/09/2013 8:31:57 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: 4FreeSpeach

You need to subscribe to Rush and then pull up either the transcript or the audio for the first hour of Tuesday’s show. Rush doesn’t lie. If Rush says the bulbs will give you skin cancer and kill you, then that’s what they’ll do. Rush has no peer.

Of course, Rush is also not a scientist and so I’m pretty sure he was quoting from a news piece.

I bet it was this one:

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/04/great-news-federally-permitted-lightbulbs-a-cancer-risk/


35 posted on 01/09/2013 8:41:52 PM PST by Lancey Howard (A school is supposed to be a safe place? Yeah well, so is the womb.)
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To: listenhillary

I am awe struck at your most compelling response!

Best of all!


36 posted on 01/09/2013 8:43:52 PM PST by 4FreeSpeach
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To: Lancey Howard

I am quite sure if there was a real issue, the trial lawyers would have been over this like a wet T shirt. Got any other evidence?


37 posted on 01/09/2013 8:47:41 PM PST by 4FreeSpeach
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To: 4FreeSpeach; Lancey Howard; listenhillary
I am quite sure if there was a real issue, the trial lawyers would have been over this like a wet T shirt. Got any other evidence?

You seem to be the overbearing know it all, and what evidence do you have that lawyers would be all over this like a wet T shirt. Have you been in one of those contests? :-)

Have you got any evidence to the contrary of the Stony Brook University study? If so link it.

38 posted on 01/09/2013 9:00:00 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

If there is a wrongdoing that has a chance of standing up in court, highly educated lawyers will form a class action suite to benefit them and their collaborators. No action so far may indicate a weak case!


39 posted on 01/09/2013 9:53:49 PM PST by 4FreeSpeach
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To: 4FreeSpeach
If there is a wrongdoing that has a chance of standing up in court, highly educated lawyers will form a class action suite to benefit them and their collaborators.

The scumbag "jackpot justice" trial lawyers would never get the go-ahead on this from the African communist Ubama and his party. The African communist Ubama and his party are the ones who have been pushing the "green" scam that led to mandated government light bulbs in the first place. Therefore, the African communist Ubama and his party do not want to see any embarrassing lawsuits that target the mandated "going green" government light bulbs, especially since, if the politicians stay true to form, they have invested their own money in the companies they knew in advance would be the companies producing the mandated government light bulbs for the masses.

For example, did you know that the GE CEO and the African communist Ubama are butt-hole buddies? Ubama would let the trial lawyers sue GE?
I don't think so.

40 posted on 01/09/2013 10:27:30 PM PST by Lancey Howard (A school is supposed to be a safe place? Yeah well, so is the womb.)
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