<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: Washington Post: Light Bulb Ban Is &#8220;Impressive&#8221;</title> <atom:link href="http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/</link> <description>Climate Change News &#38; Analysis</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:41:58 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=</generator> <item><title>By: Natural Gas Facts &#38; Figures from MIT &#124; Women&#039;s Team CO2 Footprint Project</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61302</link> <dc:creator>Natural Gas Facts &#38; Figures from MIT &#124; Women&#039;s Team CO2 Footprint Project</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:21:01 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61302</guid> <description>[...] coercive efficiency standards have serious downsides (see here, here, here, and here). But note the implication of Moniz&#039;s analysis: DOE efficiency standards are [...]</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] coercive efficiency standards have serious downsides (see here, here, here, and here). But note the implication of Moniz&#039;s analysis: DOE efficiency standards are [...]</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Natural Gas Facts &#38; Figures from MIT</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61298</link> <dc:creator>Natural Gas Facts &#38; Figures from MIT</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:46:16 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61298</guid> <description>[...] coercive efficiency standards have serious downsides (see here, here, here, and here). But note the implication of Moniz&#039;s analysis: DOE efficiency standards are [...]</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] coercive efficiency standards have serious downsides (see here, here, here, and here). But note the implication of Moniz&#039;s analysis: DOE efficiency standards are [...]</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: pjoe</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61238</link> <dc:creator>pjoe</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:09:02 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61238</guid> <description>Updates on the 7 US state repeal bills  on Ceolas.net (legislated Texas June 17th) and on the Canadian Government&#039;s 2014 delay plans</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Updates on the 7 US state repeal bills  on Ceolas.net<br /> (legislated Texas June 17th) and on the Canadian Government&#8217;s 2014 delay plans</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: peterdub</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61237</link> <dc:creator>peterdub</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:07:58 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61237</guid> <description>How many politicians or bureaucrats should it take to change a light bulb? None. How many citizens should be allowed to choose? Everyone. Updates on the 7 US state repeal bills  http://ceolas.net (legislated Texas June 17th) and on the Canadian Government&#039;s 2014 delay plans</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many politicians or bureaucrats should it take to change a light bulb?<br /> None.<br /> How many citizens should be allowed to choose?<br /> Everyone.<br /> Updates on the 7 US state repeal bills <a href="http://ceolas.net" rel="nofollow">http://ceolas.net</a><br /> (legislated Texas June 17th) and on the Canadian Government&#8217;s 2014 delay plans</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: RankineCycle</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61235</link> <dc:creator>RankineCycle</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:32:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61235</guid> <description>I don&#039;t like any kind of micromanaging of people&#039;s lives, but I do have a problem with the statement: &quot;Consumers know what is best for them&quot;Certainly not the case, especially when it comes to the use of something as ethereal as energy. Unfortunately, consumers will believe urban legends, newspaper op-eds, radio entertainment, and infomercials before they will take heed to factual information. Engineering jargon about watts, lumens, color temperature, milligrams of mercury, and coal-fired electricity mercury emission rates never seems to hit home as good as Rush and Glenn telling horror stories about goulish, flickering light and hazmat crews to clean up broken fluorescent lamps.Gas-discharge lighting has been proven and used for years in industry, with 75% lower electricity consumption per unit of light output compared with incandescent. Unfortunately the public hasn&#039;t the intelligence (as illustrated by Rush and Glenn&#039;s horror stories) to properly use it in their homes, even with a wild selection of cheap screw-in lamps.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t like any kind of micromanaging of people&#8217;s lives, but I do have a problem with the statement: &#8220;Consumers know what is best for them&#8221;</p><p>Certainly not the case, especially when it comes to the use of something as ethereal as energy. Unfortunately, consumers will believe urban legends, newspaper op-eds, radio entertainment, and infomercials before they will take heed to factual information. Engineering jargon about watts, lumens, color temperature, milligrams of mercury, and coal-fired electricity mercury emission rates never seems to hit home as good as Rush and Glenn telling horror stories about goulish, flickering light and hazmat crews to clean up broken fluorescent lamps.</p><p>Gas-discharge lighting has been proven and used for years in industry, with 75% lower electricity consumption per unit of light output compared with incandescent. Unfortunately the public hasn&#8217;t the intelligence (as illustrated by Rush and Glenn&#8217;s horror stories) to properly use it in their homes, even with a wild selection of cheap screw-in lamps.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: NiiKFromNYC</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61224</link> <dc:creator>NiiKFromNYC</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:55:20 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61224</guid> <description>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Now moot is the gun barrel enforced religious symbolic act of mercurially sacrificing Edison bulbs while churningly turning remaining pristine winded hills and mountains and oceans too into power line and access path befouled support networks for monstrous bird-chopping industrial towers, shadow-casting bat lung blasting icons of the Church of Climatology, the swinging knives of The Green Bank Authority.The stolen armor of science falls down before it, yet inertia of the fall itself of this giant of hypocrisy now carries a power grab along, re-energizing it in crucial moment, impossibly, birthing already tooth and claw clad green babes. Up until one century ago there lived, in the Zi Duang province of eastern country, a glass-like spider. Having devoured its prey it would drape the skeletons over its web, creating a macabre shrine of remains. Its web was also unique in that it had many layers, like floors of a building. At the top of this palace-like place, assembled with almost apparent care, were tiny shining objects, glass, beads, dew-drops. One could almost call it an altar. When the breeze blew thru this construction, it produced sounds of wailing, crying.Tiny wails, tiny cries.The baby spiders would get scared and search frantically for their mother. But the Glass Spider would have long gone, having known that the babies would survive somehow on their own.Now that the fast track light bulb ban has garnered fleeted attention, it&#039;s up for normal track vote, likely tomorrow, one that needs only majority instead of super majority support, attached to another bill, in the usual way. Here is a site for you that automatically determines who your representative is and allows you send an e-mail to them, specifically about the sacrifice of greatness to the false gods of falsified science:http://www.capwiz.com/freedomaction/issues/alert/?alertid=51427566&amp;type=COIt&#039;s not likely to pass easily into Mr. Bill Becomes A Law, but this will make the GINO (&quot;Green In Name Only&quot;) Demagogues now adopt the prematurely birthed Bush Jr. bulb ban, after Climagegate and a dozen IPCCgates have revealed that all was not right in the state of Denmark, centered around Copenhagen, wherein Man deemed fit to control the weather.We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4-=Xenon=------BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6iQCVAwUBMArBSGtruC2sMYShAQEwEwQAzNIpRm29UXQwpT9AGctbnn/4GrRibWCt rgSUJaCYn+fP3NMalYUbEbljd+AbWXACuLSUCagKPEoC2vu6fzpO7h2q6TAFewrn JAHFLJHIfvhUXKsQF84BbWdvK6u+qaDjJeTlvTrD4L2dUlEA0OtOVa9ntwPmzt+l dHzeD3JBHFY= =akuU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8212;&#8211;BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE&#8212;&#8211;</p><p>Now moot is the gun barrel enforced religious symbolic act of mercurially sacrificing Edison bulbs while churningly turning remaining pristine winded hills and mountains and oceans too into power line and access path befouled support networks for monstrous bird-chopping industrial towers, shadow-casting bat lung blasting icons of the Church of Climatology, the swinging knives of The Green Bank Authority.</p><p>The stolen armor of science falls down before it, yet inertia of the fall itself of this giant of hypocrisy now carries a power grab along, re-energizing it in crucial moment, impossibly, birthing already tooth and claw clad green babes. Up until one century ago there lived, in the Zi Duang province of eastern country, a glass-like spider. Having devoured its prey it would drape the skeletons over its web, creating a macabre shrine of remains. Its web was also unique in that it had many layers, like floors of a building. At the top of this palace-like place, assembled with almost apparent care, were tiny shining objects, glass, beads, dew-drops. One could almost call it an altar. When the breeze blew thru this construction, it produced sounds of wailing, crying.</p><p>Tiny wails, tiny cries.</p><p>The baby spiders would get scared and search frantically for their mother. But the Glass Spider would have long gone, having known that the babies would survive somehow on their own.</p><p>Now that the fast track light bulb ban has garnered fleeted attention, it&#8217;s up for normal track vote, likely tomorrow, one that needs only majority instead of super majority support, attached to another bill, in the usual way. Here is a site for you that automatically determines who your representative is and allows you send an e-mail to them, specifically about the sacrifice of greatness to the false gods of falsified science:</p><p><a href="http://www.capwiz.com/freedomaction/issues/alert/?alertid=51427566&#038;type=CO" rel="nofollow">http://www.capwiz.com/freedomaction/issues/alert/?alertid=51427566&#038;type=CO</a></p><p>It&#8217;s not likely to pass easily into Mr. Bill Becomes A Law, but this will make the GINO (&#8220;Green In Name Only&#8221;) Demagogues now adopt the prematurely birthed Bush Jr. bulb ban, after Climagegate and a dozen IPCCgates have revealed that all was not right in the state of Denmark, centered around Copenhagen, wherein Man deemed fit to control the weather.</p><p>We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4</a></p><p>-=Xenon=-</p><p>&#8212;&#8211;BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE&#8212;&#8211;<br /> Version: 2.6</p><p>iQCVAwUBMArBSGtruC2sMYShAQEwEwQAzNIpRm29UXQwpT9AGctbnn/4GrRibWCt<br /> rgSUJaCYn+fP3NMalYUbEbljd+AbWXACuLSUCagKPEoC2vu6fzpO7h2q6TAFewrn<br /> JAHFLJHIfvhUXKsQF84BbWdvK6u+qaDjJeTlvTrD4L2dUlEA0OtOVa9ntwPmzt+l<br /> dHzeD3JBHFY=<br /> =akuU<br /> &#8212;&#8211;END PGP SIGNATURE&#8212;&#8211;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Amy Ridenour</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61223</link> <dc:creator>Amy Ridenour</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:38:26 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61223</guid> <description>Any self-respecting person would be embarassed to work at the Post, which in the article discussed here publicly claimed GE, Sylvania and Phillips lobbied for bulb restrictions in order to &quot;nudge&quot; someone to do more R&amp;D.  And who were they supposedly &quot;nudging&quot;?  Themselves?  Yep.Plausible, no.Try again for a theory, Posties.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any self-respecting person would be embarassed to work at the Post, which in the article discussed here publicly claimed GE, Sylvania and Phillips lobbied for bulb restrictions in order to &#8220;nudge&#8221; someone to do more R&amp;D.  And who were they supposedly &#8220;nudging&#8221;?  Themselves?  Yep.</p><p>Plausible, no.</p><p>Try again for a theory, Posties.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: John Hamann</title><link>http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/07/14/washington-post-light-bulb-ban-is-impressive/comment-page-1/#comment-61218</link> <dc:creator>John Hamann</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:24:26 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=9915#comment-61218</guid> <description>Welcome to the United Socialist Republic of America where the old out-of-date U.S. Constitution has been religated to museum status.  Where Christianity and freedom have been dissavowed by those that are more knowledgeable than the mere average citizen and know best what is good for us.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the United Socialist Republic of America where the old out-of-date U.S. Constitution has been religated to museum status.  Where Christianity and freedom have been dissavowed by those that are more knowledgeable than the mere average citizen and know best what is good for us.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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