January 26, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Someone wrote to me today, sending a message that has been circulating on the Internet for about a year, an article that warns that CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lamps) can and may cause fires.

That claim has been debunked by a number of sources.

I wrote back to the individual: Check this link: CFL Bulb Fire Risk

Given the much-higher purchase price for CFLs, it seems that there is little advantage for anyone living in Canada in using CFLs instead of traditional incandescent light bulbs.  Here is more on that.

Heating and cooling

If a building’s indoor incandescent lamps are replaced by CFL’s, the heat produced due to lighting is significantly reduced. In warm climates or in office or industrial buildings where air conditioning is often required, CFL’s would reduce the load on the cooling system when compared to the use of incandescent lamps, resulting in savings in electricity, in addition to the energy efficiency savings of using CFL’s instead of incandescent lamps. However, in cooler climates in which buildings require heating, the heating system will need to replace the inadvertently generated heat. While the CFL’s are still saving electricity, total greenhouse gas emissions may increase in certain scenarios, such as the operation of a natural gas furnace to replace the unintended heating from CFL’s running on low-GHG electricity. In Winnipeg, Canada, it is estimated that CFL’s will only generate 17% savings in energy when switching from incandescent bulbs, as opposed to the 75% savings that can be expected if there were no heating or cooling considerations.^[21]
Source: Compact fluorescent lamp, Heating and cooling; Wikipedia

The Wikipedia article on CFLs contains this information about fire:

Fire hazard

When the base of the bulb is not made to be flame-retardant, as required in the voluntary standard for CFL’s, then the electrical components in the bulb can overheat which poses a fire hazard.^[80] The latest ENERGY STAR CFL specification (which went into effect December 2, 2008) requires all ENERGY STAR qualified CFL’s to incorporate end-of-life requirements and higher safety standards.^[81] The Electrical Safety Authority of Canada has stated that certified bulbs do not pose a fire hazard as they use anti-fire plastics.^[82]

Source: Compact fluorescent lamp, Design and application issues; Wikipedia

The article at the following link is reasonable with respect to it properly summarizing safety concerns.  Moreover, it is more recent than the year-old item you had forwarded.

CFL fire hazard a misconception
Fluorescent bulbs have safety measures built in

Full Story

However, that article promotes the misconception about CFLs being able to provide for large energy savings.  That CFLs will do so is quite simply not true for anyone living in an area requiring heating of one’s home, unless air-conditioning costs are substantially higher than heating costs.

I have not done a proper examination of the causes of fires.  It seems to me that I have read far more reports about incandescent lights causing fires than about fires caused by CFLs.  Nevertheless, I would play it safe and would not leave a CFL lit unattended if it is placed so that sparks from it, when it should fail catastrophically, could fall on any combustibles — such as upholstery — placed below it.  I seem to recall one report about a fire having been caused in Edmonton last year, involving those circumstances.

Nevertheless, any discussions about the relative merits of CFLs over incandescent lamps are now largely moot, unless anyone affected was smart enough to lay in a life-time supply of incandescent lamps.  The incandescent light bulbs we all had become accustomed to during the past hundred years are no longer being manufactured by General Electric, who closed down their last plant for manufacturing them in September of 2010.  In that area, too, climate alarmism won out over common sense.  Read this article: An end of an era – the incandescent light bulb (by Anthony Watts, Dec.27, 2010).

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January 24, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

It is a few months off yet, but the annual spring-time increase in smell from our sewage lagoon is certain to occur in May or June.

The smell need not to happen.  There is a simple solution that will keep the smell down to tolerable levels and make it virtually unnoticeable.

The solution is not very expensive, much cheaper than, say, the price of a new fire hall.  It has been brought to the attention of Town Council and individual members of Town Council a few times over the years, but no reaction or response has ever come forth from any member of the Town Council or from anyone in the Town Office.

To be fair, upon being asked about the limits of our sewage lagoon, there have been statements from the Town Office that our sewage lagoon is capable of digesting the additional load that the anticipated and hoped-for growth of the Bruderheim population without ill effects on the health and quality of life for the people living in Bruderheim.  Yet,  the offensive smell given off by our sewage lagoon when the water in our sewage lagoon turns over in the spring is often so bad that it becomes noticeable, often to the point of becoming intolerable, even inside the homes of Bruderheim residents.  The smell is likely to become worse as the years go by, unless something is done about it.

Bruderheim is not the first community in the world or even in Canada plagued by smells given off by a community’s sewage lagoon.  The science of effective waste-water management and treatment is well-established.

You may wish to consider the following search results, bring them to the attention of the Town Councillors and inform them that you wish them to use a small portion of our tax dollars to solve the problem with the offensive and increasingly objectionable smell of our sewage lagoon, before it becomes a serious and possibly deadly health issue.

“hydrogen sulphide” lagoon aeration - Google Search

The first ten of 786 items on the search-return list:

1. Norway House Cree Nation - Departments

“9 Mar 2010 … Hydrogen sulphide, which has a rotten egg odour, is formed in wastewaters that become [an]aerobic. Aerated Lagoon: A holding pond usually …”
www.nhcn.ca/publicworks.html

2. Quality Pond Aeration

“Quality Pond Aeration. Windmill Aeration is a simple, natural solution to … bad due to gasses (like hydrogen sulphide) that are released into your pond. …”
www3.sympatico.ca/wind.mill/

3. Dugout or Pond Aeration

“Superior Windmill aerators are perfect for dugout or pond aeration. … aeration removes the foul smelling hydrogen sulphide gas odor and prevents anoxia …”
www.superiorwindmill.com/promo/dugout_pond_aeration.html

4. Fisheries :: Home

“Frequent exchange of water can prevent building up of hydrogen sulphide. … Aeration and increasing the pH of water by hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide) …”
agritech.tnau.ac.in/fishery/fish_water.html

5. Fisheries :: Home

“Aeration and water circulation are beneficial in improving bottom soil …”
agritech.tnau.ac.in/fishery/fish_soil.html

6. Bio-Aeration Engineering, Inc. - Anaerobic Digestion

“Bio-Aeration Engineering, Inc. is an environmental company located in Evansville, Indiana. We specialize in the treatment of wastewater in lagoons, …”
www.bioaeration.com/anaerobic_digestion.html

7. Natural Pond Aeration Facts - CLEAN-FLO

“Clean-Flo.com specializes in pond aeration systems which are a natural, … in the water including hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, carbon dioxide, and methane. …”
www.clean-flo.com/articles/natural-pond-aeration-facts/

8. Sewage treatment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“… 2) equipment corrosion due to methanogenesis and hydrogen sulphide, ….. Extended aeration package plants use separate basins for aeration and settling …. “Aerated Lagoons - Wastewater Treatment.” Maine Lagoon Systems Task Force. …”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage_treatment

9. Hailsham North Waste Site Odour Control - APPS

“By taking Hydrogen Sulphide measurements around the site it became apparent … short term running of the lagoon mixers allowing us to aerate these lagoons …”
www.appstechnologies.co.uk/index.php?section=case-studies&page=hailsham

10. Aeration: the Facts, Aqua info, Technical Aquaculture information …

“Western Australian Aquaculture Information on Aeration the true facts. … such as hydrogen sulphide and ammonia, cannot pass through into the water above. …”
www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/aq/aq020/index.php?0404

The Fort Air Partnership monitoring station in Bruderheim (in the back alley, across from Night Moves) will not be of help in determining what the atmospheric H2S (hydrogen sulphide) levels are at any time in Bruderheim.  H2S is not being monitored by that station.

Here is what is being measured at that monitoring station (select “Site 49: Bruderheim” — requires Internet Explorer).

H2S levels are being measured at the following continuous monitoring stations:

Site 43: Fort Saskatchewan
Site 44: Scottford 2
Site 45: Lamont County (north of Elk Island Park)

So, all you have to go by is your nose and hope that as long as you don’t smell the H2S that it may not be because your sense of smell has been overcome by potentially harmful levels of H2S.

By the way, as discussed on this blog before (Temperature measurements for Fort Saskatchewan area, September 30, 2010), the “current” temperature shown on TV and on the website of the Town of Bruderheim is not being measured in Bruderheim.  It is being measured in Elk Island National Park and is usually a couple degrees or so off.

Another measurement of the current Bruderheim temperature can be accessed at the Fort Air Partnership web page for the Bruderheim monitoring station (select “Site 49: Bruderheim” — requires Internet Explorer).

Mind you, I would believe neither of those temperature values shown for Bruderheim.  Right now, the value shown by the Fort Air Partnership is -2°C, the one shown by The Weather Network is 3°C, while the thermometer in my backyard shows 1°C.

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January 23, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

If you wish to generate the graph from scratch, that is easy. Click on the image, scroll down to “Weather history & forecast” and select “Past 10 years”.

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January 20, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Anyone who still believes that we must do all we can to alleviate a global climate crisis due to rising temperature trends and that trillions of dollar must be spend doing so better have another look at the problems with the temperature records discussed in the following.

TransWorldNews
Washington, DC 1/17/2011

US Agencies Still Fiddling Temperature Record, Reports SPPI

NASA and NOAA, which each receive close to half a billion dollars a year in taxpayer funding, have been systematically fiddling the worldwide temperature record for years, making “global warming” look worse than it is, according to a new paper by the Science and Public Policy Institute.  The findings are reported by Joe D’Aleo, a leading meteorologist.

Robert Ferguson, President of SPPI, said: “Despite billions spent on official claims about the supposed threat of catastrophic man-made ‘global warming’, opinion polls show the public are no longer fooled. A  main reason why the voters [don’t buy] climate alarmism any more is that the tiny but well-connected, lavishly-funded Climategate clique keeps on being caught out bending the scientific evidence….(Full Story)

The paper that is being discussed in that article is the following:

WHY NOAA AND NASA PROCLAMATIONS SHOULD BE IGNORED
by Joseph D’Aleo | January 19, 2011
Science and Public Policy Institute
(Download Paper — 1.3 MB PDF file)

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January 19, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Saturday, 15 January 2011 10:37

A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action

By Richard S Lindzen*

The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well. Climate is always changing. We have had ice ages and warmer periods when alligators were found in Spitzbergen. Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now. More recently, we have had the medieval warm period and the little ice age. During the latter, alpine glaciers advanced to the chagrin of overrun villages. Since the beginning of the 19th Century these glaciers have been retreating. Frankly, we don’t fully understand either the advance or the retreat….(Full Story)

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* Richard Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council

Note (2011 01 22): Richard Lindzen mentions the term adiabatic in his discussion paper and makes an important point relating to it.  The meaning of adiabatic relates to the presence of localized warming or cooling, or the lack of mixing across the boundaries, of adjacent parcels of air and is explained in this definition: An Adiabatic versus a Diabatic Process, by meteorologist Jeff Haby.

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January 14, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

There have been warnings before this, but as the article identified farther down shows, Saskatchewan now, too, finds that CO2 injected underground leaks to the surface, but why should anyone be surprised?  Blowing CO2 down Mother Earth’s derriere is not a good idea.

In the case of the Shell CCS Project in Alberta, it is not even done to increase oil production.  Shell will do it for no other reason than to use up money (a billion dollars of taxpayer money) to alleviate superstitious hype and hysteria.  Shell intends to do it in Alberta so as to appease bureaucratic pressure fueled by political expediency.  Not only that, but Shell’s “solution” is a condition for receiving the operating permit for their Scottford Upgrader Project.  Shell would surely not bother with their CCS Project if they would not be pressured into it.  Still, why not?  It is the taxpayers who will be paying the lion’s share of the cost.  That is “free” money, isn’t it?

The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION

Land fizzing like soda pop: farmer says CO2 injected underground is leaking

By: Bob Weber and Jennifer Graham, The Canadian Press

Posted: 01/11/2011 10:22 AM

A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases seeping from the soil are killing animals and sending groundwater foaming to the surface like shaken soda pop.

The gases were supposed to have been injected permanently underground.

Cameron and Jane Kerr own nine quarter-sections of land above the Weyburn oilfield in eastern Saskatchewan. They released a consultant’s report Tuesday that links high concentrations of carbon dioxide in their soil to 6,000 tonnes of the gas injected underground every day by energy giant Cenovus (TSX:CVE) in an attempt to enhance oil recovery and fight climate change….(Full Story)

A couple of the comments provided by readers of the article identify that CO2 is an essential plant food and that the Earth is currently in a CO2 dearth, which is correct, as plant growth will shut down when the atmospheric CO2 level drops to 150 ppm or less.  However, the vast majority of the comments are not confidence-inspiring and indicate an astounding lack knowledge about the role of CO2 in the environment.

Lack of knowledge is of course the reason why the proponents of environmental alarmism can get away with pulling the wool over people’s eyes.

Thanks to wattsupwiththat.com for the tip on this article.  If you wish to gain a realistic understanding of what is involved, don’t bother reading the reader comments at the Winnipeg Free Press, but read instead the comments at wattsupwiththat.com.  See for instance this exchange at wattsupwiththat.com:

R. Gates says:

January 11, 2011 at 11:08 am

I’m skeptical that CO2 could kill any animals as the effect would be logarithmic and would amount to very little effect even at high concentrations. I would look toward solar or ocean influences…it’s natural variation.

REPLY: You also aren’t very good at looking beyond your nose:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/27/quote-of-the-week-36-carbon-sequestrations-fatal-flaw/

CO2 is of course heavier than air, the gravel pit [in Weyburn] makes a perfect trap for small animals and unsuspecting humans.

Read up on Lake Nyos and Lake Kivu. Note the pictures of the dead animals here.

Then tell us again how CO2 in high concentrations leaking out of the ground aren’t a problem. CO2 bubbling out of the ground from any source, be it natural or sequestered, will find any low spots on the surface, and any living things in that low spot have the potential to be killed by asphyxiation. Even something as simple as making wine can kill you if you allow the CO2 to collect around you. It only takes 8% air concentration to kill you in about 10 minutes. See this hazmat source.

However, I predict you’ll try to save face and come up with some lame excuse as to why your version of “no worries” is right and we are wrong to be concerned.

-Anthony

It will without a doubt be interesting to watch for what will happen next, but it seems to me that Richard Courtney, a frequent commenter at wattsupwiththat.com, has a good idea on what to do about cheap and practical CO2 disposal if that should ever be necessary.  In the meantime, until the necessity for that arises, if it ever does, why not just release CO2 into the air? After all, it does wonders for increasing agricultural productivity, the greening of the Earth and solving world hunger. We would save a lot of money that way, and no one would have to worry about anyone getting killed by it.

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January 13, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Today I had sent off an inquiry to Leon Benoit, MP (Conservative) for Vegreville-Wainwright, about a URL for the Handbook for Seniors.

In the meantime, I looked for it on the Internet a bit more, and guess what, I found it, in the most logical place for it, on Leon Benoit’s website.  The reason why Internet searches for the Handbook provided no results is most likely that the Handbook had just today been published on Leon Benoit’s website, which is somewhat surprising, given that the document was created and last modified 19/11/2010 6:52:57 AM.

I suppose that my suggestion today to have the Handbook available on-line and that it was posted just today on Leon Benoit’s website is a mere coincidence, however improbable that may be.

Here is the URL for the Handbook for Seniors:

http://www.leonbenoit.ca/media/20110113_Benoit_Seniors%20Handbook%20FINAL.PDF

I downloaded a copy of the handbook (4MB) and will copy it to the PC at the Seniors Club.

Unfortunately, although the Handbook does have an index, the index is not linked, so that it is not a simple matter to go to a specific chapter, section or page. Still, it is possible to navigate to any desired location in the handbook through,

1. Scrolling to the desired page, or through
2. Copying text from the index, pasting it into the PDF search feature and searching for it, after which one just has to click on the instances listed in the search-return list.

That is better than nothing, and one should not expect our governments to weave miracles or even to be practical.  I guess that a linked index for a large PDF file is simply too much to ask for.

The good thing about the Handbook is that even though it contains a large volume of government propaganda, all of the links shown in the document appear to be functional and permit accessing the locations identified.  That even applies to the e-mail addresses shown for the MLAs whose constituencies overlap with that of Leon Benoit, but it stops there.  If you wish to find an e-mail address for any government agency, you will have to go to the website of that agency to be able to obtain it.

To become fully familiar with all of the information contained in the Handbook will most likely require a very large amount of time, probably more time than even retired seniors can or care to devote to that task.  However overwhelming the large volume of information in the Handbook may be, on balance it may be useful, provided one has enough patience to wade through it all, and provided one is willing to spend the time required to separate the wheat from the chaff.

For instance, if one is looking for information on “Tax Savings for Seniors and Pensioners”, it is somewhat difficult to determine how taxes can be saved by anyone, considering that one had to go through a susbtantial amount of information like:

HOW THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT HAS HELPED SENIORS
TAX RELIEF AND MONETARY SAVINGS FOR SENIORS

Our Conservative Government has introduced landmark changes to ease
the tax burden on Canadian seniors since 2006 providing nearly $2
billion annually in tax relief to seniors and pensioners, including:
• Increased the age credit twice, in 2006 and again in 2009, by $1,000
each time, which provides additional tax savings to 2.2 million
seniors
• Provided a one-time 25% reduction in minimum Registered
Retirement Income Fund for 2008
• Budget 2007 increased the age limit for maturing pensions and
RRSPs from 69 to 71
• The Tax Fairness Plan introduced pension income splitting for the
2007 and subsequent tax years

and-so-on…

Highlighting of text in the Handbook, for copying, is difficult and very error-prone, so that it will not be easy to pass information on or to extract just desired portions, deleting extraneous information that is of no use other than to promote good feelings about all the good work that was done on behalf of seniors without actually identifying anything of interest to anyone at the moment.

Most likely, if anyone wishes to point out information in the Handbook that may be of interest to others, it may be most efficient to print out a given page and to highlight the information on it that may be of use.

The considerable amount of time I have spent on the Handbook so far has not helped to enable me to determine what sort of information in the Handbook for Seniors can actually be of use to any seniors (except perhaps things like that immersing a burn in cool water is better than to smear butter on it), although there is no doubt in my mind that I have come across a very large amount of information that stresses that having the conservative government around has been the best thing for seniors since sliced bread was invented, which, given how we were taken for a ride by the Liberals, may well be true.

Nevertheless, I have not been able to find anything that helps seniors with escalating prices for gas, food, energy, taxes and rent, but I suppose that as long as any yuppy is willing to pay ten dollars for a liter of water, gasoline at a dollar a liter should be considered a bargain.  That may as well extend to $1.50 a liter for milk and the price we pay for bread.

However, the words gasoline, bread or milk show up not once in the handbook, while energy is being mentioned in passing — in connection with a questionnaire on the benefits of healthy living.  I guess that milk, bread and other foodstuffs are not as important in that respect as feeling energetic is, even though no healthy living is possible without affordable prices for heating one’s home and for the food one needs to keep alive.

I wish I could afford to do so, and if I could, I would offer prizes for the first three seniors who can demonstrate to me that having the Handbook for Seniors around has actually helped them solve a problem.  However, rest assured that if you are a senior, the handbook will be good for you, because on the last of the 68 pages of the document it states:

Final Thoughts

This Handbook for Seniors is meant to provide an overview of local and national topics relevant to seniors and retirees in the constituency of Vegreville - Wainwright.

Although I have not been able to determine anything that is obviously relevant to seniors in the Handbook, upon much further searching I will without a doubt become more enlightened on that apparent omission.  Still, it seems to me that the one obvious advantage that could have been offered by the Handbook, namely being a concise directory of government services for seniors, has been substantially diluted with overwhelming portions of propaganda that account for the vast majority of the information contained in the 68 pages of the document.

Yes, it is becoming increasingly more difficult for seniors to live well or even only in comfort, but having the Handbook for Seniors around will do a lot to make seniors feel good about that.  See, it is only a matter of mind over matter, and it did not take me 68 pages to state that.

–Walter

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January 9, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to wattsupwiththat.com:

PHYSORG.com
Jan. 9, 2011

Igloo-shaped ‘Poo-Gloos’ eat sewage

January 9, 2011 Enlarge

Poo-Gloos — inexpensive devices to extend the lifespan of sewage lagoons for towns and small cities outgrowing their waste-treatment facilities — are half submerged as officials fill this sewage lagoon in Wellsville, Utah. The igloo-shaped devices are submerged when operating, and a new study shows they remove organic waste and other pollutants from sewage just as well as much more expensive mechanical sewage-treatment plants. Credit: Waste Compliance Systems Inc.

Inexpensive igloo-shaped, pollution-eating devices nicknamed “Poo-Gloos” can clean up sewage just as effectively as multimillion-dollar treatment facilities for towns outgrowing their waste-treatment lagoons, according to a new study.

“The results of this study show that it is possible to save communities with existing lagoon systems hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, by retrofitting their existing wastewater treatment facilities with Poo-Gloos,” says Fred Jaeger, chief executive officer of Wastewater Compliance Systems, Inc., which sells the Poo-Gloo under the name Bio-Dome….(Full Story)

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A few years ago I suggested to some members of our town council that it would be worth their while to check out a cheap system of aerating our sewage lagoon.  That would not require a large capital investment and not much more in the way of construction than to install perforated plastic hoses through which air would be discharged to keep the water in a lagoon turning over constantly.  The air could be pumped through the hoses by windmill-powered pumps.  Total costs would probably start up in the order of about $4,000 to $5,000.

Systems like that have been used successfully in lagoons to clear up and prevent odors in large hog productions and in some small towns.  For one thing, such a system of aeration would prevent the annual turn-over of the water in our sewage lagoon that regularly in the spring makes it very unpleasant to spend time outdoors in Bruderheim or any other town plagued by sewage smells from its lagoon.  However, that is not the only thing the system would do.  The research done to produce the aeration system described in the lead-in article showed that sewage water in lagoons can be treated within as short a time as 30 days instead of the year it takes now.

No one from the town council ever responded to the suggestion.  Perhaps, now that the principle of sewage-lagoon aeration has been elevated to a promising commercial level for community planning, it is time for our town council to take another look at what can be done to make life more pleasant in Bruderheim.

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January 7, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Climate Realists:

Canada Free Press
2011 01 06

Blinds on the greenhouse window create cooling. Clouds are nature’s blinds

Greenhouse Effect; Everybody Talks About It But Few Know What It Is

By Dr. Tim Ball

It is amazing how people have very strong opinions about ideas and terms they don’t understand. Greenhouse effect is one of these and lack of understanding about it is exploited to dictate global energy and economic policies at great and unnecessary expense.

They claim the Earth’s atmosphere is like a greenhouse. It isn’t. Most don’t know how ‘official’ greenhouse science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claim it works. Some think it’s the same as global warming because they associate greenhouses, which some call hothouses, with high temperature….(Full Story)

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Dr. Tim Ball’s explanation of the “greenhouse effect” illustrates that fears of it are overblown, based on superstitions, that the”science” of global warming is a misrepresentation and at best not settled.  The conclusion is unavoidable that projects like Shell’s CCS Project near Bruderheim serve no practical purpose other than that they are expensive appeasements of climate-alarmism cultists designed to defraud the taxpayers for the sake of political expediency.

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January 7, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Climate Realists:

Right Side News
2011 01 06

It’s Time to Bow to the Flying Global Warming Monster

By Daniel Greenfield

…Global Warming is not science, it’s six-tenths greed and four-tenths ideological fanaticism angled against the unlimited potential of humanity. Some will grow rich off it. Most will be impoverished. Like most cults only a privileged few are allowed at the top….

(Full Story)

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