F*ck `Em … I’m Keeping My LCD TV
Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming
A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.
Almost half of the televisions sold around the globe so far this year have been plasma or LCD TVs.
But this boom could be coming at a huge environmental cost.
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.
Professor Michael Prather from the University of California has highlighted the issue in an article for the magazine New Scientist.
He has told ABC’s The World Today program that output of the gas needs to be measured.
“One of my titles for this paper was Going Below Kyoto’s Radar. It’s the kind of gas that’s made in huge amounts,” he said.
“Not only is it not in the Kyoto Treaty but you don’t even have to report it. That’s the part that worries me.”
He estimates 4,000 tons of NF3 will be produced in 2008 and that number is likely to double next year.
“We don’t know what’s emitted, but what they’re producing every year dwarfs these giant coal-fired power plants that are like the biggest in the world,” he said.
“And it dwarfs two of the Kyoto gases. So the real question we don’t know is how much is escaping and getting out.”
Dr Paul Fraser is the chief research scientist at the CSIRO’s marine and atmospheric research centre, and an IPCC author.
He says without measuring the quantity of NF3 in the atmosphere it is unclear what impact it will have on the climate.
“We haven’t observed it in the atmosphere. It’s probably there in very low concentrations,” he said.
“The key to whether it’s a problem or not is how much is released to the atmosphere.”
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…man these people need to get a life…
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pmTo paraphrase PJ O’Rourke, “Environmentalism is racial suicide sold by the drink.”
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 pmIn other words, give up your possessions and we’ll all be fine..
GW = Communism.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 pmit sure looks to me like these so-called “scientists”, don’t know alot about this gas……..so how can they possibly predict it’s effects on climate?
the only gas in this article is these jerk-offs farting around.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:49 pmthe one thing I really want for my new house is a nice big plasma - they’re not taking that from me. Kiss my ass.
Contributing to the “problem” right now - using my 17″ hi-def laptop to post this.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 pmBut I’m surprised the eco-nazis aren’t doing any better to fight “global warming” by making the ultimate sacrifice: mass suicide. Forget not driving your car, watching lo-def TV, or planting a garden, because YOU’RE STILL A SINNER at the church of global warming; you’re still a hypocrite. To live completely carbon free, and help the earth out TONS (ha!) you should just kill yourself.
Oh, and manmade global warming is bullshit.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pmthey just make this shit up as they go along. they dont know anything about any of it, its all false. ManbearPig is the biggest polluter in the country.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pmThe only thing I want to know is, are we going to have to put in for permits like in Elk season or will this be more like shooting varmints (no limit), because if we are going to need to be required to get tags and shit then I would like to know early on so I can get them now and not have to wait in line once liberal season starts. Or is this going to be like “open season” anything goes, BYOB and shit?
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 pmAZPatriot,
I say we go with no permit for about the first year or so then we’ll play it by ear after that
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 pmThe gas emitted by an ignoramus’ mouth is 25,000 times as powerful as the nether regions of a sewage treatment plant and could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 pmEnvironmental Marxism, it will never rest until fully discredited. I think it originates from Gorbachev Foundation USA’s think tank in SF. So who would think that the failed Soviet dictator would be useful for anything, well except for Nancy Pel-lala-losi. Nice to see Gorbachev is housed on US government property though. You wouldn’t want him to be uncomfortable now would you.
Most of the heat stored on planet Earth is stored in the oceans. GAs is a terrible store for heat, try heating your coffee with a hair dryer and see. Water vapor is the most powerful of all greenhouse effects, and we have little understanding of how that works, so we ignore it.
July 4th, 2008 at 2:53 amThese pricks win in Nov and you won’t be able to step out of your house without committing a hate crime of some sort. Mother Earth herself in this case.
July 4th, 2008 at 3:10 amBut those stupid new light bulbs with mercury in ‘em are loved by the left.
July 4th, 2008 at 3:30 amThey’re trying to put western civilization into a coma so they can pull the plug.
July 4th, 2008 at 6:11 amSorry guys I don’t care, this is not a threat to our way of living, the left or the rigt way….
I’ll buy a LCD anyway and than get really concerned watching the internatonal news…
July 4th, 2008 at 6:18 amJust heard on the Paul Harvey radio show,
some commie-tard “scientists” claim FIREWORKS are bad for the environment.
Is this the opening salvo against independence day?
July 4th, 2008 at 7:58 am