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Flat Screen TV’s Are Latest Global Warming Culprit
If it’s something you like to do or something you like to own, chances are that liberals are going to blame it on global warming. Such is the case with flat screen TV’s, which have become the latest victims in an increasingly hysterical global warming agenda.
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.”
I think the fact that Professor Prather is “worried” about gas inside a plasma TV says more about him than it does the TV. Scientists should measure the gas coming out of all the global warming alarmists and see what damage it might be doing to the environment.
