Arfa Daily wrote:
Oh yes, Dave. You are preaching to the converted ! Probably, actually, to
the original pastor !! I'm famous on the 'net for crying about CFLs,
lead-free solder, and eco-bollox in general. I have had a good rant many
times about the eco 'credentials' of this so-called 'green' technology,
including the hidden costs of manufacturing, shipping, and disposing of
CFLs - and ugly windmills all over the land and seascapes and tidal
electricity mills and now fields of PV panels.

You don't really remember who invented global warming do you?

Back in the mid 1980's when the coal miner's strike brought the UK economy
to its knees (the pound was $1.05), Margaret Thatcher came up with it as a
way of preventing the miners from ever having a politicial voice again.

The whole idea was to make coal and the miners so "dirty" to the common
man that the mines would be closed and they would be the last generation
of miners destined to finish out their (longer) lives on the dole.

It sort of worked until Al Gore got into the carbon credit business. He
had a professional "pitch" put together to get investors (something
every startup does) and it took off. In the end it became the power point
pitch that won a Nobel prize.

It's not as far fetched as you think. Before she got into politics,
Thatcher was an industrial engineer and is the mother of modern ice
cream. She calculated the exact proportion of air that could be added to
ice cream and still sold as ice cream.

Now except for home made and few specialty products, all ice cream is made
from a variation of her formula.

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To help restaurants, as part of the "stimulus package", everyone must order
dessert. As part of the socialized health plan, you are forbidden to eat it. :-)