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By John Mauer As the cost of electricity rises, most of us want to save money. This leads many of us to replace our incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) which are known to use less power. However, most CFLs contain a small amount of Mercury, which is toxic especially if the bulbs are broken while hot. Now, a new report by the German Federal Environmental Agency shows that such Mercury emissions in the home can be dangerous, especially to young children and pregnant women. Recently, a noted physicist, Hal Lewis, resigned from the American Physical Society. His letter of resignation indicts the leadership of that society, who have made and continue to make, fraudulent claims for climate change. He noted that climate change funding has corrupted many scientists today, and said, “It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.” By John Mauer Global warming is in retreat at the moment, even as CO2 concentration increases. If one looks at the data, increased CO2 concentration does not cause, and has not caused, a large world-wide increase in temperature. The greenhouse effect, however real, is neither large enough nor independent of other effects to cause substantial warming. Continue Reading By John Mauer Today, every news show seems to talk about carbon dioxide (CO2), but usually with very little reference to actual data. Much of the news is dominated by political scare tactics or abject rejection of all science. So, here we describe, in a series of articles, the actual data as available on-line with references and some added science discussion. Continue Reading Rarely do outside events reach into Kent in a meaningful way. A business failure or downsizing in New Milford will cause some of our residents to lose their jobs. A crash on the stock market will cause the second-home market to dry up. Yet, except for our soldiers, international events seem far removed from every day life here. However, such is not the situation with recent events in global warming science. Continue Reading |
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