Continuing the 25 Days Of Climate Christmas
(TribLive) Strands of lights are ubiquitous this time of year — tangled in leafless trees, framing windows, sparkling their way to Santa’s sled. They are a beaming reminder of the warm feelings of the holiday season and the environmental costs of this time of hyper-consumption. In 2003, a paper published by the Department of Energy estimated that holiday lights accounted for 2.22 terawatt-hours of energy use per year in the United States, which roughly equals the energy consumed by 200,000 homes annually. With numbers like that, coal may be the best thing to stuff in your neighbor’s twinkling stocking. He may need it.
Fortunately, Christmas lights have gradually switched over to LED in recent years. They are up to 90 percent more efficient than old-fashioned incandescent bulbs. So, should you trash your old holiday blinkers for their LED counterpart?
Yes, the article says, because they are evil energy sucking lights, and “If you’re harboring a strand of incandescent lights, the Earth begs you to ditch it and go for the LEDs.” Begs, I tell, you, begs!
But, what about stringing your tree with popcorn?
In other words, from an environmental perspective, there’s very little difference between trimming your tree with a pound of popcorn and using a strand of LED lights. That may seem surprising, since natural, farm-raised popcorn just feels greener than manufactured lights.
So, popcorn is OK. And the very fact that these Warmists even consider this into their calculations regarding Christmas is bat-guano insane. Then, their whole cult is bad-guano insane. Something like this will probably have them gnashing their teeth
If we pay for the energy, then who’s business is it of anyone else.
For those places that value the energy commodity and don’t punish their people, free energy equates to technological advancements and better quality of life for the poor and minority.
I’d love to see my tree if the dogs saw me putting a lb of popcorn on it. So far, they haven’t attempted to eat the lights or decorations. Oh, did I say I have dogs? Whoops. And that I prefer to use the big bulb old fashioned electricity sucking lights.
My Choice/s. These same bat guano nazis will scream about a Woman’s choice all day long. But they see this climate crap as they know better. Which they clearly do not.