International Change Your Lightbulb To Save The Planet Day*

25 Replies to “International Change Your Lightbulb To Save The Planet Day*”

1. Wait a minute, did that volcano violate international emissions standards? Clearly Mother Nature is anti-environment.
   Sadly, there is no punishment I could suggest that wouldn’t sound like a double entendre. I really did try – strip mining, drilling, fracking. Honestly, English. You have failed me.

2. Kind of makes wealth distribution small in comparison, doesn’t it?

3. I will give up my 100 Watt (A Watt is a unit of power North of
   60) Incandescent light bulb when they pry it from my cold-dead hand!
   “If you build it, they will come.” By “It,” I mean power plants.
   And by “They,” I mean high paying industrial jobs.
   I once spent more than $200.00 on a Lincoln 18v cordless grease
   gun on Amazon. It was made in CHINA!
   Feeling a little bit better about this purchase, I ordered a
   Williams brand 3/4″ impact socket set on Amazon. When I got
   it, I found out it was made in TAIWAN! Williams was one of
   the oldest and greatest manufacturers of hand tools in America
   for more than 100 years!
   Guess they both got tired of being ass-raped with a 40 grit
   sandpaper condom by the government and paying sky-high energy
   prices. How in the Hell could I possibly blame them?

4. This was an eruption in the Alutian Islands a couple of years ago. But, hey, there goes Al Gores carbon budget.

5. That image is spectacular.
   And this eruption once again proves why Gaia-worship is pointless:
   Mother Nature doesn’t care.

6. Gaia has gone flatulent, – why can’t stuff like this happen in the fruit fly’s back yard.

7. Or under his ass.

8. It is beautiful.
   What JJM and Occam said.
   Leonard Jones, I have enough 100 Watt light bulbs stashed away for my lifetime and will be able to bequeath some to my children.

9. Doggone it, Kate. I saw the caption on your post and ran right away to go change a lightbulb (looking for one o’ them nice eco-friendly mercury-containing twisty fluorescents) before I realized you were pulling our leg.

10. So cool. Look at the heat island. The condensation cloud near the top as it cools and the pyro clastic flow down to the sw.

11. Sarychev volcano 2009 Come on Kate… As cool as this is, it is old news by now.

12. I recall working with some Williams tools in a sawmill here in Alberta, excellent tools back then… I didn’t know they’d sold their name to someone in Taiwan.

13. Al those carbon offsets ruined!!

14. Now that’s what I call a carbon emission!

15. (A Watt is a unit of power North of 60) Posted by: Leonard Jones
    Actually Lennie, a Watt is a unit of power everywhere on the planet not just North of 60, but I can see how someone from Californicatia USofA could be confused by that.

16. Perhaps it’s a regional thing, but we can still buy all sorts of 100 watt incandescent light bulbs at our stores.

17. I will say that now that 100 watt equivalant LED bulbs are available, I buy them and like them. Those Mr Softee mercury bulbs were just one more example of a green left/fascist coalition’s misguided/evil clusterfuck.

18. everything has been said that an intelligent person can understand. wow. one volvano and more CO2 than billions of humans can exude in years.

19. They may still be in business Marc. They probably fled to
    Taiwan, and I assume Lincoln fled to China as well. I base
    this on the fact that both products had an exceptionally
    good build quality. This generally only happens when someone
    who cares about a brand name is overseeing production.
    If you want to see a good example of what Chinese tools look
    like, stop off at a Harbor Freight store if you are ever in
    the Southern California area. The shit is so cheesy that
    it looks like it would break just by picking it up. But it
    does sell to homeowners who would not know a quality tool
    if it hit them on the head!

20. I am not confused about anything North of 60.

21. Tim, even the LED’s are a solution to a problem that does
    not exist. When you stop building power plants and ignore
    the laws of supply and demand, energy prices soar. The
    greater the supply the lower the price. Same goes with
    gasoline. We could all be driving pickup trucks and
    classic Cadillacs if we were not dealing with an
    artificially imposed energy drought!

22. I’m sure you believe that Lennie, just keep trying, you’ll get it one of these days.

23. Anybody who thinks we cannot or should not build new generating
    capacity is seriously delusional, and deserves to be shivering
    in the dark when the train wreck occurs!

24. Chinese tools, made to be sold, not used

25. Theres a real diffrence bewteen Bright Bulbs like we have in our homes and Dim Bulbs that are in Washington D.C. and the various eco-freak groups and the dimist of the dim-bulbs is AL GORE