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JEEZ, this is seriously getting ridiculous, I mean this global warming stuff, everywhere in life it keeps popping up. How do these people expect us to live!? This global warming stuff is nothing but the religion that is environmentalism and about these people wanting to control our lives, or to make us feel like we are committing the ultimate in sin or something. I am seriously so sick of hearing and reading about it. LET PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES. If we need more energy, we can build more coal plants. I seriously cannot believe they want to make energy efficiency mandatory for electronics products. They don’t pollute like a car! Oh, but it’s “bad for the Earth.” These people expect you to not use any kind of technology, ride a bike to work, and live in the smallest home possible! ANY kind of material indulgence is sinful. I don’t need the government’s tongue shoved up my #### to live my life. The fact that I choose to drive what is essentially an oversized station wagon that gets 12 miles to the gallon, live in a large home, and fill said home with numerous electronics products, is ultimately none of their business.

If global warming is a problem (which after extensive research I have come to conclude it is just a big farce, and contray to popular believe BTW, no there is no “consensus” on it either), then we can handle said problem by ADVANCING technology, not by trying to contrain people’s lifestyles with draconian regulations.

Prentice, you can choose to be a wasteful as your conscience and your finances allow but you are wrong about several things. The one I’ll address is the ‘there is no “consensus”’ lie. In fact there is a consensus that global climate change is happening and that human activities are a contributing factor if not a root cause. The report out of the IPCC is actually very conservative, excluding many factors because of political objections by some of the countries that sponsored scientists on the panel. I.e., you can take the final IPCC report to be a sort of best case scenario. Advancing technologies will help but the majority of them will be ineffective without social and political changes, which many folks such as yourself do not have the will to undertake.

transformers do not change ac to dc ...

so you have a lot of stuff, but not any fundamental knowledge ...

also,  what i see on this site is pure fluff for people with only money, and little understanding or interest in real futures
beyond say - a couple years?

  - r
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Prentice,
Keep talking - your just making your ignorance all the more obvious. We are very wasteful in this country especialy when it comes to luxury items. And science has proven that everything from cars to the paint you use on your walls and how it is applied DOES damage the earth. Many of these scientists have been funded to do this research by people like you who wanted to disprove it.

My bad on AC-to-DC “transformers” in the article. I should have referred to them as adapters.

-sc