Carbon Flourescent Lamps ???

What, a Carbon Fluorescent Lamp or a (wickedly evil planet-destroying) tungsten filament one? :-)

Hm, maybe they got confused with carbon-arc lamp ? :)

"kreed"

Google turns up a few hundred hits on the phrase " carbon fluorescent " - most of them from dopes on Green blogs but one is from a CFL maker in India and others from local councils in the UK etc.

Crikey !!!

... Phil

You know "The Great Global Warming Swindle" has been heavily criticised for alleged partiality ? I'll leave you to make your own judgement about that, but their sources were first class IMHO.

Then think 'gravy train' and who has most to lose by showing that AGW is either a crock of s*it or vastly overestimated.

Graham

I think it was Channel 4 but you're right, it is in that class of quality documentary. No funny games, just straight facts and interviews with SERIOUS and well qualified scientists.

The public is gradually seeing through the political fog. Give it some years.

Graham

I think he's being a bit 'precious' about that. The questions and answers were IIRC perfectly clear.

You bet. Gravy train or what ?

I've never seen that one.

I did see a documentary some decades earlier (BBC I think) that said we were headed for a new Ice Age.

I wish they could make their minds up ! Too many researchers chasing too many grants is my analysis. And AGW is simply 'flavour of the month' so it gets the lion's share.

Graham

I can WELL believe that !

People have lost their jobs for being critical of the AGW monster.

Graham

Even seen one of those ?

Graham

Doesn't surprise me one bit. The Loonies are taking over. Look at Gore and his Nobel for example.

Graham

In a similar vein, I often wonder whether it is deliberate or not - the "horrible polution" pictures we see almost every night on tv, where we are presented with shots of the hyperbolic cooling towers at power stations spewing forth massive clouds of ... beautiful clean steam! Looks impressive, I must admit, but surely SOMEONE must realise? JW² ===

Same applies to the visible car exhaust on a chilly morning - its water vapour!

'Even'? ... did you mean 'Ever'?

There's probably a pun in that somewhere (remaining eye, etc), but I recall they were used extensively in film, making and projecting, until HID came along.

Chris

Wots a flourescent lamp?

Can you make a cake with it?

Not the media. They are all journalism majors. That means they were too stupid to remember, "DOYALLWANTFRIESWITHDAT".

Stop the ignorant eye jokes. I had a palsy in my right eye early last month, and can only use one eye and there is absolutely nothing funny about losing depth perception, and almost half your field of view. To add insult to injury, the remaining eye is legally blind, so I am unable to do most things I could seven weeks ago.

Yes, but it will smell bad.

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Sporadic E is the Earth's aluminum foil beanie for the 'global warming' sheep.

Classic 'anything that makes a good picture' stuff. Shame CO2 isn't visible. Even if it is responsible for anything.

Graham

Yes.

You bet and ancient theatre lighting too IIRC.

My school friends and I built one in our spare lab. Despite the significant ballast resistor it still blew a fuse.

Graham