Ban All Incandescents (A Not So Bright Idea) « The Air Vent

...The net result in our case will be an increase in CO2 emissions because we will use more natural gas to heat the house.

In Canada or cold locations around the world where furnaces run most of the year, the change from incandescent makes little sense. If the heat is not thought of as wasted, the bulbs are extremely high efficiency sources using a minimum of excess resource. Instead of turning off the light when you leave the room, if it’s cold out and the heat is running go ahead and leave it on. There’s not much difference, just the cost/btu of gas to the cost/Joule of electricity. Either way the room stays warm.

Check out the insane lyrics that schoolkids have been taught this Christmas season

This is the "Christmas concert" play, 'Santa Goes Green' ,that we opted our son out of at school. This is totally left-wing enviro-nutto stuff. When we found out about it I wasn't surprised, but was taken aback at the crazy nature of the words to the songs:

Portland snowfall breaking 40-year record

KGW Chief Meteorologist Matt Zaffino said the metro area hadn't accumulated this much snow in the month of December since 1968. As of Monday morning, 14 inches had accumulated in Portland, a record for this month. The all-time record in December is 18 inches. [Via Gore Lied]