A Liberty Letters wacko environmentalism moment courtesy of IVA:

Ø Unfortunately for environmental alarmists, there has been no global warming now for almost a full decade, even though carbon dioxide concentrations are up about 4% since 1998. In fact, the southern hemisphere last year experienced one of its coldest winters on record, with record low temperatures and widespread frost and snow. It snowed in Buenos Aires for the first time in 89 years, and in Johannesburg for the first time in 25 years, while Chile suffered losses of $200 million in agriculture because of the tough winter. Even New Hampshire set a record for December snowfall, breaking a mark that had stood since 1876. (Br-r-r! Where did global warming go? - The Boston Globe)

Ø As you have been warned in this space, environmental authorities
in Britain are now calling for the evacuation of any room in which a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) breaks, because of its mercury content. The UK Environment Agency insists that debris not be removed
with a vacuum cleaner, but rather must be handled with rubber gloves, sealed in a plastic bag, and taken to official recycling sites. Good luck with that. (WorldNetDaily: Warning: Vacate room when CFL bulb breaks)

A Liberty Letters PS.: The environmental movement is not about protecting the environment, but about promoting the state, especially a future socialist state under the United Nations where your views about the environment, if you have any, will be relegated to "Who cares!" The best check on pollution is free enterprise coupled with the old legal approach of only going to the law, and that the traditional court system, when your back yard, your water supply, your whatever has been tainted by negligence or design. This with a removal of case law, making each issue to be handled by a case by case basis; and add to this, environmental law drafted, legislated, controlled and thus accountable to local voices, is the better, more inspired policy. There may be occasional exceptions to such an approach; but under the Jeffersonian approach to such exceptions, they must always and forever be treated as exceptions, with the general law still in force.

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