Jesse Caro’s Blog
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The record shattering cold weather around the country is causing global warming arguments to fall on deaf and cold ears. Media advocates of the man caused warming position have hardly mentioned the cold snap. When, on the other hand, the temperatures rise a little higher than normal, it is always mentioned as an indication of “man caused warming”. The news never misses a beat. Go figure.

Here in Greensboro  there has been an unintended consequence of legislation to “cool” the planet by curbing global warming. In our most recent snow episode the traffic lights did not melt the snow off of the glass lens. You see, the bulbs are newly installed eco-friendly bulbs that don’t get hot enough to cause any melting. Normally in the worst of snow conditions traffic lights are clear for all to see. They were too hot to collect snow. No longer. Dangerously, a few weeks ago snow completely covered our cities bulbs… causing disaster in some areas.

The brilliant solution is that the city must now manually clean off each lens and/or install separate heating units to attach to each light. Never mind that vehicles polluting the air will have to transport people to clean the bulbs, or that the heating systems will offset the ecological savings the new bulbs were supposed to create. Truly that is neither here nor there. The most important thing is that we are trying to save the planet from the certain doom of global warming.

Forecast for tomorrow: record lows.