The Latest Global Warming Culprit: Flat Screen TVs

That's right folks, that flat screen monitor or television you're using to read this, or watch your television shows is causing global warming according to the latest scaremongering report.

A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.

Almost half of the televisions sold around the globe so far this year have been plasma or LCD TVs.

But this boom could be coming at a huge environmental cost.

The gas, widely used in the manufacture of flat screen TVs, is estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide.

Ironically, NF3 is not covered by the Kyoto protocol as it was only produced in tiny amounts when the treaty was signed in 1997.

Levels of this gas in the atmosphere have not been measured, but scientists say it is a concern and are calling for it to be included in any future emissions cutting agreement.

So, it's a problem, but no one has actually bothered to measure it to see if it actually does what the alarmists say. How exactly is this affecting the climate given that the LCDs and plasma screens have overtaken CRTs in the marketplace and this has occurred at a time when the global climate temperatures have not risen above the 1998 levels.

Let's also ignore the fact that LCD and plasma televisions use less power than the CRTs they replace, which means that it takes less energy to run them - less emissions from power plants.

Once again, the global warming agenda and junk science is pushing stories in the media that don't stand scrutiny.