According to a full page ad in Wednesday the 16th's Raleigh paper, “AVERTING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE MEANS STOPPING DUKE ENERGY'S GLOBAL WARMING MACHINE”

Wow! Now that is really a ridiculous statement. Hmmm…. Let's all burn our houses down now and get it over with! No, that would increase global warming. Where’s a good mud hut when you need it!

Look at all the ad's fear mongering adjectives: “extensive damage”, “accelerating rate”, “melting rapidly”, “disasters are soaring”, “people are suffering”, “urgent action”. They even quote the Elvis of global warming, James “Gubmint grant” Hansen.

Did you know that Leading Gubmint Climate Scientists (funded by a few million well meaning but easily led non-scientific people) have run a computer model that predicts that Fear mongering headlines is the number one cause of global whining- and global whining has risen to record levels over the past 5 years. This is DEFINITELY a man made CATASTROPHE of EPIC SCALE!!!

NC WARN (you guessed it, another “non-profit”) argues that 21 million gallons of water per day would be evaporated by the coal plant. How does this compare to a nuclear or gas fired plant?

They call for cancelling Duke Energy's Cliffside power plant but offer NO alternative, because there is none that will do what Cliffside will do in terms of power output and cost- Sorry eco-guys, alternative energy just won't cover it.

Man, what a poser- all hail Jim Warren, king of the EcoPosers. Maybe he wants to follow the lead of those peaceniks in France. But wait, France uses predominantly nuclear power! Sacre Bleu!

One look at NC WARN's website (http://www.ncwarn.org/), and the list of who is on their board (http://www.ncwarn.org/about/boardofdirectors.htm) tells everything. None of them have any technical background, unless you count “dance instructor” as someone who knows how to two step around the factual technological aspects of nuclear and coal power plants.

Maybe we should light a candle in the dark… but that also increases global warming!! !!!

Dang! I think I did “extensive damage” to my favorite oxy-acetylene torch by flaming NC WARN at an “accelerating rate”; the heavy metal eco superstars are “melting rapidly”; and “disasters are soaring” because I just ran out of acetylene. “People are suffering” because I will have to drive to Durham to reload my fuel supply. (Kids, always practice “safe leakage”.) This really calls for “urgent action”.

So, email NC WARN at http://www.ncwarn.org and tell them to stop the whining! Cosmo flamer running out of flames is a true “global catastrophe”.