I would like to know does he still sing and performs at concerts. I would love to see him in person performing. HE is one of the many great legends left sure would be nice if he can perform in concerts.

Oh P. S. I use to sit in front of the mirror in my grandmothers bedroom and try to yodel like Slim Whitman and now I am almost 50 I have it down pat. lol My dream came true that I can actually yodel like him. lol Thanks Slim for the amazing music you have offered to us thru the years an the golden years. Thanks again!

Thank you,
Mary Johnson

“Coal-fired power plants create tremendous amounts of inexpensive electricity for us but we now know that the tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide make a big contribution to global warming”

Unproven. For each CO2 molecule you add to a climate system, the amount of light (and thus, heat) absorbed by each CO2 molecule goes down. This means the amount of warming that happens becomes much less per CO2 molecule.
Evidently the CO2 in our atmosphere is so close to saturation point today that in the Ordovician period, with very similar temperature levels to what we have today, had above 10x the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (4400 ppm compared to our 370 ppm.) Evidently 4030 ppm worth of CO2 on top of 370 ppm does not contribute a whole lot to warming. Though it may have acted as a nutrient, given the incredible diversity of light that lived then.

As for mercury, having it in a low concentration spread throughout the biosphere is a lot better for EVERYONE than having it in small, and therefore high concentrations (even smaller when fluorescents are recycled) in our very HOMES and RIVERS.
As any chemist knows, concentration is far more important than amount. A high concentration of dangerous chemicals will kill far more, even though it weakens far less, organisms than a low concentration of those chemicals.

In fact, I agree to some degree with “Justin” (who commented on the article) saying:
“John makes an interesting point, and one major hole in this whole comparison is the tremendous negative impact CFLs have on the environment as a result of having to mine for mercury or obtain it from elsewhere and that recycling can help prevent mercury from getting released back into the environment but also takes energy in itself.”

And he didn’t even mention how China is involved. (And does no one care about China? In a few generations, we are going to be fighting a war with those socialist slave-drivers, yet we’re handing them how many quazillion bazillion industries in the fight against global warming?)

Also, a little anecdote: Fluorescents are awful. I am currently, due to the high prices of private schooling (which caused my college-level high-school to go out of business, and that’s after draining the purse of our benefactor and founder), STUCK in that wonderful machine of propaganda and inefficiency that is our sovie—–er—–public school system, where food is gourmet cardboard and public bathrooms are not bathrooms but rather septic tanks. There are flourescents everywhere. In fact, if you are taking a test, there is only a 1% chance you are doing it in lighting other than natural lighting coming from that gift from heaven, the window (speaking of energy-efficiency.)

You want to be energy efficient? Get a window, not a flourescent. But nope, the liberal world wants us to live in this super clean, super ideal paradise of white-washed halls, beautiful people, no disease, no morality, government pay-checks for EVERYONE, and above all, sterile blueish lighting, a world where every crisis is neatly swept up and we can all live happily ever after with absolutely no responsibility. Ultimately, that is a world where there is no such thing as human life.