For shame people, for shame!! That fancy pants LCD or Plasma TV you bought is KILLING THE EARTH!!!! I’m not making this stuff up.

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.

Have a heart, you earth-killing bastards. Actually, with the government getting rid of the analog airwaves they are kinda forcing people to look into upgrades… Yeah, I blame Bush. Haha.