June 10 - Loser of the Week - Environmentalists

This week’s LOSER OF THE WEEK is the 70’s ENVIRONMENTALISTS.

In the early 1970’s, Environmentalist thought that old tires could be “recycled” as man-made reefs. It was a way to kill two birds with one stone.

The dumping of nearly 2 million tires began in 1972, intended to attract a rich variety of marine life and create alternate dive sites while disposing of tires that were clogging landfills.

It took only days to create what was touted as the world's largest artificial reef made of old tires. It will now be years before the ecological mess it became is cleaned from the ocean floor.

Here’s a question. Why didn’t you do a beta test with say 100 tires instead of 2 MILLION TIRES?

It failed miserably and is killing part of a coral reef, and now divers from the U.S. Army, Navy and Coast Guard are cleaning up the mess.

Weather-permitting, divers will spend the summer months for the next three years bringing up the 700,000 tires while leaving behind the ones that seem to have remained in place -- at least for now.

Officials estimate the project will cost nearly $30 million, if done commercially.

Hurricanes, tropical storms and cold fronts have created wave action that loosened the tires and moved them around, creating "a dead zone" on the reef. So instead of killing two birds with one stone, a better way to put it is they killed two fish with one tire.

So MY LOSER OF THE WEEK, if you were wrong then about tires in the ocean, why should I trust you now on GLOBAL WARMING?