Gyres and Liars. Don’t act like I never told you. They used it as an excuse to ban plastic bags in Portland and Oregon. They’re using it again to try to ban them in the upcoming legislature. Sam Adams and Mark Hass relied upon the enviros to give them the straight scoop and once again the left in Oregon has bought another lie. And now an Oregon professor has called them out.

We talked about it yesterday and we’ll talk about it today. One of the big “reasons” cited by Oregon and Portland elected ‘leaders’ to ban the plastic bag centered around the “swirling mass of garbage twice the size of Texas off Oregon’s coast.” We questioned that claim before. Remember this post at VictoriaTaft.com before? And this one? How about this one? Here’s an excerpt:

Remember now in the infamous poll question approved by the City Council (and paid for by taxpayers) claimed that plastic bags contributed to a garbage island off the coast of Oregon twice the size of Texas?

“Single-use petroleum-based plastic shopping bags pollute our land, contribute to a swirling mass of garbage twice the size of Texas off Oregon’s coast, and continue our dependence on dangerous foreign oil supplies. Making paper shopping bags is a toxic process that pollutes our rivers. To encourage more use of reusable shopping bags, do you favor or oppose banning plastic bags in the City of Portland and requiring a 5-cent fee on paper bags?”

Even though a call to the Mayor’s office couldn’t produce a picture of this huge swirling mass of garbage,  Roy Kauffman, Sam Adams’ spokesman, says he’d seen pictures at this website. Eric the Great combed through the website. No pictures. You know, you’d think anything that big should have a resort on it or something, but it isn’t there.
Even if the Mayor’s office (relying upon environmentalist websites for his ban information) calculate “twice the size of Texas” in linear miles, it’s still a 5,000 mile long span of garbage isle. The distance from southern Oregon to the Bering Straight is 2,300 miles, so you’d think SOMEone would have seen a 5,000 mile long span of garbage off the coast. We’re waiting for the pictures.

As we predicted. The story about the ‘swirling mass of garbage twice the size of Texas” isn’t true. Never was. An OSU Oceanography says there’s junk about there and plenty of it but the enviros have got to stop lying about it. Wait, just more hype by the enviros??!! Here’s a quickie story in the Zero about it.