The WWF sponsored Earth Hour has already come and gone in the Korean time zone, and the North Korean proletariat has claimed a stunning victory over its evil capitalist neighbor, South Korea.
Oh, wait.
Seems it is always that way.
I like this line from Alan Caruba at the link above:
Like fire, electricity is truly a gift of the gods. It is the difference between the Dark Age and the present age…
I know WUWT carried this photo before, but it is always good to regularly remind ourselves how much we have to be thankful for.
It also reminds me that if we could get our hands on North Korean surface temperature records, we’d be able to get a minimally UHI polluted signal. – Anthony
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Tonight my house will be as a candle in the dark.
We have done our Earth Hour too, 11 times over. South Oxfordshire suffered a power cut from 3am to about 2pm. We are now on a diesel generator until Southern Electric reconnects us. An enforced green protest, maybe.
LOL, would be funnier if N. Korea wasn’t in the midst of yet another famine though.
LOL That was great! Thanks!
Low carbon economy, equal distribution of wealth, centrally directed economical growth. Way to go, comrades!
Yep, they have a term for Earth Hour supporters and sponsors.
“The lights are on but nobody’s home”
What nonsense.
More seriously – Earth Hour is clearly just another facet of the new green gaia religion. Imagine in 100 years people may not join together and celebrate Xmas anymore – they will join together and switch off the lights and power – ritual festivities may involve the sacrificial destruction of machines – perhaps by then we will live like Amish – no machines at all…back to a horse and cart.
Actually, it’s called Earth Year. I really feel sorry for North Koreans (at least anybody outside of their Dynastic Tyrannical Gov’mt).
I believe Cap and Trade will have a similar impact here in the US. Forcing people to be subservient to the Earth through government policy rather than the reverse is never a good thing.
I don’t understand why more people don’t realize all the good that has come from our use of those “evil” fossil fuels. Just look at how life expectancy has risen. Energy use isn’t bad, it saves and improves lives.
Wow. Who knew North Koreans are such committed environmentalists?
Seriously…I spoke to a few folks last year that were harassed by their neighbors kids’ for leaving the lights on during this WWF sham. One even had his house egged.
This is the utopian dream. The commies know better what you need than yoou do.
One of the commie blogs, climate progress also highly restricts what can be posted. If it doesn’t promote energy central planning and control, it is deleted.
Here’s living like the Amish:
(what a hoot!)
North Korea has universal health care, but not universal electricity.
That’s simply a mark of the success of North Korea’s Earth Hour Offset Program.
You better hurry if you want to participate. From the looks of it, there are only a handful of North Korean families left who you can pay to turn off their lights for you.
I don’t do anything ordered by the WWF or the 1001 club or whatever their coke fuelled party is calling themselves these days.
In Kim Jong Il’s N. Korea, they mix Green ideals with Red Management to produce Brown Energy.
I would like to invite everyone to join in a global celebration of life on March 27 at 8:30 P.M.
Mankind outshines all other living beings on Earth. We have conquered the elements and by means of reason and changed our surroundings to suit our means, rather than the other way around.
No other human invention symbolizes that better than the light bulb, which rendered darkness into light, an extraordinary symbol for the age of enlightenment.
Reason has allowed us to shine our light of consciousness in every nook and corner of the universe, allowing us to expand our knowledge far beyond our immediate environment and has brought us unprecedented prosperity and civilization.
This is worth celebrating! Celebrate human life and our extraordinary achievements by turning on all light bulbs for one hour at March 27 at 8:30 P.M. Let the lights of reason shine to enlighten the world!
Also become a fan of Life Hour on Facebook. Spread the light! Invite all your friends to join!
“Jeremy (11:01:49) :
More seriously – Earth Hour is clearly just another facet of the new green gaia religion. Imagine in 100 years people may not join together and celebrate Xmas anymore – they will join together and switch off the lights and power – ritual festivities may involve the sacrificial destruction of machines – perhaps by then we will live like Amish – no machines at all…back to a horse and cart.”
Oh Jeremy, what’s this 100 years you are talking about? They already did this in Afghanistan under the Taleban. Televisions were strung up like hanged criminals because the Taleban said that Shaitan lived inside them. It was a very low carbon economy too with most infrastructure, electricity and communications destroyed. Opium production was their main source of revenue and produces a product enjoyed by lefty activists worldwide. If Afghanistan was part of the global carbon credits market they could have become the richest state in the world with the amount of credits they could sell.
Hilarious! LOL. All right North Korea! I’ll keep my lights on all day, that should negate their Earth Day contribution.
Brent in Calgary
I’m sure Kim Jong-il was all over Earth Hour. The WWF has a friend in him. Maybe they can get Bamir TOPI of Albania, Omar Hassan al-Bashir of the Sudan, and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe next.
“It also reminds me that if we could get our hands on North Korean surface temperature records, we’d be able to get a minimally UHI polluted signal. – Anthony”
I don’t know, UHI should mostly be caused by tarmac and houses and only slightly by the wattage wasted; this is small compared to the insolation that heats up the tarmac. So what you would want is a very thinly populated country; Monolia or Kasachstan come to mind. Kasachstan is as big as today’s EU but has only as much inhabitants as Eastern Germany (14 million or so). It’s a huge steppe.
Again we see that the third world leads the way in energy
conservation. We should be ashamed of ourselves. Not
until we destroy the trappings of our capitalist chains and
embrace the winds of revolution will we truly be free!!!
Must not have been able to get that nuclear plant going.
North Korea is a fine example of what happens when those who wrap themselves in a cloak of morality gaze upon the huddled masses and determine that those who disagree with them are defective by way of intelligence or upbringing, and so must be neutralized and controlled by the state for the benefit of the greater whole.
I hope Ravetz and Lakoff et al are paying attention.
My heart goes out to the people of North Korea whose defectors number one reason for escaping the country is hunger.
I guess this goes without saying but that map is a classic illustration of the success of capitalism vs the dismal failure of socialism.
Steve Goddard (11:15:52) :
“North Korea has universal health care, but not universal electricity.”
If there is no electricity 12 hours a day then one doesn’t have agonize over whether to ‘pull the plug’ on life support equipment.