Video follows.
On the evening of Saturday, March 23, people around the world are being asked by activists to switch off the lights for an hour to observe “Earth Hour”. Bjørn Lomborg says this gesture will do little to help the planet, and gives people the wrong impression about how to address climate issues. (See related WUWT post here)
Earth Hour is not the answer. Taken to its logical conclusion, if switching the lights off for one hour is a good idea, why not for all the other 8,759 hours of the year?
Electricity, and affordable, plentiful energy, is the lifeblood of modern civilization and prosperity. If you do switch off the lights, do it in solidarity with the 1.3 billion people in the world who live in cold and misery because they lack access to electricity. Do it to celebrate the benefits of innovation and technology.
Electricity has been a boon for humanity. And the cozy candles that many participants will light, which seem so natural and environmentally friendly, are still fossil fuels (paraffin comes from petroleum) —and almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs.
Fundamentally, cutting emissions in the short run is no easy task. Today, green energy is too costly to be a viable solution. Real breakthroughs in energy technology will only come with more investment in research and development.
Read the full commentary on Slate . Translations in 6 languages are distributed worldwide and available at Project Syndicate http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/earth-hour-s-counterproductive-symbolism-by-bj-rn-lomborg
Here is the official Earth Hour video. Note the use of candles along with other imagery, designed to tug at emotional heartstrings.
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The triumph of seeming over being.
Why struggle to solve real problems and work to understand how things really work, when you can make yourself feel morally superior with an empty and meaningless gesture?
There are good power factors,
There are bad power factors,
There are bad actors,
There are bad
Bad
There are good power factors
There are bad power factors
There are good actors
There are bad actors
There are no lights
There be bad
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Off Topic, but get a load of this loony from the UK Met Office.
“4C or more global warming being possible by the end of this century, with local warming higher in some places, up to 15C in the Arctic an extreme but plausible case”. http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/richard-betts
Dr Richard Betts is Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area, which includes climate impacts research and also the climate change consultancy unit.
The Met Office’s climate change consultancy area works directly with end-users in a wide range of sectors, to ensure climate change information is used effectively for decision-making.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/richard-betts
I believe this is actually an insult to those in need, as the auction itself does not give them any real help!. Sympathy helps no one, only genuine actions …
The auction itself is an indicator of how many people still believe in the scam … (Is it worth continuing …?)
Lights ON please!
The UK might get more Earth Hours over the next 7 days. 😉
Only suffering will open the eyes of people as to the great benefits of fossil fuels.
OT, sorry, been off line for a few days.
Where did CG3 go?
Feels like I wound up on a fake WUWT web site.
Sorry, but this falls right in the middle of Hockey Night in Canada. A guy’s got to have his priorities, after all! Maybe I’ll celebrate it at about 2:30 a.m.
Nothing is more “green” or “environmentally friendly” than using fossil fuels like petroleum and gas for energy. It is “recycling” in every sense of the word, drilling tiny pin-pricks into the ground, barely penetrating the surface of this giant ball of matter, to suck out drops of fossil remains of long dead plants and animals.
When burning fossil fuels, all of it still remains here on earth where it has always been, we merely reorganize the elements into different compounds and relocate it to a different altitude, from below ground to the surface with a tiny portion of it winding up temporarily in the atmosphere until it gets sequestered yet again into more plants and animals, a cycle that shall repeat and renew.
That’s quite a ballet of true recycling. The alternative is ugly, and was ugly for all the hundreds of thousands of years we humans practiced it. In the past both long ago and very recently, we killed every plant and animal in sight, on the surface and in the seas to generate our warmth. I think our current way is infinitely better, and so do the plants and animals that remain alive thanks to our more civilized modern stewardship of the environment.
Earth Hour – What a load Sh*te.
Never even had it mentioned here in Brisbane.
Many of these activists have never experienced regular power outages. Those who have lived in developing countries, like myself, have experienced regular power outages. One minute you are on your computer and quick as a flash the power goes out in the evening. Often street lights will go out at the same time. Driving can be difficult. People have died. Houses catch fire due to candles. Solar panels are too expensive, wind is intermittent.
For may in developing countries they will look aghast at this exercise by the wealthy and wonder what went wrong with Western civilization.
“Taken to its logical conclusion, if switching the lights off for one hour is a good idea, why not for all the other 8,759 hours of the year?”
But surely this is the plan? And as Jimbo tells us the UK is leading the world in this respect. Apart from running out of gas the UK is shutting down 10% of its generating capacity. Still as any warmist will tell you the planet is so hot its almost on fire so we hardly need it anyway.
Gads that earth hour video is so stupid, I couldn’t watch it all. Concerts performed with lights and electric guitars to bring awareness to turning off light, and even more meaning less gestures like free yoga classes if 500 people support Earth Hour, or even worse dying his beard green for 10,000 people supporting it.
Well, WUWT community I have really symbolic and stupid challenge for you, I’ll donate $5 to charity if 5000 people donate $5 to me. Come on I will if you will, it is only $5 you can afford it.
Typo:
“For many in developing……”
I think this is an insult to all those in need, as the auction does not give them any real help. Sympathies doesn’t help, genuine actions does!
The auction itself is an indicator of how many people still believe in the fraud …
(Is it worth to continue …?)
This will undoubtedly be interpreted the wrong way …
Lights ON tonight, please!
Reblogged this on ausgang.
Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.
– Wikipedia
“Lack of electricity in Gaza leads to deadly fires” and “The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (KJIA) was faced with the third power outage in 36 hours”
http://youtu.be/wXf64A0qXak
http://youtu.be/-LP-yEGddqs
We’ll be doing what we’ve always done about the Earth Hour silliness; ignore it completely.
These are hard times for our warmist friends. We shouldn’t deprive them of their warm and fuzzy moments. It is complimentary to their warm and fuzzy logic. GK
Grizzled Bear says:
March 23, 2013 at 7:04 am
Sorry, but this falls right in the middle of Hockey Night in Canada. A guy’s got to have his priorities, after all! Maybe I’ll celebrate it at about 2:30 a.m.
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Hey, I’m really dedicated to “Earth Hour.”
I do it every night 10pm-6am
So if I turn off the lights I have burning during “Earth Hour”, that’s 22w (22w in an hour at 47c kw/h), I somehow save lots of money on power AND save the planet too?
More lunacy from the UK Met Office.
http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/future/gcc/UK.Met.quick_guide.pdf
Here in my home town rag there are two articles side by side today. The first one is about Earth Hour and the minions at City Hall urging you to participate (altough they aren’t setting any goals this year lol). The second is about the electric vehicle plug in stations the minions at City Hall are installing downtown and they want you to use……sigh.
BTW, green is he color of radical Islam too… 🙂