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
Be sure to check out this post:
Tracking Earth Hour in the Greenest State
I happened to be visiting last night over the earth hour charade. We had just eaten and were sitting looking out over the city (Christchurch, New Zealand) the conversation nothing to do with environmentalism or anything remotely close to it. I quietly noted to myself the city lights and looked for some effect at 8:30. Since I noticed nothing then, I kept quiet and waited again to 9:30 to see any effect again. Still nothing, except for a red distress flair let off in the distance. I thought that appropriate – perhaps a sign of despair?
Christchurch was the first NZ city to fully embrace earth hour (I don’t think this nonsense deserves Caps). Apparently it is meant to make a meaningful difference to global warming, according to local minor celebrities. We are fully hydro generation for our electricity (and very minor wind).
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney and now enjoys widespread support both from the public and big business, including Google, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s.
This year, even users of ubiquitous Twitter and Facebook can show their support with special applications that turn their displays dark.
In December, two weeks of UN talks in Copenhagen failed to produce a binding commitment to limit global warming or set out concrete plans for doing so, in a setback for the environmental movement.
In Japan, the city of Hiroshima turned off the lights at 30 sites, including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
The WWF-run event had officially begun nearly three hours earlier when New Zealand’s Chatham Islands switched off their diesel generators, leaving just 12 street lamps burning. It will eventually end in Samoa after nearly 24 hours.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/6991101/lights-out-across-asia-as-world-begins-earth-hour/
Communism, Obama’s vision for America.
Congratulations to Kim Il-Sung who is, even decades after his death, a bigger warrior for the ideals of environmentalism than Pelosi, Gore, Kerry, Obama, Chu, and Holdren combined. 😉
Didn’t know there was such a thing as earth hour so have lots of lights on, and electric heaters – I feel the cold these days and it is raining again and my old 1750 house is a bit damp (no damp proof course etc). Hope the EnviroPolice don’t get me … but maybe they should start in Oz with whoever sold all that coal to the Chinese (20m ton pa for 30 yrs was it?) to make electricity and CO2 with….
-Got to fire up my offical WUWT gasoline powered alarm clock…
makes about as much sense…
So, North Korea is in the dark?
Who knew?
🙂
If anyone wants a good economics primer I would heartily advocate for ‘Economics In One Lesson’ by Henry Hazlitt.With it,the layman will win any argument he will ever have about economic matters.If you don’t know how a Vampire reacts to Sunlight,show a copy to Paul Krugman.(Get the latest (1979) edition).
Is that map that heads this article drawn correctly? Korea is a peninsula so there shouldn’t be anything to the south east of South Korea but the dark ocean. How come there are numerous lights in a line about 20 miles ‘offshore’?
tonyb
What’s that little spot of light about half way up the left hand side of North Korea? North Korean protesters or just a group of pixels stuck on on my monitor?
REPLY: The capital, Pyongyang. Imperious leader Kim Jong-Il must have electric lights, the rest of the country can burn candles. – A
A few people have mentioned the WWF: All over Sky TV in the UK at the moment are ads for Sponsor an Acre:
http://www.skysponsoranacre.com/
Donate £3 plus per month to the coffers of the WWF and Sky will match it. The WWF will then “protect” an acre of Amazonian rainforest. Doesn’t say anything about whether the said acre was under threat in the first place, but then they are going to get easy marks anyway so why bother with details.
A bit OT, but over at this site here;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2010/03/-i-am-indebted-to.shtml
A suggestion from Brent Hargreaves is that if we are going into a new Maunder minimum, we should call it;
“THE GORE MINIMUM”
I like it!
Its 20.30 in UK— just switched the 500 watt Halogen outside lamp on to light the garden up for an hour . Fu….. green spin
What’s all the light off-shore? Ships on shoals of fish?
North Korea, as we all know, is a sad desperate country.
Enforcing the rigid party line results in almost universal misery and famine, except, of course, for the chosen few. Something similar always occurs in economies controlled by those spouting a fanatic philosophy, be they far left, far right or ultra religious. Next it could be climate fanatics – we are dangerously close to this already.
Kind of like what Gore and Patchi are preaching and practicing right now – as they represent the self-appointed ‘chosen’ holding the ‘torch of enlightenment’, so there is obviously no need for them to suffer the indignities of energy poverty, which they are insisting everyone else should be prepared to suffer.
The analogy provided by North Korea is, of course, extreme, but it is a warning to us all. A goofy, rigid, flawed doctrine which tolerates no criticism is what AGW is all about.
Thank God Sumi Jo was born in South Korea and not the North. There was plenty of electricity there to help her have time to develop in her talent.
O Mio Babbino Caro
Lucia di Lammermoor – Mad Scene (excellent!)
Il Bacio
Der holle rache – Queen of night
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How much waste of human life is happening in North Korea, and in Africa? That is a cause that should be concerned over—not global warming!!
Even Catlin’s warbler sings a sad song for the people of North Korea.
This is the best illustration to highlight what we may be facing to some of the naive believers who follow wicked Greens. Now, what if North Korea had wind turbines and solar power? Maybe be more glitter, but not as much as South Korea and the north experiences more cold.
kwik (13:37:02) :
The Gore minimum. NO!
The minimum has already been named, if it occurs, after someone who deserves to be remembered. Jack Eddy.
It will be the Eddy minimum.
DaveE.
Life hour (11:35:34) :
I’ll check you out on FB, and would love to repost this, if you don’t mind?
Looks like the North has as many light bulbs as nukes. Funny people in charge of the NKPDR; you’d think by now there would have been at least one palace coups. The Great Kingdom Of the North will soon fall, I predict; understand it’s going to be blamed on excessive inbreeding by the royalty and the military officer corps –no new, fresh blood in 60 years. But… I do like their misplaced committment to Global “Warming”, amazing what people can do if someone’s holding a gun to their heads.
Earth what?
I suspect the benificent North Korean government has told all its people that 8:30 pm. is past their bedtime.
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Juraj V. (11:01:45) :
“Low carbon economy, equal distribution of wealth,”
“Wealth?” Which wealth are you talking about?
“In Kim Jong Il’s N. Korea, they mix Green ideals with Red Management to produce Brown Energy.”
rbateman: What a talent for words.
Also from the Alan Caruba link:
Much of Africa is in darkness. too.
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Ross McKitrick on coal powered electricity for Africa and SE Asia:
…….development of large scale power generation and electricity grids. And I think the sooner the better.