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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Well, I’ve got most of the lights turned on in my house. I’m having the dickens of a time forcing myself not to turn them off as I jump up periodically from WUWT to do chores. I’m so used to following my kids around turning the lights off it’s become a conditioned response. However, not living in the semi-darkness for once reminds me of my distant childhood (back in the ’60s) when people used to go to bed at night without bothering to turn off the lights in the house. What a different era it was… so optimistic (not that I entirely recall this, but I fully remember the environmental doom and gloom of the 70s). I wish the forces and voices of environmental fascism would be rendered deaf, dumb and blind for a week so the rest of us could just get on with living.
@RockyRoad: Argh… I didn’t get the pun at first reading. Well put 😀
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic
Someone should save above because they ALWAYS adjust down when this happens. History in the making (as far as AGW is concerned). also dmi ice
I specified a week in my last comment meaning to add “so we could see what if felt like”, an to indicate that I don’t have genocidal urges. I’ve often felt that so-called Catholic guilt has nothing on the guilt-trips environmentalists lay on ordinary individuals for the crimes of existing, with all the ordinary activities that entails, and for reproducing. I’m also of the opinion that all of these feel-good measures, like sorting and recycling and now having to do laundry etc at night and thus having to stay up late (before going to work the next morning) so as to avoid paying premium electricity prices are anti-women. In my experience, it’s the woman of the household who goes through the recycling to make sure everything is binned properly. Somehow my sons never seem to learn where the stuff goes, and my husband deliberate sabotages the waste as he disagrees with the whole program. I imagine I’ve just raised a few hackles with my stereotyping – but many women of my acquaintance agree.
What a bunch of wimpy Greens! “Earth Hour.” Ha!
They need to show us how sincere they are: make it an “Earth Week” without electricity.
Even an “Earth 72 hours.” Then they’ll appreciate the electricity that they take for granted… the few who could stand going 3 days without it.
I see my neighbour is celebrating Earth Hour. Oh, he’s not home and the 150 Watt spot light is still on.
It’s 15 minutes til the end of Earth Hour and I haven’t told my wife. TV, computer and a couple lights going.
Oh, oh, I might be arrested by the climate pigs.
This is not a confession! Honest I was just kidding!
“Smokey (18:02:57) :
What a bunch of wimpy Greens! “Earth Hour.” Ha!
They need to show us how sincere they are: make it an “Earth Week” without electricity.”
Smokey, check my comment on the other Earth Hour thread (the one about California) – there IS an Earth Week and it’s around the 22.April (Earth Day).
oops! Forgot to turn on the dryer! I’ve got fantasies of WUWT search-lights a la Batman that we could turn on to celebrate this one hour of the year. Must get back to the laundry now.
A humble confession. Every Saturday night from 8 to 9PM I watch my favorite TV show, Legend of the Seeker. I know, you can laugh all you want, but I like it. And I’m going to watch it again tonight, Earth Hour or no.
PS — I heard a rumor, that I cannot confirm, that Legend of the Seeker is also Kim Jong Il’s favorite show. He probably has TiVo, though, and can watch it whenever he wants.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
It’s 8:30 MST; turned on my 10kW arc lamp. Who says you can’t generate power from photo voltaics at night?
The lights get dimmed for 1 hour.The operators stay dim 24/7
I may rent one of those portable search lights you see at movie premiers and store grand openings and run it in front of my house during “earth hour”.
It would be worth it to get under the skin of these pompous self righteous AGW idiots.
If you could ask plants whether they like more CO2 or not they will say that more CO2 please.
These greenie weenie town dwellers believe that plants eat buffalo chicken wings.
So the WWF chose 8:30pm because that’s when power use goes down anyway and they could prove people really do care about Earth Hour from the drop in use shown on graphs?
That’s kinda like saying an ice age is coming when it’s been cold a few years. Or that global warming is coming because Arctic ice gets carried away in currents.
I remember as a young soldier fresh out of Korean Language School flying into K-14 airfield (Later Kimpo International Airport) in Sep 1966. As we were letting down into the airfield I noticed how very few lights were visible. Driving into Seoul on a poorly maintained dirt road with still visible war damage around I was wondering what I had gotten into.
My 13 month tour was spent on a mountain top in the Han River estuary where we could see clearly into North Korea and watch the flares go up at night and the occasional rifle, machine gun, and mortar fire. More of my Army mates were killed in Korea during 1966-1969 than in Vietnam. Several ground attacks along the DMZ involving more than 16 casualties and then in April 1969 the North Koreans shot down an EC-121 91 nm off the coast and that killed 39 US Navy personnel, including 14 of my friends.
At any rate when I went back to Korea for a second tour in 1975-76 things were humming and now South Korea is a beehive of activity. Always makes me wonder why anyone espouses having a highly managed economy. Oh well.
Cheers,
John
The Ontario power use is interesting where it seems like everyone tried to get things done before 8:30 – which caused more power to be used overall.
http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/siteShared/demand_price.asp?sid=ic
This just shows how little electricity incandescent bulbs use for homes.
If we as a society want to save power we need to change over street lights and parking lot lights to L.E.D.s … don’t worry It won’t happen soon.
Tim
“Celebrate Electricity and our species ability to make us of it for constructive positive outcomes! Celebrate the ingenuity of humans to generate and distribute electricity to raise people out of the muck into modern civilization. Yes, use energy wisely and within your means but don’t turn out the lights to human progress or retard the advancement of civilization out of the dark and bronze ages. [:)]” – pwl, Earth Hour, 2010
I wonder if a proxy can be extracted from baby birthing 9 months after earth hour ? Green proxy babies with new age names…would be my guess.
Imagine living under such tyranny as there must be in North Korea. Mankind is capable of such horror. If only all men were as concerned about the welfare of others as they are of their own.
Douglas DC (13:05:32) :
-Got to fire up my official WUWT gasoline powered alarm clock…
OOH, Do want!
I’m going to celebrate Earth Day (night) after I go to bed!
John Stover (20:08:59) : Just wanted to thank you for your efforts in the defense of my freedom !! Top marks !! I salute you !!
Yesterday, Fidel Castro lauded left-wing Democrats for passing ObamaCare (see: http://libertarianromanticideal.com/uncategorized/cuba-proud-democratic-health-care-reform/). Today, North Korea is the most earth friendly nation on the planet.
I Can’t wait for what tomorrow may bring!