UPDATE: Somebody in Toronto is going to really aggravate the greens, see below.
Or more importantly, what will the United Nations do? The American Thinker points out the hypocrisy of the UN with the photo below. Does anyone live in NYC who can snap a photo tomorrow night to see if they follow “Earth Hour?
It is now midnight GMT March 26th, (5PM EST, March 25th in USA) Earth Hour is Saturday, and still is coming up at the time of this writing at 8:30-9:30PM Saturday March 26th in the USA time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, and Hawaii. It will of course happen in that 8:30-9:30PM local time in each timezone on Earth.
I’m interested in finding out what your plans are. What will or did you do? The poll is for entertainment purposes only, and is not scientific.
Choose your answer below:
Also, for a perspective that I embrace, I offer again Dr. Ross McKitrick’s essay on Earth Hour:
Earth Hour: a dissent
UPDATE: This just in from the Toronto Sun
“We will not be in the dark,” journalist and conservative commentator David Menzies said Thursday.
Instead, what you will find is a giant beacon in the sky emanating from his Richmond Hill street between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.
“While everybody else has their lights off I will have every light in my house on,” said Menzies, as he prepared for his second installment in mocking the “phony” Earth Hour movement.
He’s also gone a step further.
“I have rented four rotating Hollywood movie lights which will light up the sky for miles,” he said.
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John Trigge is right. North Korea is on board with Earth Hour.
They are going to turn off the lights and sit in the dark for an hour or so, no flash light, match or torch to light the way to the toilet. Wait they are demonstrating conservation, anyone demonstrating can’t go to the toilet, it wouldn’t be fair.
I wonder how far back they are pretending to go, before or after the stone age.
I ordered a 6litre V8 last week (honest…no sarc).
It can run on 85% ethanol……so all’s well…..
I promise not to go over 2000rpm….would that be ok?.
Other than ignoring Earth Hour I plan to turn on everything and inform others to do the same.
“TURN ON ALL YOUR LIGHTS for Earth Hour! Honor ELECTRICITY! It lifts us out of the muck into civilization! Honor technology and our innovation that saves us from poverty and that gives us longer more enjoyable lives! Support the lifting up of Billions of Poor people around the world by expanding the development of energy sources! Do your part for humanity: demonize those that demonize electricity.”
Well, we generate all of our own electricity from solar energy. Therefore, we’ll probably just enjoy a nice Saturday evening at home watching a movie, with the lights on if the mood requires it. We may, however, idle our vehicles out in the driveway for the duration of earth hour. It’s cold. We may have to suddenly drive somewhere.
This year in OZ we really did not have summer but seven months of spring and ample rain, thus the country stayed green for the entire year. The gum trees grew and flowered for six months, sadly many got top heavy with wet feet and committed suicide.
The remains of these trees are in huge piles and although somewhat green and wet shall be sacrificed for earth hour. They will probably consume most of the twenty gallons of sump oil I have saved to get them burning and all the old tractor and truck tyres.
This will be my thank you to our plant friends for the O2 they supply.
I’ll run trading strategy simulations on all my cores. Like always.
I’m thinking about turning on all my lights just before I leave the house; then, do jack rabbit starts all over town.
It’s the thought that counts.
Except when overtaking or doing a burnout at the lights.
Frank K. says:
March 25, 2011 at 7:07 pm
“Actually, I’ll switch everything off in my house to simulate life with only wind and solar power instead of coal and nukes…”
Yeah, they should advertise Earth Hour as a necessary exercize to get us accustomed to our energy future…
All the lights on, tv and computer(s) Run my Chainsaw to cut up wood(we are a little south and a bit lower than Pamela Gray,) build a big roaring fire and keep warm and dry… and watch it snow-ahh NE Oregon in March…
When 8:30 PDST rolls around tomorrow I will loikely be palning Civilization V, or Dragon Age II and not even notice that it is Earth Hour.
Michael
The UN could save a lot of energy is they just run their lighting from all the “Hot air” coming out of all the politicians. 😉
I am going to the local hospital and ask them to turn everything off to help save the planet.
Had planned to ignore Earth Hour, but now think I will celebrate the glory of western civilization through the marvels of electricity (while I still have the incandescent bulbs to do so!)
Up here in the university town of Uppsala, Sweden (just north of Stockholm) I will of course be leaving all my lights on. As well, I still have christmas lights on my 3rd floor balcony. Their rainbow colours seen from afar can maybe help to put a bit of happiness into this anti-human hour.
I’m thinking of hanging an upside-down green glowing cross over the balcony as well, would this be too … provocative? 😉
Being a science teacher at the local international high school here, I have already sent my latest blog post (with WUWT links) to most teachers:
http://skepticalswedishscientists.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/earth-hour-of-power/
… so that they too can celebrate this years Hour of Power with me 🙂
Corpulent,
I love fast cars. My fave was my tricked out Miata (lowered, Konis, bigger roll bars, intake,race alignment, header, exhaust — unenjoyment kept me from the supercharger) top speed 130 (GPS on I80 in Nevada). That sucker rocked and rolled.
But I think your car will run on E85 which is 15% ethanol. Sort of standard. I’m still waiting for an affordable electric sports car. The acceleration that an electric motor can provide is huge. The Tesla is an example of this. The electric future does not have to be boring.
I am brokering Earth Hour credits from North Korea … got a few for myself too, so now I don’t have to do anything. ☺ You can do this too.
Please send money to me via PayPal and I’ll email you some Earth Hour credits and you can go about your Saturday night as usual and not have to feel guilty. Just kidding. ☺ (But ain’t that pretty much how carbon credits work?)
Ross McI is my hero. Love that dissent piece.
I’m sorry, please forgive. I didn’t even realize it was that time of year again as I took a nap and slept right through it. Unfortunately, this means that I didn’t have a chance to turn all my lights on to celebrate. Shucks…. I’ll try again next year. My wife is liking the idea of the Hollywood lights, perhaps I will get in my reservation early for next year.
Pamela Gray said: ” I’m a wee little lass and don’t care much for cold bums.”
I don’t care much for cold bums myself, but wee little lasses, now that’s a different story. So stoke that fire and shine those lights, Pamela Gray.
Actually, tomorrow’s as good a time as any to take “Minnie” (my smallish 1.6 TFLOPS
rig) offline and give ‘er a good dusting.
I’ll fire her back up at the stroke of Earth Hour.
Feel free to consider all the lights ‘dimming’ in my neighborhood as a token gesture.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
March 25, 2011 at 7:11 pm
My commitment:
to not even care that it’s happening
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lol, I admire the dedication to not caring!
The New South Wales state election is on today, and their Labor left government lights look like going out tonight for many years with polls showing support at only 23%…
I’m arc-welding during Earth Hour—with my porto-smelter I’m making an aluminum vat to hold 10,000 gallons crude oil. To help me, I’m using thirty-five 10,000 Watt mercury bulbs to illuminate my garage—with four 5,000 watt back-up gas generators in case I pop a few fuses.
old construction worker says:
March 25, 2011 at 6:17 pm
“James Sexton says:
March 25, 2011 at 5:31 pm
“There was Earth Hour tonight?”
lol, yeh, I know there’s one every year, but I didn’t know it was tonight until I read the post! I thought it coincided with that earthday birthday thingy. I think in honor of earth hour, Imma have some ethanol and use it for its intended purposes! Yea! Earth hour!”
DITO. But I was working on my Tax obligation.
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I highly discourage the ethanol until after the tax obligation effort is concluded. Experience has taught me not to undertake such ventures! Afterward, the ethanol almost seems obligatory. At least for me. Oddly, another compulsion is to continually look down upon my breast and wonder how they mistook me for a giver of nourishment? Another wonderment is my fleeting but sudden empathy for a sow? Always such strange thoughts and emotions this time of year.