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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*Ignored it eitherway* was the cast vote. Presumably, earth means global, and since every hour is an earth hour, there is nothing to distinguish it from any other, or no reason to separate ourselves from the earth as though it were a mechanism that can be externalised from our experience, and not the harmonious environment that we inhabit
I therefore urge everyone to say no to this piece of sententious nonsense, and carry on as usual.
About Noon today (Friday) I drove between two (with a third one in the far distance) wind turbine electrical generating regions [‘regions’ because they cover a large area]. All three of these places are on the hills surrounding the Kittitas Valley (near Ellensburg) of Washington State east of the Cascade Mountains. This Valley is noted for its strong and persistent winds.
Did I mention that not a single one of the several hundred generators was generating! Not one. There was no wind but it made me think tonight as I read the comments here that perhaps (in the future) a well meaning government (whose?) could order all power turned off so that we had to comply with earth hour. Prepare!
It is near but slightly above freezing here with snow in the mountains of Washington State.
I think I’ll turn up the heat!
Take me to your leader [sarc]
I’ll be doing nothing in support of this farce. Supporters do not realise a power station cannot be “turned off for 60 minutes just like your lights” and then “turned back on just like your lights” etc…the whole thing is a joke IMO and was created by someone here in Aus who has no clue.
“Tom Harley says:
March 25, 2011 at 9:10 pm”
I thought there would be non-stop coverage of the election today, but no. I guess left leaning, pro-Labor MSM are laying low knowing Labor are about to be sent a very significant message.
Anthony,
Last year I turned on all the lights we could, but this year it appears we will still be on the generator and it will not make any impact on the grid.
Rattus Norvegicus says:
‘But I think your car will run on E85 which is 15% ethanol.’
Please forgive…You are, of course, quite correct.
You may accurately infer that I am not a car mechanic or indeed a scientist of any sort.
But I
Rattus Norvegicus says:
‘But I think your car will run on E85 which is 15% ethanol.’
Please forgive…You are, of course, quite correct.
You may accurately infer that I am not a car mechanic or indeed a scientist of any sort.
But I do rather like the burble of the 8 cylinders of a Corvette. Goes like the dogs bollocks too to use a phrase.
My God the guilt…..
Ah well…
Earth Hour is a bit like New Years Eve – apart from a few scattered outposts and colonies like New Zealand, it hits Queensland, Australia as the first civilised State.
Right now, it is five and a half hours before the madness of Earth Hour here in Queensland, and I am dusting off my emergency kleig lights (which I haven’t used since last EH).
What I’m wondering about is the obvious temporal dislocation exhibited in this thread, particularly by those who have voted. People, Earth Hour hasn’t started yet!
I will be one of the first in the civilised world to celebrate the Hour of Power at 8:30 p.m. local time tonight, Saturday night 26th March.
There is still a chance for all of you to come to the party!
mike g – you wrote on March 25, 2011 at 5:35 pm:
“I will be helping to generate 1.850 gw-hr of emission free energy during that hour”.
Mike – you should convert your generator to coal fired equipment.
That way you can increase global CO2 emissions which will in turn boost global food production.
That extra food is sorely needed to feed the growing world population.
Come on mike, you can do it!
Being neutral on CO2 is so last century’s look.
I’ll turn on all my lights. Most of our lights are CFLs anyway, so it won’t cost me much. BTW, we didn’t do that to be “green” but to save ourselves money. When we moved into this house 11 years ago, it was 3 times bigger than our old house and have tons of can lights. I don’t want to give Excel Energy any more of my money than I have to.
Tip: CFLs don’t work as outside house lights. They take too long to warm up when it’s cold.
I’ll be at the football tonight, so I’ll be participating when the Australian Football League turns off the lighting for an hour.
I mean, I’m sure they will – after all, they stage a “Green Round” every year to demonstrate their practical commitment to the environment. They even encourage us to take public transport to the football that weekend. And I’m sure, although it’s never been publicised, that on “Green Round” weekend the teams use electric buses, rather than planes, to travel for interstate games.
It’s not about empty symbolism or bandwagon jumping – oh no, the AFL is for real in its commitment to environmental causes.
And speaking of commitment – I suppose I’d better stop by my business premises on the way to the footy, to make sure I’ve turned off all “non-essential lighting” (as was suggested by the Earth-Hour-supporting franchisor in a memo this week). As opposed to every other weekend, of course, when I always leave the non-essential lighting on.
The franchisor operates the central business pretty much 24/7 and I’m sure they’ll be shutting down for an hour. I mean, I’m sure their commitment goes well beyond asking franchisees to make sure they turn off lighting that was not going to be on in any case.
I’m sure they (the AFL and the franchisor) will do these things. I’m sure they will. I’m a believer.
As usual, I’ll be celebrating “Power Hour” (can I trademark that term?) by cranking up March Madness full blast on every tv in the house.
On the same note as the UN, somebody take a picture anywhere in the state of Connecticut tomorrow night. Let’s see how basketball fares against Earth Hour.
Robert E. Phelan says:
March 25, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Hi Robert, many big corporations in the Philippines, also Coca Cola, were buying newspaper ads or distributing posters, that they are supporting the EH to “help save the planet”. It seems that the WWF has taken over the function of the IPCC in continuing and drumming up global climate alarmism.
I’ll try not to release any methane. But I can’t make any guarantees.
It was tonight? Meh, I was drinking at the pub with friends. Otherwise, I might have turned on all my lights and maybe burned a tire.
A bit of light entertainment from Monty Python (making fun of Superman)
http://www.youtube.com/MontyPython#p/a/CDFEA6D52E5CC0EC/1/U01xasUtlvw
UN: Lights for we….not for thee!
At 8:30 p.m. Saturday I shall turn on all externally visible lights in my house and take my high-intensity discharge spotlight out on the upper deck and point it at the sky. I emits an impressive beam although it has but a 35W 6000K Xenon bulb. As luck has it, the battery lasts just about one hour.
I live on top of a ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and I’m just a little off to the side of the approach path to San Jose airport. The light is nowhere near to being hazardous to aircraft but I assure you it will be quite noticeable against the generally dark background of my sparsely populated mountain top covered by redwoods and oaks.
Oh, yes, and I’ll of course leave all five computers running while I cook a nice pork roast in the electric oven.
I can see it now… our 16 year old daughter ,
– who dries her clothes on the heater in the middle of summer,
– who will turn the heater on rather than put sensible clothing on,
– who will use the oven to dry her shoes,
– who takes 30 minutes to have a shower with the taps on full,
– who only travels to the local shops by car rather than walk the 1 km trip.. etc –
….will insist we all turn the lights off to show we care for the Earth….
Earth Hour: The ritual of the skeptical religious.
Ross McIttrick’s article got an honorable mention on the Rush Limbaugh show this afternoon. It probably increased his audience by a couple of orders of magnitude. Almost as good as getting a plug on Oprah Winfrey’s show.
If turning out the lights meant we could watch the stars, then I’d turn out the lights and damn the inference some idiots would draw from it – because letting the kids see the stars is worthwhile.
But as far as I know no one around here is doing anything.
Someone said…
But I think your car will run on E85 which is 15% ethanol
Well I don’t care. I’m gonna drive my truck for earth day and fill up with hi-test and turn all the lights and computers and run the machine shop and… the computers and…
TURN BACK THE DARK!!!!!
I am going to turn the lights out, but breathe heavily for one hour.
(hang on, I may have to re-draft that!)
What’s earth hour?