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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@ur momisugly Richard,1022pm. Let us know if the Australian World Cup Cricket team joins you at the footie. 🙂
I shall be at work, burning gas to make electricity.
I’m gonna spend the day programming and testing a 14.4KW electric oven (convection solder reflow), for a customer. Saturday is not a business day for the customer, so ALL the heat will be used (vented) to bring on Spring weather, with NO actual work performed, except for program debugging!
I’m only sorry all the testing cannot be performed during “earth hour”, but I’ll warm up the power lines in preparation!!!
“Glad to be of service.” ~~Marvin [: |]
It’s 20:30 Kiwi Time (GMT + 13), and I have my exterior lights on, garage lights on with door wide open. Air Cond is running but ambient temperature is just about righ so not much being used there.
Probably about 2.5 Kw is best I can do – oh must boil kettle
Don’t see much activity – all lights in neighbourhood look just as usual – apart from mine
Andy
Sacrifice. That’s the key word. I sacrificed. I held back food from the creatures in my glow-worm grotto in case they gave a false reading to the satellites and I also wrapped them in aluminium foil in case anyone sent out electromagnetic control beams to activate them. Take that, spy in the sky! Gotcha!
We’re having our Earth hour here in NZ now.
Just a usual Saturday Evening here. Lights stay on. I will not take part in a load of PC Greenwash Garbage this way.
Sarc/
I suppose in the future if certain Facist Greenie elements and their ilk have their way. Those who don’t take part in this rubbish will be rounded up by the ‘Green Police’ and taken away to some re-education camp. Sarc off/
What’s more laughable as in previous Earth hours. We’ve had special events organised including outdoor candle holding ceremonies, fireworks displays and even bonfires going off to celebrate it. Makes a mockery of the save the world from CO2 emissions,etc!
Turn off the mystic Met Office 1.2MW computer?
Andy C – well done from the Eastern Colony!
I know that it is difficult for you off-shore people. But, 2.5 Kw is OK, given your constained circumstances.
My residence will be sucking probably 20 Kw during Earth Hour….. just grid. In fact, we should all log our peak usage, and do an international “compare and contrast” to see who exactly are the bad-asses of the failed enviro-loon nonsense that for some obscure reason has gained MSM oxygen.
Lights on!
Just got up to find the central heating not working.
A man can’t come until tomorrow.
So we’ll have a coal fire on tonight, and a couple of electric heaters, as well as ALL the lights.
You don’t suppose we have a convert to scepticism in the chip that runs the gas central heating boiler do you……………..?
The poll is for entertainment purposes only, and is not scientific.
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So, this poll is similar to published climate science papers? Got it.
I love the idea of hijacking the event and turning it into a celebration of technology: celebrating how we humans do not have to freeze in a dark cave anymore! Turn on the lights! Start up your engine! Burn the oil in a giant blaze!
Do you think the Greenies throw any virgins into a volcano for their celebration?
Tom Bodette has entered the building?
Well, since it’s been basically dumping cold rain on me like crazy ( 600% of normal over the last 14 days) and it’s supposed to be continuing to dump snow like crazy in the Sierra Nevada, I intend to be turning on all the computers in my office while I sit next to a large 1.5 kW Electric heater with about 500 W of incandescent lightbulbs (as I’ve stashed a liftetime supply) trying to keep warm while doing “computer work”…
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/california-snow/
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/ultimate-bulb-ban-fix/
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/dimmer-bulbs/
I feel I should apolgise for my fellow Australians who initiated this lunacy … having said that, it seems to be causing much frivolity around the place. I have my A/C running despite it only being 30C outside (apparent temp only 27.6C). Given the A/C is set at 24C it is almost redundant 🙂
Now that my US-born wife is back (she just flew in from NY – where it was the same temp today … different scale though) I am sure she will be leaving lights on around the place. For once I won’t switch them off behind her.
We all do our little bit to keep the poor power companies ticking over.
I suspect there will be a lot of lights on in New South Wales, Australia. State election results coming in, change of government on the way – see
http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-election-2011-latest-updates-and-comment/story-e6frfkvr-1226028144507
So that image is from earth hour 2011?
Look at the date here:
http://eagleinnyc.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/the-un-building-lights-up-the-night-sky/
Someone please confirm
Oh I see, it’s from the 25th
https://www.facebook.com/DavidCameron/posts/163503877035991
Anyone in the UK voting for lights on might want to sign in on this thread.
8:30pm on Saturday evening? I shall be listening to the end of Tchaikovsky’s “Queen of Spades” from the NY Metropolitan Opera, and wishing I could accommodate (and afford to run) a lighting kit on the scale of theirs to light up the neighbourhood to celebrate. Maybe I’ll just turn it up a little, and add a watt or two – “every little ‘elps”.
Re David Menzies in Toronto – brilliant (in every sense). That must be one of the most spectacular middle digits ever – please. somebody in (or near) Toronto, send Anthony a photo of the actual event to post!
Graeme says:
March 25, 2011 at 6:04 pm
While Earth Hour is in progress I will be on a CO2 generating Business class flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne.
I’ll have an extra glass of CO2 laden champange to celebrate the technical marvel of modern air travel that allows us to travel to any reasonable spot on this globe in approx not more than 24 hours.
Long live human innovation and courage to live in the face of the human hating greens.
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Make it two extra glasses…one for me!
I have an ICD (800 volt defibrillator) implanted in my chest, in case my heart stops beating, like it did last year. I can temporarily disable it by putting a magnet over it, but that would only save energy if I happened to have a cardiac arrest during earth hour. I think that modern pacemakers operate in a similar way and might also have the ability to be switched off. They are using electricity all the time (inconsiderate bast*rds) so could I suggest that anyone who is able to, switches off their pacemaker (or that of a loved one) during earth hour. I know that the energy savings will be quite small and there would probably be a few fatalities, but surely it is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
I normally post my Earth Hour salute at the exact hour, but I’ll start it early to get on this list in time!
http://polistrasmill.blogspot.com/2011/03/its-earth-hour.html
I’m waiting for the announcement of just how much CO2 was ‘saved’ because of all the folks who showed the world how much they care.
Sean Houlihane says:
March 26, 2011 at 3:42 am
https://www.facebook.com/DavidCameron/posts/163503877035991
Anyone in the UK voting for lights on might want to sign in on this thread.
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It’s worth clicking that link just to read David Cameron’s extra- stoopid statement.