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.
In the past I have ignored Earth day completely. But now that the UK government have committed to observing it, I feel doing nothing is no longer an option. As a wise man once noted, all it takes for evil to succeed is for good men (or women) to do nothing.
I will be switching on lights, albeit CFL’s, and making sure that I use the clothes dryer at that time. Can’t afford to go mad though, not at these prices.
Hyperthermania
Is the pacemaker a plutonium cell?.
I’m just trying to get an accurate measure of how green you really are.Or are you just being selfish and insist on living?….but therein also lies some awfully confusing signals from the eco-fanatics.
sarc
Menzies, I was thinking of doing that, but never got round to it. Right ON! or is that Light On! 🙂
I will be turning on all my lights, maybe leave my Jeep running in the drieway, if I’m at home. I do not subscribe to this religion and its absurd superstitious rituals..
House minding, have the plasma tv on, watching the NSW election reporting, drinking red wine, fed the dog, lights on, waiting for the movie Die Hard, Anderson then realized Earth Hour was being observed – when? 8-30pm same time as Die Hard.
Turn power off?
Nooooooo way.
Sorry earth
I watched basketball on television for earth hour. I watched basketball most of the night, March Madness, you know.
Earth Hour is all about symbolism. We have 2 porch lights which I believe use 40w bulbs (which probably last ten years or more, since we don’t use them very often). At precisely 8:30 PM, as our upraised middle finger to eco-tards everywhere celebrating “Earth Hour”, I will switch those lights on. However, I will be sure to shut off any lights we don’t actually need inside, so as not to wind up with an electric bill increased by 1.4 cents ($.176/kwh x .08 kwh). Must be the Scottish blood in me.
Which reminds me; I need to practice saying “eleven”.
Typed it on an IPad Anderson should read And then I……
It’s past 9PM here in Hervey Bay. At 8PM, I put the stove oven on , 5kw, and cooked 2 chickens to have cold tomorrow for lunch. (with salad)
Lunch will be held 40 nm away on the aft deck of my boat. To get there, I’ll burn about 350 litres of gas, 16 cylinders at a time.
Surely, by 6PM Sunday, I will have created at least one earthquake, at least a 6, or maybe a hurricane or 2 or maybe have raised the sea level by several cms, but I’ll check that when I get back to my floating pontoon .
I was going to vote “Earth Hour?” I mean, I was aware of the concept and that it was coming up but not when it’s supposed to be held. But apparently even the cell phone companies are sending out texts exhorting cell phone owners to take part in the stupidity, since my mom mentioned that it’s tonight. Then she turned off the lights—and turned on battery-run (previously charged from the grid) emergency lights instead of candles. So I ended up voting “Ignore” then spent most of Earth Hour reading this loooong thread with my own lights on. Whoa! So many comments already!
I will be turning on everything and maybe turn my house into a one hour sauna.
this is the anarchists trying to cause a transformer failure in the grid. if the power utilities don’t have enough to deal with.
it is like getting everyone to flush the toilet at the same time ..unintended consequences of backup sewers and sh!t in people basements.
Hyperthermania
your are a feeble joke if you think that has any impact besides in your own mind. if you really cared you would stop breathing out CO2 for the hour.
I liked the satellite shot of North & South Korea from last years “Earth Hour”.
The North in it’s complete ignorance of such nonsense was in almost total darkness. While the South basked in the glow of conspicuous consumption.
‘Earth Hour’ only serves to highlight the futility of such gestures.
I’m in New York and can get a photo of the UN if that is desired. As someone earlier mentioned, the building is undergoing a renovation and the cross is from the elevator shaft crossing with some sort of full-floor scaffold.
The building is going to make a great condo when the UN leaves town.
Will the MSM report on how many house fires were started due to the fanatics burning candles during lights-out?
Here in New Zealand, trademe.co.nz (Our version of eBay) has helped sponsor this annual charade. not surprising really as its well known the founders Sam and Gareth Morgan are believers in the AWG Religion.
While I appreciate the symbolic gesture against conspicuous consumption in general it represents. The hitching of ‘Earth Hour’ to that phoney CAGW star is what has accelerated it’s demise.
Last year I would remind normal people of this ‘ocassion’ , if only in a half joking way, but this year I wouldn’t even to presume to trouble them with it.
Now if ‘Earth Hour’ were always to coincide with the clocks going forward , at the start of British Summer Time, as it happens to this year, that would serve some useful purpose, in reminding us we have to get up an hour earlier tomorrow, but otherwise it is now completely pointless , other than to point up the futility of human endeavour.
It’s my parents Diamond (60th) Wedding Anniversary today, and we are having a family party this evening. I jokingly suggested that we should turn all the lights out and observe Earth Hour – I’m sure you can guess the response….
We were at the Lostine Tavern last night when a quick side-ways blizzard hit town. As the snow monster blew through, we cranked up the oil furnace and did our share to prepare for Saturday’s Earth Hour by drinking as much CO2 as we could. So there ya go. We managed to stay warm AND CO2 neutral.
My ‘Earth Hour’ will take place at 01:00 Sunday, 27th March (UK-GMT) and will end at 02:00 Sunday, 27th March (UK-BST). 😉
Here in Tokyo we are celebrating Earth Hour with enforced conservation due to the shortage of electricity caused by the earthquake and tsunami. Fortunately, we live in a more industrial part of the city that, as a result, receives priority power so we can continue to waste as normal while the more wealthy parts of the city have to do with less.
Damn, and I took my Christmas lights down the day after Christmas because they were predicting a major snow storm with high winds (we got the snow, but the winds were rather wimpy) .
I’ll see if I can run every appliance and light in the place.
I will be celebrating by releasing some CO2 ‘prisoners’ that have been incrcerated in my fridge. Inside ten bottles of beer to be precise
The first prisoners released will be given the mission to increase precipitation in deserts
The first prisoners released will be given the mission to decrease precipitation in flloded oz
Third batch, remove snow from kilamanjaro
Fourth batch, cause an earthquake in the middle of the pacific, away from people
fifth set of prisoners – increase global warming
sixth set – increase global cooling
seventh set – increase kilamanjaro on snow
eighth bottle – leave then polar bears alone alone alone
ninth batch – hockey hockey hockey schtick
ten – what was i saying ?
EO
Joe: “Now if ‘Earth Hour’ were always to coincide with the clocks going forward , at the start of British Summer Time, as it happens to this year, that would serve some useful purpose . . .”
I’ll do you one better. My proposal is that we have Earth Hour actually happen during that hour in the spring that gets skipped (I think it is between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning in the U.S.?). That way there will be no electricity whatsoever used and no emissions whatsoever, and just as importantly, everyone will be forced to participate and no-one will even have to remember to participate. Also, beneficially, most of us can sleep through it!
Would that I had the discretionary income to make such a statement as those rotating beams!
I’d rent green ones, to be able to tell the ecopolizei I was signalling space alien refugees from Atlantis to come back and show us how to live!
Come back!
rotfl
“I have rented four rotating Hollywood movie lights which will light up the sky for miles,”
Hey! He stole my idea! (see my post yesterday at 5:50 pm)
Oh well. It couldn’t hurt to have two people on the continent doing it tonight.
@AusieDan
Agreed, the CO2 would be very useful to the environment. However, the economics of best-available scrubbing for SO2, NOx, etc., not to mention sky high costs for best-available Hg elimination technology (which hasn’t really been invented, yet), makes the next large base-load coal-fired plant not cost-effective compared to even the incredibly expensive crop of nuclear reactors currently under construction.
So, we’d have to switch to burning natural gas in order to get the CO2 production benefits for mankind without all the costs of scrubbing the pollutants. But, the Obama EPA is starting to look at reigning in the gas industry’s new production techniques (with good reason–pumping untold chemical soup into the ground to fracture rock formations sounds a lot worse to me than what is going on at Fukishima right now). Not to mention the fact that demand for clean buring gas will soon outstrip the new supplies. I’m still paying 2+ cents/kw-hr on my utility bill in fuel adjustment charges from the last gas price spike, and the bottom fell out of gas prices how many years ago, now?