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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If that cannuck would shine those rotating beams on the nearest government-subsidized solar energy park, he’d do more measurable good for the environment than the entire green movement has done in their history of do-gooding.
It’s more like spot-the-sucker hour. I’m going to ignore it. (I didn’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day either, by the way.) I had enough of peer pressure in high school.
I’m turning on my lights, having a couple of pops and watching the Leafs-Wings hockey game.
Since I live in Toronto, I’m also toasting David Menzies.
And in your face former Mayor Nitwit, I mean Miller – the clown who would jet off to every climate conference and sheepishly accept the moronic daily fossil award on “behalf” of Canada. What a mayor was doing WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY at these stupid things is nothing more than theft.
Wasn’t Earth Hour invented by WTF?
I plan on driving to a fast food place. Either that or a BBQ making sure to use charcoal. Maybe I can get some friends to drive alone in their cars to get here. It’s snowing in Nebraska today. Not enough to use the snowblower but, I think I’ll get it out anyway.
Is it correct that earth hour was one of those grass root thingy that promptly got hijacked by WWF?
First of all, if that is true, why is it that WWF can’t but not invent anything, so to speak, by their own accord?
Secondly now it is WWF that gets cred for “organizing” earth hour every year, because they’re so “nice”, and not because it fills their treasure chests.
Thirdly it takes more ‘an three hundred and fifty thousand people donating $10 to pay the head of WWF international yearly salary. And then it could be as many more to cover his travel, hotel, and food, expenses each year. So essentially people donate more money to him than what goes to the supposedly polar bears every year. And they claim it is a non-profit organization?
Lance says:
March 25, 2011 at 5:50 pm
“I refuse to sit in the dark in the name of a sanctimonious, irrational and failed theory.”
ACK
Why not writing it into the sky by a big, huge energy consuming laser?
That’ll clearly enforce this argument.
I’ll be a installing a couple of line-interactive 1kw UPS’s for the PC’s and router and maybe a few LED lamps for the stairs and bathroom. That should keep me online and from taking a tumble in the dark.
‘Cos when TPTB in the UK shut off a dozen of our base load power stations and add more unreliables I’ve a feeling we’re going to need them.
Earth Hour, Save the polar bear, sorting your recycling into boxes, its all just pointless busy work
At that time, I’ll be watching a mid-Missouri snowstorm and wondering when my oldest will be getting out the shower (electric water heater). The water and 15kv electric furnace that is running due to “global climate disruption” should give me some decent power consumption figures.
Drove my old truck (15mpg) about 20 miles for a pack of smokes and to get gas for it and the yard equipment. Used up about 8 gallons of gas mowing, etc. (I have about 3 acres in grass and decorative plants). Left the TV, lights and computer on for the entire day, while the wife did a lot of baking in the electric oven. What’s this “Earth hour/day” thing all about anyway? 😉
I’m going to turn on all lights and the clothes dryer.
Earth hour???
Didn’t get much publicity this side of the pond. Everyone more interested in the cosmically important issue of who won The Boat race!
My contribution to Earth Hour will be limited by the capacity of the various ring mains in our house, so just like carbon traders I will max out my utilisation of CO2 by taking each circuit to the limit. If enough people switch stuff on, it will help move the economy along a bit – our own QE.
Alternatively we could go along with this bollocks, make it permanent and take out the entire global economy, causing mass starvation, reducing population and dragging the human race back to the stone age.
Well, I just called the rental place to ask how much the quadruple searchlight costs to rent.
$400/night + gasoline to run the thing.
Yikes!
I guess I’ll have to put it off until next “Earth Hour” (assuming these morons can gin up enough media attention to do it again next year) when I can get a few fossil fuel loving friends to go in on it with me.
I’ll just have to settle for turning on all my lights, appliances, TVs, stereos and other electric and gas powered devices for an hour.
Look for my house on Google earth, it will be the brightest object in central Indiana.
mike g says:
March 25, 2011 at 5:35 pm
I will be helping to generate 1.850 gw-hr of emission free energy during that hour.
By causing 5.60 gw-hr of energy to be liberated from a few grams of U-235, 238 and various Pu isotopes.
You’re a VERY naughty boy!
I am going to a high energy usage Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band concert tonight.
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…
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That gave me a chuckle !!!!
@DLBrown says:
March 26, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I am going to a high energy usage Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band concert tonight.
Dang. Is he still able to sing? His voice sounded worn out to me when I was still a kid in the seventies.
Just sitting watching the BBC for news of smashed banks, bonfires of traffic cones and plastic barriers spewing out all manner of nasty chemicals, pundits talking of magic money fairies and no Plan B following riots in London. I found time to symbolically turn on 5 extra lights for 30 seconds, but I don’t think anyone would have noticed as they probably also have a life.
This must be what tweeting is like?
Earth Hour..? We in the UK have got Earth YEAR coming – because our political servants passed the Climate Change Act in 2008 (on a Friday afternoon – clever tactic) which means that BY LAW we must have reduced our emissions by EIGHTY PERCENT by 2050. (Our emissions, by the way, represent 1.84% of global emissions – so you can see just how effective this will be…)
So – anyone planning to do business in the UK, or visit, had better do so before that date – because we’ll be living in freezing cold; killing pensioners by the hundred thousand; businesses will effectively be non-existent; next to no transport; food shortages; etc, etc…
Oh – I am so glad I’ll be long gone….
It’s been a very busy day in the UK, or at least in England and Wales:
1. For the ordinary worker, especiallay the saturday pub-visitor there was the England v Wales Fooball (Soccer) match.
2. For the eternally optimistic there was the England v Sri-Lanka World Cup Cricket match.
3. For the traditional and the great and the good there was the Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race.
4. For the Jeremy Clarksons there was practice for tomorrow’s Grand Prix in Australia.
5. I think there was some big horse race in Arabia for those with more money than sense.
6. Oh and for those that think the Government can simply print more and more money forever and never economise on anything there was a mega march and demonstration in London.
Earth Hour? What’s Earth Hour? Just about all shades of opinion have been burning the midmight, midday and all the other oil as quickly and in as great a quantity as possible all day.
Just checked the UK’s NETA tables – showing electricity demand over last, current and following days…
Remarkably similar today to yesterday – peaking at 42000Mw…..
Hey-ho…. Think I’ll boil the kettle and make a cup of tea…
Turn out your lights! Help stop earthquakes!
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/natural-disasters-boost-earth-hour-20110326-1cb8y.html
Earth Hour??
That’s so last year.
Let’s get people jobs and lay-off those blood sucking climate scientists.
I have a yard light on my 5 acres that can be seen from 20 to 50 miles away depending on the direction because I live on a very high hill. It is seldom used and is on for only 12 – 18 hours each year because I like the dark, and it interferes with observations from my observatory.
I do turn it on for Earth Hour, however, at dusk and turn it off when I go to bed between midnight and 1:00 AM. So my highly visible light will be on for at least 6 hours tonight. I think tonight I’ll turn on my front porch light also. It is not as large but can be seen for the same distances.