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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“Matt says:
March 27, 2011 at 8:18 am”
What? Proof of Earth Hour (EH)? Thats almost as mystical as AGW. Try the Aussie MSM for stories about “how EH saved the planet”.
For what it’s worth, the UN building was dark last night. I was going to take a picture if the lights had been on.
Just for the record……
My suggestion that people switch off their pacemakers for earth hour was meant as a joke. I thought everyone would realise that it was such a ridiculously stupid idea to risk your life to save a microscopic amount of electricity, that no-one would take it seriously. But then I suppose it’s not that much more stupid than the EH idea in the first place. So I apologise to anyone who lost a loved one as a result of following my advice. However I can’t help but think that the gene pool will only have benefited in the long run 😉
So for clarity: Do not switch off any kind of life support system in order to save a bit of electricity. It might result in death.
P.S. What did I do for Earth Hour ? Well, sorry but even after reading this article, I have to admit that I clean forgot about it. Obviously not that high a priority !
REPLY: It was a very very bad joke, and I condemn the idea. -Anthony
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Another huge advantage of celebrating Kilowatts-Hour with every light in the house on is that you get to…
1. see things you’ve forgotten about
2. find missing stuff you’ve been looking for
3. find burnt-out everlasting eco-bulbs
4. realize just how horrid the working eco-bulb light-color is
5. cherish and make resolve to protect the remaining tungsten bulbs
6. cherish the memory of green when it meant the complementary color of red
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[[[wobble says:
March 27, 2011 at 10:04 am
For what it’s worth, the UN building was dark last night. I was going to take a picture if the lights had been on.]]]
I hope it stays dark… permanently.
Most UN Representatives are generally already “in the dark” about the world and can’t “see the light” . UN-fund the UN.
wws says:
March 25, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Crystal Cathedral in more ways than one! Look at that big Cross on the building, COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
Dang Crusaders, no wonder they’re goin’ after Libya!
The big cross is defined by shadow – a negative – perhaps they are batting for the other side.
Back in the 60’s my mother gave me a “talkin’ to” about symbolic gestures. There was a walk-a-thon to be held for some worthy cause and back when, I could walk a thousand miles without raising my heartrate. I told her I wanted to participate and she (bottom line of the talk) told me to give whatever I felt warranted to that forgotton cause because the walking was meaningless. If the cause was worthy, give what I thought was needed. Do what I thought was needed. But walking wasn’t going to do a “gosh-darn” thing (she doesn’t swear) to affect the whatever it was I was going to walk for and was a waste of my time.
That’s a great mom that teaches her children the difference between meaningful action and symbolic gestures and I have kept that lesson in my heart even ’til today, 40 years later.
Waste not, want not, but don’t turn off your electrically powered stuff in some symbolic gesture. Do it when you can because it saves you some cash.