(Update: see the trend graph I found on Earth Hour popularity below.)
Otherwise, we celebrate living in North Korea:
The Earth Hour stunt wants people to turn off their lights from 8:30-9:30PM local time. I plan on having our lights on.
Bjørn Lomborg writes on his Facebook page:
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1.3 billion people in the world live without electricity. Celebrating darkness at Earth Hour sends the wrong message.
Unfortunately, Earth Hour tonight is nothing but an ineffective feel-good event. It does little for the climate in terms of reducing CO2 emissions and distracts us from the real problems and solutions — especially giving light to those in the darkness.
Read my new column in USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/27/bjorn-lomborg-earth-hour-electricity-column/6975265/
And watch a 2-minute video by the Copenhagen Consensus Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SVVADAX_cU
Lomborg: Earth Hour just a feel-good campaign
Instead, give light to the 1.3 billion people who still live without electricity.
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UPDATE: It seems sanity is starting to take hold and the global interest in Earth hour is falling off significantly. Here is the Alexa Internet traffic plot for this year plus 2013 and 2012. I’ve added the trend arrow aligned with the peaks of the Earth Hour events over those three years.
Source: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/earthhour.org
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I wouldn’t ‘feel good’ by turning off all my lights. I would ‘feel weird”.
I usually switch off the light in the kitchen in the evening, but today I will try to keep it switched on. I’m thinking of going out in the garage and turn on the light there as well.
I would ‘feel stupid’. I would ‘feel duped’. I would ‘feel embarrassed’. I would ‘feel silly’.
DirkH on March 29, 2014 at 11:12 am
Yes, they even try to promote other economical crap on the very same web page including the fake “support” for the polar bear. Money that only ends up in their own pockets … They even include the BS about meat production.
http://www.wwf.se/vrt-arbete/klimat/earth-hour/1415461-earth-hour-2014
Earth hours – great! How about fly over country hour? We’re the scum that feeds those politically correct loons. We’re the folks that provides the electricity, natural gas, oil, raw materials, furniture, and all the other raw materials for everything each and every one of those loons use every moment of the day and night. Every vehicle, military hardware that keep societies safe is because of us providing the raw materials. Without us out in fly over land cities, and their politically correct bigots, would perish overnight because the earth itself don’t give a crap whether you live or die.
“…dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux… ” “..let there be light…”
I’ll leave mine on; I may even turn on the Xmas lights I was too lazy to take down last Christmas.
This could wreak havoc with all those grids relying on wind power with fossil fuel for back-up? Demand swings will be enormous!!
Doesn’t California already have surge issues with the large amount of solar and wind systems that flicker the grids?
I found this survey on the Canadian Weather Network to be encouraging: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/poll/result/do-you-plan-on-participating-in-earth-hour/24178/
“Do you plan on participating in Earth Hour?
Yes – 37%
No – 48%
I don’t know what Earth Hour is – 15%”
To celebrate the joys of electric power, tonight at 8:30 I shall be running the self-cleaning cycle on our electric oven. And the electric clothes dryer. And a few other electrically-powered activities. With light…lots of light.
First there was Darkness, then light came and made the darkness hide, until WWF reintroduced darkness again?
I’m even gonna turn the OUTSIDE LIGHTS on in celebration! I LOVE LIGHT! And anyone who disagrees with me is a hater, bigot and racist.
Well, I’ll celebrate earthower by turning on every single light in the house, all night long, say for about 12 hours, just to be sure I include earthower for at least half the world’s people.
So that will be 12 hours times 0.2 KW, = 2.4 KWh, which in California, will set me back about a dollar. But I will get at least a dollar’s worth of good touchy feely sense of worthwhile contribution to the improvement (resulting) in the standard of living of coal miners, who have to scrape and save, because of California’s green meanies, who think, that coal miners should quit, and raise marijuana instead.
@hugh winkler
If you choose to turn your lights off any time – for whatever cause – I promise not to object.
And I look to you to afford me the same courtesy about my decisions.
Deal?
If we get a little bit stronger x-ray event than the one that just took place it may be lights out for everyone.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/warnings_timeline.html
One question about earth hour, what is the mean global temperature anomaly due to the “back radiation” from artificial (electric) light short wave EM radiant energy, being beamed out into space to try and cool planet earth.
Shouldn’t we be converting as much coal fired thermal (heat) energy into high quality SWEMRE, to beam out into space, as we can.??
After all, it is that nasty solar SWEMRE coming in, that is causing earth to heat up.
I have 130+ light bulbs in my home. 7 w night lights up to 500W floodlights for maintenance.They will all be on, pointing outside. Also, I will operate my snow blower, generator, electric stove, F250 Truck. In additon I will just dump some gas and used motor oil into a large tray and set it on fire. maybe I’ll toss a tire into the fire for good measure. I contemplated renting one of these:
http://www.bigskyballoons.com/images/fleet_lg.jpg
went out and bought twenty Johnson co2 generators
http://www.johnsongas.com/industrial/CO2Gen.asp
and going to leave those running all night,
I perform #EarthHour every night when I go to bed. To celebrate it this time I will turn all my lights on and leave them on all night. Got to keep the grid’s load as constant as possible, we don’t want it have to handle unpredictable loads. #GreeniesAreStupid
Hugh Winkler says: March 29, 2014 at 11:00 am
“Every day is ‘light up celebration day’. Why can’t you just allow one ‘feel good’ day and turn the lights off, for chrissakes.”
Hate to pile on but:
Because it is a meaningless gesture in support of a destructive crusade. CAGW advocates and renewable energy are killing people and its supporters need to find something constructive to do with your lives.
Earth Hour is part of the Left’s 7-Step Plan to destroy the US and the West…
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Hugh Winkler says: March 29, 2014 at 11:00 am-“Every day is “light up celebration day”. Why can’t you just allow one “feel good” day and turn the lights off, for chrissakes.”
Because we aren’t masochists, Hughie. My ancestors and I didn’t spend generations improving our lot so I could chuck it all and squat around a frickin’ candle hoping the winter-starved wolves won’t eat me, freezing in the dark. But feel free to sacrifice yourself while everyone else laughs at your suicidal tuchis.
(Side note: Given the temperatures in my part of the world, freezing in the dark is a real possibility for pisswit participants. Evolution in action!)
This comment is how I will honor a fools fest. Nothing else.
Yes, but its for the children!
richard says:
March 29, 2014 at 11:54 am
went out and bought twenty Johnson co2 generators
http://www.johnsongas.com/industrial/CO2Gen.asp
and going to leave those running all night,
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This got to be the funniest thing I have ever seen.
They are like little anti-AGW demons. touche richard. touche!!
I always think of my Cowboy(and Indian) Pop who lived in a world that wasn’t much different than the 1880’s Phone, yes, Steam yes, no electricity until the 1930’s (he would have been 100 this year.) But mostly horse power. He had: TB,( fought it and won) ,Rheumatic fever,(messed his heart up, he died from that at 72) Ran ovr by a horse and wagon,(Broken legs no Doc,just his
Native American Mother and her remedies from Appalachia) he peeled spuds while healing, healed in time for Fall Round-up.
No way I’d go back there. I like the 21st Century..