(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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Darn, I didn’t realise it was Earth Hour last night, otherwise I would have put all my lights on for half an hour as I have for the last few years.
Anyone who puts their lights off is celebrating darkness, cold, superstition, starvation, disease and poverty. The Dark Ages were so-named for a good reason.
Chris
I always saw Earth Hour as a “fool good” day.
Where’s the T-shirts?
Earth Hour???
Skeptics are into natural science more than that!
In my home, we had lights on, TV and computer going, laundry being done, and pizza cooking in the oven! Truly a celebration of our life on this earth! LOL!
Got married 29th March 69.
Wished I was not in the dark then.
Oh sheesh, I missed Earth Hour. Had I been aware of the time I would have attempted to turn on the lights and car too. The only problem is that I have my automatic Earth Hour yesterday evening. We were without electricity for 2 hours (NORMAL power outage). You see I experience Earth HourS all too regularly and I am fed up to the back teeth. I can’t match the carbon footprint of Bill McBidden if I went for it hell for leather. Oh what a topsy turvey world we live in.
I just wish some of these eco-worriers would come and live in a country that suffers from regular power outages. One year would suffice to bring them out of their insanity.
Here are a few reminders about what many in the world are facing. Children simply won’t know what electricity is. It will be a very rare and exciting event when they finally get it.
Earth HOURS Here is what some people think about saving electricity.
You really do have to experience intermittent electricity to understand how damned frustrating it can be. Spoilt people have never had it so good. Stop bleeting please.
@ur momisugly Hugh Winkler.
Exhorting you to do something is not the same as forbidding you to do another.
Anthony hasn’t banned you from doing whatever you want.
Unlike the Greens here in my home State of Tasmania. They’ve just banned plastic shopping bags.
Why would they do that? They were on a ‘go without plastic bags’ kick for years. 20 years ago they said “Plastic bags will persist in the environment for 1,000 years”. “That’s silly”, thought I. “There haven’t been plastic bags for a 1,000 years.” 20 years later the plastic bags were already breaking down. They changed their claim to “They won’t break down for 20 to 1,000 years.”
Then, in minority Government, they banned the bags. So we’ve kicked them out of Government.
personally, I consider myself anti-Green, and here’s why:
I used to agree with much of the Green’s proclaimed goals. Despite noting that their actual practice contradicts their claims and is largely stupid. After all, “Don’t shit where you eat” is generally good advice. But if you actually want excrement with your food, you will of course seek out a Green and eat their environmentally friendly organically grown produce.
If we thought it worthwhile, we could reduce the amount of CO2 emitted by forcing the world to go vegetarian. OR we could achieve the same result by switching to natural gas obtained from fracking. Which do you think is the Green’s preferred option?
We could abolish another 40% of Carbon Dioxide emissions easily if the Green’s stop their opposition to Nuclear energy. this would also reduce air pollution.
Green’s claim of victory in abolishing lead in petrol is possibly a good thing. But note that another this was added because it made petrol more efficient. Petrol now emits ten percent more emissions than it did beforehand. Transport is thirty per cent of CO2 emissions, so that’s another three per cent of global emissions caused by Green activism.
But mostly I despise the Greens for their stupidity and lying. Earth hour resembles decarbonisation the way camping out in the backyard for an hour resembles being homeless.
I’ve walked through forests logged 20 years ago, and put up with Greens moaning about it being pristine untouched wilderness that should never be logged.
They recommend sustainable energy, but go apeshit when you point out solar is not sustainable, but whale oil is.
Greenpeace’s anti-Golden Rice stance blinds millions of children every year.
Environmentalists policy is to reduce the human population to what they call a sustainable level. Everybody knows this will not happen voluntarily. The need for a ‘final solution’ to the overpopulation crisis is inherent in their philosophy. No green would take part willingly? Rubbish. the Voluntary Human Extinction movement might perhaps have no members at all willing to move to the Involuntary Human Extinction side- but it is a fact that 40% of the FBI’s most wanted home-grown terrorists are not Muslim, not Black Panthers, not Communists or neo-nazis but environmental activists.
Mostly, I’ve abandoned calling myself Green, or light Green because of their lying. I have my own long list of Green claims that turned out to be lies. But try Lomborg for some facts you can easily fact-check.
Slept all through Saturday daytime after sleeping six of the previous 54 hours, woke up around 1900. Fell asleep with the lights on an hour later, woke up around 0720 with all the lights still on. If i’d known it was Earth Hour I wouldn’t have turned the TV off.
Power generation is for profit; marketed and distributed like television and popcorn. How absurd to turn it off. I laugh at PSE with their Green agenda junk stuffed in billing envelops. What they really want is to sell excess power to the highest bidder – which is not to the common household user.
twobob says:
March 30, 2014 at 8:20 am
Got married 29th March 69.
Wished I was not in the dark then.
What deep sadness and regret…we even had light bulbs then. Apparently yours had not been issued to you. 😉
Electricity! We don’t need no stinkin’ electricity. 🙂
Because of this article I have just turned on the light in my room – even though it’s nice and bright anyway.
Dang, I wish I had thought of running the self-clean cycle on my oven last night! Otherwise, dishwasher, dryer, washing machine, and all lights were running, curtains open to proclaim our opposition to Earth hour. This once a year celebration of having all our lights on reminds my of my 1960s childhood, when turning off lights (even in empty rooms) when people were at home just never happened until bed-time.
I was doing my best last night to mitigate Ontario’s disastrous green energy program, which has left us paying Northeastern US states and Quebec to take our power whenever supply outstrips demand, as the nuclear and other green power just keeps on being generated regardless of demand. Thanks to elevated energy prices, manufacturers have fled the province, leaving us with even more oversupply.
Amazing how the common sense of previous generations has been turned on its head by our current political and social leaders.
I bet, in the blackest recess of the black heart of some global warming catastrophist somewhere, North Korea is a model of a tiny carbon footprint perfect society. Mind you they generate substantial watts there to electrify the fences that surround the vast gulags entire families are incarcerated in forever for thinking the wrong things, or watching movies from elsewhere. So it’s not like thay can’t do it. They just have different priorities…
I was a little surprised that the NBC Evening News did not mention Earth Hour.
Does anybody know what the electric usage actually was during the “Earth Hour”‘s compared to the same non-Earth Hour?
Caption for my earth hour poster with a satellite photo of the earth at night:
Guess which Korea if free and which is a Stalinist dictatorship.
Guess which Korea eats and which one starves.
Electricity is good.
Choose freedom, and build more power plants.
That is, a satellite photo of the Korean Peninsula at night.
for earth hour i cranked up my lights, jumped in my hot tub and made a giant greenhouse gas producing bonfire! ;it was awesome. Communists suck and only stupid people fall for this garbage.
Eart hour? Ignored.
Ever seen some of these but ugly critters? It’s the only way they could have sex – utter darkness.
North Korea: Failure you can see from space!
Well guys, you are [trimmed] I leave it to you to figure out why.
Good point.
Thanks for sharing