Normally I write a blog post far in advance for this . This year due to it being so “high profile” in the news, I simply forgot.
Oh well. My sister is celebrating it at her house by making full use of incandescent lighting.
Dr. Roy Spencer nores notes this on Facebook :
In honor of Earth Hour tonight I will have the lights on, and I’m gonna burn a bunch of wood in the fireplace.
What did you do?
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I turned on all of my monitors and turned on the heat next to my office chair. I am also watching a documentary of IPCC climate scientists. Don’t worry, the heater is plugged into a separate outlet than the one in the picture and it’s on its own circuit. This is my winter office. My summer office remained at about 9 Celsius ( a little less than 50 Fahrenheit ) most of the winter (it used to be a carport and is located just below me)
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This snuck up on me so we’re not doing anything different, although we are heating with (on property harvested) wood. The lights and the computer seem to be working so I guess the utility district did not get the memo.
Nor did the State Parks of Washington – March 19: State Parks’ 103rd birthday
As a birthday gift the agency has made the day a “free” day. So folks are encouraged to travel. Maybe next year we could close our governments for a week and reduce the waste.
Deception Pass was absolutely infested with tourists.
I like these incandescents. Note the lumens and that’s a lot of light for $21.
1500 Watt – PS52 – Clear – Mogul Base
1,500 Life Hours – 23,740 Lumens – 130 Volt
https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/104/IN-1500CLMOG.html
I live just outside Toronto (that’s in Ontario, Canada for the geographically challenged). I turned ALL the lights ON in the house and lit a fire in the wood-burning fireplace (outside temperature -3°C) promptly at 8:30 PM EDT. Most of the lights were turned off at 9:30 PM. I Celebrated the LIGHT, while the Eco-fascists want to take us back to the DARKNESS of our ancestors. According to local news reports electricity useage dropped a whopping 3.2% in Toronto during earth hour.
Yeah, watched the Earth Hour and monitored the drop on cable 24. Afterwards I filled the Jacuzzi until the hot water ran out. Then I soaked with the pump on. After a month flying all over Asia it felt fantastic.
CW: thanks for all the flying. If you returned from East Asia you probably flew over Manitoba and helped warm our winter by 0.0001C. I know that’s correct because NOAA measured it!
Every light in the house is on, Garage lights, too Doing loads of laundry, hot water, extra drying time. Cooking a roast in the oven, TV going, computers going, son in basement, using power tools. TV is watching husband sleep. Three 1500 W fireplace style heaters going, while we wait for serviceman to fix the oil furnace. Typical day, here on earth, in the 21st century. Hope those damned faux-green eco-fanatics don’t mess things up any more than they already have.
Not aware of Earth Hour, had to look it up. Gratuitous climate pandering and scare mongering. Glad I missed it. Life as normal.
Earth Hour? Are they still trying to do that? I hadn’t heard anything about it until just now.
Missed it because I had the lights on, using my XBOX One as an internet Radio listening to Swiss Klassic Radio and trolling the web sites of the internet/www from my laptop, while watching March Madness on the same laptop.
Ha ha
I’m drinking carbonated beer.
I’m farting methane and CO2 after boiling and then re-frying my home made refried beans. At the honored hour my son and I lit our farts on fire, just for fun, creating CO2. Through our pants of course. Created beautiful blue flames in the imposed darkness.
Being that methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, all farm animals should be subjected to having hoses implanted in their rear ends to suck up the flatulence they emit and routed to Natural Gas mains or storage facilities in order to burn it before emitted to the atmosphere. The EPA should get right on it as soon as possible… With EPA inspectors to monitor it all. Someone has to do it.
WWNKD
What Would North Korea Do?
Launch a missile into the ocean?
Conduct a faux nuclear bomb test?
Say some really nasty things about someone?
What would North Korea do? Give some American kid a 20 year sentence for trying to steal a poster? Shoot an out-of-favor general to death with an anti-aircraft gun?
What, no credit for all the lights off?
Washing machine on; dishwasher on. Start cooking. I good at using leftover energy.
I had to play a gig tonight, so I left the house blazing for much longer than the hour. YES!
Celebrated with all lights on and a glass of bubbly…
That was last night from the point of view of Eastern Australia.
Damn!
I totally forgot!
I leave my Christmas lights up every year just so I can light up for that hour but this time I got caught up in a movie on TV and forgot to turn them one.
Oh well, maybe next year.
Turn them on today for two hours to make up for it.
I went out to a celebratory dinner and watched the riveting news about Earth Hour from end to end on the TV behind the bar.
Same as usual: ignore.
OK – so what is the global temp and exactly how much did “Earth Hour” reduce that ??
What do I do? Take advantage of the opposition’s down time to fight back on the internet, of course 😉
I am sure Victorians (Australia) don’t care at all for Earth Hour. Over the last few days, probably more like a week, race cars have been bashing around Albert Park. That’s V8 Aussie supercars, Porche Carrera Cup cars and Forumal 1 race cars. Days and days of racing. Days and days of huge fuel consumption by the race cars. Massive fuel consumption by support crews and their support vehicles. Huge fuel consumption by spectators driving/flying to Albert Parck, Victoria. No mention of Earth Hour, no mention of ethanol fuels, no mention of carbon offsets, though I may have missed that.
It wasn’t advertised in Oz this year at all but to do my bit I have been eating curried egg fried cabbage and baked beans all day , I’m attempting to create a warm blob in north east Victoria that the satellites will pick up and NOAA will have trouble splaining .
I also forgot because I there was nothing on the news. I think the ‘sponsors’ of the ridiculous event are a bit embarrassed and are quietly stepping away from it all. Anyway, tonight I will have a bunch of lights on and book an evening at the drag racing.
As an environmentalist that doesnt buy the C in Cagw I try to conserve energy while using as much as I need year round but I like to turn on an extra light every earth hour to celebrate humanities triumph over ordered chaos.
We have Earth hour about twice a week here In Palawan Philippines, damn useless power companny.
It used to be the same here in the part of Spain where I live, until the power company realised they were losing money, so they fixed the system a few years ago.
We still get the occasional black-out, but it used to be every Sunday morning without fail and when it rained and when it was windy.
The good old days.
stuartlarge:
I just returned from Tajikistan where in winter they have Earth Hour twice a day for 10 hours each. That is, if you live outside the capital. In summer they cancel it because it is warm enough to melt the snow. If it was warm through the winter, they could have hydro power all year at a constant level. In fact the energy requirement would roughly balance the energy requirement because it doesn’t rain much in summer. If only it would warm up and stay that way….
It was so well publicised here in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, that I don’t think anyone noticed, certainly our household was unaware of it.
This is what North Korea did –
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-astronaut-captures-contrasting-conditions-between-north-south-korea-stunning-photo-1521567
Don’t you wish we were as enviro-mental as them !!