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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Maybe all the cosmopolitan liberal eco-tards in Europe would like to celebrate earth hour by turning off all the street lights and CCTV systems for just one hour.
They could all go out into the city and set off fireworks outside a large cathedral or a railway station.
Maybe their newfound “friends” would be happy to join them in the festivities.
Arse Hour, basically.
As it would soon come to be known.
Or whatever that translates into in German, or Arabic.
I think I will celebrate by doing what I normally do and using the power that I normally use. I have set aside a few minutes to read the latest post at “Retraction Watch” which looks to be real interesting.
“Weekend reads: Publishing hypocrisy; false truths; scientists go rogue”
http://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/19/weekend-reads-publishing-hypocrisy-false-truths-scientists-go-rogue/#more-37939
“This week at Retraction Watch featured a heartfelt essay by John Ioannidis on what he called the hijacking of evidence-based medicine, as well as the story of a peer reviewer who stole text for his own paper. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: …”
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By the way, the John Ioannidis confession essay is powerful reading. http://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/16/evidence-based-medicine-has-been-hijacked-a-confession-from-john-ioannidis/
Best of all, this year, for the first time, we completely forgot that it was Earth Hour or even the Hour of Power It is proof of how irrelevant the idea has become..
I didn’t realize it was earth hour or I would have turned on the lights. As it is, I slept through it.
I really miss the heady days when Earth Hour was so prominent that IowaHawk held his Carbonator of the Year contest.
I was out fishing. I hummed a few bars of Kumbahya to help save planet Earth. It must have worked ’cause here we all are today.
I read that in British Columbia the reduction in the amount of electricity used during the hour was decreasing year by year. Conveniently perhaps, because of the clocks changing next weekend they have claimed that they can’t measure it this year.
I had the lights on, a fire burning and the TV on to watch England win the Grand Slam – and put the electric oven on too the have pizza in the second half.
Looking forward to next year’s Celebrate Electricity Hour but as the idiots in charge here are closing our power stations in favour of wind mills if there is no wind we might be having a power cut. Guess I could sort out a diesel generator as back up so I don’t miss out.
I had a rather utilitarian Earth Hour. The clothes dryer and the dishwasher were running, and the oven was in the middle of a self-cleaning cycle. Reading lamps, the TV, radio and desktop computer were on. I did separate some glass jars from aluminum cans to keep Gaia pleased. After all of this hard work, a hot bath was necessary. Of course the outdoor temperature was below freezing because of global warming, so the furnace was happily pumping away as well.
I was going to do a Live human achievement hour this year, but it didn’t pan out. I wasn’t ready. However I did have the windows open with the heater set to 72 to air the place out for almost 3 hours, does that count? Maybe I will do an hour of it a different day, or else wait until next year.
Just to clarify I meant do a live video stream on youtube with a bunch of incandescent lights on and air conditioners running, and some other electric stuff. That probably would have gotten a lot of haters if I did that.
It’s the tenth one, in fact. I would have thought there would be a big hoopla about that. More evidence that the Climate Idiocy is in fact dying. Notice the huge d nile with their statement about there “still” being a “degree of scepticism” in 2007. Cognitive dissonance reigns supreme amongst the diehard True Believers.
As someone who loves to cook…your sister’s kitchen is about the size of my apartment…no kidding!
I am going to go all out during “Earth Hour” and leave the cell phone charger plugged in while the phone is not being charged.
That’ll teach ’em!
In the US. first they banned the 75 watt incandescent bulb, then the 60 watt, then finally the 40 watt. I was driving through a poorer neighborhood and stopped at a store that sold 38 watt incandescent bulbs. Four bulbs for $2.16. Just when I was giving up faith in humanity! I bought two lamps that require five 40 watt bulbs each. I will celebrate by burning 10 incandescent bulbs in the town where I live that is named after Thomas Edison.
I have a small crate of 100W and 60W bulbs. Enough for my probable remaining lifetime.
Used with dimmers, you can get from double to 10x+ life out of them (nonlinear life extention with each dimming).
So one easy thing to do is get a 150W or 200W bulb and dim it 1/3 to 1/2… The light is a nice warm golden yellower “antique” color and they last years to decades. High power bulbs are still available as the cfl led jobs don’t cut it yet at those levels. Stock up now. It cost me about $10 for a powercord with dimmer built in for the livingroom lamps.
I suggest July 8, birthday of John D. Rockefeller, who gave birth to the modern petroleum industry. The oil and gas industry has brought comfort and convenience to billions of people. And his creation of Standard Oil survives today in several large integrated companies, the largest being Exxon and Chevron.
HURRAY FOR ROCKEFELLER!!!
“The Drake Well is a 69.5-foot-deep (21.2 m) oil well in Cherrytree Township, Venango County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, the success of which sparked the first oil boom in the United States. The well is the centerpiece of the Drake Well Museum located 3 miles (5 km) south of Titusville. [from Wiki]
This was neither modern nor an industry, as you say. But it is just 30 miles from where I grew up.
Bill Whittle’s” Three and a Half Days” does shine the light of silliness of the whole Earth Day shared.
i liked the north korea story on twitter
just search for “north korea earth hour”
the unep is the source of enviro goofiness and manufactured enviro crises.
the solution is to dissolve the unep
LIghts on. A fire n the fire pit–wood burning of course. A glass of bourbon and a cigar. Works for me.
I saw a mention somewhere, so as usual, to celebrate Electric Hour, I switched on all the lights in the house, started a wood fire in the fireplace, and we watched our Saturday-night movie on the 55″ Samsung, thus combining high and low energy technology. Let there be light! Defeat the eco-nutty minions of darkness!
/Mr Lynn
This year “Earth Hour” was so high profile in the media that my wife and I forgot to celebrate the ‘Hour of Power’ (or even Earth Hour). Our street was normal, but things could have been different in Tasmania before they were able to connect the new diesel generators. …..See:
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/epa-approves-diesel-powerup-at-meadowbank-dam-as-tasmanian-lake-levels-plummet/news-story/1a5932888044cb563de4c14542d1591f
Well, I completely forgot about it until 9:30 when Al Jazeera told me it was over….
There was zero evidence of it in my area. Yard lights on timers or sensors all on, houses well lit…
Unlike last year when there were posters on the road and even a text message from my cellphone service provider reminding me of Earth Hour, and streetlights were dimmed noticeably, this year I encountered just one poster about Earth Hour, at an entrance to a mall. So I totally forgot about Earth Hour until I saw this post.
Incandescent in the US aren’t exempt from ban by being 38 Watts instead of 40. Ones of wattage 30 to 42 Watts are banned unless they produce at least 750 lumens or less than 310 lumens of light.
The ban is not on selling incandescent, but manufacturing and importing them.
The law enacting this ban is the Energy Independence and Security Act, signed by G. W. Bush.
The “greenies” are so mean spirited and cheap. I turn off all the lights for approx. 8 hours a day during the winter and 10 to 12 hours a day during the summer. Can I get a subsidy from these losers.
I missed it completely. Am I a bad person?