#1Mar 26th, 2010
I posted a thread about earth hour last year as well. Last year earth hour was a smashing success, more than 1 billion people in the world participated. Let us hope we can do better this year.
The earth Hour is back!
I posted a thread about earth hour last year as well. Last year earth hour was a smashing success, more than 1 billion people in the world participated. Let us hope we can do better this year.
#2
The earth Hour is back!
Mar 26th, 2010
I know how I'll be spending my time at that time.
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This earth Hour would be way easier to observe at about 4am.
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This earth Hour would be way easier to observe at about 4am.
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#3
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Mar 26th, 2010
Well Ron, I am going to keep this thread on the front page tomorrow, so that the posters here are aware of the earth hour. That is all I can do.
#4
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Mar 26th, 2010
Earth Hour is a pile of horse ****e....bunch of Birkenstock wearing, Volvo driving knuckle heads knitting yogurt in the dark singing kumbya.
#5
The earth Hour is back!
Mar 26th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by SirJosephPorter
Well Ron, I am going to keep this thread on the front page tomorrow, so that the posters here are aware of the earth hour. That is all I can do.
I'll try to keep Earth Hour in mind tomorrow too. That's all I can promise...
#6
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Mar 26th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by SirJosephPorter
What a joke that was! The "total number of participants" was announced before most of the world had even reached "earth hour" if you'll recall.Well, it is earth hour again. Tomorrow, Saturday 27th march at 8.30 p.m. is the earth hour. Be sure to turn the lights off for one hour 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. It is a way of making a statement for the environment.
I posted a thread about earth hour last year as well. Last year earth hour was a smashing success, more than 1 billion people in the world participated. Let us hope we can do better this year.
Why only an hour? Why not a day, or a week? The answer is obvious. No one is willing to make more than a token effort. They're not going to give up their lights, fridges, stoves, furnaces, air conditioners, microwaves, computers, cars, or even cell phones or any of the rest of the amenities that make their lives so comfortable and convenient. And neither are you, for all your posturing.
What a hypocritical demonstration.
I'll have every light in the house on during that hour, including my outdoor christmas lights which were left up just for this occasion, to demonstrate to my neigbours that I'm not dumb enough to be sucked into that demo.
#7
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Mar 26th, 2010
This guy has the right attitude.
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--Given that I am an Indian, and MUCH more in tune with mother earth and her earthly needs than the rest of you white-ass honkie bastards, I thought it only prudent that I share with you my contribution to the much anticipated "Earth Hour 2010".
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Although it is still a couple of days away, already I have started to pile wood for what is going to be the "Mother of all Bonfires", because you see, after hours of research, I have concluded that this is the most effective way to spew carbon into the atmosphere in the allotted time. Yesterdays 5:45 am underwear-clad jaunt out to start my truck (it's a BIG stinky diesel, btw) in minus ****ing 24 conditions pressed home the need to make this puppy so big it will be visible from the space shuttle when I torch it up.
I am also going to stray from my tradition of eating only self-killed sustenance, and pick up some nice thick t-bones, since they contribute much more carbon than my venison. If I can find some flown in from New Zealand, then so much the better.
Now, before all you frothing, sniveling greenie pinko's start gnashing your teeth to the gums, wailing to Gaia and engaging in group hand-wringing, do not despair. You can offset all of this abuse I am going to release by extending your own "Earth Hour" to Earth Day, Earth Month or whatever else makes you hard (and/or wet). Keep those lights off till fall, wipe your ass 1/4 of the time and flush 1/2 of that, better still, go **** on your...
#8
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Mar 26th, 2010
And Ross too...
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--Earth Hour: No Thanks
Ross McKitrick
I was recently asked by a journalist for my thoughts on the importance of Earth Hour. Here is my response, edited slightly for readers outside this area.
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity. Giving women the freedom to
work outside the home depended on the availability of electrical appliances that free up time from domestic chores. Getting children out of menial labour and into schools depended on the same thing, as well as the ability to provide safe indoor lighting for reading.
Development and provision of modern health care without electricity is absolutely
impossible. The expansion of our food supply, and the promotion of hygiene and nutrition, depended on being able to irrigate fields, cook and refrigerate foods, and have a steady indoor supply of hot water. Many of the world's poor suffer brutal environmental conditions in their own homes because of the necessity of cooking over indoor fires that burn twigs and dung. This causes local deforestation and the proliferation of smoke- and parasite-related lung diseases. Anyone who wants to see local conditions improve in the third world should realize the importance of access to cheap electricity from fossil-fuel based power generating stations. That's how we developed.
The whole mentality around Earth Hour demonizes electricity. I cannot do that, instead I celebrate it and all that it has provided for humanity. Earth Hour celebrates ignorance, poverty and backwardness. By repudiating the greatest engine of liberation it is nothing more than an hour devoted to anti-humanism. It invites people to become sanctimonious do-gooders by turning off trivial appliances for a trivial amount of time, in service of some ill-understood abstract concept of “the Earth,” all the while hypocritically retaining the real benefits of electricity. People who want to do without electricity in service of some symbolic solidarity with nature should shut off their fridge, stove, microwave, computer, water heater, lights, TV and all other appliances for a month, not an hour. And pop down to thecardiac unit at the hospital and shut the power off there too.
I don't want to go back to nature. Haiti just went back to nature. For humans, living in
"Nature" meant a short life span marked by violence, disease and ignorance. People who work to end poverty and disease are fighting against nature. I hope they leave their lights on.
Here in Ontario, through the use of pollution control technology and advanced engineering, our air quality has dramatically improved since the 1960s despite the expansion of industry and the power supply. If, after all this, we are going to take the view that the remaining air emissions outweigh all the benefits of electricity, and that we ought to be shamed into sitting in darkness for an hour, like naughty children who have been caught doing something bad, then we are setting up unspoiled nature as an absolute, transcendent ideal that obliterates all other ethical and humane obligations. No thanks. I like visiting nature but I don't want to live there, and I refuse to accept the idea that civilization is something to be ashamed of.
#9
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Mar 26th, 2010
Think I'll do the same thing I did last year...... turn every light in the house on, all 5 tv's, and maybe see if the wife wants to bake a cake at that time too.
Last edited by gerryh; Mar 26th, 2010 at 11:35 PM..
#10
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by gerryh
What - you don't know how to turn on the oven and toss in a cake mix???Think I'll do the same thing I did last year...... turn every light in the house on, all 5 tv's, and maybe see if the wife wants to bake a cake at that time too.
#11
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Mar 27th, 2010
Since everybody turns off their lights for an hour that would be the best time to use more energy
#12
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Avro
Well, singing in the dark is better than singing in the light. And I didn't know 1 billion people in the world drove Volvos (Volvo must be tolling in profits). That is how many people participated in earth hour last year.Earth Hour is a pile of horse ****e....bunch of Birkenstock wearing, Volvo driving knuckle heads knitting yogurt in the dark singing kumbya.
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Extrafire
That was the estimate of World Wildlife Federation, also of most impartial observers (like Globe and Mail). I see no reason to disbelieve them.What a joke that was! The "total number of participants" was announced before most of the world had even reached "earth hour" if you'll recall.
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Earth hour is a token, a symbolic statement. There are many other more substantial initiatives to save the environment (most of them opposed by conservatives, like the earth hour). But here we are making a symbolic statement.Why only an hour? Why not a day, or a week? The answer is obvious. No one is willing to make more than a token effort. They're not going to give up their lights, fridges, stoves, furnaces, air conditioners, microwaves, computers, cars, or even cell phones or any of the rest of the amenities that make their lives so comfortable and convenient. And neither are you, for all your posturing.
What a hypocritical demonstration.
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Believe, me I wouldn't expect anything different from a conservative anti-environmentalist.I'll have every light in the house on during that hour, including my outdoor christmas lights which were left up just for this occasion, to demonstrate to my neigbours that I'm not dumb enough to be sucked into that demo.
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Extrafire
So you have quoted a few right wing extremists here, big deal. And that supposed Indian, we have only his word that he is an Indian. For all we know he may be a lily white Joan of Arc acolyte, a committed anti-environmentalist Anybody can tell any kind of lies on the internet.And Ross too...
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So what you are saying is that right wing extremists, anti-environmentalists are against Earth Hour. Big surprise there.
Last edited by SirJosephPorter; Mar 27th, 2010 at 06:18 AM..
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by VanIsle
That is the job for a conservative woman, VanIsle. No self respecting conservative man is going to sully his hands by doing sissy stuff like cooking. That is the job for his wife (or for his girlfriend for the night).What - you don't know how to turn on the oven and toss in a cake mix???
#16
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Mar 27th, 2010
Earth hour has come and gone in Sydney, Australia and already it is a bigger success than last year. The idea for Earth Hour originated in Sydney.
The remote Chatham Islands was the first of more than 100 nations and territories to turn off the power at 8.30 p.m. local time, in a rolling event around the globe that ends just across the International Dateline in Samoa 24 hours later.
Event co-founder Andy Ridley told Reuters that 126 countries and territories had so far signed up, with thousands of special events scheduled, including a lights-out party on Sydney's northern beaches and an Earth Hour 'speed dating' contest.
By contrast, last year only 88 countries participated. So this year definitely we can do better than last year.
World icons taking part for the first time this year include the presidential Blue House in South Korea and the Forbidden City in Beijing.
The remote Chatham Islands was the first of more than 100 nations and territories to turn off the power at 8.30 p.m. local time, in a rolling event around the globe that ends just across the International Dateline in Samoa 24 hours later.
Event co-founder Andy Ridley told Reuters that 126 countries and territories had so far signed up, with thousands of special events scheduled, including a lights-out party on Sydney's northern beaches and an Earth Hour 'speed dating' contest.
By contrast, last year only 88 countries participated. So this year definitely we can do better than last year.
World icons taking part for the first time this year include the presidential Blue House in South Korea and the Forbidden City in Beijing.
#17
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Mar 27th, 2010
I celebrate Earth Hour every day between 12am and 5am and whenever the house is empty during the day.
#18
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Mar 27th, 2010
I will follow Gerryh's lead and once again do as I did last year.
But this year i will add a little flair and deliver photos of my neighboors
christmas light display when they turn out their lights.
But this year i will add a little flair and deliver photos of my neighboors
christmas light display when they turn out their lights.
#19
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Mar 27th, 2010
Typical left-wing nonsense, posted by the most hypocritical of them all.
Being independently rich (and if that is not enough, leaching off his wife) it is safe to come to the conclusion that his home consumes more power just by being there than most most regular homes could save by switching power off for one hour 365 days a year.
Being independently rich (and if that is not enough, leaching off his wife) it is safe to come to the conclusion that his home consumes more power just by being there than most most regular homes could save by switching power off for one hour 365 days a year.
#20
Re: The earth Hour is back!
Mar 27th, 2010
Why don't you and he compare electric bills. Let's see how safe your conclusion is...
#21
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Mar 27th, 2010
Earth hour has reached Taiwan.
"In Taiwan, the Presidential Palace along with at least 20 skyscrapers — including the world's second-tallest building — in the capital of Taipei switched off their lights. Hundreds of Taiwanese placed candles beside a Taiwan map formed by energy-saving LED lights at a square outside the city hall. Also dimmed for an hour were large advertising billboards in a nearby commercial district.
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This is the official site for US Earth Hour.
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"In Taiwan, the Presidential Palace along with at least 20 skyscrapers — including the world's second-tallest building — in the capital of Taipei switched off their lights. Hundreds of Taiwanese placed candles beside a Taiwan map formed by energy-saving LED lights at a square outside the city hall. Also dimmed for an hour were large advertising billboards in a nearby commercial district.
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This is the official site for US Earth Hour.
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#22
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack
As a conservative ,I would expect you to oppose any environmental initiative, symbolic or substantial. It is probably against your religion. Nothing new there. Incidentally, you claim to be a Catholic. What does the Pope, the Vatican say about Earth Hour?Typical left-wing nonsense, posted by the most hypocritical of them all.
Being independently rich (and if that is not enough, leaching off his wife) it is safe to come to the conclusion that his home consumes more power just by being there than most most regular homes could save by switching power off for one hour 365 days a year.
I will find out and post it here.
#23
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by VanIsle
What - you don't know how to turn on the oven and toss in a cake mix???
Is that your answer to baking a cake? Your poor husband.
#24
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Mar 27th, 2010
ROFLMFAO........ A conservative sjp? You're calling ME a conservative?
Last edited by Ron in Regina; Mar 27th, 2010 at 10:31 AM..
#25
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by gerryh
Where did he call you a conservative?ROFLMFAO........ A conservative sjp? You're calling ME a conservative?
Last edited by Ron in Regina; Mar 27th, 2010 at 10:31 AM..
#26
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Mar 27th, 2010
"As a conservative ,I would expect you to oppose any environmental initiative, symbolic or substantial. It is probably against your religion. Nothing new there. Incidentally, you claim to be a Catholic. What does the Pope, the Vatican say about Earth Hour?"
Symbolic ANYTHING is typically liberal. No liberal ever did anything that might have hurt their comfortable status. They have Never done anything substantial.
My religion encourages me to be frugal, but give generously to the poor. Since you have no religion, this is obviously not an issue with you and your soul-mates.
I AM a Catholic. And if this "Earth Hour" had any practical value at all, not just the feel-good nonsense, there would be support for it from Roman Catholics, all the way from the top.
Symbolic ANYTHING is typically liberal. No liberal ever did anything that might have hurt their comfortable status. They have Never done anything substantial.
My religion encourages me to be frugal, but give generously to the poor. Since you have no religion, this is obviously not an issue with you and your soul-mates.
I AM a Catholic. And if this "Earth Hour" had any practical value at all, not just the feel-good nonsense, there would be support for it from Roman Catholics, all the way from the top.
#27
Re: The earth Hour is back!
Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by gerryh
Think I'll do the same thing I did last year...... turn every light in the house on, all 5 tv's, and maybe see if the wife wants to bake a cake at that time too.
Quote: Originally Posted by VanIsle
What - you don't know how to turn on the oven and toss in a cake mix???
Quote: Originally Posted by SirJosephPorter
That is the job for a conservative woman, VanIsle. No self respecting conservative man is going to sully his hands by doing sissy stuff like cooking. That is the job for his wife (or for his girlfriend for the night).
Quote: Originally Posted by Tonington
that answer your question?Where did he call you a conservative?
#28
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Mar 27th, 2010
Does it count if we run the TV and a few lights from our solar back up? We do this quite often as well as use it for recharging battery tools just to cycle the storage batteries.
How about electric heat? Any of you in the frozen zone willing to turn the heat off for an hour?
How about electric heat? Any of you in the frozen zone willing to turn the heat off for an hour?
#29
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave
I believe it is about turning off lights only. Nobody is talking about turning off heating, refrigerator etc. It is a symbolic gesture, one has to use common sense about it. I am going to switch off all the lights and the computer, but leave heating and refrigerator on. A few of us are going to sit chatting in the dark with a beer.Does it count if we run the TV and a few lights from our solar back up? We do this quite often as well as use it for recharging battery tools just to cycle the storage batteries.
How about electric heat? Any of you in the frozen zone willing to turn the heat off for an hour?
Last edited by SirJosephPorter; Mar 27th, 2010 at 11:23 AM..
#30
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Mar 27th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack
There indeed is support form the top, Vatican is participating.I AM a Catholic. And if this "Earth Hour" had any practical value at all, not just the feel-good nonsense, there would be support for it from Roman Catholics, all the way from the top.
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"This is where --comes in. Started in 2007 by the --, this hour-long event has spread around the world into homes, businesses, and institutions as diverse as The Vatican and the Las Vegas Strip. "
Since Vatican is participating and will switch lights off, this tells me that many Catholics also would participate, except those belonging to the rabid right (like the Catholic league).
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