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Mar
24
The good news
March 24, 2008 |
My outdoor Christmas lights are still up. White, incandescent…very bright.
Watching the stars and getting “busy” with someone special are among Canada’s top picks for what they will be doing during Earth Hour next week, according to an online survey.
Earth Hour is a global lights-out initiative, organized by the World Wildlife Fund, that’s encouraging people to turn off their lights for one hour at 8 p.m. on March 29 to show their support for action on climate change. canwest news service
The only sad thing is that almost all of British Columbia’s electricity is hydro generated so my turning on my lights will make about as much difference as the idiots turning theirs off. Ah well, it is the thought that counts. Oceans cooling, temps trending down, two months into the solar cycle and minimal sunspot activity, crazy people turning their lights off and trying to scare their children; but we have to start somewhere and, with Tim Blair, I am starting with keeping my lights on at 8PM March 29.
All of them.
We have to start somewhere.
Signing on for the Hour of Power: London Fog; dust my broom; Mitchievile;
Update: My fellow illumination activist Tim Blair gets one or two more comments than I do and they are spitting beer on your screen funny:
Thunderdome-style carbon footprint: Face the space heater and the air conditioner to each other. Switch both on. See which wins.
Two go in. One comes out. Drink beer while cheering for your favorite.
Comments
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I’ll be going full blast over here, too Jay.
As long as I’m an involuntary shareholder of a monopoly power producer, I’m squeezing every last drop of subsidized juice out of the racket.
Yeah, this is going to good. Leafs are in the yearly playoff hunt, Saturday night. I can see all the bars shutting down right around Don is on “Coach’s Corner”…
March 29, eh? Checked my bike records and i usually got my first ride of the season in by that date here in southern ontario. Not this year…too damn cold. Yeah, I know, that doesn’t count.
Me too. all lights will be on. i am planning on putting a living room lamp on the roof of the garage for added absurdity. If i get ambitious i will print some articles skeptical of AGW and hand them out to passersby. Perhaps an “accuracy hour” is what i’ll call it
It is so refreshing to find like-minded people in the world. I thought I was the only one. Thank you for the idea. I didn’t know about this idiocy, but now I will be sure to turn on everything in protest. : )
Wonderful. I’ll be joining you