There is some criticism of the figures on his blog, so the graph isn't definitive. But it certainly gets you thinking...
Hat tip: Not PC
Yes, that’s right! Not only can you get your eco-friendly electricity photos from Earth Hour published on the Anti Earth Hour blog, you may be able to get them into the Herald! They require a comment with every photo…
I’ve submitted the photo of our house, with the following message:
Update: The photo is on the Herald website, along with Dave Mann's photo.We thought long and hard about the most environmentally friendly way to light our house for earth hour. Candles were out of the question, the carbon emissions are too high (most are made from parrafin wax, derived from oil) and they produce polluting smoke that I wouldn’t want my young son to be breathing. We’ve been lectured for years now about the dangers of second-hand smoke. Torches were just as bad, as disposable batteries are toxic and use a large amount of energy to produce, having higher CO2 emissions than mains electricity.
Furthermore both candles and batteries are mainly made in China these days, and the emissions from transport must also be taken into account. Candles are also a fire hazard, and because of their inefficiency are far more expensive than electricity.
So we finally settled on NZ-made renewable hydro-electricity as the lowest-emission, most eco-friendly way to light our house.
Don't forget to walk around your garden, hugging all the trees as you go. You could even bow down and pray to them if you prefer.
Our Mother of Earth,
Hallowed is thy name,
Your end will come,
When our lovely sun,
Turns into a Red Giant.
Give us this day,
Our daily dread,
And reduce our excretions of carbon,
as we abort our populations.
Lead us not to our vehicles,
But deliver us back to the good old days,
Where life was sweet and easy,
And light bulbs (and women) weren't yet invented.
For thy Earth is our temple,
Our will is our destiny,
Until the Red Giant comes.
Amen.Post left by Manawatu Christian Apologetics Society
Earth Hour is a school level campaign for a dead ecology
we don’t participate to this colorless and apolitical Eco Sleep
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I am proposing a worldwide strategy to discredit the theories of man-made global warming, starting with the 60 minutes of ‘Anti-Earth Hour’.
On the same date and time as Earth Hour, March 29th, 2008 at 8pm, your local time, join the fight against the lights off hour by turning your lights ON.
"Thank you, you have at least one supporter in the "warming" Nuuk, Greenland, where we are having the coldest march in many years. Lots of snow too."
Following on from the staggering success of Earth Hour, a yearly event where concerned citizens burn alternative sources of fuel to celebrate the fact that they have turned the lights out, I'm suddenly rather keen on the idea.
I say "staggering success" because like all devotees of Earth Hour, I know there is no need to check the newspapers to know this idea "just works".
The planet can now be saved, as people are now psychologically prepared to accept the tough prescriptions of "Environmental Experts" to set humankind back on the path of carbon neutrality.
Just the easy stuff at first, like one child per family and tax rates of 80%, moving up to banning breathing, until finally we all become part Amish, part Hippie and live on a commune. Told you the easy stuff came first.
Furthermore, after one hour of the lights on dim, sea levels will probably not rise by half a centimetre now for another few years, and the average polar bear has 70 centimetres less distance to swim from their melting iceberg. It's made a difference.
Therefore many of those folk will be very excited to hear my suggestion, building on the groundswell of success. Not "Earth Hour" once a year, but once a week.
And not for an hour - how about A WHOLE DAY.
The Phrase "Earth Hour" is already taken, so I'll have to call my idea "Dirt Day".
So, just what is my idea?
Let's save some electricity, and possibly help reduce nationwide environmental stupidity by turning off the television for A WHOLE DAY.
Participants can either read a book, or have a conversation in lieu of staring at their television screen.
Greenies can pretend that it's all about saving electricity.
They can even take the batteries out of the remote control for the day. Now that's affirmative action.
Home Paddock: Irony By CandlelightM and M: M and M versus the Borg Collective
ZenTiger back in 2008: Save the Planet in One Hour and Other Ideas
Το Σάββατο οι και καλά συνειδητοποιημένοι κάτοχοι SUV, υπερκαταναλωτές ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας από σταθμούς που καίνε λιγνίτη (π.χ Μεγαλόπολη, Πτολεμαϊδα) ή πετρέλαιο, που γεμίζουν τα πάντα με μη ανακυκλώσιμο σκουπιδαριό, θα σβήσουν τα φώτα μεταξύ 20:30 και 21:30 σώζοντας τον πλανήτη από την καταστροφή.
Πω, πω, πω τι με λες ωρέ Λουδοβίκε…
Αυτό μοιάζει και είναι γελοιωδέστερο από την πινακίδα που είχα δει κάποτες που έγραφε «Βύρωνας αποπυρηνικοποιημένη περιοχή». Λες και υπήρχαν προτάσεις για αποθήκευση πυρηνικών όπλων, ή κατασκευή πυρηνικών σταθμών παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας στον Βύρωνα….
Ειλικρινά θα πρέπει να είναι κανείς κλινικά ηλίθιος για να θεωρεί ότι αν σβήσουν για μια ώρα τα φώτα το Σάββατο θα αλλάξουν οι συνήθειες πολιτών, κυβερνήσεων και κυρίως πολυεθνικών εταιριών τεράτων. Ας μην αναφερθώ και στους τραπεζίτες - αρπακτικά (Ρότσιλντ, Μόργκαν κλπ) που προκάλεσαν την παρούσα οικονομική κρίση τζογάροντας για την πλάκα τους με ηλεκτρονικές φούσκες ανύπαρκτου χρήματος. Μην πω και για τις γαλαζοαίματοι που μου προξενούν αναγούλα, που πολλοί από αυτούς ηγούνται κάτι τέτοιων οργανώσεων – οπερέτα σαν το WWF.
Το πρόβλημα της μόλυνσης του περιβάλλοντος είναι υπαρκτό και φυσικά δεν περιορίζεται στα καυσαέρια από την καύση των μη ανανεώσιμων ορυκτών καυσίμων ή τις κλανιές (μεθάνιο) των βοοειδών που αυξάνουν τα αέρια του θερμοκηπίου. Ένα παράδειγμα είναι η μόλυνση της βιόσφαιρας με τις μεταλλαγμένες καλλιέργειες – Φρανκενστάιν, τις συνέπειες των οποίων τόσο στο οικοσύστημα όσο και τον οργανισμό μας δεν τις γνωρίζουμε ακόμα. Όταν αρχίσουν οι ανεξήγητοι καρκίνοι και δε συμμαζεύεται θα είναι αργά για δάκρυα Στέλλα, θα την έχεις λασπώσει την ταλιατέλα.
Από την εν λόγω εκδήλωση το πολύ - πολύ να πανηγυρίσουν κάποιοι επικοινωνιολόγοι που θα δείξουν τον πλανήτη με λιγότερο φωτισμό σε δορυφορικές φωτογραφίες του Σαββατόβραδου. Ίσως και τίποτε εξωγήινοι παραξενευτούν ολίγον, όπως λέει και ο Old Boy. Καταπληκτικά τα λέει και ο μερακλής κατασκευαστής απατηλών αφασιακών δικτυωμάτων Χρήστος Μόρφος εδώ και εδώ.
Αφού εγώ προτείνω το παρακάτω αλ’ αμερικέν λογότυπο για την πρωτοβουλία θα εξηγηθώ καταλλήλως από κάτω:
They also have a cool video.
... Earth Hour is ridiculous.
No intelligent person believes we are going to make this world a better place by sitting in the dark for an hour or for a day. Turning a light off is not an accomplishment. Turning a light ON is the real achievement. Just ask Thomas Edison.
8:30pm Saturday March 28 is being hailed as "Earth Hour"
On this night, all those who care about the planet are being urged to turn off all their lights to save the Earth.Ladies and Gentlemen, the Earth was here long before man first walked on its soil and it shall be here long long after the last of us are gone. Earth has endured glaciers a mile high and a continent wide, radiation, hailstorms of comets, the freezing cold of space and the blistering heat of the sun. Our scientists estimate that not once but several times it has been struck soundly by orbiting mini-planets and nearly cracked in two. Yet still it stands. It does not crave our recognition. It does not need our help. It does not care about us. It is the Earth. It stands alone.
Mankind, on the other hand, cares. Man harnessed fire, developed the wheel. Man built shelters to protect us from the elements. Man created farming and irrigation to ensure that all would have enough to eat. Man tamed the wild animals and held predators in check. Man developed plumbing to keep disease out of our cities. Man built furnaces to heat our homes and allow us to survive in the winter. Man built air conditioning to allow us to live comfortably in what was once called desert. Man cured countless illnesses and brought comfort to the suffering.
Man built art, science, literature, and schools. It is man who now reaches out into space to one day build us a new homes on other worlds. Man harnessed the atom and brought us electricity and light to the darkness.
And so, on "Earth Hour" I shall be celebrating Man, not the Earth. I intend to turn on my electric lights as a symbol of Man's ongoing efforts to bring light to the darkness and understanding and order to chaos. ...
How much can you save during Earth Hour? If you completely stop using electricity in your house, by my rough but generous estimate, you'd saved about 2,800Wh and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 420g. (Workings at end.)
If you change a 75W incandescent lightbulb to an energy efficient equivalent, you'd save 65,700Wh per year (assuming it's on for 3 hours a day). That works out to 9,950g of greenhouse gases. That's one lightbulb.
(Ridiculous? I know. Every time I re-read this I have to re-check the calculations. 60W saving x 3 hours a day x 365 days a year.)
Blacking out the entire house for one hour every year = 420g reduction per year.
Replacing one lightbulb with an energy saving equivalent = 9,950g reduction per year.
To put it indelicately: F*** Earth Hour. [Edited so those with net nanny software can view page - y'all know what he wrote]
Go buy an energy efficient lightbulb and spend Earth Hour with the lights on watching TV - you'd come out ahead by a long, long way. Better still, take an hour's wages and buy energy efficient bulbs for people who don't have them. That'd actually be worthwhile. ...
... ignorant hippies around the world are switching off lights, TVs and other fun things because they think that by doing so they are helping the planet. They’re not. Someone told them it would help, and like other stupid ignorant hippies of our day, they just believed it and they are now taking part in this ridiculous token gesture to make them feel better about themselves.
Turning off lights for an hour and sitting around singing songs by candlelight is not helping the planet. As a matter of fact, it hurts the planet. The overall amount of carbon produced by a lightbulb is much lower than the amount of carbon produced by a burning candle. What’s more, a while back authorities urged people not to take part in a similar action, referred to as a “black out” in moral support of the All Blacks (my American friends, that’s our national rugby team).
This is because when thousands of people all turn lights and appliances back on at the same time, it can cause power cuts as the grid can’t handle the sudden surge. This is to say nothing of the mumbo jumbo that passes for “global warming science” that motivates a lot of these smelly greenies in their efforts in the first place.
Tonight, we have turned all out lights on for the hour. We have chosen this time to run our dishwasher and wash our clothes. The family is watching TV and I am using my computer to write this blog entry.
Cross over to our side. Join the sane world. ...
That's around 2000 watts of eco-friendly renewable hydro-electricity. Much better for the environment than smoky candles!
We are lit up like a Christmas tree!Don't believe the hype. And certainly don't believe the many biased media reports you'll hear about "Earth Hour", by reporters who have no clue what they are talking about.
If you have any common sense and self respect, do not take part in this Gaian celebration aimed at encouraging mass hysteria about the false religion of climate change.
The Fire Service has issued a warning about the dangers of candles during earth hour.
This makes me wonder:
* What impact will all those candles have on carbon emissions?
* Does this mean that earth hour will literally generate more heat than light?
* Is earth hour, like many other sacrifices to the green gods, really just smoke and mirrors?
What should you do this earth hour? You can’t watch TV, or read this blog, that would use electricity. You can’t work on the car by candlelight, you might cause a nasty explosion. So here are a few suggestions: ...
... You can’t read a book, or play a board game, you’d need to light candles for that, and that could cause immense ecological destruction. You could play “blind mans bluff” in the dark, but may trip over and break all the furniture you stayed home to protect. Or break an arm, requiring the consumption of toxic petrol to take you to the hospital.
No, you’ll just have to go to bed early. But DON’T be tempted to curl up under the covers in your cold unheated bedroom and snuggle with the wife. Population growth will destroy the planet. Keep your hand-knitted hemp underpants on.
To be safe, one of you had better sleep on the couch.
Lie in the cold, dark lounge, on the couch, listening to the hum of the fridge (which you should have left turned on) and contemplate that:
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialised civilisations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” - Maurice Strong, founder of the United Nations Environment Programme. (via Micky’s Muses)Get used to sleeping in the cold and the dark, it sounds like this won’t be the first night. And then one day, as you cough yourself to death from smoke inhalation (candles), hypothermia and botulism (you did turn the fridge off after all, didn’t you?), at the age of 40, with no children to remember your name, you may feel glad that at least by your sacrifice you may have saved the life of a snail, somewhere. Possibly.
... If YOU are the lucky winner, you could trade the Prius in for a big old 4WD !...
Earth Day enthusiasts of course are very similar to the End Time fundamentalist Christians, sad souls burdened by guilt and searching for punishment and redemption. Both groups are hoping for the Messiah and The Rapture; The Messiah may be here, but us bloggers keep denying the greens their Rapture... Both groups too, feel that man's wickedness will lead to damnation and hellfire, and the deliverance from evil will come with such a thunderclap that all on Earth will repent and sin/consume no more...... while waiting for rapturous times follow these instructions on Saturday night......
at 8.30pm, on the 28th of March 2009, turn on every light in your house for one hour to protest at the rubbish you are being fed by the politicians and those calling themselves scientists and historians who are either lying to the public or are incompetent if they think that the fact we have just come off the little ice age is anything new......enter to win the Prius here...
PS...and you thought the hole in the ozone layer was caused by CFC's ?maybe not...see WuWT here...
...while most of New Zealand huddles around their candles and whisper sweet nothings I will be following the lead of MandM blog. In my house every light will be on, I will crank up the electric heater, put on kitchen appliance and try and drain the national grid in one hour. That s because I think we can show more to the world about sustainability by using our lights than by turning them off.
Imagine if you would the media’s reaction to a family in New Zealand rigging up a hydro contraption in their back yard and used that for ‘Earth Hour’. The media would lap this up and run the story about a family living sustainably for the hour.
The reality is that is what we do in New Zealand anyway. Most of our power is generated via hydro power stations. Therefore we are already living sustainably!!!! With this in mind to promote sustainability around the world New Zealand should actually crank the whole system up, put on every light in the country and show the world how well it can work. (if we do that we better cross our fingers and hope it works and then hope it rains within the next week!!)
So I urge you to join me and show the world that sustainable energy is achievable, not by turning you lights off, but by setting up your Christmas tree and turning on every light possible.
cross-posted from Samuel Dennis's blog
In this series I’m adopting the language used by the global warming enthusiasts in an attempt to communicate on level ground.
This Saturday, we’re supposed to turn off all our lights for an hour to “join [WWF] in taking a step towards living more sustainably”.
But what is the real effect on the environment of switching off our lights and burning candles instead?
Modern candles are generally made from parrafin wax - ie, oil. They burn inefficiently, putting out most of their energy as heat, while producing a little bit of light as well. On the other hand, most of New Zealand’s electricity generation is from renewable sources (hydro), so produces very low carbon emissions.
So what are you doing if you huddle over candles this Saturday?
- Depending on how many candles & lights you use, you may actually increase your carbon emissions (unless you make your own candles from tallow of course (a renewable biofuel), so the die-hard hippies are ok. But they probably have earth hour every night anyway).
- Inhaling smoke, damaging your lungs (again no change for the die-hard hippies if they’re on the weed anyway). Smoke inhalation is a major health problem in the third world, and is one of the reasons we use electric light...
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