Who is turning off on Earth Hour?

Everyone should be sharing this with friends and foes alike. Bring candles if you plan on visiting me.

My lil bro says that when large amounts of people do this it puts strains on the power stations and could cause an overload of power and black out cities. And since all American power plants are pretty much connected, it could cause a domino effect in theory and wipe out all power in the US. That is if the strain was great enough and enough people participated. I tend to agree with him. Sounds FUN! Everyone please participate in this event!

What will most of these people do the rest of the year? If we conserved everyday we wouldn't need this. And after this hour is over, Las Vegas will light up again and the water fountains will flow until next year. So will this even bring about a net effect of saving anything in the long run? How much in the way of GHG emissions in tons will this actually save that won't be eaten up by what is spewed out after the hour passes? Anybody know?

I hope this 1 hour is just an example for people to see & learn how easy it can be to make small lifestyle changes that result in greater benefits to all - especially Mother Earth. But if we're going to make significant strides at reducing CO2 emissions, a lot more switches & electronics need to be turned off on a regular basis when not in use, & not just for 1 hour a year. For example, if done weekly, this would be 52 times more effective while getting an energy saving message out to the people who need to hear it the most & maybe more than once.

I'm still waiting for a solar energy infrastructure - how great if that was our grid?

Finally, ONE story I found on Earth Hour on Current.com the front runner (yah) for Green! .. They are more obsessed with Obama this-that-the other. 5 articles on his every word and I finally found this article on Earth Hour. Good job.

Turn off my lights for what? I do this every day when I go to work. It's more global warming propaganda bs.

Watch, all this will be televised and video gathered by helicopter, mobile reporters, and other power consuming devices to report on the saving of energy.

Getting dizzy yet?

There will be more energy spent in reporting this "green" story than will be saved by turning off the lamp.

Pareo Nullus

That's nice, all fine and dandy, but I don't see The Great Castle of Uncle Charlie on that list!! And I paid good money to have my name on that list!

Is it? Can you give me some resources that prove it? Here are some in the other direction or talk about why some parts of the earth seem to be cooling despite global warming:

http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=despite-fox-news-and-rus...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-coasts-cool-as-globe-warms

http://www.livescience.com/environment/041217_sealevel_rise.html

http://www.livescience.com/environment/050811_global_warming.html

These articles suggest that even if certain parts of the earth are cooling or global warming could eventually lead to "global cooling", that doesn't make man-made climate change any less real and dangerous.

BTW, I can't participate in "earth hour" when I'm at work. Ah well. I suppose everything is off at my house, so maybe I'm technically participating!

It doesn't really matter if the world is cooling or warming because that's no longer the debate.

The debate is how to set up a carbon trading scheme to capitalize on the pseudo-science that too many humans are emitting too much carbon and we need to tax carbon.

So guess who we have to step in and profit on the upcoming carbon trading scheme? the Rothshild private banks of Europe, private like the Federal Reserve.

"Carbon Ring" owned by Rothschild Australia who you will be paying your carbon taxes to.
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=90090
http://www.carbonring.com/

Oh wow, look who is pushing this global warming all around the world! It's David De Rothschild!
http://scienceandsociety.net/2008/08/15/global-warming-interview-with-david-de-r...

No one on Current wanted to talk about my submission on carbon credit scams by Rothschild :(
http://current.com/items/89920132/carbon_trading_schemes_emerge_with_rothschild_...

Money? Who needs it! We're going to have a carbon credit trading system by 2020 with the framework to be railroaded in place by 2012.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21417792-12250,00.html

In the United States the only operating carbon emissions trading market is the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Coincidentally, or not, Al Gore’s hedge fund, Generation Investment Management, is the largest shareholder in CCX. Conflict of interest? The most vocal Global Warming alarmist is the largest shareholder in the USA’s only operating ‘carbon market.’ On the board of CCX we find our Maurice Strong.

I'm not a scientist, so I leave the debate to those more inclined, but if anything, it's far from a settled science. With regards to global warming, the media likes to compare denying of global warming like holocaust denial, a crime in many parts of Europe. That tells me all I need to know about global warming and the ideology behind it.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/090207holocaustdenial.htm

If I the biggest Conservative around does it. All you liberals should!!!!!

I did it! That was rough I have to admit but anything for the earth right. I gave my hour. I hope a lot of people did the same. My laptop ran out of power there after about 45 minutes so those last 15 were spent in the dark. I love electricity.

before leaving my parents told me to turn off the lights for earth hour, which sounds stupid to me coming from them since they run electric heat, wash their clothes in hot water, and leave TVs on when they are not home. Kinda like when they get at me for making home made rice and sturfry (which mom says I don't eat enough veggies when I use 3 cups worth in each sturfry) when they deep fat fry their food.

I say to hell with Earth Hour and let's roll out that new Carbon Tax! That'll teach us to reduce our Carbon Footprint! LoL,only joking. I turned off my power,well,in actuality my room is pitch black all day everyday except for the glow of my cpu's screen.But I put it in sleep mode for the hour...does that count? =)

So I gathered a bunch of people together in a park that overlooked san francisco. We were across the bay, and it was hazy, but the dramatic change I was hoping to see was not apparent. sigh. we had fun reading stories by candlelight.

i did my hour, and i made it through. after the initial strangeness, i remembered how cool candlelight is. why don't i do that more often?