Earth Hour
Geez Louise, its Earth Hour today as opposed to Earth Day. Tomorrow will probably be Earth Minute. That’s a picture of Sydney’s Earth Hour yesterday. Evidently, they decided to start the party yesterday.
Earth Hour is being sponsored by the WWF and afterall the crazy stuff that Vince McMahon has pulled over the years I’m not at all surprised. You watch, I guarantee he’s making money off this thing somehow, but at least he never seemed like such a liberal.
What really irritates me is the thing takes place from 8-9 at night. I guess liberals want us to start going to bed when the sun goes down now. Its a Saturday, there’s a good chance I’ll be driving somewhere and my car will get totaled by some liberal freak who turns off his headlights in support of Earth Hour. Great.
What’s stupider still is that it is totally unnecessary. Its still cold in the winter and hot in the summer. We have a whole bunch of liberal environazis trying to drum up hysteria, but there is no global warning. Living through a Chicago winter I wish there was. This reminds me of my trip to Atlanta last summer. I kept hearing about the drought and the water shortage–they wouldn’t even give you water in restaurants. When I got back to my hotel room I took an hour and 20 minute shower just to see. There was no water shortage the hotel had plenty of water. It was just more left wing hysteria. I figure the global warming talk will last about another year or two before they switch to global cooling talk. I have prayed this subject to death and I have done research.
One of the great reasonable voices of the leftwing media is John Stossel. Check out his research http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=3061015&page=1
Another great website with the real science behind “Global Warming”
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/global_warming_myths.html
Do some research folks and tonight and open up that window loudly and yell, “My Light is Bright Cause its Night. I know I’m right about this stupid warming fright!”
Good points. I’m not sure if this will make a difference. I think something like everyone not driving a car for that hour would do more good.
Science News
March 29, 2008 at 10:44 am
I just want to say that this earth hour stuff is all bull.
Whether global warming is real or not, there is a limited amount of resources on this planet to care for our ever growing population, and getting everyone to turn stuff off for one hour isn’t going to help the earth that much. In fact it may even cause MORE DAMAGE !!
For example: Imagine an average family of 4 and their usual night. Perhaps this family walks to the local convenience store and rents a video to watch together every Sat night. They use a highly efficient microwave to nuke some leftovers and plop down in front of the TV for two hours with no other lights on because you can see the movie better that way.
This week, this hypothetical family decides to “do the earth hour thing” with a few neighbors. They drive to the grocery store and purchase alot of meat and prepared foods like sweets/deserts, potato salad, and chips. They burn who knows how much propane to cook the factory-farmed meat they eat off paper or even Styrofoam plates. They use candles made from petroleum, or lamps powered by batteries or oil to light the party… And whatever doesn’t get eaten, will wind up in big plastic garbage bags to be taken to the dump.
All this earth hour stuff is just another way for the average man to feel like he’s doing something good while making a mess.
Actively choosing to turn down your thermostat a few degrees in the winter and up a few in the summer would save MUCH more energy than turning off all your electrical stuff for an hour each year.
Actively choosing to REDUCE and REUSE would mean that the little that you do need to RECYCLE can be done in a cost effective manor.
Actively choosing to compost your food scraps would not only save you money on fertilizer for your lawn each year, but would return the nutrients to the earth where they belong instead of trapping them in plastic bags buried under other garbage in a dump.
Choose wisely in your day to day actions, and you’ll do so much more for the world than any STUNT like “Earth Hour”.
Shannon
March 29, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I disagree with a lot of what you say Shannon, but I have to admit your solution sounds like a more logical solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. I think the liberals just like to do things they can get celebrities involved in.
thatsrightnate
March 29, 2008 at 2:56 pm