Earth Hour
Okay, this has to be the easiest protest in the world to do. So easy, even the whole world is doing it. You really don’t have to even leave your couch.
The idea is that on March 28th on 8:30 PM, you join millions of people around the world and turn out your lights for an hour, an Earth Hour. That’s it. However, you could make it fun. Last year, friends of ours made a party out of Earth Hour and we all had a great time — everyone except those that were missing March Madness.
This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.
Tags: The Environment
Just a hunch you will get more support in your post than I did.
I’ll do it!
What a silly waste of feel good indulgence for a useless cause. Go bury a Styrofoam cup.
That’s funny… I guess.
Ok, D. G. here is the serious approach.
Plant a couple of trees and grow a garden. Don’t destroy prosperity by supporting a group of globalists with terrible policies.
CO2 is not some sort of poison. It is naturally occurring and the releases are from naturally occurring products. If you increase the CO2 concentration a several hundred parts per million than you will get more plant life which will absorb more of it and create more precipitation which will dissolve more CO2 and take it out of the atmosphere. The earth has a self correcting mechanism. We don’t need to rush on this. Your grandchildren won’t be affected by this nor will their grandchildren and by that time it will be a moot issue anyway. Fossil fuels will be too precious for their other uses to burn in about 30 years.
: nemski slams head against desk :
Yeah, nemski, that’s why I prop up Maria in an occasional post over there. She, like me, is very sensitive about the environment (hence why we are rare company) and a response like that makes her eyes twitch while my veins pop out of my neck and forehead.
David and science don’t mix.
David and the emergence of a global pseudo scientific fascist war on prosperity and freedom don’t mix.
Further evidence that David and science don’t mix.
You guys are so naive. You don’t know that you are being had. I will have to do more posts on Stoptaxing and Delaware Politics on the money for freedom industry which is promoting the global climate change panic. All of the models are on our side. That is why Scientists by the thousands are flipping. Even people who were on the U. N. Climate Change panel.
David – you seem to concede that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and that the issue is that we haven’t planted enough trees.
We are clear-cutting rainforests at a rate of hundreds of square miles per month. Where would you envision planting these trees?
In addition, the CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing way more rapidly than we can plant our way out of it. I get the feeling that you haven’t really given much thought to your position.
Carbon dioxide is not only hurting the atmosphere, it’s hurting our oceans. I don’t know where David is getting his data, is it from the crank Inhofe?
Here’s where you get climate data: realclimate.org. It’s a blog maintained by actual climate scientists. You can get real data! Another good one, Weather Underground‘s climate change blog.
And UI brings a gun to a knife fight. 😉
Thanks.
Jim Inhofe is a long time friend, I have known him for well over 20 years. I must say that he is a thoughtful and dedicated public servant. I would love another 59 like him up there.
Planting trees and giving economic aid to the tropical forest regions would do more good than turning out a light or impoverishing people.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0980076315/gilderpublish-20 Try reading a little George Gilder. You may find some facts that surprise you if you are open minded.
UI just spoke on what I finally gathered. I went to a human source that has plant biology at her fingertips. In addition to the fact that young plant life is years…DECADES behind the CO2 consumption rates of the old growth being clear-cut for permanently ungrowable lands (dwellings, pavement, etc), another huge ABSORPTION of CO2 is WATER…and what is the biggest deposit of water on the planet? OCEAN!!! The CO2 presence in our oceans has been noted as INCREASING. What does the increase of CO2 in the ocean do? It warms it. No, not the glacial-melt, the polar bears are doomed type of warming, but the current-altering type of warming…via denisity-decreasing of the water.
George Gilder is a proponent of “Intelligent Design”, which means you aren’t going to get any science or facts from this guy.
We can eat our way out of global warming. By seeding more oysters in the seas, as they grow they will sink CO2 into their shells. Oysters for all.
Smitty, it’s not just warming although it is a big factor. Carbon dioxide is changing the acidity of the ocean. The oceans are a huge carbon dioxide sink. They are starting to notice a change in the shelled ocean creatures, since they use the carbonate from carbon dioxide to make shells. I think there is a lot going on in the ocean that we’re not even aware of yet.
I’ve come up with a whack-nut theory (all snark is intended with this theory) about how increased CO2 levels will lead to obesity and diabetes. For once in my life, though, I really hope I am not right about this…
Plants are constantly “doing” photosynthesis…
Photosynthesis is the process by which plant generate a store of sugar to be used for energy to sustain the plants life. CO2 is a crucial component of photosynthesis. The chemical formula for photosynthesis is:
CO2 + H2O –> C6H12O6(sugar) + O2
The CO2 that plants take in, is used to make the sugar that we then ingest when we eat plant products.
So, the more CO2, the more sugar in those plants we eat! Woo hoo! Diabetes, baby!!!
OK, snark over.
You’ll probably have more lushly growing plants. In fact, I think there is some evidence that higher atmospheric CO2 levels favors vines, like kudzu or poison ivy.
Thanks for promoting Earth Hour! Another way you can recruit people to the cause is by creating a Earth Hour group on Commit21.com. Simply create a group about one action that you will commit to do for Earth Hour and recruit your friends, family, and co-workers to get involved in that action as well. When it comes to climate change, simple actions can make huge differences and Commit21 leverages social media to influence networks of friends, family, and co-workers. Check it out at http://www.commit21.com/
Hey check this out:
http://www.earthhour.org/earthinyourhands
It’s a cool way to promote Earth Hour don’t you reckon? I stumbled across it and have never seen anything like this before.
C