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Topic: Earth Hour 60 - Invitation
Posted By: Dussy69
Subject: Earth Hour 60 - Invitation
Date Posted: March/24/2009 at 23:15
http://www.earthhourus.org/">Earth Hour
Hi,

On Saturday, March 28, 2009, at 8:30 pm, I am taking part in Earth Hour - a global event in which millions of people will turn out their lights to make a statement of concern about our planet and climate change.

I want to invite you to join, too! Sponsored by World Wildlife Fund, Earth Hour got started just two years ago and is now the largest event of its kind in the world. Last year, more than 50 million participated and the lights went out at the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera House and the Coliseum in Rome, just to name a few. Even Google's homepage went black for the day!

In Israel, President Shimon Peres personally turned off lights in Tel Aviv.

This year, Earth Hour will be even bigger - already 250 cities in 74 countries have agreed to take part including Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami and Nashville with more signing up every day. Around the world, cities like Moscow, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai and Mexico City will turn out their lights.

But Earth Hour isn't just for big cities-anyone can participate. To get a better sense of the event, check out this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjWD8pbK5t8.

Participating in Earth Hour is easy, fun and free. I hope you will join me for this amazing event.

To sign up, visit http://www.EarthHourUS.org where you'll learn more including ways you can spread the word about Earth Hour, plus creative things to do when the lights go out in case you need inspiration!

We want the US to turn out more lights than any other country in the world during this historic event so please pass this note along to anyone you think might want to take part. Let's all turn out and take action on March 28 at 8:30 pm.

www.EarthHourUS.org

Thanks.
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Thank you for being a part of Earth Hour 2009.
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Posted By: bricat
Date Posted: March/24/2009 at 23:41
Boo Hoo

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Posted By: anweis
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 06:30

It's Earth Hour every hour in my home. We don't have porch lights or garage lights, or any other unnecessary lights burning. No stupid Christmas lights either.



Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 07:32
I don't like outside lights myself unless it is a pole light far away just to alleviate the absolute pitch blackness so I can kinda see the outline of the garage a little.  Otherwise I like to have my night vision left alone so I can see.  I don't want to be surrounded by bright lights and not be able to see twenty feet away---because then "the dark"  looks even darker. 
 
Don't want any skunk walkin' right up to the cat's dish and not know about it!   Shocked
 
 
 


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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 08:42
I've already spent nine days and nights in the dark from the ice storm. I WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS B. S.. I do what I can to reduce my power usage not because I'm trying to save the planet, but because it makes good economic sense. I'm plannig on a major retrofit to my house to a passive annual heat storage system, along with solar panals and a wind turbine, but none of it is to save the earth, it is to save the dollar, and make me more independent.

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Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 08:50
Now there's a real Greedy Gut don't-give-a-sh*t-about-the-planet attitude.  Let's go have a beer out of a glass bottle and throw the bottle in the trash when we're done.  If they wanna separate it later---be my guest!!    Cheers!!  

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Posted By: bricat
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 08:53
I prefer a nice plastic bottle, from a styrofoam cooler.

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Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 08:54
Prefer outside lights off too - screws up star gazing.  Have to turn them on before I let the dog out 'cause of the skunks.

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Posted By: RONK
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 09:01
 Why only an hour?
 If it's such a good idea, let's shut down the power plants for good and wander around in the dark forever!
 After all, an hour isn't going to do much, but forever would do a lot more!
 
 I hate this sort of feel-good nonsense.
 


Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 09:13
Puke.  All day the lights, TV everything but the fridge are switched off or unplugged until we need it and again when we go to sleep.  Al Gore and his energy wasting friends can tamp sand.

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Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 09:16
Originally posted by Dogger Dogger wrote:

Prefer outside lights off too - screws up star gazing. 


Agree Dogger.  When we moved from the farm to town, never realized how much light pollution there is.  Most people don't realize how many stars there are until they get away from town.


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If nobody ever said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. AP Herbert

Stupidity & ignorance have been the foundation for many certainties.


Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 09:20
Read some sad stories about the last major power failure we had around Toronto.  First time many kids had actually been able to see the Milky Way.

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God save the Empire!


Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 10:16
When we moved from the suberbs to downtown, I spent the first three nights with little sleep because I was getting up to investigate every sound. Finally got so used to the noise that I didn't hear a thing when they broke into my police car three times and my garage twice. When we moved from downtown to the country people told us we wouldn't be able to sleep for a week because of the quiet. Fell sound asleep the first night. I also have no lights on at night, outside or inside.

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Posted By: anweis
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 10:44
Originally posted by RONK RONK wrote:

 Why only an hour?
 If it's such a good idea, let's shut down the power plants for good and wander around in the dark forever!
 After all, an hour isn't going to do much, but forever would do a lot more!
 
 I hate this sort of feel-good nonsense.
 
 
It's not about feeling good. It's about drawing attention on the issue. Many people do wander around in the dark all their lives, but not for lack of electricity.
 
If you don't care about future, what kind of parent are you?


Posted By: anweis
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 10:49
Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

I've already spent nine days and nights in the dark from the ice storm. I WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS B. S.. I do what I can to reduce my power usage not because I'm trying to save the planet, but because it makes good economic sense. I'm plannig on a major retrofit to my house to a passive annual heat storage system, along with solar panals and a wind turbine, but none of it is to save the earth, it is to save the dollar, and make me more independent.
 
Beltfed, that's good enough for me.
Don't forget to add some more insulation into the walls and to replace the old farm windows with the good stuff. When your water heater dies (i hope soon Smile) check out the instant water heaters). And if you help your wife to hang the clothes on the wires, instead of using the dryer, you'll have a nice chat and family bond, and save money every year for a machine gun or something.  
When all is done, please invite your neighbors and friends to a tea or whatever it is that you imbibe. They'll be interested in your story. 
As far as independence, i am sure that you have contemplated a free standing wood stove that does not require electricity by now?


Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 10:52
Need to look into the instant water heater.  Daughter has one in NZ and seemed to work ok.  Don't think I can get one - no natural gas or propane.  Seems to make sense not using energy when you don't need the hot water.

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Posted By: anweis
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 10:53
Originally posted by bricat bricat wrote:

I prefer a nice plastic bottle, from a styrofoam cooler.
 
Big Smile  Good joke.


Posted By: anweis
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 10:57
Originally posted by Dogger Dogger wrote:

Need to look into the instant water heater.  Daughter has one in NZ and seemed to work ok.  Don't think I can get one - no natural gas or propane.  Seems to make sense not using energy when you don't need the hot water.
 
I think that they do make instant water heaters that run on electricity as well. The savings there are not energy and $$, but space.
 
There are many models of instant heaters. However, many of them are overengineered, and also need electricty for the pilot light or the exhaust fan. Some models run without a pilot light and without electricity. Those are the best, IMO.   


Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 11:16
Originally posted by anweis anweis wrote:

Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

I've already spent nine days and nights in the dark from the ice storm. I WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS B. S.. I do what I can to reduce my power usage not because I'm trying to save the planet, but because it makes good economic sense. I'm plannig on a major retrofit to my house to a passive annual heat storage system, along with solar panals and a wind turbine, but none of it is to save the earth, it is to save the dollar, and make me more independent.
 
Beltfed, that's good enough for me.
Don't forget to add some more insulation into the walls and to replace the old farm windows with the good stuff. When your water heater dies (i hope soon Smile) check out the instant water heaters). And if you help your wife to hang the clothes on the wires, instead of using the dryer, you'll have a nice chat and family bond, and save money every year for a machine gun or something.  
When all is done, please invite your neighbors and friends to a tea or whatever it is that you imbibe. They'll be interested in your story. 
My biggest expense is going to be removing the insulation from the walls and roof of my house to make PAHS work, and I already have the best windows money can buy. My wife has disabilities that would make it very difficult to hang clothes. I might vent the dryer to the heat sink with an earth tube if it's not to much trouble. As for the water heater it already gets a geothermal assist.


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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 13:37
Just to fill you in, I live in an earthsheltered house, built in 2001. When I built it I tried to use the best ideas and construction I could find. I didn't have access to a computor or had little knowledge on how to use one. While I still don't have much knowledge on how to use one, I do have access and a little more knowledge. I have since discovered that there were technologies that were available that I didn't know about that would have greatly affected the efficency of my house. Some of them I can't change as it would be cost prohibative and/or structually unfeasable, so I will just have to live with it. The one thing I can do is retrofit my house for Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS). This is a system that has been around since 1981 and was designed speciffically for earthsheltered buildings. If properly designed and installed it creates a zone of dry earth next to the house that is used as a heat sink or heat storage area that is used to keep the building at an annual constant temperature (approximately 70 degrees) without the use of any power, and provides a source of fresh air. My next goal is to produce more electricity than I use, while I could produce the electricity that I use now (about half of a conventional home of the same size) my first goal is to reduce my use as much as possible and still have a normal life style. The next goal is to pay nothing for power by producing my own.
Like I said earlier, I'm not trying to save the earth (I'm not capable) I'm trying to save a dollar (I can do that). If it helps the earth then so be it, if it keeps a power company from getting my money then great.


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Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.


Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 13:50
What was the name of that country and western song by Trace Adkins?? "Every Light in the House Is ON"
My house has walls of poured concrete with polystyrene forms with the air layer (6") and brick (5") they are 22.75inches thick (.75 inch drywall).  Insulation is polystyrene foam with a 97% heat exchange barrier.  I have geothermal heating and cooling which supplies about 90% of my hot water needs.  There is slightly over 4500sqft of living space and my average electric bill is lower than my mother-in-law's who lives in a 14x68 trailer next door. 
I won't be participating either. I will, however, be sure to follow the recommendations in Mr. Adkins song...


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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 13:58
Cool KB that's the wall I wish I had on the south of my house, but I can't do it nowSad.

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Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.


Posted By: lucytuma
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 15:44
Not interested.

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Posted By: Average Joe
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 16:13
Solar pannels for my house are 60K!!!!! 

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Posted By: RONK
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 19:12
Originally posted by anweis anweis wrote:

Originally posted by RONK RONK wrote:

 Why only an hour?
 If it's such a good idea, let's shut down the power plants for good and wander around in the dark forever!
 After all, an hour isn't going to do much, but forever would do a lot more!
 
 I hate this sort of feel-good nonsense.
 
 
It's not about feeling good. It's about drawing attention on the issue. Many people do wander around in the dark all their lives, but not for lack of electricity.
 
If you don't care about future, what kind of parent are you?
 Who said I don't care about the future?
 Who isn't aware of the energy problems we have?
(Nobody that has to pay an electric bill every month, I'll tell you that!)
 My point was that sort of thing deludes many people into thinking that they really are doing something to conserve energy, by turning a few lights off for a micro-millisecond in geological time.
 
Kind of like a million-mom march deludes liberals into thinking that they are reducing crime. 
 
And yes, for a great many people, it is indeed about feeling good. They are often college-age idealists who don't really know how to do anything useful, other than run around making all kinds of silly "statements", and "Protests" and getting other useless fools to join them.
 


Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 19:21
OOOOOOOORRAAAAAHHH.

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Opinion,untempered by fact,is ignorance.

There are some who do not fear death... for they are more afraid of not really living


Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 19:30
Excellent  Agree it is about the warm fuzzys or blow up your skirt type deal.

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If nobody ever said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. AP Herbert

Stupidity & ignorance have been the foundation for many certainties.


Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 19:38
If someone REALLY wanted to do something about energy, they would be out inciting everyone possible to FORCE the government to bring nuclear reactors online.  The Tocamak reactor has been possible since the 60's but we halted production due to enviro-wackos.  We could be totally self sufficient on nuclear power only using fossil fuels for transportation, but "feel good" idiots gained power.  Good grief... the FRENCH supply the majority of their nation's power by 2nd class nuclear reactors.  
And somebody thinks it is sending a "positive message" to turn out your lights for an hour.  HOGWASH.


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Opinion,untempered by fact,is ignorance.

There are some who do not fear death... for they are more afraid of not really living


Posted By: bricat
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 21:21
Nuke !

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Posted By: cyborg
Date Posted: March/25/2009 at 23:16
Well put Ronk. These are often the same people that think the Sidney Lanier dam was constructed for the Zebra Mussels. Which by the way if not for that dam, the drought would have killed them off. These same types protested the dam when it was being built. Built for drinking and bathing water for PEOPLE. NOT MUSSELS.
 
There will always be that type of save the world do gooders that are basically low self esteem get in everyone elses business better than you types. Generally these are the same ones that also brought us OBAMA.
 
Our Earth is in a cyclical period, which it has been doing long before there ever were automobiles. Yet some how, we as humans with our wasteful and self serving greed are the culprits. Get Your Popcorn Ready
 
if there are those of us that are living in the dark (and not for the lack of electricity) Hopefully it won't be due to someone pulling the wool over our eyes.


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Posted By: koshkin
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 02:36
What does any of that have to do with climate change again?

ILya


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Posted By: bricat
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 12:05
I think it's something like all the heat from the light bulbs is melting the polar ice caps, which in turn is causing the polar bears to cross-breed with flamingos ?

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Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:31
What about all that aluminum paint on those barn roofs radiating heat back into the sun??  The sun overheats.....gets real hot.....I get sunburned......melts the ice in my rum and coke.........I gotta run back to the Circle K to get more ice.........using up more fossil fuels.....

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Posted By: Bigdaddy0381
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:33
I'll just not fart for that hour to do my part. I'm scared of the dark.

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Posted By: RONK
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:33
Originally posted by Ed Connelly Ed Connelly wrote:

What about all that aluminum paint on those barn roofs radiating heat back into the sun??  The sun overheats.....gets real hot.....I get sunburned......melts the ice in my rum and coke.........I gotta run back to the Circle K to get more ice.........using up more fossil fuels.....
 
 It's just a vicious cycle, isn't it Ed?


Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:33
Does the aluminum hat you wear create problems too Ed?

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God save the Empire!


Posted By: pyro6999
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:48
if we tilt his head just right we can intercept radio traffic from nasa!

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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:48
You know, after my wife and I have found something to do in that dark hour, I wonder what we're going to do for the other 55 minutes?

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Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:50
5 min sounds pretty good from where I sit!

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God save the Empire!


Posted By: bricat
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:51
Maybe you shouldn't be sitting

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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:53
I'll bet there will be alot of abortions in the next 9 months.

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Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.


Posted By: Bigdaddy0381
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:54
Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

You know, after my wife and I have found something to do in that dark hour, I wonder what we're going to do for the other 55 minutes?
 
it will probaly take you that long to catch your breath from chashing her after she runs from you.
 


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Posted By: pyro6999
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 14:57
a lot may depend on how long it takes to get the lid off the viagra bottle too

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They call me "Boots"
375H&H Mag: Yeah, it kills stuff "extra dead"

343 we will never forget

God Bless Chris Ledoux
"good ride cowboy"


Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 15:10
Originally posted by Bigdaddy0381 Bigdaddy0381 wrote:

Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

You know, after my wife and I have found something to do in that dark hour, I wonder what we're going to do for the other 55 minutes?
 
it will probaly take you that long to catch your breath from chashing her after she runs from you.
 


Its more fun when they run.


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If nobody ever said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. AP Herbert

Stupidity & ignorance have been the foundation for many certainties.


Posted By: Big Squeeze
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 15:14
Man made global warming??????????? A FARCE!!! An agenda supported by the leftists and the "JUNK" scientists in order to control just a little more of everyone`s daily lives and to remove even more money from our pockets. Carbon credits?? A SCAM!
 
WEATHER GOES IN WARM CYLCLES and COOLER CYCLES and has since the beginning of weather, LONG BEFORE man and the industrial machine came to be.
 
A load of crap!!..........Horse Poop...........Sorry ED!


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Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 15:18
Originally posted by bricat bricat wrote:

Maybe you shouldn't be sitting
 
At this stage bricat I consider myself lucky to be inhaling!
 
Rather than turn off the lights I plan to flush twice in tribute.


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God save the Empire!


Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 17:33
(............maybe if I put the ice and the rum and coke inside of this aluminum hat it will stay cold longer even though the earth's atmosphere is burning away.............)   Whatever   

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Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: March/26/2009 at 17:46
Does chicken little know about this yet?

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If nobody ever said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. AP Herbert

Stupidity & ignorance have been the foundation for many certainties.


Posted By: BillyWayne
Date Posted: March/27/2009 at 09:16

A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.

Global Warming/Climate Change is nothing more than an excuse to give up sovereignty to a "world body."


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The're taking the hobbits to Isengard!!


Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: March/27/2009 at 09:22
Originally posted by BillyWayne BillyWayne wrote:

A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.

Global Warming/Climate Change is nothing more than an excuse to give up sovereignty to a "world body."
That happens to be hostile to the United States. The U.N. has been corrupted, and has outlived it's usefulness


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Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.


Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: March/28/2009 at 22:52
Every light in and out of the house, even the arc lights on the barn, have been on for hours... 
Earth day sucks.



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Posted By: Longhunter
Date Posted: March/28/2009 at 23:33
Every time something goes wrong (or the weather changes), there's some"priest" or politician who starts haranguing everyone and saying:
 
1. The world is coming to an end.
2.  It's your fault, because you are sinful, wasteful, etc..
3.  The only way to fix it is for you to sacrifice (or give THEM) your valuables, virgins, economy, or whatever.
 
Naturally, things change again over time.  Then these same "priests" or politicians want to take credit for all the bad things that DIDN'T happen.  Or if things get worse, they blame you for not sacrificing enough and ask for more.
 
Unfortunately, people fall for this con game every time.  (And we think the Indians who killed their chiefs or tossed maidens down wells because the crops failed or the rains didn't come were dumber or more superstitious than we are!)
 
We've had warming periods before.  The world didn't end.  (Look up the "medieval warm period.") 
 
In 1995, we were being told that another ice age might be near.  The last two months of 2000 were the coldest since the government starting keeping temperature records.  In 2007, NASA corrected its data and advised that six of the ten warmest years were in the 1930s and 1940s.  I don't know about your heating bill this winter, but ours was up due to an extra cold winter. 
 
The earth changes.  The dinosaurs are gone.   The Alaskan land bridge from Asia is now underwater.  You can find fossils of seashells inland, where there used to be seas.
 
The ultimate conceit is to think that the world has been waiting for you, and now that you are here it is perfect and will never change again.  Think again.
 
If you want to know what global warming is about, look at who stands to make money from this.  (Have you heard of any government grants to study "global cooling"? Researchers go where the money is.)   


Posted By: Flintlock1776
Date Posted: March/29/2009 at 12:06
I wonder how much electricity was wasted in starting up the lights all over again

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Posted By: RONK
Date Posted: March/29/2009 at 13:16
Originally posted by Flintlock1776 Flintlock1776 wrote:

I wonder how much electricity was wasted in starting up the lights all over again
 
 Good point! I hadn't even considered that!


Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: March/29/2009 at 14:22
( well, they better hurry up and DO SOMETHING!!!  I can't even get this Rum and Coke made!!!........) 
 
 
 
      Eek          


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Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: March/30/2009 at 10:15



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Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: March/30/2009 at 10:16
Originally posted by Flintlock1776 Flintlock1776 wrote:

I wonder how much electricity was wasted in starting up the lights all over again


That is just it, with most florescent lights it takes more energy to start them than to have them running all day.


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If nobody ever said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. AP Herbert

Stupidity & ignorance have been the foundation for many certainties.


Posted By: Average Joe
Date Posted: March/30/2009 at 16:09

"Earth Hour" didn't happen in Al Gore's home ,he ignored the one hour switch off......nice example for the rest of us Al.



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Posted By: Flintlock1776
Date Posted: March/31/2009 at 21:22
Or how much energy is wasted by powering the internet to keep these garbage pseudo-scientists going with their agendas?Loco
Laugh Above
With real fertilizer you can grow plants and such.

With Earth Hour it is a different fertilizer for a feeble mind.


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Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: April/01/2009 at 08:12
Originally posted by RONK RONK wrote:

Originally posted by anweis anweis wrote:

Originally posted by RONK RONK wrote:

 Why only an hour?
 If it's such a good idea, let's shut down the power plants for good and wander around in the dark forever!
 After all, an hour isn't going to do much, but forever would do a lot more!
 
 I hate this sort of feel-good nonsense.
 
 
It's not about feeling good. It's about drawing attention on the issue. Many people do wander around in the dark all their lives, but not for lack of electricity.
 
If you don't care about future, what kind of parent are you?
 Who said I don't care about the future?
 Who isn't aware of the energy problems we have?
(Nobody that has to pay an electric bill every month, I'll tell you that!)
 My point was that sort of thing deludes many people into thinking that they really are doing something to conserve energy, by turning a few lights off for a micro-millisecond in geological time.
 
Kind of like a million-mom march deludes liberals into thinking that they are reducing crime. 
 
And yes, for a great many people, it is indeed about feeling good. They are often college-age idealists who don't really know how to do anything useful, other than run around making all kinds of silly "statements", and "Protests" and getting other useless fools to join them.
 
 
BRAVO!!!! Excellent


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Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: April/01/2009 at 08:15
Originally posted by Bigdaddy0381 Bigdaddy0381 wrote:

I'll just not fart for that hour to do my part. I'm scared of the dark.
 
ExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellentExcellent 
 
I never pictured you as being so environmentally conscious, Brandon!  How come you weren't so concerned about the environment when I was visiting you?


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