Mock the difference they won’t make – increase your impact on our earth’s resources.
For my part, I plan to head out to the garage, install the spark plugs, and kick.
So here’s your chance! Share how your family plans to nullify any and all Earth Hour generated CO2 reductions in the comments. And should you capture the special moment to Youtube or digital still, pass it along, and I’ll update with a feature post on the weekend.
Update… And while we wait, the Earth Hour polls go horribly wrong…
I’m going on a photo shoot.
Using medium format film.
Which will be developed in environmentally unfriendly chemicals.
And I’ll do this all from the window of my 1990 Ford F-150 truck.
That burns oil.
And that I’ll be happy to leave idling while I’m busy with my camera.
I’ll do all this whilst slurping coffee from a styrofoam cup.
Afterwards I’ll scan the negs and make some prints.
On baby seal skin.
I should have my truck fixed by 8:00pm tomorrow. Maybe I’ll take ‘er for a boot. For testing purposes, y’know.
Well I don’t have a truck or a bike, but I plan to have all the lights on and fire the BBQ on the balcony to generate some carbon, as well as a couple of BBQ chickens.
Just wanted to point out how important it is for us “climate change deniers” to turn on as many lights as possible: we need to maintain a balanced load on the electrical grid, so that it doesn’t fail when all the Suzuki acolytes flip their lights and whatnot back on all at once.
Just providing a public service, at my own expense. You’re welcome.
Tire fire .
My Ford diesel will be running for the full hour (with the lights on and every light in the house on). As an added blight I will fire up the 2STROKE sled just to get some of that wonderful 2 stroke aroma wafting through the neighbourhood. Hell, I might even fire up the chainsaw and the whipper snipper too. Unfortunately my mower is still in storage and I’m too lazy to go get it out yet. Oh yeah, I’ll be opening beers also which should be releasing additional CO2 into the atmosphere. It’s so easy to piss of Screwzuki.
I think I’ll go run the KTM two-stroke dirtbike for an hour!
As I won’t be home but at a hockey game I will just have to turn on all of my lights TVs computers printers etc until I get home which will mean everything will be turned on for about 8 or 9 hours as its about a 1 1/2 hour drive to the city
I did my part by drilling a well with an osmosis nitrogen system that burned something like 9000 liters of diesel a day, plus the 1000 liters for the drililng rig, plus whatever the hauling trucks, vehicles, and light plants needed around the drilling lease used. Needless to say the fuel bill was something to look at!
That was over 10 days of course!
This should take the *Cake*..
Sometimes I think our friend Xeni from Boing Boing TV is having a little too much fun. I mean, is cruising down the Berkeley streets in electric vehicles shaped like . . . CC rider?
Wait till you see what CC stands for.
http://www.boingboing.net/
Scroll down 4 to the gal in sunlasses, BBtv, just after the the Sattelite TV installer shoots hole in wall and snuffs wife. = TG
Thanks for the reminder Kate. I really should test and tune ol’ Smokey (the Briggs & Stratton) this weekend.
Of course, at this rate it’ll be late May before all the snow’s off the lawn—but like they say: Why wait till spring?—do it now!
Living within spitting distance of Toronto, we have been bombarded with this propaganda for many weeks now.
In recognition of this holy hour, this family will illuminate all their incandescent lights and make certain the dishwasher and clothes drier are functioning to full capacity at that time.
I was also considering running the lawnmower during this period but opted for the snowblower instead. It is a Toro 2-stroke and has much more impact on the environment than the other gas-driven appliances.
I have been assured by friends that they are planning similar actions.
Saturday night 8 pm I will be sitting under a bank of fluorescents watching the Leafs-Habs, running both desktop computers, my laptop, and my DVD recorder.
If enough snow melts off the deck I’ll get out there and barbeque up some yummy stuff for me and some pollutants for the air. Then I’ll quaff a fine beer shipped in from far away – perhaps a Westmalle Tripel or an Aventinus Weizenstarkbier.
I just bought a single avocado (from Mexico, ¡por supuesto!) in order to climatize myself to the delish qualities of guac in time for our trip to Mexico later next week. I simply must put on the pounds to make those jet engines work harder.
Perhaps, just prior to the holy hour I will visit the local home depot and stock up on incandescents. 100 watters of course
I will BBQ some ribs for about three hours. Light a big fire in my fireplace and keep it going all week-end. I will wear shorts and a t-shirt around the house to compensate for the extra heat and leave a couple of windows open.
I will also Leave all three of my computers running all week end. I will also leave all my lights on and drive my 1989 oil burning dodge van everywhere I can think of this week-end.
I will rent movies and watch them each evening.
I will also enjoy some scotch a few Cuban cigars.
I will also leave my treadmill running in case I get the urge to hop on and take a walk.
Best I can do to celebrate the wonders of oil, gas and electric power.
What’s the serial number on that bike?
I plan on flying 4400 KM’s in a pollution spewing Boeing 737 to a tropical location…where I will hop onto another smaller, less fuel efficient plane until landing on a small caye in the Caribbean. After a couple of weeks of my carbon “footprint” spread around the general area, I’ll return in the same pollution spewing airplanes as I arrived in…I prefer to call this a vacation.
Sheesh you guys have a lot of money to waste! I’m not going to change my habits one bit, but I’m not going to go out of my way to pollute either.
Check out the poll gone horribly wrong here.
http://tinyurl.com/22cn5j
How can all you guys be so awful to spoil Earth Hour? Oh you bad people! Hahahahahahaha.
I am going to turn on a whole bunch of heavy-drain electrical appliances and watch the little wheel behind the glass on the power meter. I expect to see it spin so fast that it breaks free and takes off into orbit. That is to do my part to offset the measurable consumption of electricity. I also plan to fire up my older camper van with a four barrel carburetor. If I pull the choke on, it will belch a great deal of noxious gases and I hope the cloud blows over to that pompous ass suzuki and chokes him up and makes him puke. I also have a couple huge piles of Jack Pine that I would like to burn and I will do that if I can get them started with a mixture of old gasoline and used oil. There is so much snow that I may not be able to even get to them. This is despite global warming blah blah blah, drivel. If I can get to these huge piles, the flames will be visible from Deslisle so look North Kate!
i ordered a carload of coal for the occasion to melt the ice on the driveway.
What I find interesting about this is the time that they chose. Sunset in Calgary is 8:02 PM with civil twilight ending at 8:35 PM. So half of the time you don’t need to turn on the lights. If I remember I will be looking to see how much time of the hour I would need a light. Maybe I’ll go for a drive in my SUV during that time.
Hopefully, I’ll be driving my fuel-efficient Honda Civic to my place of employment, where I’ll be working OT for double the normal rate. Once there, I’ll be moving large numbers of aircraft burning large amounts of Jet-1 fuel in and around Winnipeg. In short, I’ll be doing exactly what I’d normally be doing. Which, I think, is more to the point.
Ignore symbolism, good or bad.
I’m eating lots of home made beans and pork. This is great for making green house gases. I best keep away from open fires. But do like the beans. The house will also be bright. The lemmings can put that in their ear.
Another poll going horribly wrong 🙂
http://www.skynews.com.au/
Thanks tim blairites.
Let’s call it Lighten your Darkness hour and turn on every freaking light possible.
I’m turning on the lights… even the one under the stairs. But to be just a little responsible, none of them will be those compact fluorescents (they’re full of Mercury you know) 😉
For the first time in the 14 years I have been in this house, every light in every room will be on.
The reasons I never had them all on before? Firstly, I find it very difficult to be in more than one place at a time. Secondly, I am one cheap SOB!
I also intend to cook a late meal and have the DVR, DVD player and XBox running, as well as the gaming PC and this laptop.
Obviously I’m going to turn everything on.
Then, I’m going to plug my bass into my brand-new David Eden stack and give the neighbourhood an hour-long bass solo. A screaming “all the hate ‘n’ pain in the universe is goin’ into this solo” solo, with every effect I have plugged in and cranked.
If I get tired I’ll just leave it next to the amp and let it feed back at 130 decibels for a little while.
I suppose that, in a single concession to Earth Hour, I’m going to unplug my phone so I can’t hear anybody complaining. Also I’m locking the door and leaving the freezer open.
How did I forget!
The temperature will also be set to “swim trunks in the house” levels. Furnace oil might not be cheap, but we all gotta do our part!
I’ll have every light in the house burning brightly.
Ken E; Baked beans. Now that’s what I call committment. Hope you’re not married, or at least that it’s girls night out.
A drunk (known to me) passed out in his car on my acreage while it was running…does that count?
As I’ve always said, if a lefty wants to remain breathing on my property, I require a carbon tax for their CO2 emissions.
Finally, if ‘Earth Hour’ cuts down enough CO2 emissions — insert Bob Saget-style ‘laugh’ track here — to kill or harm my plants in any way, I’m gonna take a page from the lefties and sue.
Turn on the dryer, the stove, the oven, all the lights, go out in the garage, crank up the electric heat, do a bit of welding I’ve been putting off, and oh, yeah, turn on the air conditioning.
Ive got a bunch of old incandescent bulbs around here too, I should swap them back in for the hour as well.
I should go down to the local laundromat and throw a couple of quarters in every dryer there.
the dated, highly inefficient self cleaning oven hasn’t been run for a few months so she’ll get fired up, I usually dread using it but not this time
i intend to drink beer and eat texican style chili all day…then when it’s time to walk the dog i reckon i’ll be able able to blow a hole in the ozone bigger than superduper K-man’s amour propre.
I am going to turn on all the lights in the house,
do laundry, and bake cookies.And, since my husband still hasn’t taken down the outside Christmas lights, I plan on plugging them in at 8:00 p.m.
I plan to eat two, count ’em, two cans of pork and beans, add some Bourbon and then proceed to even out the methane of those cattle down the street.
Question: Would this count as a Fruit of the Loom offset credit?
Sheesh you guys have a lot of money to waste!
ld, we’ll be saving money. The power companies are always suggesting that we run dishwashers, washers, dryers, etc. during low demand periods, which in turn cost them less to supply electrons, so what could be a lower demand period than when all the doofuses are tripping in the dark?
The Mayor of my town actually stated on Radio that she’s going to be driving around town (2000 people) and knocking on doors that aren’t dark.
Good, that will give me time to light the wood stove, bag up those useless energy efficient bulbs that are 500 times more toxic than the old ones. Don’t break those puppies, the toxie level of mercury is 500 times higher than saftely allows (according to Harvard’s science department).
At least the leftards aren’t calling it Global Warming any more now they refer to it as Climate Change. Ah the left and their little scams for my money, funny little critters their ilk believe the lies and demand I pay for the solution.
This Earth Hour stuff is total garbage.
If all those 24 percenters are so committed, why don’t they do it all the time?
If it’s sunny and warm, I think I’ll plug my Stratocaster in, turn the amp to 11 and play the Star Spangled Banner for my neighbours.
I’m going up to the yard.
Run the truck all night at about 1100 RPM.
That should make up for a few of us.
All lights on, fans, TV.
Hell, might even go down to the adult toy sto………..ahhhh nevermind.
For F*** sakes.
I just looked out the window and at my clock.
It’s about 8PM.
WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO NOTICE WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE ALREADY OFF AND IT’S STILL DAYLIGHT????
You hippy flake morons.
Communism is better for the environment than capitalism. The patriotic citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will be helping the environment be turning off the lights not for one hour but for 23 hours. For the other hour in the day, we will experience our daily power failure which is secretly imposed by the imperialist US army which is occupying the land of our Korean brothers and sisters in the south.
Come visit Oompa-Loompaland this summer on Korea’s sunny northeast coast.
Communism is better for the environment than capitalism. The patriotic citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will be helping the environment be turning off the lights not for one hour but for 23 hours. For the other hour in the day, we will experience our daily power failure which is secretly imposed by the imperialist US army which is occupying the land of our Korean brothers and sisters in the south.
Come visit Oompa-Loompaland this summer on Korea’s sunny northeast coast.
Communism is better for the environment than capitalism. The patriotic citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will be helping the environment be turning off the lights not for one hour but for 23 hours. For the other hour in the day, we will experience our daily power failure which is secretly imposed by the imperialist US army which is occupying the land of our Korean brothers and sisters in the south.
Come visit Oompa-Loompaland this summer on Korea’s sunny northeast coast.
Excellent idea from the Grope & Flail, “Why not dig a moat around your house, fill it with glowing nuclear waste and hire a troupe of trained monkeys to perform while wearing electrically-charged power suits? “hmmm, now where did I put those damn monkeys…
Hey Okanagan;
Good idea, I’ll hook up my steel guitar, crank up my Peavey, add nice reverb and open up the windows.
Too bad we couldn’t link up. Vibrate the nation.
I was planning on trying to stop breathing during “Earth Hour” (since people exhale CO2), but, well, you know…
Instead, I’ll exhale directly onto my house-plants, since plants convert CO2 into Oxygen and grow by the process.
After all, agricultural greenhouses pump in CO2 to accelerate the growth of plants.
This summer, I will continue my struggle to feed the world while reducing my CO2 footprint by breathing onto my tomatoes plants!
“Help feed the world: create CO2”