Earth Hour: No Thanks (pdf)
“Earth Hour celebrates ignorance, poverty and backwardness. By repudiating the greatest engine of liberation it is nothing more than an hour devoted to anti-humanism.”
You can mark the special occasion with everyday items from around the house. All you need is a fridge…
…and a space heater.
Now, back to work everyone – we have only a few remaining hours to pile wood.
A reminder from Speedy – don’t forget to set your Energy Star gasoline powered alarm clocks!
From Hope BC – would like to meet this guy next time through !
Hey, there’s my string of 365-24/7 window lights.
They are on steady though, the flashing would drive me nuts.
May the Hitler Youth Wannabees of the eco-fascist movement enjoy drinking the Kool-Aid while sitting in the dark with the World Whack-Job Fund.
Mike:
Curious how the WWF is involved in organizing the first Earth Day in 2007, is it not?
Seems to me they were the source of embellished claims by the IPCC in the recently discredited AGW propoganda.
Since it will be unseasonably warm this eve, Mrs. Gus, myself and our friends will be enjoying the first CO2 spewing bonfire of the season. But fear not fellow travelers, the kids will be enjoying the benefits of our advanced culture in the house with all of the lights, TVs, computers and other sundry appliances running. I usually follow behind them turning off everything unnecessarily left running to save a few bucks, but tonight, I celebrate!
I’m going to buy an Energy Star gasoline powered alarm clock.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100326/ap_on_bi_ge/us_energy_star_fraud
I had the displeasure this mornign of viewing Bullfrog (bulls**t) Power running its fascist advertisement about the joys of paying for over-priced electricity.
The scary part is that eventually they will go rent-seeking and a like-minded moonbat politician will table legislation forcing us to buy it.
Progressive Indian, great rant you had there on your blog. Thats telling them. You should run for Grand Chief and get some sanity into the system.
I’m going to wash out all my grubby recyclable containers that I’ve been saving for the past 2 weeks with the necessary hot water during whacking hour just to prove a point.
The AGW Red-Green bkjgklfs would take us back to this?
Let them freeze in the dark.
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“The Canadian Ice Storm of 1998 – Massive Ice Storm in Canada
The ice storm of 1998 directly affected more people than any other previous weather event in Canadian history.”
canadaonline.about.com/cs/weather/p/icestorm.htm
I am going to use the self clean on the oven and turn all lights on Yes do have some space heaters I can turn on
With the Canada 150 on in Montreal, The Non-Partisan Liberal $695 per thinkfest Iam wondering if they will dim the lights?
Or are they already dim, Working so hard to come up with all those marvelous ideas for our Future.
you guy’s are lame ….i will have every power tool i have charging ,andything that uses gas will be running ….the hot water will be left running on my tub …the fridge will be on while i hopefully can get it defrosted …and every single peice of electronic equipment and device i owne will either be charging or on at max power consumption also i am going to trounce through the garage and hopefully i can find my space heater out side i will sit on my lawn with a fan behind the space heater all plugged into my extenal plug’s while i sip a nice cold beer …with every light on and door and window open and the heat cranked to the max…sounds about right …i might as well also play with the lawn mower and chainsaw as well …and yes the cars will be idling for an hour i want to compare exhaust notes from a v6 to a v8 and if my girlfriend comes over she has a nice new civic so maybe we can play hot cross buns with the cars ….naww i will just let them idle and drink a nice cold beer while being warmed by my space heater and fan combo..lol. maybe check my christmas lights for next year as well .
Paul in calgary.
All of my lights will be on at 8:30 tonight. Plus I will be watching big screen TV, running four computers and roasting a chicken.
If the warmies like it, it cannot be good.
funny thing how my selfcleaning oven, always needs cleaning about this time of year! eight thirty it will be.
yep – christmas light go back on tonite for an hour too!!!
(along with every light in the house)
We should start an open flickr gallery of our Human Achievement Hour celebrations!
I have some old industrial 6kw & 2.5kw xenon flash bulb boxes I’ll fire up. The neighbors will probably think it’s just lightning though. I better start wiring up a new 240v,50a branch now. 😛
Watering my lawn with hot water. Straight from the water heater.
(looks like smoke!)
Henry Waxman and Barbara Boxer wanna feel better about ‘Green Energy’ and up Californians’ electricity rates 25%.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/electric_green_waste.html
“We have seen the enemy, and it is us.”
I got seven beer fridges , a load of space heaters, strings upon strings of ‘old’ Christmas lights, coupla fireplaces and fire pits, let the games begin.
“Watering my lawn with hot water.”
That’s a great idea and it would get rid of the last of my stubborn snowdrifts.
I for one will be participating. I currently serve on our minicipal council and we passed a resolution that all civic buildings etc. will participate. It is amazing how many busuness, organizations, property management firms etc. do participate. I was in Winnipeg last year and was truly amazed at the number participating. Check out the WWF site.
Human achievement hour
My snowmobile was state of the art circa 1993. I will turn it on and bask in the sweet smell of 2 stroke smoke.
Celebrating the hour with a snowmobile in April.
After the neighbors complain I will ask if they have done anything to help real pollution in the third world.
Good for you T….just goes to show you how stupid your politicians are. It is clear that you are easily “amazed”.
It is amazing how many business, organizations, property management firms etc. don’t give a $h!T
FIFY
Of course you will be participating T. We would expect nothing less.
This is, after all, the single most narcissistic group think idea of the 21st Century. A bunch of morons, sitting around in the dark for 0.011 precent of the year so they can feel good about themselves, all the while having absolutely zero effect.
So nice to see Right Wing “conservatives” continuing their childish response to the idea of…conservation. Well done! I look forward to seeing a YouTube video of one of you wingnuts setting a pile of money on fire. Yeah, that would all those socialist/enviromentalist losers how smart you are.
Next week there will be a “Don’t slam your wang in a car door day” and I’m looking forward to a similarly suitable response.
3w.youtube.com/watch?v=DHyVXJhCIvE
I am spending the weekend in Vancouver. In celebration of earth hour I think I’ll rent a Hummer H2 for the evening.
Ya see lberia, the thing is, we understand the difference between posing and actual conservation. As nothing will actually be conserved during earth hour, it is, by default, posing.
Thank you for the reminder. I was just about to run the dishwasher, but will wait until “Earth Hour” to do it. I’ll also do a load of wash then (whites – HOT water) and broil a nice steak.
I might think of participating one year, after I’ve seen photos of some WWF executive homes. I want to see how they live the rest of the year!
To balance the budget, I keep the thermostats turned down in my electrically heated house so I’m looking forward to throwing off the sweaters for one evening. It will be nice for this 81 yr old body to be warm for the first time since November.
Also, T, I did my part during the ice storm. Was 6 days and nights without power so I figure that’s my contribution for a lifetime.
Good for you T, though. Every little (and I emphasize little) helps.
Iberia:
It sounds like you’ve already slammed your wang in the car door.
If Live Like a Caveman For An Hour is your idea of fun, go for it.
I’ll be out celebrating CO2 Is Not A Pollutant Hour … although my environmentalist viewpoint of a minimalist lifestyle emphasizes polluting as little as possible. Were you asleep when your junior high science teacher pointed out that CO2 is plant food.
Or, even better: AGW is Dead, You Can Keep And Enjoy Your Hard-Earned Money Hour.
I look forward to seeing a YouTube video of one of you wingnuts setting a pile of money on fire.
Nah, it’s the leftists who think we have money to burn. On a day to day basis, I’m actually quite careful with lights and things, not because I weep for Gaia, but because I don’t want big energy bills. But Earth Hour exists for no other reason than to make sanctimonious, pampered, and utterly conformist idiots feel like St. Francis of Assisi because they sit around in the dark for an hour. It (and you) deserve nothing but mockery.
Look up satellite photos of North Korea – a black patch on the map compared to South Korea. It’s Earth Hour every hour of every day in North Korea. Quite the environmentalist, Little Kim is.
Jeff K and Paul in Calgary – neighbors from hell. Surely you can protest without causing grief to the neighborhood?
Hey John Luft, use a smaller brush. All of us are not that stupid. Some of us actually try to do something intelligent to improve people’s lives, rather than some cockamamie Luddite
syf, lol, I’ll bet he slammed more than his wang in the door.
To quote Luke Skywalker…. Never. I’ll never turn to the Dark Side.
I will make sure that every light is turned on inside and outside of both the house and garage. I have a load of dishes and a few loads of laundry waiting to go. The oven needs a self cleaning and my pick up needs to idle a while to build up some extra carbon that it will then spew out the next trip down the highway. The BBQ will be fired up baking taters and cooking steaks. I love Human Achievement Hour!
Nah, it’s the leftists who think we have money to burn.
Posted by: Donna V. at March 27, 2010 3:54 PM
Nah, it’s the Right Wingnut idiots that decided ALL ON THEIR OWN that they will be running cars, appliances, etc. to protest conservation awareness. Immaturity is the most charitable way to describe it.
I’m just going to live my life as usual. Earth Hour is an enormous scam and I’m not buying into it.
lberia’s communist GULAG*:
“Earth Hour in North Korea a stunning success”
The WWF sponsored Earth Hour has already come and gone in the Korean time zone, and the North Korean proletariat has claimed a stunning victory over its evil capitalist neighbor, South Korea.
Oh, wait.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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*lberia: Shoot the kulaks.
“Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: the age of social catastrophe – Google Books Result
Robert Gellately – 2007 – Political Science – 696 pages
They were given nothing more than a shot in the back of the head. … carry out supplementary arrests of kulak and other anti-Soviet elements and to submit …
books.google.ca/books?isbn=1400040051
Right Wingnut idiots.
Way to drag the level of debate through the lowest intellectual level possible, name-calling.
The Progressive Indian is building the “Mother of all Bonfires” I like it 🙂
Bon-fire appetit eh 🙂
What is remarkable about the left, apart from their ignorance and immaturity and tendency to lump themselves into passive groups, is their predilection for the notion of ‘Sin’.
This Earth Hour has to be one of the dumbest acts in a long time. It certainly has zilch to do with conservation of energy. Instead, it’s all about ‘Sin’ and absolvement for Sin.
So, if you choose to participate in this fraud of Earth Hour, then, you admit that you are a Sinner.
This Hour of Repentence, akin to a few Hail Mary’s or standing in the corner, is swiftly achieved.
You can then go back, happily self-assured of your new purity and superiority…and zip off in your gas-guzzling car with your cell phone, laptop all powered up..etc.
Someone from let’s say, China, who doesn’t operate in this very leftist and western notion of Sin-assuaged-by-standing in the corner, thinks we’re crazy.
I’m putting on any and every light I can as an hour long protest against this trivial Earth Hour, a protest against the stupidity of thinking that behaving as a Repentent for one hour, will have a single effect on the earth.
“conservation awareness”
Not only have I been aware of conservation my whole life, I’ve practiced it as well – and without any “Hey, look at how much I care” crap.
Sitting in the dark will not do one damn thing if everyone goes back to their wasteful ways at 9:30 – and go back they will. Why? Because no one will be looking at them for another year.
You are right Jim. 0.011 percent !
One hour out of 8760 is all it takes to make some people feel morally superior.
This picture shows where “Earth Hour” is 24/7/365
Check out the continent of “lets burn sticks and twigs” cuz we don’t need no stinkin power (that’s NOT what they think)
http://www.masterresource.org/category/environmental-elitism/
Al’sGW (AGW): Call me whatever you wan, Prince Chuck.
Just don’t call me late for Old Sod Hour.
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“Disruptive Snow to Hit the United Kingdom
The calendar may say its the end of March, but a disruptive snowstorm will move through the United Kingdom Monday and Tuesday.
A slow-moving storm will move through the English Channel Monday through Tuesday. As cold air wraps into the storm Monday night and Tuesday, rain will mix with and change to snow across many areas of England, including London. The cold air will also help to intensify the storm, allowing the snow to fall heavily at times.
The heaviest of the snow will fall over the Midlands and North East England where several centimeters (a couple inches) of snow will likely accumulate. Several centimeters of snow will also accumulate across portions of Wales. Snow will even mix with the rain over South East England, including London, where some slippery travel can result.
Travel disruptions will occur throughout much of England and Wales as a result of the snow. Gusty winds Tuesday and Tuesday night will also cause blowing and drifting snow to occur, causing further travel delays. In addition, widespread power outages can be expected as the snow will likely lead to downed power lines.”
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/26713/disruptive-snow-to-hit-the-uni.asp
It seems that the eco nuts haven’t heard that all this AGW is actually a huge fraud. Taking part in this ludicrous exercise is perpetuating the scam. I, for one, are with the majority of the sane rational people on this site and not putting one light out.
I’m trying to get the guys in the shop to adjust the fuel flow in the truck for tommorrow’s shift.
Two long black plumes of diesel truckin’ down the highway.
Belching soot from the stacks onto a Prius would be a bonus.
This just posted on CBC Pravda.
The city of Edmonton has just issued a challenge to the city of Calgary to see which one can reduce their electricity consumption more during
Earth Hour. On second read, it appears that the challenge was not made by municipal officals but by one envirowhacko group to another.
So, those of you who live in one of those two cities, I certainly hope you do your part.
If you know what I mean!
Open technical question: If my thermostat only goes to 32C, and it’s -3C outside, with a 9 km/h wind out of the SW, and I have 15 opening windows and 4 opening doors, and an 80,000 BTU furnace … can I still turn my whole house into a sauna, say, between 2030 and 2130 EDT tonight?!?
Tee-hee! I’m famous!
(Pro-tip: Use a bigger refrigerator to fit more space heaters)