70 Replies to “The CBC Asks”

  4. The Poll needs a “I’m turning on every light I own” response just to make it interesting.

  5. Why shut out your lights, if you lefties were stupid enough to install those squiggly Suzuki bulbs there is no need to, since they are as dim as the purveyors of said bulbs and just as nasty to get rid of as hippies and lefties and the media types who flog this SCAM!

  6. Find me an electric car.
    Charge it up with their electricity during the dark,
    and run it over their candlelit ceremonial gatherings..
    Anyway…
    Now we have a new man in charge.
    TORONTO – A Canadian general will take over command of NATO mission in Libya.
    Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Friday that Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard has been designated to lead the alliance’s military campaign in Libya..

  8. What’s the carbon footprint of all those damn candles?
    Considering that Ontario gets most of its power — and probably all of it’s off-peak power — from nuclear and hydro, it’s far better for the planet to leave your lights on than it is to fire up a bloody candle.
    Asses.

  9. Birthday wishes duly submitted, but somehow I don’t think it’ll get posted among all the soppy hippie-jagoff plaudits.

  11. The Poll needs a “I’m turning on every light I own” response just to make it interesting.
    Posted by: DJL
    ………………….
    Ooops, I thought THAT was what they meant by ‘participating’……can I get my vote back?

  12. I’d think smashing those mercury bulbs in government offices would be better way to celebrate Earth Hour.

  13. Not that I’m encouraging anyone. I’d just like to see several hundred dumped on Parliament until the old ones are no longer phased out.
    I wonder exactly how government employees have to treat the safety hazard of a CFL bulb. It really does need to be seen. Over and over.

  14. In 1970 I marched in an Earth day parade. They announced that the United Kingdom would disappear by 1995 and that 85% of life in North America would be starving to death. I was frightened because we were led to believe that we only had 13 years of oil left.
    Now, I am slow to learn, but even after all those years, I can finally say I recognize bull shit when I hear it.
    I’m going out in the yard , turn on all the propane heaters, light the BBQ, turn on all the lights, make sure my 1 ton diesel is running, grab a beer, put my feet up and say…Bin there Dun dat; It’s all a pile of crap!

  15. I am participating.
    All my lights remain on especially my farm yard lights and motion detector lights designed to detect defecting Democrats and Liberals here as they attempt to set up an unholy coalition.
    Oh ya – my rifle laser light is on but that doesn’t count right?

  16. Earth Hour is a symbolic religious ritual, and it is no more appropriate for our public broadcaster to promote it than to encourage everyone to eat cabbage every Wednesday “out of respect for the Book of Mormon” (no offence to Mormons out there — purely hypothetical example).

  17. I’m wondering if they’ll print my birthday/earthday wishes to David Suzuki. I’ll say it here again.
    I’m turning every light on in the house to celebrate man’s endless ingenuity and his victory over the forces of darkness represented by “Earth Hour”. Hey Suzuki! Bite me!

  18. I’m thinking of burning a couple of truck tires and some old shingles in honor of the event.

  19. They announced that the United Kingdom would disappear by 1995 and that 85% of life in North America would be starving to death.
    Well, they were right about the UK, but just off by a few years. England does not really exist anymore, so they were right there.
    As for 85% of North America starving to death — they might be right there, too: just wait until US Social Security collapses.

  20. “I’m going out in the yard , turn on all the propane heaters, light the BBQ, turn on all the lights, make sure my 1 ton diesel is running”
    Funny that you imagine yourself to be a conserve-ative when in fact your approach is all about wastefulness and excess. These values are not conservative, they’re not Christian, and they’re not how our grandparents lived.
    A few points… before there was anything resembling an environmental movement, we were drinking poisoned water, our roads, parks and highways were covered in litter, and our air was full of all sorts of terrible stuff.
    People got smart and demanded change. Industry was forced to clean up their act, and citizens took personal responsibility for their waste. We still have a long way to go, but you guys seem to think we should go back to the bad old days, or accept things as okay, merely because now that we can no longer see or taste the pollutants, they must be gone.

  21. I’m participating alright. I’ve got a Suzuki effigy I’m torchin’…..

  22. Yes, I’ll participate; I will be turning on the lights and then the plasma TV to watch NCAA basketball.

  23. Don’t run up your electrial bill by turning stuff on for no purpose. That would be stupid. Save up your household chores so that your normal power consumption is merely transferred to the magic hour. Be sure to do your laundry, run the dishwasher and maybe vacuum the carpet while the loons are burning their candles.

  24. I’ll be celebrating the invention of the incandescent light bulb by turning on every one in and outside my house.

  25. John at March 25, 2011 4:48 PM,
    You’re missing the point — people are lampooning the whole ritual and it’s significance to conservation, which is ZERO.

  28. I may just have to overflow something in my oven in the afternoon just so I can set it to clean during earth hour.
    I think I will have to dry some clothes that I got wet while using my 2-cycle snowmobile as well.
    Cinnamon buns and snowmobiling, what could be better. Well there are a few things, but that is for another topic.

  29. John @ 4:48, I thought that those were the good old days. Seriously, it is important to look after our home and not be wasteful. I recycle carbon myself. The fossil fuels that I burn create plant food that feeds the biosphere and creates more fuel for my descendants to burn. Its all good you know!

  31. I understand the Liberal Party is participating, because it’s obviously lights out for them.

  32. Kate, not only have you introduced us to “Clean Your Oven Hour”, but you always keep a watchful eye out for these “Kick Me” signs the CBC keeps taping to its own back. How can we ever repay you?

  34. Fearless Leader at March 25, 2011 4:25 PM, alright!! And this on the eve of an election!! The Cons must be pretty certain their read of the Canadian electorate’s mood is correct.

  35. Zog at 4:54 PM: “Be sure to do your laundry, run the dishwasher and maybe vacuum the carpet…”
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    He!!, my list is a lot longer than that.

  36. Jamie MacMaster at 4:49 PM: “I’m participating alright. I’ve got a Suzuki effigy I’m torchin’…..”
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    ROTFLMAO!!

  37. I’m going to celibrate by firing up the hot tub for two cycles but not get in it. I’ll run the truck dry of gas, I’ll turn on the lights and turn up the heat and then I’ll go sit on the doorstep and stick my tongue out at those who troll my neighbourhood looking for “Earthday violators”.

  38. i will be blowing my airconditioner into my propane sunflower heater …outside .

  39. John-John: “they’re not how our grandparents lived….”
    ======================
    Who in He!!s Bells wants to live the way our grandparents lived. Cripes, even my parents went without electricity until I was nine years old. I remember the crushing amount of work my poor mother had to do before electricity lightened her burden. No thank you!

  40. Happy birthday mr/dr fruitfly …you are now one more day closer to dying seeing what man made warming really is you f!ckin idiot!!

  41. I don’t observe/celebrate events for religions I don’t believe in so put me down for a “no”.
    Peter @5:35 – lol, good one!

  43. Some like John do not get the fact that we are lampooning Earth Day for who is behind it and their agenda.
    Many of us grew up hauling wood into the house for the cooking,washing and heating and used kerosene lamps. Modern technologies and energy has made life easier and healthier for our societies. We also wish that third world societies could also benefit from these advances. We also should continually look for ways to produce the products we need in as clean a manner as possible.
    We do not need to go back to living like folk in third world countries.
    I would also hazard a guess that by and large most of the regulars on this site do a lot more to clean up our environment than the socialist Luddite crusaders do.

  44. Why return to the literal dark ages?
    There was an article detailing what would really happen if Earth Hour took place during peak usage. Let’s just say eco-twits are exactly that and there would be a lot of people freezing in the dark.

  45. Poll going horribly wrong. No was significantly in the lead.
    Don’t see the point of sitting in the dark for an hour to commune with Gaia.

  48. Oh, I’ll be participating in my traditional way —
    As usual, I’ll put the electric space heater inside the old beer fridge in the basement, plug them in, and seeing which one wins.

  49. I voted no but I will in fact be participating. I’ll be turning all my lights on, including Christmas lights for that hour.

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