Letter to the Editor
Earth Hour
Published Saturday, March 29, 2008
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To the editor:
On March 29 at 8 p.m., people all over the world will be turning off their lights and unnecessary appliances for one hour, in an effort to slow down the carbons released into the air, a prime source for global warming.
Last year, 2.2 million Australians participated on March 31 by turning off their appliances. This dropped Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2 percent, the same as taking 48,000 cars off the road for one year.
You can help, too. Tell your friends and family, and encourage everyone to partake in this event for our environment — beeswax candles for dinner lighting works really well, and you could play a board game instead of watching television.
We can do this. For more information you can visit www.earthhour.org
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On March 31st 2007 at 7:30pm, the residents of Sydney, Australia, held Earth Hour, where people were urged to turn off lights and electrical appliances for one hour. According to poll evidence, over 57% of Sydney took part. To estimate the impact of this event, simply measuring the difference between actual consumption and predicted consumption (as media reports did) gives an incorrect inference, because over 67% of the apparent decline was due to factors common throughout the day, not just Earth Hour. Once this is controlled for, electricity consumption during Earth Hour shows a decline of only 2.10%, statistically indistinguishable from zero.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:sXK...
http://home.uchicago.edu/~dsolomo1/Earth...
Here is a better link
To the pin heads who think it's global warming: IT's solar warming...
To the grade school teachers to the PHd's, remember, it's piled high and deep.
The sun is still shining at 8 here, so I will be participating without knowing or caring.
I won't be doing the one hour dark thing as I like technology and as it is just a stunt for some people to feel superior without actually doing anything productive. The use of candles instead of a compact florescents actually uses more energy as candle production and shipping also creates greenhouse gases.
WHATEVER!!!!!
LOL! Another feel good event that will accomplish nothing at all beyond lame claims "raised awareness". I recommend joing hands and singing a chorus of Kumbaya as well.
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