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World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign (afp.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the AFP:
Earth Hour, which started in Australia in 2007, is being observed by millions of supporters in 187 countries, who are turning off their lights at 8.30pm local time in what organisers describe as the world's "largest grassroots movement for climate change"... In Paris, the Eiffel Tower plunged into darkness as President Emmanuel Macron urged people to join in and "show you are willing to join the fight for nature". "The time for denial is long past. We are losing not only our battle against climate change, but also our battle against the collapse of biodiversity," he said on Twitter. Moscow's Red Square also fell dark and the Russian section of the International Space Station dipped its lights, the Ria Novisti news agency said... UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the event "comes at a time of huge pressure on people and planet alike. Resources and ecosystems across the world are under assault. Earth hour is an opportunity to show our resolve to change."
Other landmarks "going dark" include the Empire State Building in New York and the Sydney Opera House, as well as the harbour skylines of Hong Kong and Singapore.
Other landmarks "going dark" include the Empire State Building in New York and the Sydney Opera House, as well as the harbour skylines of Hong Kong and Singapore.
I think I will mine for Bitcoin instead. This should completely negate all the power Paris is saving.
Why not just turn all of the lights off at dusk*, and leave them that way until dawn? Should save a bit more, I would think.
*Except, of course, during daylight savings where we do it all an hour earlier.
All my cities lights are still on. Doesn't seem to be an "all" thing to me.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I'm going to go idle my car for an hour with the doors open and the air conditioning on.
If these "intellectuals" want to help the planet, they should go jerk off rather than procreate.
"Let's not do/buy "X" on this day/hour/etc."
Yay! Accomplishes NOTHING.
All they're doing is stress testing the grid's ability to cope with increased demand when everything comes back up.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Just so y'know, I open up the doors, crank up the HV or AC and the stereo, and turn ON every light I have for an hour. I wave at people as they go by.
The only problem is that to turn the fridge light ON I have to leave the fridge door open, and my drinks get warm and the ice melts. But, the sacrifices are worth it.
OOOOH! That's today, and RSN -- March 24, 2018, 8:30 PM. Gotta go get my 8-tracks ready.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
So, the owners of the giant buildings which are taking part in the "grassroots" movement are mostly foreign...
As of 2014 the building is owned by the Empire State Realty Trust with Anthony Malkin as Chairman, CEO, and President.[229] Details on the trust's profits are scarce, but it is known that significantly more revenue was earned from tourism than from leasing the office space in 2011.[230] In August 2016, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) obtained a 10% share in the Empire State Building through a $622 million investment in the Empire State Realty Trust. The trust's president John Kessler called it an "endorsement of the company's irreplaceable assets".[231] The investment has been described by the real-estate magazine The Real Deal as "an unusual move for a sovereign wealth fund", as these funds typically buy direct stakes in buildings rather than real estate companies.[232] Other foreign entities that have a stake in the Empire State Building include investors from Norway, Japan, and Australia.[231]
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/24/investing/empire-state-building-opec-qatar/index.html
So we're down to Earth Hour. Why not go down to Earth minute and not care the rest of the year.
This is something that will only be forced on poor people. Excuse me while I turn on every electronic device I can possibly get my hands on!
I think OP was making a point on how much energy Bitcoin mining uses vs city lights.
I turn my lights off for hours every night.
The great triumph of the human intellect has been the taming of nature to suit us. Darkness and cold were the first beasts we slayed.
I'm going to ask for paper bags today instead of plastic. Normally I request plastic bags because I can reuse them a few times and not have to spend $7 on a box of Glad and Ziplock trashbags, but Il'l make this sacrifice to save the Earth. Poor thing.
Like it's 700AD!!! Woo-Hoo!!!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
This is a tiny blip in total energy use. Long-term changes, both in personal behavior and systemic society aspects needs to occur. Individuals can use more public transit, eat less meat, not keep the heat up really high in winters, etc. But personal changes are not enough. If one wants to help directly with helping reducing CO2 production then donating to solar and wind charities is the best bet. For solar, the best two seem to be Everybody Solar https://www.everybodysolar.org/ (which gets solar panels for non-profits like museums and homeless shelters), and the Solar Electric Light Fund https://self.org/ which gets solar panels for people in developing countries. I'm not 100% sure on an ideal charity for wind, but one good one is the New England Wind Fund https://www.massenergy.org/the-wind-fund . Finally, if one wants to directly reduce CO2 in the short-term, then the best bet is simply directly donating to Cool Earth https://www.coolearth.org/. In terms of maximum reduction of CO2 per a dollar, Cool Earth is unambiguously the best so if one wants to engage in carbon offsets that's best. A typical American lifestyle can offset their entire yearly carbon budget for about $500 (this won't be the case indefinitely though, as if Cool Earth gets more than about another order of magnitude of funding, the diminishing marginal returns will be start mattering).
I just burned through half a tank and did a lot of burnouts. For fun. Grinning the whole time.
I'd love to see a calculation of all the energy wasted on uselessly cooling steam and boilers and then the startup costs as all the power plants have to spin up again.
I thought I recognized you.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
NORTH KOREA!
We proudly award North Korea the winner of the Earth Hour Challenge. They've shown great efforts in caring for the environment for not just sending the entire nation into darkness for an hour (except Dear Leader's palace grounds) but by doing so for the entirety of Earth Day! ... and the year. For much of the last century really.
Next year we'll take applications for the nation that has shown the lowest carbon footprint growth for the last 50 years. This will be to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day coming in 2020. We know who is in the front running, don't you? Let's see who else can revert their nation into the stone age by then. We hear that North Korea is already making plans for their victory by building rockets for a massive fireworks display that no doubt will send shockwaves around the world!
Come on America! We can't let North Korea show us how things are done! We need to lower our carbon footprint too. USA! USA! USA!
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Jish oui la joum vie
It would have been useful if this had been posted long before 20:30 EDT. I would have been happy to participate.
But I came home at 21:00 EDT and have missed it.
But I don't feel too bad, as I only had the porch lights on, and those are LEDs, so they weren't consuming too much.
I switched over to LED lighting over 5 years ago and before that fluorescent lighting nearly 15 years ago.
Turning off the lights in my household does diddly squat to my electrical consumption.
Thank God too, I have two women in my household, you would think their fingers were all broken with their inability to turn off lights. Still they'd have to leave a light on for 24 hours a day for a month straight before I would notice it on the bill. About 90 hours straight before it adds 1 penny.
That will be right up until I install the 500 watt inerty system that is going in as part of my new air condition install this fall.
Then it will be zero and the Frenchies can eat a bag of dicks.
This site fucking blows.
As an alternative to virtue signaling tonight, how how celebrating something that has made a difference in the lives of billions - Human Achievement Hour.
The fact that across the world we have less disease, poverty, and hunger than ever before - not to mention lifespans increasing in even the poorest of countries.
As George Carlin said, the Earth will be fine no matter what we do. Celebrate the fact that we have collectively helped humans to live better, which will in the end lead to a better environment than any useless gesture ever will - it's only when humans feel content and safe they feel free to turn their gaze away from survival and towards conservation.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"The time for denial is long past. We are losing not only our battle against climate change, but also our battle against the collapse of biodiversity,"
Seriously, the issue is not denial of this, but the fact that so many nations continue to grow their CO2. As long as nations are allowed to build out new coal plants, this will continue to get worse. It is only once stopping coal and then nat gas (which gives a fraction of the CO2 that coal does), that we will see CO2 go downwards.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Iâ(TM)ve just decided to fire up a doen air search lights at that time.
This is an un-Murican thing to do. To think of the consequences of one's actions and to reduce consumption. Those traitors!
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
Why is that most people on Slashdot have nothing good to say? As I heard someone say, "Who pooped in your cereal?"
How about, this is an interesting campaign that brings light to real issue? (Pun not intended.) Yes, there is a lot of work to be done and turning off lights for 1 hour does not in of itself solve the issue. No one is pretending that it does. However, yup, I went ahead and left my lights off for an hour and enjoyed watching the beautiful snow come down with my wife.
Remember. Earth day is next month.
Stopping using power doesn't help a darn as the power companies are still producing it!
Worse than that since it has no where to go, it can damage the power infrastructure.
You may end up in the dark for a lot longer than an hour if you participate in this nonsense
The worlds cities should do something meaningful like turn off half the streetlights all the time. The reduction in light pollution would be an added bonus.
Itâ(TM)s actullay a myth that black people have bigger penises. Asians on the other hand, they do have smaller penises.
Again, don't buy into the lies. The methods used to measure are usually inadequate, and they almost always measure ONLY LENGTH. Two much more useful metrics should be employed instead
1. Erect penis effective volume
2. Erect penis median girth
These are statistically much better predictors of pleasuring a woman.
How surprising anti China windbourne is only anti CO2 when China makes it, not when first world countries make it.
A good metaphor for "green" policies.
For virtue signalling!
Glow ball wumming has been canceled due to non-deniers
wrapping themselves up in warm blankets each night due
to cold weather nights.
During night, it is 10 degrees average colder than day time
and stays cold for 10 hours no end.
Waaa! Waaaa! wwwaaaaaaaa!!
Glow ball cooling is oppressing me each night!!!
So glow ball wumming doesn't work in the night
and only works when the Sun comes out?
So 50% of the time, glow ball wamming doesn't exist?
Climate change now accelerated to 1 degree per HOUR!!!!
As the Sun cums up, the earth's temperature goes up
average 1 degree per hour. And when then Sun cums
down, the globe cools 1 degree per hour.
Climate is changing every hour!
Awe noooo! This is making me crispy and toasted.
Can I have a bacon sandwich to top it all off?
Jesus Christ, Chris... Do you ctrl-f for your stupid name in every story?
Talk about malignant narcissism!
Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.
Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.
Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.
Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.
Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.
Don't let it happen again!
Wait until creimer buys Slashdot for mere pennies. Announcement coming soon.
Dear Team Creimer,
I just noticed that the Humpty-Dumpty video has ~375 millions views, that should make you salivate!
I have plenty of ideas to make the views on your own youtube channel skyrocket but you didn't contact me yet. Is it because I am a lady? Ethell says that you are sexist but I hope it isn't true.
Anyway, I will give you a free hint anyway: Dress-up as Humpty in your videos, you shouldn't need that much makeup making this a money saving situation in your own case.
My YouTube channel has 222K subscribers and many videos with hundreds of thousands of views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, with some slight adjustments, I think that together, we could make the view count skyrocket on your very own Team Creimer youtube channel :)
Please feel confident to contact me if you want me to coach you, we aren't living so far away from each other so we could even easily meet.
Love XX,
--
-Granny
I am not creimer.
I am creimer adopted sister you noob creimertard!
Note that we don't exactly look alike!
Don't believe me?
Here is my Jessica Christine Reimer twitter account:
https://twitter.com/jessicacre...
Our folks used to call us Chris & Chris, you noob!
Also, creimer is already busy with too many affiliate link programs.
creimer would accept the mascot position although if pay is more than 5$ an hour, which is much more than creimer does collecting second hand lottery tickets.
creimer would save the puffer con with costume charge and creimer would look more like a puffer than this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As long as creimer can still collect second hand lottery tickets while acting as mascot you got deal.
Frustrated creimer wants to buy /.?
Here are some Creimer's posts from his account that was blocked and renamed by Slashdot management:
"Nah... I just do it to piss off my trolls and make coffee money off of them."
https://slashdot.org/comments....
"Which doesn't violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management."
https://slashdot.org/comments....
This year I've posted ~4,000 comments.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
We have different priorities. You want to climb the corporate ladder. I want to own the corporate ladder.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
My employers don't care about what my Slashdot trolls think. Now go off and lick your balls somewhere else.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
If you knew windy, you know he means China. He's been going on about it for years. China is building coal. China is building coal in other countries. If only China stopped building coal. etc etc. Every time people tell him America is far worse per capita than China even with all that coal, he tries to deny it. Even when China's coal use has been decreasing for those same few years he still won't see the truth.
Let me guess, you also produce much more CO2 than a Chinese person, but because you are an entitled asshole it's all ok.
Chris' case is getting worse, he spends all day replying to himself as AC on /. and now youtube:(
The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.
For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.
Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!
Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."
For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...
Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:
Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.
To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.
The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!
Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.
I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...
Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
https://ibb.co/gVad65
Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
http://ibb.co/mRVSaG
But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.
Thank You dear users,
---
Nancy Guerrero
Director
Special Education
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Strange. How do you plan to do this when "I leave Slashdot for YouTube and the Creimertards are lashing out at everyone. SAD!"???
Chris, your multiple personalities are each more repulsive, baffling, and idiotic than the other.
Chris, your multiple personalities are each more repulsive, baffling, and idiotic than the other.
You're too stupid to realize that Chris isn't the only person trolling you. We are legion, motherfucker!
CROFLOL!
creimer has already managed to cluster fuck on youtube and creimer youtube channel already begins to look like slashdot where he is the big cremy-dumpty!
Here is one user comment about creimer on creimer youtube channel (calling creimer stupid):
once again another youtuber looking stupid like i said i got the email from registration confirming his was coming youtube is fake news.?
Then creimer replies:
C.D. Reimer
C.D. Reimer
12 hours ago (edited)
If you think I look stupid now, wait until you see my next video as I retrace what happened.
1) The Daily Beast comes out with a detailed article describing Stan Lee's troubles.
2) Stan Lee cancels ComicCon Asia in Manila (third consecutive comic con cancellation).
3) Stan Lee's profile and ticket listings are taken down from SVCC website without explanation, which was what happened when Jeff Goldblum cancelled.
4) No confirmation or denial from SVCC for a whole week, rumors and speculation run rampant.
5) Stan Lee's Facebook video was his first public communication since late February.
If you want to scream fake news, complain to the SVCC organizers who pulled Stan Lee's profile (still missing) and ticket listings, refused to communicate about what was going on their own Facebook page, and had to get Stan Lee to save their asses from the problems that they created.?
CROFLOL!
CROFLOL! CROFLOL!
Just like slashdot! : complain to management, I ain't resposible for my own fuck-ups, still keep on clicking on my links although, etc. etc.
--
Balena!
The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.
For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.
Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!
Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."
For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...
Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:
Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.
To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.
The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!
Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.
I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...
Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
https://ibb.co/gVad65
Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
http://ibb.co/mRVSaG
But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.
Thank You dear users,
---
Nancy Guerrero
Director
Special Education
Santa Clara County Office of Education
C.D. Reimer
12 hours ago (edited)
If you think I look stupid now, wait until you see my next video as I retrace what happened.
Hey creimer! So, you promise to look even more stupid in your next video? OK, I'll watch it then.
Also, I see "12 hours ago (edited)" above. You must enjoy the edit functionality allowing you to re-arrange your reality at will, you delusional fucktard!
Hey creimer! So, you promise to look even more stupid in your next video? OK, I'll watch it then.
If you want a debate with creimer, why don't you comment on his videos. He's very responsive and more throughful there than here.
Also, I see "12 hours ago (edited)" above. You must enjoy the edit functionality allowing you to re-arrange your reality at will, you delusional fucktard!
Like deleting your comment and banning your sorry ass? I'm sure he enjoys that a lot.
Look at you, a grown man posting on an internet tech site about black dude's dicks, which you are evidently obsessed with.
Just kill yourself mate.
Chris, no one else in the universe is on the side of a shit moth making terrible videos. Much like in real life, you have no friends here either.
We're trolls, motherfucker. I say Chris, you shit on Slashdot. People are tired of your creimer fixation.
" People are tired of your creimer fixation."
No one is interested in you, your stupid videos, your idiotic thoughts, or anything about you, really.
" Announcement coming soon."
Announcement, like "A homeless man was arrested this morning in San Jose after store owners complained about a large shit-moth rooting through the garbage looking for scratched lottery tickets."
Like that?
"If you want a debate with creimer, why don't you comment on his videos."
If you're asking a question, why don't you put a question mark at the end.
"He's very responsive and more throughful there than here."
Hmmm. Is that a description for your soft, liquid-like yogurt stools?
Wow, two things you know nothing about: erect penises, and pleasuring women. But, playing the first second of your latest fecal feast over and over by pressing 0, I get a good idea of how you can pleasure an erect penis!
No teeth too! BONUS!
faggots posturing
LOL! Why don't you just stop posting on slashdot?
You're your own worst enemy Chris, all in the same post you make a thinly disguised attempt fool your troll into helping you "game the youtube algorithm" and get some comment activity on your videos.
Next line you make it abundantly clear that even though you're here trolling and antagonizing slashdot in hopes of getting people to visit your youtube.... you will not tolerate anything except perfect behavior in your comments. Oh yeah pissed off people will flock to your youtube channel, fall in love with the quality content and suddenly become well behaved subscribers. Totally unrealistic expectations. I specifically don't troll your videos or shit up the comments because it would be unfair and possibly even harassment to chase you all over the internet when all I want is for you to behave here.
For extra chuckles I imagine we've cloned you and set your doppleganger loose on the comment sections of your youtube video, shit talking, spamming, self promoting, and shit posting. You wouldn't tolerate your own behavior from another person for a second.
Practically an open invitation to shitpost all over his videos.
If he got what he wanted he'd start screaming to anyone who listens that we're harassing him.