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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.
or do you have to work at it?
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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.
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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 turn my lights off for hours every night.
I use N-iggerchain technology in all of my project. It's the newest and greatest tech since blockchain.
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'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.
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!
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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.
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
by BSDI who sel7 [tuxedo.org],
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.
faggots posturing