Supposedly, “millions of people” around the world are shutting off their lights at 8:30 pm tonight as part of an “Earth Hour” to draw attention to so-called “Global Warming.”
Apparently, there are lots of people in the world that, due to their liberal and/or state run media, still haven’t gotten the message that much of the “green house gas” garbage was made up.
So, doing my sacrificial part for the good of our world, I will enlighten them.
Increase in Arctic Ice Confounds Doomsayers
CRU Cleared of Wrong doing? Not so fast…
No Global Warming in 15 Years
Archaic Network Provided Data behind Global Warming ‘Theory’
Climate Researchers Manipulated and Hid Data
Lawrence Solomon, Vindicated: Dutch Global Warming ‘Denier’Â “Was Right After All”
Alaskan Congressman Announces Global Warming is a “scam”
Oklahoma Senator Calls for Criminal Investigation
Dutch Point out New Mistakes in UN Climate Report
Climate Chief knew of False Glacier Claims before Copenhagen
Even: Climate History erased in 5000 Wikipedia Articles
 More Articles: http://www.christsinternet.com/Issues.html
So, with all that in mind, some on Twitter have decided to relax about Earth Hour:
 RT @JOZETTE1972: #EarthHour Mar 27 8:30p: OK! – Let’s Rock! Turn ON Basement lights, Closet lights, bathroom lights -even FLASH lghts-YAY!! #tcot
RT @TCOT_Talk @JOZETTE1972 just saw a commrcl 4 EarthHour Mar 27…going 2leave my lights on that whole hour!…// ME TOO! ALL lights #tcotÂ
RT @boxxers06 / just saw a commrcl 4 EarthHour Mar 27…going 2leave lights on whole hour!…// ME TOO! ALL lights / 24 hr light party!!!!
RT @littlebytesnews:@boxxers06 /just saw commrcl 4 EarthHr Mar27…going 2leave lightson whole hour!// ME 2!ALL lights/24 hr lght party!|LOL
RT @boxxers06 @Dataaide @littlebytesnews: I installed a search light on my roof, like Gotham City…
RT @TheNoblePatriot #EarthHour -what a joke! More LIBERAL symbolism over substance! I plan to turn on EVERY LIGHT for hour in protest! #tcot
@ByeByeDems @Dataaide @Jozette1972 I’ll be joining you! // YEAH! All Lights ON tonight for #EarthHour! #tcot
@_AEBJ_ Not walking around N dark! @ByeByeDems @Jozette1972 I’ll be joining U! // YEAH! All Lights ON 4 #EarthHour! #tcot (via @Dataaide)
RT @fleckman Humans – Tonight, Turn ON your lights & celebrate Human Achievement Hour http://bit.ly/d9NGiH #Human #tcot #earthhour //YES!
RT @DefendGlenn Reminder: Turn All Lights ON for ‘Human Achievement Hour’…tonight at 8:30 p.m. local time #tcot #teaparty #gop #sgp #ocra
Join us! Let’s show Al Gore and all the other Global Warming nuts that they can take their theory and …well, shove it!
Lisa Blogs at http://whitetrashvote.blogspot.com/
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDamn!! Damn!! Damn!! Had only the computer, icandescent globes, TV, video, fridge, microwave ON!! Damn!! Damn!! Forgot the dishwasher!!!
Are you for real?
What a load of garbage you have posted. You might want to do some real research! Australia has had 9 of their 10 hottest years on record since 2000. Australia was the first country to do “earth hour”.
You must be incredibly selfish and not care what sort of earth you are leaving your children and the animal inhabitants. Sad.
Climate scientists warn that Australia: condemned by prolonged drought and increasingly deadly bush fires in the south, monsoon flooding and mosquito inflicted fevers in the north, declining wildlife population, collapse of agriculture and killer heat waves, epitomizes the “accelerated climate crisis” that global warming models have forecast.
Many Australians feel they already have a death toll connected directly to climate change. 173 people died in the countries worst ever wildfires in February 2009. A royal commission has been called upon to decide weather global warming contributed to the savage bush fires that destroyed whole towns and a quarter of Victoria’s wildlife. A further 200 people died in a heatwave a week before the fires, that saw 4 days of temperatures at 110 degrees and higher as well as 100mph winds. The heat buckled the steel structure on a new 400 foot Ferris wheel and warped train tracks. On the hottest day, more than 4,000 gray headed flying foxes dropped dead out of trees in a Melbourne park.
(Reuters) – Australia experienced its hottest decade on record from 2000 to 2009 due to global warming, the nation’s bureau of meteorology said on Tuesday, as annual summer bushfires again burn drought lands and destroy homes.
Averaged over Australia as a whole, maximum temperatures were 3.20°C above the long-term August average, and daily mean temperatures (day and night combined) were 2.47°C above average. Both values are the highest on record for August by close to a degree. In terms of how far the month was above normal, the maximum temperatures in August 2009 are also the highest on record for any month, breaking the record of +3.11°C set in April 2005; the daily mean temperatures rank second behind April 2005.
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Australia has sweltered through its hottest decade on record – and the federal government says that’s proof that global warming is real.
The Bureau of Meteorology has crunched the numbers for 2009 and found it was the second-warmest year in the past century.
Heatwaves hit in summer and in winter, dust storms wreaked havoc, and there were drought and floods to boot as 2009 rewrote the weather record books.
The decade 2000-2009 was the hottest on record, and since the 1940s each decade has been hotter than the last.
“The world’s wildest weather of last year was in Australia, where every month brought disasters. The new year began with Melbourne withering under its worst recorded heatwave and the outskirts of Sydney facing wildfires. In February more than 200 people died in bush fires northeast of Melbourne, 48.8C (119.8F) was recorded in Victoria and floods hit Queensland.”
Yes, I’m a selfish horrible person. (Thanks Boris for reminding me to turn the dishwasher on as well!! Going in to the kitchen, I remembered that I could turn on the mixer, slow cooker, radio, and oven as well!!)
Hey, “me”, where’s the links to your documentation? Go ahead and believe your government if you choose – I’ll believe those that are digging up real facts, as well as the proof of fraud in your facts.
Yes, we’d heard that Australia was responsible for this “Earth Hour”. We’d also heard that it was thought up in a Pub over a few beers.
Let’s see…what else can I turn on here…
Earth Hour is supported by 4000 cities in a record 125 countries. It also includes 1200 landmarks, among them the Pyramids, the Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower.
For the first time, the Forbidden city in Beijing is also be taking part, along with 20 cities across China, despite the country’s resistance at Copenhagen.
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 when 2.2 million people switched off the lights in their homes, offices and businesses for 60 minutes to make a point about electricity consumption and carbon pollution.
Ho-hum. And in 2009 and early 2010, the proof started coming out that the numbers that were used to prove Global Warming were fraudulent.
Even old Al Gore doesn’t bother cutting down on the energy he uses. Of course, with all the hot air he blows, he makes up for a large part of his energy consumption.
I’m sorry. I’m being mean. It’s quite likely that the media in Australia hasn’t bothered publishing information concerning the uncovering of the Global warming hoax. That’s not your fault. That’s why I’ve posted articles here, for you to read.
Lisa,
Give it a break. Australia’s stats speak for themselves. It’s a shame you didn’t do your homework before you wrote your article. That is your fault. That’s why I’ve posted the truth. You can post as many nonsense links as you like, doesn’t change the truth.
Lisa,
Are you seriously suggesting that Australia is lying about their temperatures? LOL….guess you think it’s a major conspiracy and the government got into all our homes and changed our thermometers for fake ones. LOL.
Ok.
And you can post as many facts – unlinked to documentation – as you wish, as well.
If you would bother reading some of the links I posted, of course, you might learn that there are some significant, main stream sources coming from India, the netherlands, and the UK as well as the US. But if you want to depend solely on what the Australian government tells you, so be it.
Lisa,
I don’t rely on what the government tells me, or what some blogger tells me. The stats speak for themselves. Perhaps you should do some research and make up your own mind rather than rely on what other people tell you.
Re links…can’t post them here. But easy enough for anyone who knows how to use google to find.
I’m not going to debate this with someone who relies on what other people are saying to form the basis of their argument. The stats speak for themselves. The end.
By the way, temperature fluctuations happen. It’s called a cycle. Some cycles are short, some are long. The world has always had fluctuations.
But fluctuating cycles are nothing to be concerned about. They don’t translate into global crisis. Further, even if they did bring on some type of crisis, there wouldn’t be anything anyone could do about it.
And as I said, if you bothered to read the information noted here in this article, you might learn something.
I have no explanation for why anyone would want to manipulate climate data or even erase the historical data open to the public through a site such as Wikipedia. But it happened, and that’s a real fact. Did you even see the article “Top Climate Official resigns”?
Are you seriously suggesting that all the people involved in the sited articles are lying?
Ok. Don’t debate.
I’ve got to go find more electronics to turn on anyway…
Lisa,
I’m just happy that most people do care about the world we are passing on to our children. There will always be selfish ones like you who run around turning on electronics with no thought for the children and animals of the world.
To all the good people who care about children, “good on ya” for taking part in Earth Hour!
You are absolutely right. I almost tripped over the baby and stepped on the dog trying to reach the vaccumn to turn it on.
I certainly do care about my animals and critters in general, “me”, and I care about children (more or less, probably less), they’re undereducated and over drugged for my plebian taste. One of the reason I love animals is that they live in the Here and Now, are noble, hardly ever attack other animals with guns and white phosperous, or steal other nations’ goodies while mass murdering the have-nots of said country. so there! However, if you’d even bothered to research Lisa’s links, you’d know that the global warming religion is based on bad science, lies, and manipulation, even if Austrailia is having the hottest decade in …decades. Fluctuations. This is not a true religion, “me”, you’d best spend your time reading so your politicians don’t transfer all your wealth for an illegal and worthless cap and trade. Global warming? Speculation, fraud. With dire consequences. don’t take my word for it, but don’t take the MSM’s word for it either. And have a nice day.
Lisa, I will be turning on my dishwasher, which sends its greetings to your dishwasher, this evening. Good post.
Estampa,
You need not worry about Australia’s wealth. We didn’t even have a recession here! And our economy is thriving.
If you want to believe people’s opinions over the data, that’s a matter for you. As I said before, I’m just glad most people are educated on this point and that Earth Hour has been such a success. There will always be people like you and Lisa. Thankfully most of us care enough about children and animals not to behave like you two do.
As I said before a big “good on ya mate” to those that care enough about the world we are passing on to our little ones and participated in Earth Hour!!!
LOL – thanks EstampaNegra
Estampa,
Do you think it’s the USA’s “me me me” approach and greed is what caused your recession and hardship to so many of your population? Perhaps you could learn something from the Aussies to avoid that happening again.
2-3 posts per second on Twitter from Earth Hour supporters around the world!!!! Nice to see so many people around the world that care about the children!
“Me” – I thought you’d said goodnight and were done with us!
Yes, you are absolutely right again. It is our greed that has caused all our problems. Thanks for pointing the way toward our betterment.
By the way – I just added a couple more twitters that are planning on lighting up tonight.
Now – that’s not to say their the only ones! I’m just too busy answering you and keeping all my whiring electronic gadgets out of the reach of the children and dogs to keep close eye on what’s happening on twitter 🙂
There, all done with the gadgets in the house…Wait! There’s power tools in the garage!
“ME”! How come you’ve been able to spend so much time on the computer tonight? Aren’t you rationing your electronics use?
Whoops – rats, the black labrador has knocked one of the kids straight into the power saw. Good thing the lights are on or I might not have noticed…be back shortly…
And I should have added, good on Obama for bringing you guys up to date with the rest of the western world by finally introducing global health care. Hard to believe how long you have had to go without it!
And, thanks to your recession and our booming economy, I’ve been able to visit your fine country four times this year….LA, Vegas, NYC!! And I know enough about your country to know that most people don’t share your simplistic view of global warming.
“Me” – I took one of your notes off because it was off topic. I have no problem with Aussies doing well financially. Bravo. But this article is about Earth Hour and Climategate, and I prefer commentors stay on subject.
It’s great that “Global Warming” hasn’t hurt your economy at all. See! Hot weather isn’t so bad.
If you would like to discuss Healthcare, please see my article “Obamacare: Don’t make me sick.”
And I’m glad you enjoyed your trips to the US. I’m sure that once you really met and got to know conservative Americans, though, you might be uncomfortable. So it’s great that you like and live in your own country.
Lisa,
It was your rude comments towards Australia and Australians that prompted me to post what I did….
Lisa said,in March 27th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Go ahead and believe your government if you choose – I’ll believe those that are digging up real facts, as well as the proof of fraud in your facts.
Yes, we’d heard that Australia was responsible for this “Earth Hour”. We’d also heard that it was thought up in a Pub over a few beers.
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Lisa said,in March 27th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I’m being mean. It’s quite likely that the media in Australia hasn’t bothered publishing information concerning the uncovering of the Global warming hoax.
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EstampaNegra said,in March 27th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
“me”, you’d best spend your time reading so your politicians don’t transfer all your wealth for an illegal and worthless cap and trade.
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So, if you don’t want off topic comments, don’t post off topic insults towards other countries.
And I’m shocked you are able to remove comments…I thought only Jan & Simon had the power to do that.
Lisa,
I never said global warming hasn’t hurt our economy…you did. Just another example of your flawed reasoning process.
As for conservatives….I guess you know little to nothing about Australia if you think an Aussie would be shocked by your conservatives! We are far more conservative than your country. And btw, conservatism doesn’t necessarily equal ignorance. Many of our conservatives are educated (the benefits of a free education system…how much does it cost to go to university in America?) and I’m guessing most had the good sense to turn their lights off for an hour last night. And I’m guessing the educated conservatives did the same in your country today. Your view is hardly representative of conservative America.
Lisa,
You might be interested to know that our “Liberal Party” are conservatives, and just had a 12 year consecutive run at governing the country. Perhaps before you pretend to be an expert on Australia, and assume we are uneducated liberals who dream up policies while drunk in pubs, you might want to get yourself a bit better educated about us.
“Socially, the Liberal Party is a conservative party, although it has a minority socially liberal wing. In recent years, during the Prime Ministership of John Howard, the party moved to a more socially conservative policy agenda.” from Wikipedia.
Ever heard of the Washington Post….they did a great article of the effect of global warming on Australia’s economy….
SWAN REACH, AUSTRALIA — Before climate change strangled his lemon trees, Hermann Markovsky would drift off to sleep to the murmur of black swans in a lagoon beside his citrus farm.
The lagoon has dried up and the swans are gone. Gone, too, after a decade of the worst drought on record, is Markovsky’s right to pump irrigation water from the Murray, Australia’s largest river. Once called the Mighty Murray, it is now too sickly to flow to the sea, nor can it fill the irrigation pipes that sustain the country’s agricultural heartland.
“We are finished,” said Markovsky, who grew lemons and oranges here for nearly half a century until November, when a bulldozer put his withered trees out of their misery.
Australians are on the front lines in experiencing the life-altering consequences of climate change, which is the subject of global scrutiny this week at the international climate summit in Copenhagen. Brush fires killed 173 people earlier this year during the most severe heat wave in the history of southeast Australia. Rising temperatures and declining rainfall are, with increasing frequency, transforming the Outback into a crematorium for kangaroos, livestock and farm towns.
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Even if you don’t care enough about the next generation, perhaps you could give a thought to our farmers and the animals that are dying here due to yours (and others) over consumption. The selfishness has to stop, and I find your promotion of such selfishness by encouraging others to continue to kill our animals etc, appalling.
You are obviously too ignorant to change your own ways, however, I do hope others are not misled by your irresponsible “article”.
Please! You are insulting our country! Insinuating that we can’t afford to go to school? That our conservative’s aren’t as conservative as yours? I’m shocked.
Education Time:
1) Only one time Zone in America has reached 8:30 at this point.
2) I can guarantee that most conservatives in this country are NOT turning their lights off. Many have spent a full day today protesting, attending TeaParty rallies, listening to Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter, and writing their Congressmen in protest of that Awful health care bill, horrible cap & trade, and ficticous global warming. By now, they are tired and want nothing more than to relax in their homes, with their lights, TV’s, and a hot dinner, and play video games. Most, I can guarantee, have no interest in Australia’s Earth Hour.
3) Conservatives in America are strongly against “Global Health Care,” Government control over the funding of our higher Education, and Global Warming fanatics. You see, American conservatives are 100% Anti-socialism.
I guarantee it.
Didn’t you say good night awhile ago?
Back to Topic. It’s almost 8:30 here – and I forgot to turn on the porch light…
HOLY COW! You should see it out there! Our relatively wealthy and educated neighborhood is practically lit up like a Christmas Tree!~
Unbelievable! The night sky over our town is almost glowing! I’ve never seen anything like this. Absolutely amazing.
I’m going to go drag the kids out of bed. They’ve got to see this. The dog, too.
From The Independent UK…
Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent’s food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought – heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.
The Murray-Darling basin in south-eastern Australia yields 40 per cent of the country’s agricultural produce. But the two rivers that feed the region are so pitifully low that there will soon be only enough water for drinking supplies. Australia is in the grip of its worst drought on record, the victim of changing weather patterns attributed to global warming and a government that is only just starting to wake up to the severity of the position.
Until a few months ago, Mr Howard and his ministers pooh-poohed the climate-change doomsayers. The Prime Minister refused to meet Al Gore when he visited Australia to promote his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. He was lukewarm about the landmark report by the British economist Sir Nicholas Stern, which warned that large swaths of Australia’s farming land would become unproductive if global temperatures rose by an average of four degrees.
Faced with criticism from even conservative sections of the media, Mr Howard realised that he had misread the public mood – grave faux pas in an election year. Last month’s report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted more frequent and intense bushfires, tropical cyclones, and catastrophic damage to the Great Barrier Reef. The report also said there would be up to 20 per cent more droughts by 2030. And it said the annual flow in the Murray-Darling basin was likely to fall by 10-25 per cent by 2050. The basin, the size of France and Spain combined, provides 85 per cent of the water used nationally for irrigation.
Lisa,
Make sure you tell your kids how many kangaroos and sheep die in Australia every year due to that sort of selfishness. And I know you are lying about your street. Most Americans are intelligent, and you won’t convince me otherwise.
Just saw some really cool pics of NYC this evening…so dark…so happy to see that so many people care about the next generation!
The lights on the strip in Vegas are also going out for an hour!!!
Glad to see that so many Americans care about the world, the wildlife, and our children’s futures!
From the Las Vegas Sun…
“A large collective “Ooh” could be heard on the crowded pedestrian bridge from the Flamingo to Caesars Palace, when the marquee at Bills Gamblin’ Hall and Saloon was the first observable outage. One by one, Bally’s TV screen, Paris’ balloon and Luxor’s beam faded.
Cheers erupted when the Flamingo’s pink and gold neon disappeared.”
So happy to see the Americans getting behind Earth Hour! Guess there will always be those, like Lisa, who would rather see sheep and kangaroos dying, but I know most Americans are much more kind hearted than that!!
Show me a link to pictures of a dark New York. I want to see them, too!
Honestly, I do feel sorry that a fluctuation in the climate cycle has hit Australia as hard as it has. By the way, I shortened one of the last three rambles you’ve posted. Repeating the same paragraphs over and over is not acceptable. It’s akin to spamming. I reduced it back to once said.
Now, I’ve got excited kids to tuck back into bed. It’ll be hard to get them back to sleep, what with the glow coming in their windows, but if I pretend to be a good mom for 15 minutes, and sing them a lullabye, they might manage to nod off.
By the way, the first clue that you were lying about the Las Vegas Sun was that it isn’t 8:30 in Nevada yet.
But I went to check the Las Vegas Sun site, anyway. All that’s there is a big Picture of Sarah Palin, greeting American Conservatives.
Lisa,
We all know your neighborhood is not glowing with lights. It is obvious that most of your country participates in this momentous hour.
Google nyc and earth hour and pictures and you’ll find an abundance of them…Broadway Marquees went dark, the Chrysler Center went dark, Empire State Building etc. They’ve got great aerial photos.
Mount Rushmore is also going dark. The whole world is participating, and it started in Australia!!! I think the problem is that many Americans, like you, learn so little about the rest of the world, and what goes on outside your own borders. That anyone would encourage behaviour that is killing native animals, making farming impossible, threatening water supplies, and killed almost 300 people in australia last year, is disappointing. But, seeing how many educated and caring people did participate is heart warming, and all those people should be patted on the back for doing their bit for the next generation. Hopefully by next year you’ll educate yourself about this real problem and cheer with the rest of your country when the lights go out.
You know what Mr “me,” this dialogue has gotten very tedious, and I don’t appreciate the lie about the Las Vegas Sun.
So now, I’ll be the one to say Good night. I’m going to sit with my daughter who hasn’t been able to fall back asleep, pop some popcorn, and watch a good movie. Post all you want – I’m done. I’ll edit out anything inappropriate in the morning.
From the LA Times…
Europe’s best-known landmarks — including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome’s Colosseum — fell dark Saturday, following Sydney’s Opera House and Beijing’s Forbidden City in a global climate change protest across the world to mark Earth Hour.
In the United States, organizers said participating landmarks would include the Mt. Rushmore monument, the glittering Las Vegas Strip and the marquee lights of New York’s Broadway theaters. Millions of people turned off lights and appliances for an hour starting at 8:30 p.m. to highlight environmental concerns.
This was the fourth annual Earth Hour. As each time zone reaches the appointed hour, skylines go dark and landmarks dim, from a Manila shopping mall to Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and New York’s Empire State Building.
About 4,000 cities in more than 120 countries, starting with the remote Chatham Islands off New Zealand, took part Saturday to reduce energy consumption, though traffic lights and other safety features were unaffected, organizers said.
“We have everyone from Casablanca to the safari camps of Namibia . . . taking part,” said Greg Bourne of World Wildlife Fund in Australia, which started the event in 2007.
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
Lisa,
Lie about the Las Vegas Sun? Are you for real? I am not the liar here. The Sun has a website for all to read and the article is there….including 2 lots of panorama pics of a dark strip. I can’t post the full link but anyone who goes to their site and searches for earth hour articles will know who the liar is, and it’s certainly not me.
Also from the Las Vegas Sun….
The Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas also joined other landmarks around the world by turning off the lights.
Just before 8:30 p.m., a brief video explanation of Earth Hour played on the giant Via Vision canopy before the so-called “World’s Biggest Big Screen” went dark for 60 minutes.
Fremont Street vendors prepared for the event by distributing green glowing necklaces to visitors.
Springs Preserve partiers watch the bright lights go out
Las Vegas residents at the Earth Hour viewing party at the Springs Preserve enjoyed the sights and sounds from inside the Wolfgang Puck Café. Three local bands performed during the event: Hungry Cloud, The Petals and Mother McKenzie.
The sentiment at the Springs Preserve was not just the anticipation of witnessing the historical participation of Strip Casinos going dark, but making a case for every day to be an Earth Hour day.
Hall said she was ensuring that she does her part in leaving her little space of the Earth well-kept for the next generation.
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Yep, Hall is just one of many Americans who care about the next generation.
Lisa,
Teaching kids to be selfish, imo, is terribly wrong. However, I do take some solace in the fact that your children go to school and will learn that mommy was clearly ignorant of the facts in relation to global warming.
Sorry – we homeschool. I’m their only teacher! (a lot of us American Conservatives do that 🙂
Lisa,
So sad for your kids. IMO, parents should have to pass tests themselves before being allowed to do that, as some, like you, might teach the kids that their opinions are facts. Sadly, your children will probably come out severely disadvantaged.
In Australia, conservative parents, if they have any money, send their kids to private schools. I am guessing it is the same there. But I suppose if you don’t have your own career, and you are tight on money, you might have to home school. I can’t tell you how sorry I feel for home schooled kids.
I should explain why I feel sorry for them…
1. They miss out on being properly socialised;
2. They miss out on extra-curricular activities;
3. Every child should have the opportunity to attend a college or university. Home schooling takes that opportunity away from them and limits them to a life of menial jobs.
Anyhow, if you can’t afford private school, and you are a bit of a religious nut or paranoid about your child socialising with other children, I suppose that’s the selfish choice some make.
Oh – and one thing I do teach my kids is proper research.
It would have been good if you had checked your dates on the article you quoted from the Las Vegas Sun. It was Updated Saturday, March 28, 2009 | 11:26 p.m. – Meaning, last year.
I told you. At the time you said Las Vegas was shutting down, it wasn’t 8:30 there yet.
AND – when you look at the comments below that article, written by Americans, many are clearly not at all impressed with the the whole Global warming theory – even last year. The second comment down talks about leaving his own lights on. Most of the rest of the letters are seriously down on the whole “Earth Hour” thing.
Interesting you missed that – you totally didn’t mention the real reactions Americans were having.
I haven’t seen anything about it shutting down in the paper this year. In fact, the front page picture of the Las Vegas Sun tonight is about a new light show at the huge Fremont Street Screen.
Maybe Las Vegas got the message last year.
Could be that now that most American’s know that Climate data was manipulated, and so many in American are tired of liberal games, that it’s not something Las Vegas is interested in playing with anymore.
Lisa,
What in the world does being liberal have to do with climate change?
As you can see, I didn’t lie about the Vegas article…you just didn’t look properly before you accused me of lying….glad you found it.
You don’t speak for all Americans…not even close. Hopefully you’ll do some research and learn that climate change is happening. I believe most educated Americans understand this, just as most educated Aussies do.
And Vegas did go dark for earth hour, so don’t know what you are carrying on about. And how you can use the word “conservative” in the same sentence as “Las Vegas” is beyond me! LOL. Yeah, lots of conservatives living there, NOT! Have you ever travelled, been to Vegas? It’s hardly a conservative town!
Anyhow, whatever.
Good Research might also have had you read my profile before you spent as much time insulting me as you have.
You just might have benefited from a good Homeschool mom.
Anyway, time for you to go away. I’m done for the night.
Hey ME, here’s the deal: While the debate about Global Warming in general goes on, the issue that’s being discussed here is Man-Made Global Warming (or Anthropogenic Global Warming as it’s being called these days). Whether the temperature of the Earth is increasing or not, we aren’t causing it. That’s the sham here.
I’m sorry that Australia has had record hot temps in the last decade. The rest of the world has not. In any case, humans are not the cause of your woes…the Sun is. Why don’t you start protesting against the Sun? Perhaps it will do you a favor and flame out.
Oh, I forgot to mention that every light in my house that was visible from the street was on tonight during Earth Hour. Did anybody notice? Who cares. It was my chance to make a statement about the sham that is MMGW (aka AGW).
There are a lot of people & companies that are trying to make a lot of money off of it; just look at how much advertising there was for it. Those ads cost millions of dollars…do you seriously think that they did that out of the goodness of their hearts? They ran those ads because they want to profit from the public fear of the MMGW sham that they’ve created. Cap and Trade is just a scam to make oodles of dollars in profit.
Lisa said,in March 28th, 2010 at 12:27 am
You just might have benefited from a good Homeschool mom.
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Insulting my mother is just not on….as low as you can go in fact.
I had a mother with a very successful career as a politician, and a father who was a Doctor. They made sure we got the very best education, and the end result was three of their children became lawyers. The end result was I received a fantastic education from great role models.
I won’t stoop as low as you did with the mother comment, but I will say, you clearly do not have the same level of education as I do, and I feel sorry for you. There are many uneducated people who will agree with you….that’s your problem and their problem. I’m finished with your ignorant garbage.
Chas,
Good for you. As they say “ignorance is bliss”.
Sorry to disappoint you all…but Vegas did go dark. Many Americans are well educated and did participate.
From the Las Vegas Sun
Saturday, March 27, 2010 | 10:15 p.m.
Earth Hour
The strip of highway known for its iconic neon went dark for a global cause Saturday night.
From the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign to the sky-high beam of the Luxor, Las Vegas dimmed its lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday for the third annual Earth Hour.
Las Vegas shut off its lights in solidarity with more than 4,000 cities in 120 countries to send a message about climate change and the importance of energy conservation. The city was named a showcase city for the World Wildlife Fund’s annual event.
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So, who’s the liar??
Lisa,
In response to your insulting my mother, I should have added that I’ve lived in your country, while my father taught medicine at Yale University, one of the finest medical schools in the world. It’s pretty obvious you didn’t get that sort of education, nor the education they gave me. Perhaps you’ll think twice before you insult someone’s dead parents again, you nasty thing.
i guess the 1 billion people around the globe who participated in this event are wrong but you American conservatives are privy to some special knowledge that noone else has???
To “Me”: Thank you for trying to educate Lisa about the way things really are but you have to understand that American conservative don’t really respond to facts or reason. I would say that 90% of these Sarah Palin/Rush Limbaugh-brainwashed “conservatives” are undereducated and have never left the United States in their lives. They are ruled by fear because the politicians and pundits that they listen to use fear tactics to stay in power. Look at the debate over health care in this country. The conservatives were all universally against trying to fix a system that is immoral and leaves 30 million Americans without healthcare. How did the Republicans manage to convince many poor people that we shouldn’t fix the system? By using fear. They lied about the proposed fixes and said that there would be “death panels” to get rid of old people, and that the government was trying to make America “socialist”. Meanwhile the US is the ONLY industrialized country that doesnt provide universal healthcare for its people. People like Lisa are being controlled by propaganda from the only news source that she watches on tv I’m sure: Fox News.
Its really sad but as you pointed out Me, the rest of the world isnt brainwashed and over 4000 cities participated in the Earth Hour.
Bravo world!
ME said: “Chas,
Good for you. As they say ‘ignorance is bliss.'”
Apparently so, as you seem to be quite happy.
Let’s see: Mom’s a politician, and you (or at least three of your siblings, as you didn’t specify whether you were one of them) became a lawyer. Bully for you and yours. It’s too bad that politicians and lawyers are two of the things this planet could do with a lot less of (and, unfortunately, they often tend to be both). As a matter of fact, those two classes of people are largely responsible for the current state of MMGW. The politicians promote it, while the lawyers argue it. Neither of these make it any less of a lie, however.
I do believe that Al Gore (whose father was a politician and mother was a lawyer, incidentally) truly believes that he’s doing the right thing with his MMGW crusade. After all, he’s been on the environmental trail since the sixties (making him a true hippie). And I truly have no ill-will towards him; not only did I vote for him for President in 2000 (an election that he both won and lost), but I wrote letters encouraging him to run for President again in 2004 and 2008. Heck, I’d probably vote for him again in 2012 if Obama decided not to run for a second term. Regardless, however, he’s making a lot of profit from the MMGW business. They don’t call him a “carbon billionaire” for nothing.
By the way, I’m a voter that has been registered as an Independent for the 28 years that I’ve been allowed to vote. I’ve voted for both Republicans and Democrats for president in the past (Reagan, Reagan, Bush [Senior, not his idiot son], Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry [only because neither Gore nor McCain would run] and Obama). I have no particular political agenda, I vote for the president that I think will best represent my country. (Also, I strongly apologize to the world for Bush Junior having served for eight years…I tried to avoid it, but he managed to steal two elections. And now here we are, suffering from the huge mess that he created.)
You seem to have the politician bit in your blood too. You proudly proclaim that your father taught Medicine at Yale, as if that somehow reflects upon you. Then you dismiss Lisa as because she obviously “get that sort of education.” Classy, real classy…for a pompous ass.
I don’t know who Lisa is, by the way. I just wandered upon this blog last night because of a search on the stupid “Earth Hour” thing (isn’t the Internet amazing?) and felt compelled to comment because of your general attitude. And, based on your reply to me (“ignorance is bliss”), I think I obviously hit the nail on the head. You’ve been brainwashed by some of the best.
Oops, a typo or two (why do these blogs never let you edit?). I said:
“Then you dismiss Lisa as because she obviously “get that sort of education.””
What I meant to type was this:
Then you dismiss Lisa because she obviously didn’t “get that sort of education.”
I blame the painkillers that I’m currently taking…they make me a bit woozy. Of course, that’s better than actually feeling the pain. Maybe.
republicans are in the dark said:
“i guess the 1 billion people around the globe who participated in this event are wrong but you American conservatives are privy to some special knowledge that noone else has???”
Yes, they are wrong. It’s not their fault, however; they’ve been brainwashed by the people that are making a huge profit off of the MMGW scam.
And, by the way, although I am an American, I’m not a conservative. And the “special knowledge” is actually widely available on the Internet…all you have to do is look for it.
By the way, if you really believe that “1 billion people” participated in this event, then you’ve been duped again by the people that perpetuate the MMGW scam.
Thanks, Chas
This is a hilarious collection of comments…I’ve read them all and will now bookmark your blog Lisa, you are exactly right and in a very entertaining way.
I’m so glad that Al Gore and his “fraudster friends” have been exposed for their snake oil scam.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/126560/americans-global-warming-concerns-continue-drop.aspx
Based upon “Me’s” logic, I suppose this means that we are becoming less and less educated in America.
And by the way “Me”, as far as requiring kids to pass tests before they can homeschool, I am all for it. Then we could clearly show just how much more intelligent they become after homeschooling, as opposed to our broken public propaga…ahem…I mean education system. Homeschoolers regularly outperform public schoolers by a large margin.
If “me” had any brains at all, he might have taken a step back and attempted to determine where the Australian govt actually obtained the data that “me’s” stats are based upon.
Over the last decade, most temperature information is obtained by satellite.
How many of those satellites do you believe to be Australian?
Does Australia even have a space program?
I think you will find that all the “stats” that “me” is so proud of, the “stats” that “speak for themselves” all come from flawed data, much of which global warming scientists are not even able locate original documentation.
None of the global warming stats can be verified by independent researchers.
Has “me” even bothered to examine the financial shenanigans that drive the global warming debate? Is “me” unaware that scientists in his country and around the world that work for pro-global warming govts do not receive funding for finding evidence contrary to global warming?
Thanks so much, Ronald and Spacely –
“me” has to be a troll. That would be the best case scenario. Otherwise “me” is so indoctrinated in the AGW mindset that no reasonable evidence could ever persuade them.
I will be reading you blog from now on Lisa, keep it up.
Unfortunately the AGW movement in Alberta with the NDP and their beloved carbon tax is on the move, and now we have a dolt like Trudeau in the Federal government of Canada wanting to shove his carbon tax down our throats too. The only green they see is the billions of dollars being fleeced from taxpayers. This is getting to get out of hand.
If anyone wants a good laugh check out
https://thebiggreenlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/earth-hour-is-a-friggin-joke-those-turning-off-lights-are-the-laughing-stock-of-the-world/
Oh shit I have to go and turn all my light on it’s 8:32 MDST
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