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Earth Hour Sat 31st March 2007
In an effort to reduce global warming, Saturday 21st March 2007 will mark the first Earth Hour. Businesses and individuals are encouraged to participate. My current employer sent around a general email last week notifying everybody that they were getting involved, which is awesome!
View the Earth Hour commercial on YouTube.
This year�s Earth Hour will happen in Sydney, but we hope that Earth Hour can grow into a global campaign. If you live outside of Sydney, you can show your support by joining us and turning off your lights at 09:30:00 a.m. Saturday March 31, 2007 in GMT (here�s a handy timezone converter just in case).
For Earth Hour to have a big impact, as many people as possible need to take part.
Three Steps for getting involved:
1. SIGN UP TO EARTH HOUR and commit to turning off your lights on 31 March from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. It�s free!
2. GET OFF STANDBY Unplug any appliances � mobile phone charger, TV, microwave, MP3 player � that are not being used and are on standby. Appliances left on standby account for up to 10% of the average household�s electricity use.
3. SPREAD THE WORD about Earth Hour by involving your friends and family. Encourage them to sign-up turn off their lights at 7.30pm AEST Saturday 31 March 2007.
Other resources:
* Sydney Morning Herald Science Blog
* Earth Hour screensaver � this is cool!
meh the damage is already done
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| Originally posted by narcism meh the damage is already done |
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| Originally posted by eRRaTiK so if something is hurting (not dead), you don't do anything to try and heal it? |
Stupid idea.
How about you just do it. It's only an hour.
Plus, the sky will be awesome since a reduction in light means you will be able to see more stars.
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| Originally posted by Fledz How about you just do it. It's only an hour. |
im sorry kids, the carbon dioxide we pump out has little affect on the earths "global warming" phenomena.
Solar Irradiation is most probably the real cause....
Other planets are undergoing "global warming" at present: Jupiter, Mars, Pluto and a couple of Neptune's moons. I dont see any bad humans over there leaving thier lights on....
Anyway, we can't take ourselves out of nature, we are nature, and what we do changes shit, so we evolve, life goes on through change.
what a load of shit gumble.
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| Originally posted by gumble im sorry kids, the carbon dioxide we pump out has little affect on the earths "global warming" phenomena. Solar Irradiation is most probably the real cause.... Other planets are undergoing "global warming" at present: Jupiter, Mars, Pluto and a couple of Neptune's moons. I dont see any bad humans over there leaving thier lights on.... Anyway, we can't take ourselves out of nature, we are nature, and what we do changes shit, so we evolve, life goes on through change. |
It's stupid because it's the kind of thing that makes absolutely 'no' difference in the long run, yet people do it so they can feel all satisfied and self-righteous, despite the fact that far from helping to solve the problem, they go straight back to being a part of it the moment that hour is up.
You want to cut down on pollution? Remove all the lightbulbs from your house and start using candles on a permanant basis. Anything less is just masturbatory self-delusional bullshit.
It's like poverty, people throw $5 at red cross or some other BS charity, then while they feel all good about themselves they go spend $100 on a pair of nike shoes.
People suck :|
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN what a load of shit gumble. |
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| Originally posted by Fledz I would like to see your thousand page report on this please, seeing as you've done so much research to come to this wonderfully heart warming conclusion. |
our friendly geologist....
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| Originally posted by gumble no, i just like to make sure people hear both sides of the argument before arriving at conclusions based on general public opinion. i also find it hard to take anything sponsored by WWF and Sydney Morning Herald seriously. and thankyou Dr Phil our friendly geologist.... |
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| Originally posted by Fledz No problems Oprah |
Actually it's environmentally friendly as it runs on wind power.
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| Originally posted by Fledz No problems Oprah |
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| Originally posted by Philby http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...rs-warming.html http://www.space.com/scienceastrono...put_030320.html http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/cause.html |
depends what scale of time you look at pkc
my main point is that we can't take ourselves outta what we do to the world, we are inevitably going to change it, and therefore we have to adapt (prolly should have used that word instead) to our consequences. it doesnt at all make it right tho.
i think its quite healthy that people are challenging the idea of global warming tho, being mainly attributed to what homo sapiens get up to...
as a zoologist i whole heartedly appreciate the need to try and preserve what we have. but i think its also important to recognise that we are only in the here and now, the planet has gone through many periods of warming and cooling, and this has led to evolutionary changes and differing levels of species diversity.
there have been many more (and greater) mass extinctions that what humans have done, and allthough i dont think we should use that as an excuse, the point is that the building blocks of life still exist beyond what we can possibly do to the planet, and life will go on...
the thing with this earth hour, as raised before, is that anyone can see that its not going to do anything. if one hour of non electrical usage can change the millions of hours of usage, then i think we would have been in a LOT of trouble, a LONG time ago.
the real solution and bottom line is this: GO NUCLEAR.
radioactivity is what makes the world go round (literally).
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN so what, a few cranks from the scientific fraternity start disagreeing with worldwide consensus and suddenly we're all wrong? |
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| Originally posted by gumble depends what scale of time you look at pkc my main point is that we can't take ourselves outta what we do to the world, we are inevitably going to change it, and therefore we have to adapt (prolly should have used that word instead) to our consequences. it doesnt at all make it right tho. i think its quite healthy that people are challenging the idea of global warming tho, being mainly attributed to what homo sapiens get up to... as a zoologist i whole heartedly appreciate the need to try and preserve what we have. but i think its also important to recognise that we are only in the here and now, the planet has gone through many periods of warming and cooling, and this has led to evolutionary changes and differing levels of species diversity. there have been many more (and greater) mass extinctions that what humans have done, and allthough i dont think we should use that as an excuse, the point is that the building blocks of life still exist beyond what we can possibly do to the planet, and life will go on... the thing with this earth hour, as raised before, is that anyone can see that its not going to do anything. if one hour of non electrical usage can change the millions of hours of usage, then i think we would have been in a LOT of trouble, a LONG time ago. the real solution and bottom line is this: GO NUCLEAR. radioactivity is what makes the world go round (literally). |
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| Originally posted by Philby who says global warming is a bad thing anyway? would you all prefer to live in an ice age? |
What a difference an hour can make�
- According to Energy Australia, for the hour between 7.30pm and 8.30pm on 31 March 2007, there was a 10.2% reduction in electricity consumption across the Sydney CBD. This is calculated as follows: Sydney CBD temperature during Earth Hour was 19.8c. Typical energy consumption at this temperature between 7.30 and 8.30 is 228,180 KWh. Actual electricity consumption in the Sydney CBD at this time was 204,900 KWh. Energy Australia analysed data over 4 years to get the typical consumption on a Saturday night in the CBD during March and April. This takes into account daylight savings and weather.
- The energy saving during Earth Hour is equivalent to taking 48,613 cars off the road for one hour, or 200,000 standard televisions turned off for one hour. This represents a saving of 24.86 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
- Integral Energy manages the network covering Greater Western Sydney, The Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands and the Illawarra. According to their Corporate Environment Manager, Denise Corish, their data showed that Earth Hour definitely had an effect. "Major substations in residential areas across western Sydney and also in parts of the Illawarra showed a noticeable drop in load between 7.15pm and 8.00pm, more than we would expect on a similar Saturday night. We noticed a steep decline in the first five minutes of Earth Hour, between 7.30 and 7.35pm, equivalent to the amount of electricity needed to power 6,500 homes."
Refer here for some more Earth Hour 2007 results.
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What's next?
Earth Day comes around on April 22nd in North America, and World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5th across the rest of the world.
Read more about what you can do (all year round) at http://www.worldwildlife.org/earthday/
The point has already been made as to why Earth Hour isn't all that great.
That point being that, while for one hour in one day we saved X amount of power, we're going to make up for that very quickly.
It's not a bad thing that the power was saved - but what good has it done if everybody just turns their lights back on when it's over, pats themselves on the back, thinks "I've done the world some good!", and then leaves the outside light on while they sleep?
Earth Hour should be Earth All The Fucking Time. People need to turn things off when they leave the room, not, for one hour in their liftime, turn everything off and believe they're making a difference.
The point was that this was a start. Your points are very valid but it needs to begin somewhere.
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| Originally posted by Lloyd Earth Hour should be Earth All The Fucking Time. People need to turn things off when they leave the room, not, for one hour in their liftime, turn everything off and believe they're making a difference. |
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