This Didn't Work Either

MoK sent me this article about Earth Hour. You remember Earth Hour right? That was the hour on Saturday that I turned on all of my lights, while the dingbats in Atlanta turned off lights in public buildings to raise awareness of global warming climate change. I'm aware of climate change. It's getting colder.

Credit the public with sense. Earth Hour, hysterically promoted by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, SBS, Sky News and the federal and state governments, resulted in no significant fall in power usage.

At least some of the public.

The organisers will say never mind, this was about raising awareness (although not of raising awareness of the facts). But here’s the awareness it should raise: how difficult it is to get even a tiny cut in just electricity use for one lousy hour, in a country responsible for just 1.5 per cent of the world’s emissions.

And then think what the Rudd Government is promising: a 60 per cent cut in all emissions, all year. And it’s to be matched by every country around the world.

Meanwhile, the world has not warmed since 1998. Indeed, the oceans and atmosphere have cooled over the past couple.

Which is why Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW is starting his blitz about global warming climate change. Pretty soon everyone will find out that he's been peddling bullshit. Gotta make some more money before that happens.

Reader Sally points out that the hundreds of Brisbane residents who drove to Kangaroo Point, choking the roads, to see the lights go down sure made up for any cut in emissions:

Priceless!

Posted by denny at March 31, 2008 07:41 PM