Earth Hour: Hey, Let’s Live Like We’re In Venezuela
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Earth Hour: Hey, Let’s Live Like We’re In Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela: A mother with her children are walking past a man searching for food in waste in the street of Caracas. Every hour is “Earth Hour” in Caracas and other socialist “paradises.”(Polaris/Newscom)
Has there ever been in the history of man an event that offered more opportunities for virtue signaling than Earth Hour?
While North Koreans and Venezuelans and Cubans are literally dying for some First World amenities, the rich and ignorant in the developed world turned their lights off for an hour Saturday night to show … what?
Their solidarity with those living under regimes that have ground their economies into hopeless ruins?
Their concern over power bills that have become too expensive due to government-forced use of renewable energy sources?
Their disapproval of socialist systems that have wrecked the modern amenities the people once enjoyed?
No, they turned their lights off to demonstrate that they are morally superior — that unlike those who didn’t participate, they care about the environment.
Clear and independent thinkers had this con figured out years ago. Economist Donald Boudreaux called it, quite accurately, a mindless stunt.
Earth Hour in 3D: Dim, Dark and Dopey
World Wide Fund for Nature (Australia) is gearing up for its tenth idiotic Earth Hour at 8.30pm on Saturday, March 25. Once again it will be urging people to turn off lights (but not fridges, freezers, TVs, dishwashers, computers, aircons and smart-phones). If WWF is aware that satellite data shows no atmospheric warming for the past 18 years, that information figures nowhere in its literature.
Of course, any large-scale lights-off actually increases CO2emissions because generators have to do inefficient ramping-up of power when the lights go on again. Such quibbles have never worried WWF.
Earth Hour is run by national manager Anna Rose. She is co-founder and former head of the Youth Climate Coalition, and spouse of Simon Sheik, former national director of GetUp, failed Greens candidate and, most recently, promoter of a fossil-fuel-free superfund.[1] Rose claims, on the basis of sample surveys from consultancy AMR, that a quarter (nearly 6m) of the Australian population took part in Earth Hour 2016.[2] That’s a big call. In 2015, she was claiming one in three Australians (7.7m) took part in 2014.
The media-savvy WWF has been theming its annual Earth Hours. Last year’s theme was “Protect the Aussie places we love” with sub-texts about global warming destroying the Barrier Reef by 2050 and other alarmist mantras (the Reef made it safely through previous eras of strong warming). The 2017 Earth Hour theme is “the voice of the future generation”, taking into overdrive WWF’s propaganda assault in schools.
WWF’s partner in the schools’ Earth Hour exercise is Cool Australia, a green/left outfit founded and run by Jason Kimberley of the wealthy Just Jeans clan. Cool Australia claims more than 52,000 educators whose lessons reached more than 1,050,000 students in 2016. (It is a national scandal that schools have become such hotbeds of green/left indoctrination).…
Vatican Basilica Switches Lights Off for ‘Earth Hour’ to Protest Climate Change
It was ‘Earth Hour’, celebrate energy!
It’s Earth Hour tonight, celebrate energy!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/19/its-earth-hour-tonight-celebrate-energy/
Normally I write a blog post far in advance for this . This year due to it being so “high profile” in the news,,I simply forgot. Oh well. My sister is celebrating it at her house by making full use of incandescent lighting. Dr. Roy Spencer nores this on Facebook : In honor of Earth […]
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‘Earth Hour’ 2016 organizers urge people to ‘Shine a light on climate action’
…Celebrate the warmth: ‘We should spend Earth Hour giving thanks for warmth’
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/celebrate_the_warmth.html…
Earth Hour Set for March 28 with Focus on Climate Change
Earth Hour Set for March 28 with Focus on Climate Change
Prepare to turn out the lights at the end of the month, as the globe’s biggest grassroots conversation initiative is set to return. This year, Earth Hour will be taking Read MoreThe post Earth Hour Set for March 28 with Focus on Climate Change appeared first on Ecorazzi.
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Greens invent new day: ‘Earth Overshoot Day’: ‘In less than 8 Months, Humanity exhausts Earth’s budget for the year’
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/earth_overshoot_day/…