Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

[Skerik]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

While Google scolds the rest of the world about turning off the lights, this month’s Harper’s has an interesting look at Google’s plans to exploit cheap electricity in Oregon. Thanks to a boatload of government subsidies, Google located its new server farm on the Columbia River — where it will use enough electricity to light Tacoma, Washington.

But that’s not the best part. According to Harper’s, Google and its competitors have now started building data centers in places like Lithuania, Dublin, Siberia, and Shanghai. What do all these locations have in common? Except for Lithuania, where 78% of the power will be nuclear, all of them rely on carbon-spewing energy production with lower prices and fewer controls on emissions. So much for Earth Hour, eh?

**** Google and **** Earth Hour.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/29/aiming-for-a-darker-world/

[countryboy]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

You're supposed to turn off the lights or not use electricity for an hour or something.

thanks

[EWRMETS]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Anyone who participates in this is an absolute moron.

It's your choice not to do this but attitudes like this are troubling.

[jct32]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

I would like to see them do this during a basketball game, imagine playing by candlelight.

[SPTO]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Hmmm I thought the government is gonna shut off the electricity for us (at least here in Ontario) Oh well i'll find out soon enough. If that's not the case then HUZZAH! I'll be doing something that requires electricity

If they really cared they'd do an Earth Month where everybody has to turn off their lights and electricity for a whole month after sunset. Of course that'd be way too inconvenient. So this is just like the Earth Day concerts where they tried to raise money for the environment but the carbon footprint was quadrupled in the areas where the concerts took place!

[Skerik]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

So this is just like the Earth Day concerts where they tried to raise money for the environment but the carbon footprint was quadrupled in the areas where the concerts took place!

But...but...but....they bought carbon offsets!

[Brandon 2006]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

My family is cutting all the lights, but we're not cutting off our T.Vs or anything else.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

And Skerik comes through with another awesome post about greenie hypocrisy.

Awesome, man.

[LP]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Yeah, I'll do this every night............when I go to bed.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Taken from another beloved site...

"If these nitwits are so proud to be in the dark, why do the complain so much when there are blackouts?"

[Aaenuel]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

I did it. Why? With no electricity and tons of candles lit you might as well rename it "gettin' it on hour".

[Spectre]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

It's your choice not to do this but attitudes like this are troubling.

Couldn't have said it better. Sad to say, I've gotten numb to comments like that because it is so pervasive in society now. Disagree with someone, call them a name and feel good about yourself.

Anyway, here are some sweet pics off the Net courtesy of the morons and nitwits in Detroit and Chicago

Detroit


Toronto

[EWRMETS]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Couldn't have said it better. Sad to say, I've gotten numb to comments like that because it is so pervasive in society now. Disagree with someone, call them a name and feel good about yourself.

Yep. It's not good enough to have your own opinion but you must insult everyone who disagrees with your point of view. This is an immature and divisive way of acting.

And just because some of the "greenies" are hypocrites does not mean that the entire idea of global warming is a fraud.

[SPTO]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

Spectre I know Toronto is viewed as a smaller Chicago but I think claiming the Toronto skyline as Chicago is taking it overboard.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00 p.m.

So is it a better idea to have all the lights off then overload the grid when all the lights come back on at the same time?