Posted on 03/26/2009 8:34:54 AM PDT by Saint X
You too can save the planet from the effects of carbon emissions by participating in the symbolic gesture of turning off one light switch at a time for Earth Hour on March 28.
That's the message from actor Edward Norton, the official U.S. ambassador for Earth Hour 2009, who appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" on March 25. As Norton explained, this is a symbolic event for which everyone turns out their lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time on March 29. And this act will encourage world political leaders to cap or tax carbon emissions through the legislative process by demonstrating "global unity."
"You're right. The act of turning out the lights for an hour - is, it's not an act of conservation," Norton said. "It's not, um, meant to say that, ‘By doing this, we're going to solve the problem.' I think it's a symbolic act of global unity, of highlighting the number of people who do think this is one of the central issues of our time and motivating our leaders to take, um, purposeful and aggressive action on this issue."
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We need to have a live thread for Earth Hour where we all post how many lights we turn on and all the ways we choose to counteract the hippies.
ALL my lights will now go on at that time...thanks for the inspiration Ed.
I'm gonna burn some old tires instead.
Oh goodness. I have to turn on every light in the house for this event.......I can do that—LOL!
Note to self: March 29, 8:30-9:30 turn on ALL the lights in the house.
I’ll have every light and appliance ON during that time, and probably burning trash in the backyard ...
I’m going to continue to do as I always do but Norton need not fear, we have an energy secretary who would be more than happy to impose blackouts on us to celebrate.
Gotta love that smart grid.
Sorry Ed, I enjoy your films, but I’m not biting at the Global Warming apple.
Come Saturday I am turning on lights and radios and anyting else I can think of, just to iffset your insanities.
He can read lines written by others really well. It doesn’t sound like his critical thinking abilities are at the same level.
Earth Hour coming up again and I don’t have my Christmas lights up :(.
Last year during Earth Hour:
25 100 Watt light bulbs
5 computers
2 televisions
2 dvd players
2 vcrs
playstation
stereo
all heaters at max (damn it was hot)
2 floor fans
3 cars idling
oven cooking dinner
and 500 Christmas lights
Unfortunately I couldn’t run the lawn mower because if you let go of the handle it turns off. Was too lazy to duct tape the safety bar closed.
To paraphrase Ed Norton: “Lights on , O Captain Video!! “
Where the heck do they find these people?
Yep, on the evening of March 29, I’m cooking on the grill, playing Rock Band on the big screen, probably have all four computers in the house turned on, and will make sure the 3 refrigerators and one freezer are running too. Don’t know about the six other TV’s, I’m sure Mrs. Henkster will be watching one of them. Maybe the cat can watch TV too.
Wasn’t he the guy on the Honeymooners?
Im gonna plug all my power tools into my neighbors garage outlet zip tie the triggers to on for that hour
Hey, fraud of global warming. I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. Here, meet the fraud of the civil rights movement. You two are going to be fast friends.
If you are going in for surgery around that time you might want to ask if the hospital is run by liberals.
ON SATURDAY AT 8:30 PM TURN ON YOUR CAR ALARM.
Seriously I plan on have all lights ON
Car alarm blaring (for at least a minute)
EVERYTHING to annoy thise evormental narcissists.
Good for her!!
When my granddaughter’s teacher started to show Algore’s stupid “Inconvenient Truth”, me little heroine asked to be excused from class.
When the teacher refused, my granddaughter turned her seat around and sat back to the screen through the whole movie.
The teacher KNEW my daughter, and did not have the nerve to make an issue of this.
Good for both girls.
norton is an idiot and spoiled rich kid. His grandfather invented the shopping mall with Mills Corp (REIT) in MD which went bankrupt last year.
He is a nasty little creep who got a brit director fired on one film. I cannot stand his movies because he is always smirking like an idiot.
I didn’t know Ed was a loon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiXjCifQn0w
In the name of safety, any of my neighbors who turn out their lights will have a million candelpower beam focused on their living room window.
Actually, this “Earth Hour,” if viewed literally in its historical context, is an entirely accurate description of what the Watermelons are and what they want for everybody but themselves: a reversion to the dark hours of the Bronze Age where life was mean, short, and brutal, much like it presently is in Zimbabwe, the Usurper’s favorite country, short, of course, of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin.
What? Don't you have any kids?
Why wait? Turn them all on NOW.
I’m turning on ALL the lights, running ALL the computers (we have four of them in the household), running the TV, both radios, AND playing my electric guitar really freakin’ loud.
And I'm gonna open my front door and air condition the whole neighborhood. This is getting to be fun. :)
“Unfortunately I couldn’t run the lawn mower because if you let go of the handle it turns off. Was too lazy to duct tape the safety bar closed.
I use a small dog collar on mine. Works like a charm.”
Zip ties work very well for this purpose too.
Does this mean all movie theaters will be dark for an hour?
I’ll turn out the lights while I burn my big brush pile out back.
Think I’ll throw a couple of old tires on there for “effect.”
I’m even going to turn on some Christmas lights, just so people notice.
oh boy another little white boy that spouts PC platitudes
that’s great
anytime I hear some pasty kid say racism, sexism, or homophobe I just wanna slap their naive ignorant asses
Don’t forget to throw on some styrofoam cups....
Come Saturday I am turning on lights and radios and anyting else I can think of, just to iffset your insanities.
And I shall do the same.
And I will also hyperventilate during sex to produce more CO2.
And I will feel so good.
My lights are going to be blazing, and I'm going to see how many appliances I can run without tripping a circuit: Blow dryers, blenders, dishwasher, couple loads of laundry, microwave...
Isn’t it ironic—don’t you think—that these global warming tools believe they are backed by hard science but are literally encouraging a new Dark Age?
Hmmmm...What can I compare that the Global Warming Grifters are doing, to the Rape of Nanking???
At 8:30 PM on 29 March, I'm gonna walk through the house turning on lights, the TV, the oven and stove, AC, flush the toilet, turn on the shower, etc.
Then I'm go outside and turn on the cars.
Celebrate Human Achievement, not freezing in the dark.
Ed Norton is a neurotic weezyl! Epitomizes the failure of psychiatry!
You’re right. The act of turning out the lights for an hour - is, it’s not an act of conservation,” Norton said. “It’s not, um, meant to say that, ‘By doing this, we’re going to solve the problem.’ I think it’s a symbolic act of global unity, of highlighting the number of people who do think this is one of the central issues of our time and motivating our leaders to take, um, purposeful and aggressive action on this issue.”
....”However, Mr. Norton requests a sufficient number of lights be left on as a navigation aid to his pilot—he’s going to be flying in his leased Gulfstream V that evening to be able to attend a cocktail party in LA...”
/s
ROFL!
She was only 5 months old at the time lol
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