Earth Hour: Fool's Day Arrives Early

American Thinker ^ | March 28, 2009 | Marc Sheppard

[Delacon]

At 8:30 this evening in every time zone on the planet, droves of otherwise rational human beings will be dousing their lights to be counted among those believing that such actions may somehow ward off climate change.  Please.

Say hello to another edition of Earth Hour and to those fools who either believe that the byproducts of civilization’s sustaining power generation somehow degrade Mother Nature’s climate balance or simply play along for fun and profit. 

According to event sponsor World Wildlife Fund’s website, “Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming.”  Talk about your false dilemmas.  Lights off – save the planet.  Lights on – bring on the floods, plagues and the general hellfire penance for the sins of your selfish success.  What a crock. 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon explained just how his conspicuously corrupted coalition, whose NY headquarters will be joining in the dimming festivities, will utilize the “votes”:

“People will be telling their representatives to seal a deal in Copenhagen. A deal at the climate change talks that will protect people and the planet. We need an ambitious agreement. An agreement that is fair and effective. An agreement based on sound science.”

We’ve shredded the clueless Ban’s absurd “sound science” claim time and time again, and won’t repeat ourselves this Saturday night.   And fair and effective?  A decade of cooling and an increasingly skeptical populace have these clowns in such a frenzy to establish their illusory worldwide government, they’ve patently dropped all pretenses.  In fact, the plan they’ll propose at tomorrow’s climate conference in Bonn, Germany calls for nothing short of an international reallocation of both wealth and the industry that drives it.   

Reading the reshuffling scheme this Fox News-acquired UN document [PDF] dares tender, you’d think the alarmists had somehow successfully sold their mankind stinks fairy tale.  Thankfully, recent polls suggest they haven’t. 

Nonetheless, enough fools will likely play along with tonight’s lights out parlor game to stock the alarmist armory for the pending Battle of Copenhagen (December’s Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen), where the world governance maps of Kyoto II will be drawn.

And these same fools will be oblivious to the irony that the candles they light will omit more CO2 than would have the electric bulbs they’ve extinguished.  And that were they to walk down to the beach and relieve themselves en masse into the ocean, they’d have as much effect on the tides as their carbon footprint has on the climate

[Delacon]

ping

[the invisib1e hand]

droves of otherwise rational human beings

not sure I agree with this...

[omega4179]

Turning my lights on at 8:30EST

[Delacon]

“Turning my lights on at 8:30EST”

And computers, and tvs, and radios, and...

[99Floyd]

every light now on, in fact i scrounged up some extra ones
and more i would turn on if i had them.

take that greenie tripe.

[Doctor Raoul]

Got ALL my lights on...

[God luvs America]

I just turned on the Christmas lights on the outside of my house I’ve yet to take down!!

[Spaghetti Man]

Ditto

[don-o]

You are a great American

[GWMcClintock]

Let’s hope our Fearless Leader doesn’t have drones flying around taking pictures of all the houses with the lights on. (By the way, not only are my house lights on, but my barn lights as well!)

[Delacon]

“New Obama Mantra, “Screw World Peace, I’ll Buy You A Pony”.

Correction. New Obama Mantra, “Screw World Peace, I’ll Buy You A Piece”.

[gigster]

I’ve been “warming them up” for awhile.
Outdoor floods:check
Garage lights:check
Porch lights:check
Three radios:check
Bar/pool room lights:check
Living room lights:check
Wash machine running:check
Dryer:check
Toaster oven(pizza rolls):check
2 TV’s:check

Pissing off enviro-mental-cases:check

[chrisser]

How long does this last?

Do we still have time to turn our lights on?

[conservativeinferno]

I just turned on every light in my house.

[neal1960]

Our house is lit up like the 4th of July.

[MtnClimber]

Happy Earth Hour happens at 8:30 pm local time. I will be turning on lights here in Colorado at 10:30 EST. I have several libtard neighbors it will likely piss off. I will throw the Zer0 Bama signs all over the place in their faces if they say a word.

[John W]

An hour I think. Go for it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

North and South Korea or North and South America? *SNORT*

[PERKY2004]

I have friends on another site who were talking about this. (Of course they are all participating.) I was especially entertained by the fact that they will all be using candles and fireplaces for light/warmth.

Ummm.... isn't that adding a lot more pollution to the air than a few lightbulbs?