Monday, March 30, 2009

American Thinker Blog: No Drop in Electricity Usage in NY and CA at Earth Hour (updated)
The Greenies did not convince the average liberal New Yorkers and Californians to turn off their lights at the appointed Earth Hour of 8:30 PM local time.

By looking at real time data in New York and California, there was no drop in electric usage.
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If New York and California do not voluntarily reduce demand to "save the planet", then we can safely assume that the rest of the country does not believe the global warming hype either.
New feature: On Earth Hour: Quote of the Week#1 « Watts Up With That?
I will be thinking about the 1.8 billion people on Earth who have no access to electricity, and how insane they must think we are.
Reuters Claims One Billion People Took Part in 'Earth Hour' | NewsBusters.org
For Reuters to be correct in its one billion people claim, one out of five people would have had to participate. Since Earth Hour hadn't even arrived for much of the world at the time Reuters released its report, how can the agency already state as fact that there were a billion participants?

The obvious answer is it couldn't. Reuters made up a nice, round number to buttress its contention of massive worldwide support for Earth Hour. And no doubt it'll be picked up by mainstream media outlets across the country.
The Climate Change Grift Illustrated in One Simple Chart
The climate change scam was birthed by the United Nations. A bunch of bureaucrats, losers and scam-artists formed businesses designed to profit from the very recommendation they made: to start forcing countries to cap-and-trade carbon emissions using "credits" or "offsets".

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