unapologetic conservative: Earth Hour (Let There Be Light)

I am joining Rush Limbaugh tonight between 8:30PM and 9:30PM and turning on all the lights in my house. I'll put the spotlights on outside as well for good measure. I'm totally sick of hearing about the fake global warming scam (recently rebranded "climate change").

The global warming scam is just another excuse for the government to get more control over what you're doing in your daily lives...

Frozen scientists in the dark over Earth Hour | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It’s hard to believe how many ways reality is being denied by these frostbitten scientists, sitting in the dark on an ice floe, turning off a torch to stop a warming when it’s 39 degrees below freezing. Meanwhile the expedition’s sponsor, Prince Charles, blew all the saved emissions and more of this shivering crew, lightless on the dark ice, just by driving to the jet that’s blasted him from country to country on his grandly gassy global warming tour of South America...

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Draw Quality Complaints - NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such a simple thing to do: buy some new light bulbs, screw them in, save the planet.

But a lot of people these days are finding the new compact fluorescent bulbs anything but simple. Consumers who are trying them say they sometimes fail to work, or wear out early. At best, people discover that using the bulbs requires learning a long list of dos and don’ts.

Take the case of Karen Zuercher and her husband, in San Francisco. Inspired by watching the movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” they decided to swap out nearly every incandescent bulb in their home for energy-saving compact fluorescents. Instead of having a satisfying green moment, however, they wound up coping with a mess.
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Irritation seems to be rising as more consumers try compact fluorescent bulbs, which now occupy 11 percent of the nation’s eligible sockets, with 330 million bulbs sold every year. Consumers are posting vociferous complaints on the Internet after trying the bulbs and finding them lacking.