Jakartans largely ignore Earth Hour | The Jakarta Post

Jakarta’s main thoroughfares, offices, public buildings and residences generally kept their electricity on, ignoring the call to switch off power between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. to mark global Earth Hour on Saturday night.

Despite expectations of increased participation from building managers and households for the 2010 Earth Hour, buildings and billboard lights along Jl. Sudirman and Jl. Thamrin remained brightly lit.
The landscape of the city was as bright as usual, with hotels, apartments, high-rise buildings, and houses of worship carrying on as usual.
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Other big cities that committed themselves to darkness for an hour, including Yogyakarta and Bandung, failed to live up to their electricity reduction targets on Saturday night.

Earth Hour a flop show in Delhi

New Delhi, March 28 (IBNS) The Earth Hour observed on Saturday proved to be a flop show in Delhi as last year the capital’s demand had dropped by 800 MW, but this time the power discoms said the load reduction was less than half of that.
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...business and residential areas proved a big failure.

Global warming: There is an end game

Although nobody is advertising it, there is an end to even the most pessimistic vision of global warming, no matter what we do here and now. The IPCC (and Nicholas Stern) have carefully conealed it behind an unrealistic population projection, but the fact of the matter is that they predict stabilization of emissions around 2100, even using a fantastically exaggerated population prediction of 15 billion souls on the planet.

You can't make this stuff up - This Modern World - Salon.com

[Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow takes on those cousin-marrying idiots who don't fear trace amounts of carbon dioxide]