True believers kidding themselves about Earth Hour - St. Thomas Times-Journal - Ontario, CA

I don't imagine they're feeling all that warm and fuzzy about Earth Hour in Japan right now either. They're too busy just trying to survive Earth's recent double whammy attack on them. There's nothing like an earthquake and a tsunami to deliver a reality check to all this goofiness.

I'll bet they'd like to have just one hour to be warm, dry, well-fed and housed with their families all around them. Instead, they're freezing -- and maybe even starving -- in the dark, with the fear of nuclear disaster hanging over them.

No, it's Earth Hour every hour of every day in Japan right now.

So go ahead, light your candles, roast your marshmallows and kid yourself into thinking you're doing something useful.

But if it were up to me, I'd kick Earth Hour to the curb because every way I look at it, it's junk.

Activist group take on Jones over climate | Courier Mail

ACTIVIST group GetUp is taking on Sydney shock jock Alan Jones, demanding the broadcaster withdraw comments disputing the science of human-induced climate change.

The organisation is launching proceedings with the broadcast watchdog, demanding Jones publicly and immediately revoke what it calls fabricated statements.

"It's wrong for ultra-conservative shock-jocks like Mr Jones to deliberately mislead their audience," GetUp's acting national director Sam Mclean said today. "We have standards in this country which demand the truth from our broadcasters."