I'm pretty sure that bar lights and tvs fall under the essential category.

I refuse to participate in anything having to do with the World Wildlife Fund. Those jerks forced the World Wrestling Federation to change their name, thus forcing them to remove all WWF logos from the video library, and blur them out. Nothing but blurs.

Oh, Heaven forfend, anon 1:53.

Al Gore is a fat turd. The only reason he's so anti-global warming is because he's afraid it's going to melt all his ice cream.

Al Gore can suck it

Stupid. This would have worked a month ago when there was the lull after the Super Bowl.

This is like trying to have it during the World Cup.

This is akin to the Pirates fans that staged the "walkout" in Pittsburgh last year. What's the point? It accomplishes nothing.

Show them just how stupid they are by joining me and turning on every light and appliance you have for the hour. You may want to film it and upload it to YouTube with a misleading title, say, "us doing our part for climate change", to rub it in their acne-covered faces.

Anyone who believes in the global warming myth is a fucking retard.

i'm with daniel. i'll have both my tv's on, my dishwasher running for one fork, using my 4-slice toaster for 2 slices, turn on the iron, and leave my rechargable batteries plugged in even though they are already charged.

-dan

By all means shut off the power on the Golden Gate bridge at 8:00 P.M. There was a massive injury accident on it yesterday. 8:00 should catch a lot of people coming home from dinner and drinks and the people hitting the bars for Saturday night. I'm sure snapping off the lights at 8:00 won't disorient anyone on the bridge.

Earth hour this!

Welcome to the fantasy of anthropogenic climate-change true believers. Their aspirations to make the world a little darker and colder came to life during Earth Hour, even while evidence mounts that their scientific hypotheses and models have serious flaws. Instead of handling legitimate scientific criticism as scientists, they have instead responded with obloquy and charges of heresy.
They do not want to find alternative energy sources that will fully replace what we have now. They want to reverse industrialization entirely, and they want top-down management of energy production to get it. They want a darker world, one in which candles replace light bulbs and the energy that runs the global economy — and has produced the best living standards in human history — gets rationed to satisfy the whims of statists and earth-worshipers.
There are many good reasons to work towards energy independence and the reduction of emissions from hydrocarbon-based energy production, but no good reason to cheer for darkness. Earth Hour is just another absurdity from a movement full of them.
Update: While Google scolds the rest of the world about turning off the lights, HA reader Simon Scowl directs our attention to this month’s Harper’s, which has an interesting look at Google’s plans to exploit cheap electricity in Oregon. Thanks to a boatload of government subsidies, Google located its new server farm on the Columbia River — where it will use enough electricity to light Tacoma, Washington.
But that’s not the best part. According to Harper’s, Google and its competitors have now started building data centers in places like Lithuania, Dublin, Siberia, and Shanghai. What do all these locations have in common? Except for Lithuania, where 78% of the power will be nuclear, all of them rely on carbon-spewing energy production with lower prices and fewer controls on emissions. So much for Earth Hour, eh?

WTF?

-dan

tree hugging hippies

Oh no, how could they put such an entertaining spectacle like the WWF into such dark times anon 1:53. I'm sure to lose hours of sleep knowing that trailer park trash with an IQ of under 50 has to call it the WWE now instead of the WWF. It's worse than the holocaust!

Don't cross Al Gore or he'll time travel in his solar-powered DeLorean and not invent the Internet.