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Lights go dark for Earth Hour to highlight climate change
AP ^ | March 24, 2018

Posted on 03/24/2018 2:25:29 PM PDT by PROCON

LONDON (AP) — In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights — Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye.

~~SNIP~~

It lasted for just an hour and its power is purely symbolic. But in countries around the world, at 8:30 p.m., people were switching off their lights for Earth Hour, a global call for international unity on the importance of addressing climate change.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; earthday; earthhour; erfhour; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; limolibs
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To: Billthedrill

8:30PM last Night?

I was hoisting a few, eating pizza and listening to my little sister’s band (electric guitars and amps! ) LOL!


41 posted on 03/24/2018 4:44:30 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site
8:30PM last Night?

Aw, I blew it. It's apparently tonight! I can hardly wait to ignore it all over again.

42 posted on 03/24/2018 4:47:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

OK...maybe some friends of mine are playing tonight, and i can hoist a few more, eat some more pizza, and crank the Marshalls up to 11! :-)


43 posted on 03/24/2018 4:48:27 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site
OK...maybe some friends of mine are playing tonight, and i can hoist a few more, eat some more pizza, and crank the Marshalls up to 11! :-)

Do it. It's for the planet.

44 posted on 03/24/2018 4:49:51 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: left that other site

Earth Hour 2018 will be on March 24, from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm in participants’ time, in order to avoid coinciding with Catholic Holy Saturday which will fall on March 31.


45 posted on 03/24/2018 4:58:47 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: PROCON

Every light, inside and outside, of my house will be on at 8:30 tonight....ALL of em.


46 posted on 03/24/2018 4:59:26 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Billthedrill

Earth Hour 2018 will be on March 24, from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm in participants’ time, in order to avoid coinciding with Catholic Holy Saturday which will fall on March 31.


47 posted on 03/24/2018 4:59:32 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: waterhill
ALL LIGHTS ON TIL 2200 !
48 posted on 03/24/2018 5:12:39 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks for the history tidbit.

Calif. has gone a longway......


49 posted on 03/24/2018 5:13:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: PROCON

Awesome - I hope that someday I can match that!


50 posted on 03/24/2018 5:14:06 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I wonder how many idiots actually participate in this nonsense.”

I did. Only I postponed the 8:30 event time to 11:30pm and stayed dark until 7:00am, so more than did my part and got a good night sleep on top of it.


51 posted on 03/24/2018 5:14:09 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’ve been on tesla road
It runs into mines Rd and goes in very remote country behind mt Hamilton
These days wild boars and mountain lions own it


52 posted on 03/24/2018 5:19:17 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: PROCON

I still have all my Christmas lights up, I’m gonna turn them on and leave them on ALL NIGHT LONG. Since there will be unused energy, I may as well use it up.


53 posted on 03/24/2018 5:20:53 PM PDT by Conservative4Life (I'm not too worried, I've read the book and know how it all ends...We win)
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To: Truthoverpower

It is gorgeous country out there. All the ghost towns (Tesla, Carnegie) and factories (coal mines, brick works, pottery plant) are gone without a trace. You can still see traces of tailings piles, but not much. Hard to believe there were thriving towns with big industrial plants there not that long ago.


54 posted on 03/24/2018 5:27:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Oh wow! I'll bet you get some really bad stuff. We had thunder snow last night. Not too uncommon in a snowstorm. Had to look graupel up. We've probably had it but can't remember an instance of it. My digital photographs provide a diary of sorts starting in 2003. Can't get much in heavy snowfall.

I got so I was really scared to drive on the highways in snow and freezing rain. Never been to Iddaho, woulda been nice.

The prediction was not as much as we seem to be ending up with at 10:00 CDT tonight, like about 3 more inches and was to be worse north of I80.

55 posted on 03/24/2018 5:40:34 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Billthedrill

yep!


56 posted on 03/24/2018 5:50:28 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Moonman62

Didn’t they use to hold it on Lenin’s Birthday?


57 posted on 03/24/2018 5:51:50 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: PROCON

Liberal virtue-signaling.

Has no effect on the weather but it makes liberals feel good about themselves.

A scam as convincing as a medieval indulgence.


58 posted on 03/24/2018 5:59:12 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: PROCON

went dark?

really?

didn’t notice. Stopped noticing drama queen notions a long time ago.

Sometimes I think the entire world is turning into the long screech of the Daily Mail.


59 posted on 03/24/2018 6:56:53 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: PROCON

I propose that Bitcoin Mining Hour be held at the same time as Earth Hour, to take up the slack.


60 posted on 03/24/2018 9:52:32 PM PDT by TChad (Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
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