It's hard to see in that picture but I lit up my woods too.
And it would seem my new cross the stree neighbors might be FReepers too! (Note American Flag!)
ML/NJ
Posted on 03/28/2009 7:29:37 PM PDT by Mike Bates
Reuters issued a dispatch this afternoon centering on a global effort to underscore the threat of global warming. "World switches off to save planet in 'Earth Hour'" reports the news service. The piece notes:
Lights went out at tourism landmarks and homes across the globe on Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, a global event designed to highlight the threat from climate change.
From the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London's Houses of Parliament, lights were dimmed as part of a campaign to encourage people to cut energy use and curb greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
Organizers said the action showed millions of people wanted governments to work out a strong new U.N. deal to fight global warming by the end of 2009, even though the global economic crisis has raised worries about the costs.
Four paragraphs later appears "BILLION PEOPLE TAKE PART." That isn't supported by what follows, which reports that the founding organization "is hoping one billion people from nearly 90 countries will take part."
So how does Reuters report that a billion people took part? According to the International Energy Agency, "Some 1.6 billion people, about one quarter of the world’s population, have no access to electricity today." The CIA estimates the world's population at 6.7 billion, so that would mean about 5 billion people in the world could shut off their lights in the global feel-good exercise. For Reuters to be correct in its one billion people claim, one out of five people would have had to participate. Since Earth Hour hadn't even arrived for much of the world at the time Reuters released its report, how can the agency already state as fact that there were a billion participants?
The obvious answer is it couldn't. Reuters made up a nice, round number to buttress its contention of massive worldwide support for Earth Hour. And no doubt it'll be picked up by mainstream media outlets across the country.
Bollocks.
Reuters is full of shiznit unless they are counting people in the world who don’t have any damned electricity.
I claim the moon is made of green cheese.
Did we miss something?
There was an “Earth Hour?”
Were they all singing Kumbaya at the same time?
Since two-thirds of the world’s population live in poverty, I’m sure there are a billion people without electricity.
Not this sick puppy...I had all of my lights ON this evening!
It should read “two and a half billion take part” in it,
because one and a half billion people take part in it
every night.
I took part in it! I turned on every indoor and outside light on, as a statement to my neighbors who were all virtuously cringing in the darkness while they watched their plasma TVs. But they already think I’m nuts because it’s already whispered in the neighborhood that I’m a C-word. You know: Conservative. (They say it in hushed voices, then shudder.)
I participated - I turned everything on full blast and also drove laps around the neighborhood.
LQ
I’m on the west coast of the U.S. and we were told this was going to be at 8:30p.m. Pacific time, so there is still almost an hour until it even happens here! LOL!
All of North Korea took part. Most of the Congo, also.
While pledging allegiance to Obama.
Just pick a number. Some people might believe it.
Since we are all on planet earth every hour of our lives save the odd astronaut isn’t every hour earth hour?
I hear it was a smashing success in the Sahara region.
Crap, with communistic media endemic in our society we are so much in trouble.
No, logic does not apply! Spoilsport!
As verifiable as the number of jobs totus claims he will “save or create”
She doesn't live in my 'hood, as they say. But a good question nonetheless.
When did Louis Farrahkhan start working for Reuters?
It’s sorta like how they estimate the number of homeless. Any ol’ number will do.
It's hard to see in that picture but I lit up my woods too.
And it would seem my new cross the stree neighbors might be FReepers too! (Note American Flag!)
ML/NJ
I turned all the lights in my house on!
I’ll be honest, I tried it. No, really. I waited and waited, and heck, it didn’t make me feel good. Was I doing something wrong?
If true, then that's One Billion Suggestible Idiots that that global warming alarmists can be counted upon to victimize.
January 20, 2009
I took part - and at least 3 of my friends. We’ve been joking about it all evening. We had a bit of a contest on who could turn on the most stuff without tripping our breakers. Funny how we too would be considered participants given the headline.
I did not see a single light out anywhere. Rueters is dreaming.
24 Million North Koreans were participating!
Mine are still on.....
Earth who?
Right in the middle of Earth Hour, someone was shooting off a huge fireworks display in my area. Heh-heh. Not everyone was aware that this was a Very Special Time for Mother Earth.
The media writes stories before they happen now.
Yes, I too took part by ignoring it. ;-)
Prescient, aren’t they?
LOL! We did the same! It just ended here, so I’m going to turn off the lights. Had every light in and outside the house on! Only saw one neighbor’s house that was dark—they may have been out.
>>>Reuters Claims One Billion People Took Part in ‘Earth Hour’
A year or two ago there was a global television Global Warming concert televised with top musical acts flying in on luxury private jets to tell viewers to cut back their life style. Initial news reports also claimed a billion viewers. Later ratings showed global viewing was less then 50 million.
Reuters should be made to prove their claim or just shut the hell up. Then they wonder why they are all going broke. They publish BS.
It’s not even 8 o’clock here in Nor Cal, just got dark; just turned all the lights on - all inside house lights, even the bathroom night light, porch lights, outdoor floods, even the Christmas lights that I was too lazy to take down. Everything is burning.
Yeah, we celebrated by turining all our lights on... didn’t you?
Like other Freepers, sure I participated...by turning on every damn light in the house I could find. I’m only sorry we’d put Christmas lights away.
They should have included the billion or so people who don’t have any lights to turn on also.
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