Beam me to Planet Gore !
Did anyone actually participate in the lights out ignorama?
I think the environmental movement has been infiltrated by neanderthols and cave men.
Someone else I read said if you wanted to point out that electricity was destructive, don't stop it for an hour, stop it for a week. Then ask yourself if electricity is disruptive, or the lack of it.
What's with liberals this year? They seem to be taking figurative expressions and turning them into reality. Before, when you accused liberals of sitting in the dark, you didn't mean they were ACTUALLY sitting in the dark. Before, when you accused a liberal that he'd disown his own grandma for political gain, you didn't ACTUALLY mean it.
Good column. The Danes apparently won’t listen to him even though he’s one of their own.
Bjorn Lomborg is awesome.
Every should read his book “ The Skeptical Environmentalist”
Good informative stuff.
On “lights out night”, I left my apartment lights on while I went to a nighttime motocross race, which was lit with several large banks of arclights. The bright white glare did a great job of highlighting the exhaust smoke from the two-stroke bikes, and the heady fumes of burnt high-octane race gas were everywhere. That race probably generated nearly a ton of CO2 all by itself, as it ran until nearly midnight. And, since it was out in the boonies, everyone had to drive. I don’t think there were more than two or three cars there; everything else was full-sized trucks and SUVs.
What the eco-ninnies don’t realize is that the energy to make the lights work was still generated. Electric companies anticipate demand and generate accordingly. Unused, it can’t be stored. It is just ... gone.
Sadly and unintentionally I did participate. But I made up for it. I was camping with nine of my Boy Scouts and a few dads. However, we kept the propane lantern lit bright and the boys had a roaring campfire going all night spewing tons and tons of carbon and other nasty little gases into the air.