Posted on 03/28/2015 9:27:46 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the sails on the nearby Opera House went dark Saturday, as lights on landmarks about Australia have been switched off for the international climate change awareness campaign Earth Hour.
Millions are expected to take element around the world in the annual event organised by conservation group WWF, with hundreds of properly-recognized sights including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Seattle Space Needle set to plunge into darkness.
"It is almost like the point vanished," stated Tony Jennings from Earth Hour right after standing below the Harbour Bridge as the lights went off at eight:30pm (0930 GMT).
In Australia, Earth Hour this year is focussing on farming, with fears that rising temperatures could in the end damage the country's capability to make food. "In Australia agriculture is the most vulnerable sector to the impacts of climate change," stated national Earth Hour manager for Australia, Anna Rose. Increasing temperatures, increased pests and weeds, alterations in planting times, and far more extreme weather events were currently starting to impact farmers, she stated.
"Persons feel about climate alter as some thing that's only going to take place in the future," Rose told AFP.
"In this Earth Hour campaign we want to highlight the reality that increasing temperatures and a lot more intense climate are affecting something we all have in common—our food."
Enlarge Folks in Singapore on March 12, 2915 pose with a WWF (Planet Wide Fund For Nature) panda mascot advertising Earth Hour Earth Hour takes location from 8:30pm nearby time, and encourages citizens, communities, organizations and organisations to switch the lights off for an hour to highlight the plight of the planet.
This year it comes ahead of a crucial UN meeting Paris in December which is bringing collectively the worldwide neighborhood in an work to limit worldwide warming.
The initiative started in Sydney in 2007 but promptly went worldwide.
"More than 170 countries and territories have currently confirmed their participation far more than 1,200 landmarks and close to 40 UNESCO world heritage websites," Earth Hour head Sudhanshu Sarronwala told AFP ahead of the occasion.
These range from the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, the Acropolis in Athens, Edinburgh Castle, Massive Ben, Ecuador's Quito historical centre to New York's Times Square. This year will involve a glow-in-the-dark Zumba party in the Philippines, a coordinated candlelit dinner in Finland billed as the world's biggest, restaurant dinners by candlelight in London, and a energy-creating dance floor to light up the Eiffel Tower immediately after its hour-long sleep, mentioned WWF. Earth Hour's goal is not to achieve measurable electrical energy savings, but to raise awareness of the need to have for sustainable power use, and this year also to demand action to halt planet-harming climate change. "We hope that with every single light switch that goes off, the light cast on people calling for action becomes clearer and paves the way ahead for climate action," said Sarronwala. Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
So when do we turn all of our lights on? 1900, 2000, 2030?
"2915" those long range forecasts are getting carried away
If the Left gets their way they’ll have people committing mass suicide on Earth Day. Think of it as the Rev. Jim Jones on steroids.
Well said!
I’ll join you. Civilization is a good thing.
I will join you.
I’ll turn on all the lights including the flood lights outside all day and night to help offset it and celebrate modern civilization and my ability to afford it.
I like Civilization Day so much I celebrate all day, but 8:30 to 9:30 in your local time would be great. Environmental luddites have said they are going to not use some electrons during that time, so there's just more for us to use. If I have time, I'll re-hang my Christmas lights.
I’ll be lighting up the neighborhood at 8:30 p.m. I hope to be seen from space this year.
I love to celebrate human ingenuity. Without so-called fossil fuels, life as we know it and live it would not exist.
I also thank God for providing these resources for us to figure out how to use them.
The CO2 theory is simply cover for communism.
That is where the alarmists would take us.
“In the year 2525.....”
What time (EDT) should I start MIG welding?
I thought that was World Wrestling Federation or some such...
Are you questioning their computer models? How dare you!
I doubt any tv stations will be running that Danny Devito Christmas movie in which he tries to get his house bright enough to be seen from space.
It will actually help the Pf from the grid. The asshats that turn off everything at once and then turn them all back on at once waste more energy than they will ever understand.
Thanks for the update on the time. There are many lights that have not been on since last year. Good time to test everything. :^)
You’ve got em’ figured. They wouldn’t last 8 hours without electricity. They just like to bitch because it makes them feel like they have a life.
I thought that was my cue to throw some more tires on the bonfire?!!
Must have lost something in the translation.
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