Oh, sorry, I forgot to worship earth hour.
Posted on 03/25/2017 6:00:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
David Miller is the president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada
The new records humanity is setting are frightening: Arctic sea ice at an all-time winter low; 2016 as the hottest year on record; and a new high in the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere in millions of years.
As climate change unfolds before our eyes, the climate deniers now include a small but powerful number of global leaders, people who think climate change isn’t worth spending time or money fighting. This wasn’t the case when the global agreement to fight climate change was signed in Paris in December of 2015.
So, it can be easy to despair and think that the problem is too big for individual Canadians, or anyone, to tackle. In the face of disregard for science and for the impact of climate change on people and wildlife, what can the average person do? Can Earth Hour actually help move the needle on climate change?
Earth Hour isn’t about reducing emissions for a single hour on a Saturday night. Emissions aren’t the metric by which to measure this event.
Yes, Earth Hour is symbolic, but it’s not trivial. By disconnecting, we’re connecting with the biggest issue confronting the world today.
In Canada, we can take that hour to talk about the impact climate change is already having – entire communities forced to relocate because of permafrost melt, extreme weather events causing massive upheaval and habitat destruction, wildfires and floods causing people and wildlife to flee their homes.
We can take an hour Saturday night to talk about the impact climate change is having on narwhals, those almost-mythical unicorns of Arctic seas that are now prey for transient orcas no longer stopped by ice.
We can talk about polar bears,
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Long Island is the “terminal moraine” of that glacier.
I have every light in the house burning. And I kicked the thermostat up a couple of degrees for the next hour too.
Current climate change is normal and inside the range of natural variations that might be expected. There is a difference between weather variation and climate change.
Miller needs to calm down and take a look at what is causing the current extremes, such as periodic variations in arctic and antarctic in global sea ice, effects of El Nino events, etc.
He needs to stop getting his information from the alphabet channels and paid hacks at the UN.
OTOH, I am a "global warming denier". It's a figment of the "sex-crazed love poodle's" (Algore) imagination. His free lunch ticket.
Every environmentalist is a lying, violent, totalitarian thug.
“David Miller is the president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada”
Yes. Because animals living in the Deep Dark Forests of Canada-Eh, many who have never, and WILL never, see a human being, are going to NOTICE that you’ve turned the lights out around the globe. At night. While they’re sleeping, or out foraging in the DARK as they always do.
To, um, er, SAVE them...or something...
The Trees said to tell you "Thanks a ton!"
IMHO the real pity is that we spend so much effort & $$$ for a total fiction.
Plenty of good ideas to: clean up our messes, cheap abundant power(invest in nuclear) for the planet, design plastics that will not persist for a thousand years.
We give grant money to climate snake oil salesmen.
We’ll believe there is a real crisis when all governments ban driving and flying for everyone, and forbid any homes over 1500 sq. ft.
I hope that they turn off the lights heat while they are doing to get the full effect. :)
I usually drive my 67 GTO on Earth Day. I start with a couple of burn-outs and take it around town for a fast bout of criminal behavior. There is nothing like the display of vintage Detroit muscle on Earth Day to piss off the environmentalist whacos. One of my friends has a blown big block 69 vette, he does the same thing.
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I read a biography of Daniel Boone during Earth Hour. Tonight’s chapter was about how he first went off into the Kentucky wilderness by himself. I thought about really getting into the mood by building a campfire, but it’s raining so I just sat by a lamp with one of those newfangled curly light bulbs. The rest of the house was dark, but that’s usual because we don’t leave lights on in a room if we are not in it. How’s that?
I turned on all the lights for Human Achievement Hour!
Earth hour has no value under any conditions or circumstances.
The two countries with the most unusable land would benefit greatly if more of it became habitable.
If these Marxists cared so much about the environment, they wouldn’t waste so much paper, electronics, and travel on propagating a lie.
I'm looking at you, climate "science."
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