An Hour for the Earth

Join the Earth Hour movement!

On Saturday, March 29 at 8 p.m., people from across the world are teaming up to turn off their lights for an hour to help promote awareness of global warming.

Earth Hour started last year in Sydney, Australia when over 2.2 million residents and 2,100 businesses shut off their lights for an hour, leading to a 10% decrease in energy use. When Sydney turned off their lights, it caught attention around the world. This year, Earth Hour is a global event with people across the world taking part in the movement.

Since the U.S. produces the most carbon dioxide per person, the World Wildlife Fund challenged all of us to lessen that amount for a day by joining Earth Hour. It's also hard to ignore that turning off the lights for an extra hour on Saturday (or every day for that matter) could help save our pocketbooks as well.

Like others, we feel inspired to help out as well. So bring out the candles this Saturday, and join us as we turn off our lights for the Earth!

To learn about other ways to help the planet, you could use your hour to check out the Better Living Show at the Expo Center, the largest sustainable living show in the northwest.

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Posted Thu, 03/27/2008 - 11:01am.

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These people are 10 years out of date!

Submitted by jim karlock on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 1:33am.

Looks like these people didn’t notice that, since 1998 was the warmest year in a millennia, and since we have not warmed further, warming HAS STOPPED! Further, NASA recently revised the data & put 1998 in a tie with 1934 which shows recent climate is noting unusual. Actually global temperature, using the best data available, the USHCN and satellite data, has leveled out and then declined in the last year. Some solar scientists think this is all caused by the sun, as the length of the solar cycle shows much better correlation with earth’s temperature than CO2 levels. Of course CO2's effect on temperature is a log function, so a doubling of CO2 from present levels will have relatively little effect anyway.

But many people depend on keeping the population in a panic to make millions. For instance Al Gore now gets $200,000 per speech and heads a mutual fund that makes money off of green investments and he also is in on a venture capitol firm that hopes to make money off of green companies.

As to the general subject of warming, I hope we all know, by now, that:

1. The antarctic ice pack is growing and the temperature is stable to decreasing. The melting is ONLY on a narrow peninsula that extends far into the warmer southern seas.

2. The arctic ice pack has recovered from the summer melt and is now above normal for this time of year.

3. The antarctic ice cores show that, in the past, first the temperature rose then, a few HUNDRED years later, the CO2 levels rose, proving that CO2 DID NOT cause the warming. Interestingly we are now a hundred or so years into the temperature increase after the depths of the little ice age.

4. Current temperatures are within historic norms.

5. Current rates of change are within historic norms.

6. Plant remains were found at the edge of the retreating Greenland ice cap that dated A.D 800 - 1014.

7. Remember those WWII planes found under many feet of Greenland ice? If Greenland is melting, why were they still under the ice of the 1940s?

There is utterly nothing unusual about today’s climate. (except that we are not in an ice age, which IS the NORM, historically speaking.)

Thanks
JK

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