After earth hour last Saturday night, Yahoo News reports-
Power consumption dropped about 2 percent last night as climate-conscious New Zealanders switched off their lights and appliances for the fifth annual Earth hour. National power grid operator Transpower today reported “no discernible difference” in power consumption between 8.30pm and 9.30pm yesterday and the same time last year, when electricity usage fell by 2 percent.
Well OK, lets take Transpower at their word and assume there was a measly 2% drop because a very small number of people turned their lights off. So what happened during that drop? Were carbon emissions reduced? Not likely, because most of NZ’s power is coming from geothermal and hydro sources right now.
Then what did all the eco-loons for light? Well, most of them I know (and thankfully I don’t know that many) lit candles. So they turned off a non carbon producing source of light and ignited a source that produces many times more carbon than your average incandescent light bulb, and significantly more than your fluorescent light. So if you turned off a fluorescent and lit a candle, you were producing a hugely increased level of CO2.
And those calculations are compounded in NZ because the source of power for the lights is largely CO2 free.
So with only a two percent drop, there’s clearly very little real support for this dumb watermelon concept, and then, when lights from a non polluting source were turned off and replaced by candles, that pollute at any rate from 20 times more to 80 times and above, there was probably a spike in NZ’s CO2 emissions. Just typical looney tune Watermelon bullshit.
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6 responses to “Earth Hour- A Loony Watermelon Farce That Probably Increased CO2 Emissions”
Yeah the Melons are seriously deranged. You have to wonder if they give a moments of thought to their lunatic musings. Take the flotilla of ships “sailing” down to the Bay of Plenty to protest deep water oil exploration. I note most were under engine power leaving Auckland, I supposed they were powered by fermented melon juice and crushed mun beans. No doubt when they get back to Auckland they’ll jump into their rickshaws and ride home, yeah right.
Meanwhile the German Melons have beaten the Conservatives in some election. The Melons are promising to shut down the old nuclear power stations. I guess it’s easy to be clever with summer on it’s way but the shit will hit the fan when the peoples teeth start rattling in their heads come winter time.
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Another joke perpetraded by the eco-terrorists on the rest of us.
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Your Agency of Lies (MSM) will never let on to the paradoxical lunacy you just explained.
I encourage all of your readers to email copies of this to their mates. Title the email as “In order to be seen as “with it” with other lunatics world-wide, gullible kiwis lit candles and significantly increased their carbon footprint during Earth Hour” and then link back here.
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“I guess it’s easy to be clever with summer” — No, not really.
A few summers back a large number of old people croaked from lack of a/c when the rolling blackouts hit. Not that there isn’t other ways to keep cool, but that Euros had gotten so accustomed to a/c they had forgotten how to seek other means of cooling. Of course, the melons would then say “old people are a useless drain on planetary resources anyway, so what’s the problem?’
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As for me, I switched on every appliance I could find, and must say I had at least one neighbour doing the same thing.
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Looks like the whole thing might be dying a natural death . . .
http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110326/earth-hour-110326/20110326/?hub=EdmontonHome
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