Beacon in the Darkness

From 830pm to 930 pm on March 28, 88 countries and 4000 cities turned out the lights as a demonstration of concern to fight Global Warming.

I didn't.

My house was the brightest on the block. There were a few houses with a couple of lights on, but many turned off their lights around 8:30. I was watching a documentary with my family at that time and had to pause it so I could turn on all the lights in my house.

Many say that Earth Hour helped to save money and cut down costs. Of course it cut down costs, people turned out the lights! I'm into saving a few bucks on energy myself, which is why I turn on lights only when necessary. But to say that turning off lights will help bring down CO2 emissions is utter nonsense. There are those who have calculated that lighting a few candles during that hour created more CO2 than the energy used to turn on light bulbs. Whether or not it made a dent in the levels of CO2, the fact remains: humans are not contributing to global warming or climate change or whatever they call it these days. Every 50 years or so, a new group of scientists or a new study points to this or that to "confirm" a change in the environment. One of these days, I hope the majority opinion will finally accept the truth that these changes are natural and cyclical. Not holding my breath, of course.

Earth Hour only proved to me that there are way too many people who bought into the Gore sales pitch of human caused climate change.

Does anyone else think this Earth Hour business is hilarious?