{"id":5603,"date":"2013-03-21T18:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/the-earth-hour-sham\/"},"modified":"2013-03-21T18:56:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:56:03","slug":"the-earth-hour-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/the-earth-hour-sham\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Earth Hour&#8221; Sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"right\"><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/greenbat.php\"><\/script><\/span>This Saturday evening, a bunch of GREENBATS&reg; will douse their lights to celebrate their ignorance about the true cause of climate variations. They will make their self-righteous symbolic statements that may actually result in increased CO2 emissions from power facilities, all in the name of <em>Earth Hour<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Investors Business Daily carried an editorial on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/032113-648964-earth-hour-feels-good-accomplishes-nothing.htm\">silliness of this misguided concept<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Earth Hour: Vain Symbolism, Environmentally Unfriendly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nonsense: For 60 minutes Saturday night, those living in the shallows of our culture will kill their lights during Earth Hour to increase awareness of climate change. Some will feel self-righteous. Nothing will be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Earth Hour, organized by the World Wildlife Fund, began in Sydney in 2007. It has since spread to 152 countries, where it plumbs the depths of silliness and modern indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It may inspire virtuous feelings,&#8221; academic Bjorn Lomborg wrote last week, &#8220;but its vain symbolism reveals exactly what is wrong with today&#8217;s feel-good environmentalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case with do-good projects, Earth Hour will actually do harm to its goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During Earth Hour (8:30 local time), any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO2 emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterward,&#8221; Lomborg wrote in Project Syndicate, a website dedicated, it says, to &#8220;thought-provoking commentaries.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/032113-648964-earth-hour-feels-good-accomplishes-nothing.htm\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday evening, a bunch of GREENBATS&reg; will douse their lights to celebrate their ignorance about the true cause of climate variations. They will make their&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-greenbats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}