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Originally Posted by james t kirk
Could not have said it better.
Call me a ludite, I don't believe for one second in the theory of Global Warming. Just another "the sky is falling" idea put forth by a bunch of scientists looking for respect and wanting to attend conferences in Paris. (Bet there won't be a call-girl to be had that week.)
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Aside from you, I don't think that there is much disagreement about the reality of the earth warming up-- even the current American administration has admitted as much. The disagreement comes in in assigning causes and guessing time frames.
And for the record, I think Earth Hour is as effective as a means of direct energy conservation as Memorial Day is as a means of fostering any long term appreciation for the sacrifices of members of the American military. That is to say, each event provides a lot of band-wagoners an opportunity to put on a conveniently brief public show of support and then return to their day to day life as if it had never happened. It's a chance to pretend that everyone cares for a while. It's a nice gesture, but not much more.
By the time energy conservation is successful it's novelty will be a quaint memory. Which is to say that wide-scale energy conservation will come about as a result of necessity, and it will most likely be anything but a holiday.