  East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2082 Registered: 11-2003 |
Who is participating? Any Metro Detroit city you know of? http://www.earthhour.org | ||
Goose Member Username: Goose Post Number: 112 Registered: 02-2005 |
as a "non-believer" in the global warming religion I will not participate but my lights will be off anyway as I will probably not be home, and they are 99% off when I am home anyway, not for any great "earth" cause, but because electricity is so damn expensive now...... | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 730 Registered: 10-2006 |
Farmington Hills is Participating. The ROC is not  | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2083 Registered: 11-2003 |
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20090327/M ETRO01/903270475/1361/Detroit+ to+participate+in+Earth+Hour Detroit to participate in Earth Hour Even if you don't believe that man participates in climate change, worst case is that the less energy you use (the way we generate it today) the cleaner your air will be. | ||
Baltgar Member Username: Baltgar Post Number: 120 Registered: 06-2006 |
The Book Tower is participating. | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 811 Registered: 02-2006 |
Detroit has been participating (slowly) since 1950! ha <313> | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 318 Registered: 01-2008 |
I promise to do my part tonight at 8:30 for Earth Hour in order to save all those poor pandas. I'll be rollin' the bones with my homies on the corner tonight at 8:30 under the illumination of earth friendly candles made by Vegan hippies. | ||
Bobl Member Username: Bobl Post Number: 705 Registered: 07-2008 |
Trans Love Airways will be grounded 8:30 - 9:30. Peace to all. | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 3020 Registered: 08-2007 |
I don't see a lot of participation around here, maybe two or three houses in our neighborhood. Clearly our town is not participating, and from the looks of the lighted sky, I doubt there are many communities in on it. How would one hear about it? I did turn off our lights, and it is kind of cool sitting here in the dark, but it sure is hard to keyboard. I didn't realize how much I look at the keys. | ||
Noggin Member Username: Noggin Post Number: 91 Registered: 09-2004 |
I really get p***ed off of listening to these movie stars who fly around in their private jets lecturing the rest of us to turn our lights off for an hour tonight to say something about global warming. I normally try to turn my lights off because it just costs money. Well tonight I am going to make my own statement. I am going to turn all my lights on because this is just total bs! The real truth is that we just had one the colder winter in real long time and these same intelligent people also blamed it on global warming. The scientific reality is there is just not enough statistical data to prove if that the warming is caused by carbon dioxide discharge. There is actually more evidence that there is a closer correlation to the frequency to sun spots. Maybe these same smart people can figure out a way to get the sun to stop spinning. Over and out. | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 3021 Registered: 08-2007 |
I rather think Earth hour should be about living sensibly on the planet, not some divisive thing like voting yes or no on global warming. How useless is that? Get everyone to save money by turning out the lights for an hour or turn off all but one light, or whatever, now that works for me. | ||
Faygoredpop Member Username: Faygoredpop Post Number: 43 Registered: 03-2008 |
I turned off the lights in my house. We were playing cards by candle light | ||
Kevgoblu Member Username: Kevgoblu Post Number: 207 Registered: 02-2007 |
Turning off the lights increases the romance factor around here. Plus, it keeps the old lady from noticing I put on a couple pounds! Oh yeah. And I'm doing my part to minimize global warming | ||
Mind_field Member Username: Mind_field Post Number: 498 Registered: 10-2003 |
Noggin: Regardless of any notion that CO2 may or may not alter earth's climate in any significant manner, reducing ones energy usage any means possible is simply the right thing to do for the environment. Most of our electricity is still generated via coal fired power plants. Coal is toxic, spewing mercury and other hazardous chemicals into the environment. Mining coal is DEADLY, killing on average between 20-30 miners a year. Mining coal is altering the landscape of appalachia, where mountains are now blown away to get at the coal, creating toxic moonscapes in their wake. I'd be all for using as much electricity as your wallet can manage, when the source of it is truly clean, such as solar, wind and ESPECIALLY geothermal. Until then, the earth really is straining under the pressure of six BILLION souls utilizing antiquated, polluting means of electric generation. | ||
Bcscott Member Username: Bcscott Post Number: 141 Registered: 05-2008 |
I turned on every light in the house and garage, warmed my hot tub up to 104 degrees and watched FOX News on my big screen TV. I briefly considered letting my F150 idle in the driveway for the hour but I thought that might have been a tad excessive. I simply plan on enjoying my personal freedoms for as long as humanly possible. | ||
Rid0617 Member Username: Rid0617 Post Number: 423 Registered: 03-2008 |
I turned on 2 flood lights and pointed them straight up. Every house light was on. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 5149 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: It's not religion, it's science. | ||
6nois Member Username: 6nois Post Number: 843 Registered: 11-2006 |
How would people know about it? Well Detroit did a piss poor job of getting the word out. I am in Chicago this weekend and you can't walk 10 feet without seeing a sign for Earth Hour. I think it is really strange when a group of people do something to make a difference, and then another group does the opposite just because they think it is cool to be a d-bag. Awesome guys. | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 3022 Registered: 08-2007 |
They are acting as if individual rights trump the responsibilities of living with other people on a limited planet. As the population grows and grows, we have to think about sharing the resources responsibly, and that includes finite things like fossil fuels, clean air and clean water. The better we can keep air and water clean, the healthier we will all be, including people who think their individual rights always come before the collective rights of the community. (Message edited by gazhekwe on March 29, 2009) | ||
Angry_dad Member Username: Angry_dad Post Number: 354 Registered: 02-2006 |
"Well Detroit did a piss poor job of getting the word out. I am in Chicago this weekend and you can't walk 10 feet without seeing a sign for Earth Hour." What are they going to do with all those signs now that it's over? | ||
Bcscott Member Username: Bcscott Post Number: 142 Registered: 05-2008 |
"It's not religion, it's science." No, Goose was correct it is a religion. If you want to believe in the omnipotent Al Gore who profits from the hysteria he incites and follow sage prophets like Matt Damon and Ed Norton have at it. This argument has been going on for over thirty years whether it's global cooling, global warming, or the all encompasing climate change. If you want to believe fine, I don't and I'm not going to be dictated to by the media or a bunch jet set celebrities and tree hugging sheepeople with Sierra Club stickers on their SUV's. And if that makes me a d-bag I'm perfectly content with that. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 5150 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: I don't give a rat's ass what any of those people think. People that study climate for a living have credibility though and they say global warming is real. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/ americas/01/19/eco.globalwarmi ngsurvey/index.html | ||
Detmsp Member Username: Detmsp Post Number: 86 Registered: 08-2008 |
who cares if carbon emissions are making the earth warmer or not. isn't the fact that burning coal and oil forces us to breath in filthy, cancer and asthma causing air and drink contaminated water enough to get people behind the green movement? | ||
Roq Member Username: Roq Post Number: 39 Registered: 02-2009 |
Quote: "I don't give a rat's ass what any of those people think. People that study climate for a living have credibility though and they say global warming is real." Now Pam, don't go clouding the argument with actual facts! ;-) and Gazhekwe, nicely said. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2087 Registered: 11-2003 |
One problem is that Al Gore is a Democrat. So, knee-jerk partisan Republicans automatically dismiss any message he has. Of course, knee-jerk partisan Democrats automatically embrace it, too. Either way, some people just aren't thinking openly. | ||
Scooter2k7 Member Username: Scooter2k7 Post Number: 226 Registered: 10-2007 |
I turned every light on on purpose. Global warming is not true. The earth has natural cooling and heating periods, just like the Pacific Ocean has a natural north/south flow that brings in warm water to the north. Forget the Prius, the GFL, the energy star crap. Its all a ploy and Americans being the sheep that they are followed suit. I'll keep my gas guzzling V8 | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 1260 Registered: 11-2006 |
and you'll pay for it. whether you believe in global warming or not, purchasing energy efficient cars, appliances, homes, etc is the right choice. It saves you money, the world energy, and certainly is better for the environment than driving your gas guzzler. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2088 Registered: 11-2003 |
Why would someone turn every light on, on purpose? | ||
Goose Member Username: Goose Post Number: 113 Registered: 02-2005 |
"Why would someone turn every light on, on purpose?" cause he's a member of the d-bag party.... any link to a "scientist" or "climatologist" website that says global warming is real can be rebutted with a similar credentialed "scientist" that says its bunk.... as for the notion of knee-jerk republicans vs. knee-jerk democrats either dismissing or embracing this theory respectively i say this: this "earth day" lights off is pure liberal symbolism over substance, turning off the lights last night did nothing to counter what may or may not be global warming, its purely a "look at me, im a flaming liberal that cares" statement that accomplishes nothing but giving the liberal a sense of doing something..... signed, goose - possible d-bag..... | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 1263 Registered: 10-2003 |
Lights on here. The globe is not warming. |
