Just one question:
If everyone turns out the lights... are the generating facilities going to throttle down the generators?
If not... turning the lights out won't make much difference.

Wow, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will certainly be joining with the other 1 billion people with any eye, and a conscious, to the future and be turning off all of my power. You should do the same.

Please do not confuse short term fluctuations in climate with long term climatological trends. The earth IS getting hotter. Just because you experience a few unusually cold weeks, snow in New Orleans for example, it does not mean that global warming is BS. In fact, odd weather anomalies are a side effect of global warming. It is occurring. The sooner you, and others who share your opinion, accept this FACT, the sooner we can all start to do something about it. The longer it takes for you to come around, the worse the ultimate effects will be.

However, I guess you may be able to take solace in the idea that ultimately, it will not be you who has to deal with the ultimate effects. It will be your children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren who will be shouldering this burden for you. I for one on the other hand ,can not and will not take solace in passing the effects of global warming on to future generations.

I'll turn my lights off...

But I may have to burn a few tires to help me see since the lights are out.

Honestly?
No

Hey how about we run our own separate experiment?

March 28th is 2 days after a new moon, so it might be tough.
But lets all fire-up big fat multiple-hundred watt floodlights, and spotlights.
Aim them at the moon, see if we can brighten up the shadowed portion!!
There will only be a few minutes before it sets that evening.

Lets do it!
Moon the Earth!

Originally posted by spacedoubt

Lets do it!
Moon the Earth!

Now that is genius! Everyone buy a million candle watt light, hell we might get some propulsion out of it!

I am kind of confused here mrwupy???

Please explain to me how you could feel so strongly against the billion watt turn off?

You seem to be a very caring and considerate person and to have a few minutes where we all attempt to make a stand hardly reminds me of the msm and their quest to dominate the weak minded. hell the weak minded wont even hear about the effort.

What really gives?

Originally posted by antar
I am kind of confused here mrwupy???

Please explain to me how you could feel so strongly against the billion watt turn off?

You seem to be a very caring and considerate person and to have a few minutes where we all attempt to make a stand hardly reminds me of the msm and their quest to dominate the weak minded. hell the weak minded wont even hear about the effort.

What really gives?

Hello my friend, long time no talk. It's good to hear from you again.

I'm not a big believer in global warming.

I grew up with the scare of the coming ice age, the coming nuclear war, the Radon gas that was killing us all, the swine flu, H5N1, mad cow desease, lead in paint, the constant threat that something, somewhere, was out to kill us all.

I just got tired of living in fear.

If you can read these words I can promise you only one thing, one thing that you cannot avoid.

You are going to die.

Letting people scare you with threats of what might happen will take away from what you can make happen in your life.

Yes, I believe we should recycle, I believe we should do what we can to make the world better for our progeny, but I won't live in fear of what the nutcase new fad says we should be afraid of.

"The Earth is not something you inherit from your fathers, it's something you borrow from your children."

We should take care of it.

We should not live in fear of anything though.

Hello, there and thanks for posting this, and I hope that this becomes a success. And Ill do my part surely.

AWESOME!! I don't care what the agenda is about! I LOVE the night sky uninhibited by lights and therefore will be spreading the word so that maybe I can actually get a view as it should be! Many benefits to this that far exceed any agendas!

I have too many angry things to say about this Global Warming and Climate Change junk they keep brain washing the general populous with. So i'll just say this:

No, I am going to do what ever I want and turning off my lights isn't one of those things.

Originally posted by abecedarian
Just one question:
If everyone turns out the lights... are the generating facilities going to throttle down the generators?
If not... turning the lights out won't make much difference.

A star for you!

If you don't use the electricity, it is lost energy. Sure, the generators aren't loaded, but the fire in the furnace still rages on...

@OP: I contribute to saving the Earth every night when I sleep for around 8 hours. Does that count? One additional hour just to make a few environmentalists feel good won't make the slightest bit of difference.

[edit on 19-12-2008 by mirageofdeceit]

Originally posted by mirageofdeceit

@OP: I contribute to saving the Earth every night when I sleep for around 8 hours. Does that count? One additional hour just to make a few environmentalists feel good won't make the slightest bit of difference.

Oh now that extra hour of sleep is important. I go to bed each night at ten and get up each morning at seven. Nine hours of sleep and if I don't get it, I'm a grumpy crumpet.

I suppose this means I'm doing more to save the planet than you

Originally posted by mirageofdeceit

If you don't use the electricity, it is lost energy. Sure, the generators aren't loaded, but the fire in the furnace still rages on...

@OP: I contribute to saving the Earth every night when I sleep for around 8 hours. Does that count? One additional hour just to make a few environmentalists feel good won't make the slightest bit of difference.

[edit on 19-12-2008 by mirageofdeceit]

Come on! Ethical, cutting edge companies like Monsanto will turn the lights off as well, just to show their solidarity to the WWF and their ongoing support of the conservation of endangered species.