They will all be at Tim Hortons, its Roll up the Rim time. Timmies won’t turn off the lights for one minute, or the coffee pots.

I’ll bite:

“Our dependence on fossil fuels is fuelling climate change”…How pray tell?

“deepening human rights abuses around the world,”
I don’t see how my use of ac and gasoline leads to human rights abuses….

and Lastly what in the Sam Hill is “social justice”?

“Exploit the bees” – in all honesty, vegans would likely object to beeswax candles! They don’t eat honey, either. I agree the whole “Earth Hour” idea is an exercise in futility.

The idea of vegans and environmentalists duking it out over the issue of beeswax candles just brightened my whole day, though.

100-mile diet at a Coffee House in Canada? even the name of the event seems to reduce that to ridicule.

Tomorrow night seems like a great time to try out my new floodlight for my American flag. It will commemorate “Human Achievement Hour.”

I was thinking “Well, all right, they could use candles for lighting”. But isn’t Canada cold this time of year? It’s still dark and cold over here at half past eight in the evening, so if the churches turn off heat and light, people will be frozen.

And you North Americans seem to have this weird habit of socialising in the church – how are they going to boil the water to make the coffee for the Coffee Hour? Bonfires? Chop down a couple of trees? Coal fires?

Noooop… No coffee… Remember the 100 mile rule…
Looks like willow bark tea and moose for dinner!
(Moose is a vegetable, isn’t it?)

Turn off the heat for a day in some places in Canada and you will find the pipes have frozen, there is water damage everywhere when the heat comes back on (in the case of radiator heating it won’t come back on cause the system is wreaked) and the insurance company is canceling the policy because you are all a bunch of lunatics and you have forfeited any claims for repairs.
Sure saved a lot of energy did you? Wait till you have to make those repairs. Fans, heaters, dehumidifiers and trucks and guys working like beavers to put it right against one day of fossil fuel costs don’t balance out. Have fun.

1. Really smart people have de-bunked the global warming/climate change MYTH.

2. Notice – they do not talk about spiritual matters like *fasting* and *prayer* or practical things that will make a difference, like *staying home* and *turning down the heat*.

There is a real need for the English language to develop new words for people like this. “Morons,” “idiots,” “fools,” “meatheads,” “no-brainers” – none of these seem adequate anymore, even with very choice expletives added. Thanks for giving the time schedule – I’ll plan to have every light on and turn up the heat during this period. Will also go out and drive around aimlessly for awhile. If these “new English word” want their conciousness “raised,” transport them back in time to my grandparents farm for the thirty years or so when they made a hard living, while raising nine children, without electricity or gasoline-powered vehicles or equipment until REA came along. That ought to make these “new English word” run home and turn on the lights! What complete idiocy!

If you turn off the heat for one hour, you won’t freeze in most places, but when you turn the furnace back on it will need to replace all of the energy lost during the shutdown to the outdoors. So the net gain is zero.

Turning down the heat by 2 degrees permanently or using 2 degrees less air conditioning permanently will save energy. We do it to save money.

There is a real need for the English language to develop new words for people like this. “Morons,” “idiots,” “fools,” “meatheads,” “no-brainers” …

Donald, I think the appropriate name for them is “earnest.”

They will earnestly switch off the hydro-electrically generated electricity (which adds no CO2 to the atmosphere), and light instead a dozen candles (which of course burn to CO2 and O2).

“The pressure group has also urged churches to use beeswax candles rather than petroleum-based candles in their special services, and has posted worship service resources on its website.”

I thought candles for liturgical purposes had to be beeswax anyways – or is that just us Papists?

Dave – you’re right! No tea or coffee because not within the 100 mile limit!

Hmmm…I’m trying to figure out what a “100 mile diet” would be here in Laramie, Wyoming (USA). Probably antelope steak and sage brush tea.

Without trucks, most of Wyoming would be uninhabitable.

I would like to see these yo-yo’s try to survive on the 100-Mile Diet. Yeah they will make noises like that, but I will guarntee you not one of those bozos will be really honest about it.

“Kairos has called on Canadian Christians to dim non-essential lights for one hour at 8.30 p.m. local time on March 28…

So…what? Were going to have a bunch of dim bulbs up in Canada? Just the new news, please.

There’s gotta be a joke in there about many Canadian churches taking a dim view of Jesus’ teachings, because they have decided he is a non-essential Light of the World.

Michael D: “Earnest” isn’t bad, although I would take it phonetically to mean a whole room of dopes behaving with the mindset of the legendary “Ernest” character from movies. As to the “100-mile Diet,” at first I thought it referred to being a long way from a restroom in Mexico, but finally got it, so I thought about its application here in mid-Nebraska this time of year. I would probably be limited to dry grass, such as a rabbit was eating in the front yard today, and muddy, left-over water from an irrigation ditch. MMMMMMMM! Of course, I could try to run down a cow and kill it, skin it, dress it and cut it up with my bare hands and then cook it over a fire I made by rubbing two sticks together,(I know, I know, releases CO2, but “really rare” is not my preference.) but I think I’ll pass and just head to the fridge. While I’m there, might turn it to “really cold” in honor of these dopes up north.

Wall Street Journal offers a great response:

Reader, if you are against global-warming hysteria, high taxes, socialized medicine and a weak foreign policy, Sunday is your day. Show how you feel about the issues by turning on your lights in the evening and leaving them on until you go to bed. If you go out for a drive after dark, make sure you turn your headlights on too.

If no one will listen to the silent majority, let’s at least make sure they see us.

Is it too late to get my two bits in on the new name for these “Earth Hour” advocates? I would suggest using that wonderful Eastern Canadian term “Frigged” as in “frigging in the rigging”, a saying dear to those east of Toronto.

Out here in Cactus Flat, the 100-mile diet means to try not to drive more than 100 miles to a restaurant.

I thought the beeswax candles were just higher quality than the lousy parafin ones. We don’t have a lot of bees here, neither.

I can’t wait to get home tomorrow evening. When I will turn on all my lights, both TVs, both computers, my electric piano, load up the dishwasher, run a load of laundry, and grill an Argentine steak in my electric oven.

I wonder how many folks will injure themselves by stumbling over something in the dark during “Earth Hour,” resulting in ambulances burning fossil fuels to transport then to hospitals which most likely won’t dim their lights.

Then again, this is Canada we’re talking about. Who knows?

Well, like the sailors say on the USS Constitution,
“Frigate.”

(Yeah, they probably say, “No friggin’ in the riggin’” too.)

I wouldn’t be laughing at Earth’s righteous anger if I were you. According to a theologian cited and praised this week in a pastoral letter by the Bishop of Niagara, Earth has a voice and, in the struggle for justice, actively resists injustices done to it by humans. So if I were you and not celebrating Earth Hour, I’d stay inside and not go wandering around any ditches or sinkholes.

Both Earth and the Universe in general resist injustices done to them by idiots, which is the purpose of sinkholes, quicksand, mudslides, flooding in floodplains and the effects of combining hair dryers and bathtubs.

I spent my “earth hour” on the computer with my lights and stereo on. Besides, today was about ten degrees colder than normal around here, and I understand parts of the Plains are getting slammed by a major snowstorm.

Kate at Small Dead Animals has been running a series of suggestions on what to do, including:

International Clean-Your-Oven Hour
Great Canadian Air Conditioner Stress Test
Timmy’s Drive Thru Appreciation Hour
Save the Hummer Canada Pledge Drive