{"id":19059,"date":"2013-03-22T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19059"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:27:53","slug":"its-time-for-the-annual-earth-hour-charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/its-time-for-the-annual-earth-hour-charade\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for the annual Earth Hour charade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Hour arrives every year towards the end of March. Celebrities like Yoko Ono, Stephen Fry and Cate Blanchett endorse it and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">trendy Anglican dioceses<\/a>, having mislaid the Creeds, exhort their faithful to submit themselves unquestioningly to the replacement eco-dogma.<\/p>\n<p>This is enough to put off any normal person but, for those still tempted to turn off their lights tomorrow and ignite a few high toxicity candles, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2013\/03\/22\/bjorn-lomborg-the-whole-idea-of-earth-hour-is-not-too-bright\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hypothetically, switching off the lights for an hour would cut CO2 emissions from power plants around the world. But, even if everyone in the entire world cut all residential lighting, and this translated entirely into CO2 reduction, it would be the equivalent of China pausing its CO2 emissions for less than four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Earth Hour will cause emissions to increase: As the United Kingdom\u2019s National Grid operators have found, a small decline in electricity consumption does not translate into less energy being pumped into the grid, and therefore will not reduce emissions. Moreover, during Earth Hour, 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.<\/p>\n<p>And the cozy candles that many participants will light, which seem so natural and environmentally friendly, are still fossil fuels \u2014 and almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs. Using one candle for each switched-off bulb cancels out even the theoretical CO2 reduction; using two candles means that you emit more CO2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Hour arrives every year towards the end of March. Celebrities like Yoko Ono, Stephen Fry and Cate Blanchett endorse it and trendy Anglican dioceses, having mislaid the Creeds, exhort their faithful to submit themselves unquestioningly to the replacement eco-dogma. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/its-time-for-the-annual-earth-hour-charade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[2032,2111,2122],"class_list":["post-19059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-hour","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-earth-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}