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  DXXJP at 07:17 AM JST - 30th March

  Yeah its all good in theory until they turn the lights back on. Um in case this guy didnt know some of the halogen lights used to light things up like monuments use more power on start up than they do running for the hour they were off.

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  adaydream at 11:33 AM JST - 30th March

  It's a start. There are so many that do nothing at all to conserve energy or resourses, maybe some people got the idea.

  We can hope.

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  jambon at 01:18 PM JST - 30th March

  "Sydney was the first major metropolis to mark Saturday’s Earth Hour, a self-imposed 60-minute black-out, with the lights on landmark buildings, corporate skyscrapers, businesses and homes switched off from 8 p.m."

  So they paid twice to fire up those fluorescent lights, eh? (I'll bet the aircraft beacons were not shut off.)

  Elsewhere in the news "Oceans are cooling." No one wants to believe / report it.

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  Taka313 at 05:19 PM JST - 30th March

  "No one wants to believe/report it."

  And it never occurred to you that there may be a reason for that.

  http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11664

  Taka

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  jambon at 11:37 PM JST - 30th March

  "A slight drop in the oceans' temperature over a period of five or six years probably is insignificant, just as a warming over such a short period would be. Yet if there had been a rise of any kind, even of the same slightness, rest assured this would be broadcast far and wide as yet another log on the global warming fire."

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  Taka313 at 12:34 AM JST - 31st March

  Ah.... So it's a conspiracy. Someone here at the old JT used to always ask how often those work out. I'm trying to remember who....

  Taka

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  Taka313 at 12:44 AM JST - 31st March

  "While there is still some doubt about precisely how much the oceans have warmed, they are warming. In particular, there is a strong warming trend from the 1990s onwards – just as the models predict."

  Taka

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  Taka313 at 12:44 AM JST - 31st March

  "The fact is that there is an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community about global warming and its causes. There are some exceptions, but the number of sceptics is getting smaller rather than growing."

  Taka

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  Taka313 at 12:47 AM JST - 31st March

  "Conspiracy (noun): a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

  If you believe that tens of thousands of scientists are colluding in a massive conspiracy, nothing anyone can say is likely to dissuade you. But there are less extreme versions of this argument.

  One is that climate scientists foster alarmism about global warming to boost their funding. Another is that climate scientists' dependence on government funding ensures they toe the official line (pdf).

  It has taken more than a century to reach the current scientific consensus on climate change (see Many leading scientists question the idea of human-induced climate change). It has come about through a steadily growing body of evidence from many different sources, and the process has hardly been secret."

  Taka

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  Taka313 at 12:48 AM JST - 31st March

  "Under pressure

  As for the idea that scientists change their tune to keep their paymasters happy, under the current US administration many scientists claim they have been pressurised to tone down findings relating to climate change (see US fudging of climate science details revealed).

  Indeed, those campaigning for action to prevent further warming have had to battle against huge vested interests, including the fossil-fuel industry and its many political allies. Many of the individuals and organisations challenging the idea of global warming have received funding from companies such as ExxonMobil.

  That in itself does not necessarily mean that the sceptics are wrong, of course. Nor does the fact that most scientists believe in climate change necessarily make it true. What counts is the evidence. And the evidence – that the world is getting warmer, that the warming is largely due to human emissions, and that the downsides of further warming will outweigh the positive effects – is very strong and getting stronger.

  Finally, perhaps the most bizarre conspiracy-related claim is that the journalists covering science have an interest in promoting global warming.

  Journalists do have an interest in promoting themselves (and their books), while their employers want to boost their audience and sell advertising. Publicity helps with all these aims, but you get far more publicity by challenging the mainstream view than by promoting it. Which helps explain why so many sections of the media continue to publish or broadcast the claims of deniers, regardless of their merit."

  Taka

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  outhousejt at 03:38 AM JST - 31st March

  This is a feel good non event for the ignorant masses. What environmentalist does not want to tell you is that the world has been hotter than it is today. Even before there was such thing as Green House gases in this world. Remeber that the earth is not 100 or 2000 years old but much older than that. Ever since the people started using the Gregorian Calendar we have lost touch with the bigger picture. In contrast the Mayans were able to calculate an age by looking at the sun stars. An age was 5125 years. The age that we are in will end 21 December 2012. Then we will enter a new age which will last 5000 years. If you caompare the climate that we are in the past 5000 years the earth has not been especially warm.

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  outhousejt at 03:47 AM JST - 31st March

  I meant to say. If you look at the earth of today it is not warmer now than it was 5000 years ago. It is believed that the earth started getting warmer from about 1700s. If the earth has been getting warmer the past few hundreds of years then it is natural that some of the ice does melt from the poles. Any hysteria including the Golbal warming hysteria is easy to jump on and we take things for granted without much thought.

  When that said. I do believe that having an awareness and taking care of the earth to be a positive step.

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  jambon at 08:57 AM JST - 31st March

  I didn't see North Korea as a participant.

  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark.htm

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