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http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/commen...

It's called "Earth Hour" and it is intended to show us polluting, hydro-carbon addicted mortals the morally superior, Gaia-supported lifestyle of sitting around a peat fire in a mud hut in the dark after a hard day of root and berry collection, or something like that:

"The organisers will say never mind, this was about raising awareness (although not of raising awareness of the facts). But here’s the awareness it should raise: how difficult it is to get even a tiny cut in just electricity use for one lousy hour, in a country responsible for just 1.5 per cent of the world’s emissions.

And then think what the Rudd Government is promising: a 60 per cent cut in all emissions, all year. And it’s to be matched by every country around the world. "

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David Solomon, a finance PhD student at the Chicago University’s graduate school of business, crunched Sydney’s power figures to exclude seasonal and daily fluctuations, and concluded… “the drop in electricity use during Earth Hour is statistically indistinguishable from zero.