When they swicthed off the dirty great floodlights lighting up the Parliament and Big Ben, they didn’t replace them with candles.

I have absolutely no problem with that aspect of Earth Hour (except perhaps that it doesn’t go far enough). My objection is specifically limited to the suggestion that people turn off their lights and burn candles instead.

If we’re going to crack this problem, we need to foster a deep understanding of the issues involved, and one of the key aspects of that is the ability to compare different forms of energy use.

As for the “bastard Catholics” as you put it, the candles are the least of my problems with that lot…

I find it odd that when Amnesty were using dubious statistics as a publicity stunt to raise awareness about violence against women, practically everybody was agreed that this was A Very Bad Thing which weakened AI’s credibility, yet when the WWF are encouraging people to actively waste energy to raise awareness about climate change, that’s perfectly fine because it’s just a publicity stunt.

I still think that switching off your highly-efficient (and hopefully renewably-powered) electric lights in favour of burning petroleum by-products in the least efficient way possible is a fundamentally stupid way of raising awareness about climate change.

Oh, yeah… I totally trust you to explain that to my kids. And you missed the word ‘youngest’. Children come in different ages and our *youngest* found the fuss of getting by on candles for an hour to be most illuminating (pun intended). The youngest also just happens to be young enough to need a night light and old enough to think that maybe they can do without it.

(BTW, you may also want to have word with those bastard Catholics, lighting all those candles for no good reason. Because the candles are all there is to it.)

Dunc might like to pop around to my house and count how many electricities we don’t use over the next month, purely as a result of the youngest discovering (at last!) that electrical light isn’t free and most switches don’t turn themselves off.

And it took this to get that message through? Well, I don’t have any kids, so I generally try not to criticise other people’s parenting, but… Really?

I still think that switching off your highly-efficient (and hopefully renewably-powered) electric lights in favour of burning petroleum by-products in the least efficient way possible is a fundamentally stupid way of raising awareness about climate change.

I’m a Warmist. Mmmm. Makes me sound all cuddly and snuggly.

Soviet era labelling – indicative of the insecurity of warmist dogma.

The term “climate change” was introduced as an exit strategy, by warmists who have realised that “man made global warming” simply isn’t going to happen; “I never said that! – I said it would *change* the climate..”

I rather like it: it draws attention to the problem it’s concerned with in a dramatic and effective way. It might well be self-congratulatory, but so’s a demo, isn’t it?