Tag: Earth Hour
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On Saturday, Switch off Earth Hour
FOCUS ON “REAL PROBLEMS” by Tom Harris, ©2020 (Mar. 27, 2020) — Rather than switch off lights to show their support for Earth Hour on Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 pm local time, the public should switch off Earth Hour. While the event has expanded from its original focus on the impossible goal of ‘stopping…
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Earth Hour Still Based Mostly on Propaganda
“AN INTENTIONAL DISTORTION” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Mar. 6, 2020) — The Earth Hour Web site tells us to “Switch off your lights for an hour on Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 8:30 pm your local time.” If this were just about saving energy to show our support of the 860…
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Deceptive Language Ruins Earth Hour
WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS “ENERGY HOUR” by Tom Harris, ©2018 (Mar. 22, 2018) — With Earth Hour being held around the world between 8:30 and 9:30 pm local time on Saturday, we are going to hear a lot about reducing ‘carbon pollution,’ ‘carbon emissions,’ and our supposed ‘carbon footprint.’ But this makes no sense.…
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Earth Hour Celebrates Ignorance, Poverty and Backwardness
ITS IDEAS WOULD SEND THE WEST BACK 100 YEARS AND KEEP POOR NATIONS IMPOVERISHED AND WRETCHED by Ross McKitrick, ©2015 (Mar. 31, 2015) — A few years ago, a journalist asked me for my thoughts on the importance of “Earth Hour” – which was reprised this past weekend. What I told him applies today, perhaps even more…