Earth Hour

Oh, boy. The enviro-nitwits are at it again:

This weekend, enviro-zealots will celebrate “Earth Hour” by turning off their lights. They’ve pulled this stunt for a few years now. But this time, they’ve added a new twist: “This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming.”

Here's an alternate idea:

Michelle Minton at the Competitive Enterprise Institute has a good proposal:

This week CEI announced the creation of Human Achievement Hour (HAH) to be celebrated at 8:30pm on March 28th 2009 (the same time and date of Earth Hour).

Our press release described ways people might celebrate the achievements of humanity such as eating diner, seeing a film, driving around, keeping the heat on in your home—all things that Earth Hour celebrators, presumably, should be refraining from. In the cheekiest manner, we claimed that anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings. Needless to say, the enviros in the blogosphere didn’t take to kindly to our announcement.

I don't know about you, but I plan to light my house up like it's Christmas during Earth Hour. Depending on the weather -- it's possible we'll have a blizzard with over a foot of snow...or maybe we'll get no snow at all; isn't it amazing that we 'know' the earth is doomed from climate change when we can't even figure out the snowfall 48 hours in advance? -- I may open up my garage and start my vehicles, too, just to let them idle during Earth Hour. One of them is a full-sized SUV, so that should be extra nice.

How will you celebrate?

There's my two cents.