London lights out for environment

[Barman]

More ecobabble...

The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus were among London landmarks plunged into darkness to raise awareness of global warming.

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It?s amazing this ? they turn the lights out for an hour to encourage the rest of us to make permanent changes to our lifestyles. Everybody has to sit at home shivering and trying to read by the light of a single 20W bulb while all these landmarks will still be illuminated.

It would be far more impressive if, instead of this ridiculous stunt they actually did something positive like announcing that they were using new, low energy technology or closing the commons bar to save energy. Fat chance.

But you can rely on the BBC to use ?standard? units of measurement to explain everything. 

Organisers said if Londoners were to have switched off their lights, the city would save 380 tonnes of CO2 in just one hour, enough to fill more than 2,000 double-decker buses or the Royal Albert Hall twice.

Meanwhile, on the same web site?

China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said.

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He said there was no point blaming China for rising global CO2 emissions.

So China can build two coal-fired power stations per week and increase its CO2 emissions by 9% last year and we?re all going to balance that out by switching a couple of lights off. 

[Snoopy]

More ecobabble...

The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus were among London landmarks plunged into darkness to raise awareness of global warming.

Source

It’s amazing this – they turn the lights out for an hour to encourage the rest of us to make permanent changes to our lifestyles. Everybody has to sit at home shivering and trying to read by the light of a single 20W bulb while all these landmarks will still be illuminated.

It would be far more impressive if, instead of this ridiculous stunt they actually did something positive like announcing that they were using new, low energy technology or closing the commons bar to save energy. Fat chance.

But you can rely on the BBC to use ‘standard’ units of measurement to explain everything. 

Organisers said if Londoners were to have switched off their lights, the city would save 380 tonnes of CO2 in just one hour, enough to fill more than 2,000 double-decker buses or the Royal Albert Hall twice.

Meanwhile, on the same web site…

China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said.

So China can build two coal-fired power stations per week and increase its CO2 emissions by 9% last year and we’re all going to balance that out by switching a couple of lights off. 

Source

He said there was no point blaming China for rising global CO2 emissions.

Have you nothing better to do? Cleaning the pipes, swilling out the cellar or something a little more productive than reading this rubbish. You know it only raises your blood pressure.

By The Way ~ How many football pitches equals 2000 double decker buses, were they using Routemasters or these new fangled things that are supposed to hold more people and thus presumably more CO2 or the open topped variety used to show off the FA cup and transport tourists around London and would thus release half their load of CO2 into the atmosphere? You see .... all that information and it is meaningless without the correct context.

[Barman]

Have you nothing better to do? Cleaning the pipes, swilling out the cellar or something a little more productive than reading this rubbish. You know it only raises your blood pressure.

It puts me in the right mood for kicking undesirables out? 

[Darwins Selection]

Have you nothing better to do? Cleaning the pipes, swilling out the cellar or something a little more productive than reading this rubbish. You know it only raises your blood pressure.

It puts me in the right mood for kicking undesirables out? 

Did somebody call?

[Grumpmeister]

Just out of interest was this done to the whole of London? No street or house lights, too dark for CCTV, would have been a chav's paradise

[Barman]

Just out of interest was this done to the whole of London? No street or house lights, too dark for CCTV, would have been a chav's paradise

Crime figures were not mentioned!

[Grumpmeister]

I wonder why......... 

[Misunderstood]

Just out of interest was this done to the whole of London? No street or house lights, too dark for CCTV, would have been a chav's paradise

I expect they'll want to do it during the day to prevent such worries.