Update #1: Anthony Watts has more on Earth Hour and you can track the changes in California and other locations at WUWT.
As you recall, Earth Hour suggested that we turn off our lights for an hour from 8:30 to 9:30 this Sunday Night. Last year at earth hour the Steele’s and Rebane’s turned on all outside lights in defiance of the idea. Apparently we were not alone. According to the California power monitoring system, there was no dip in power usage last year.
Alan Caruba, writing at Warning Signs, notes that North Korea has an earth hour every night all year long.
And if the EPA continues to attack the coal companies we may be joining North Korea, with an earth hour day every night.
EPA launches new attack on coal industry, electricity consumers
“President Barack Obama’s overbearing EPA is holding hostage thousands of coal-mining jobs in Appalachia in order to protect an insect that lives for a day.
The EPA claims that trading jobs for bugs is part of its proper oversight role, but the evidence suggests that politics are at play. Environmentalists are a very important voting bloc for the Democratic Party, and they earnestly believe that coal is evil, despite the fact that it generates half of the country’s electricity. That’s why President Obama promised, while campaigning for the Oval Office, to “bankrupt” the coal industry. He has since unleashed the EPA to fulfill that promise. …
In 2008 over 49% of American homes were powered by coal. In 2006 is was 53%. Do you see a trend here.
H/T to Watts Up With That for the graphics, Warning Signs for the Korea photo and Heliocentric Climate Change for the EPA Story.
