Earth Hour - Hackensack residents, please participate!

[Hack72]

People all around the world will turn off their lights for 1 hour on 
Saturday, March 28th from 8:30-9:30pm. 
The organizers hope to have 1 Billion people participate. 
 
Participation in this event will be conveyed to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.  It is hoped that the leaders will see that the citizens of earth support the protection of our planet. Please read this link for more information and to download posters and other materials:  http://www.earthhour.org/about/
 
The Fairmount Environmental Action Team (F.E.A.T.) wants to invite all residents of Hackensack to join us in this far-reaching cause. 
 

[ramftbl]

The earth has actually been cooling since 2007.This year's record cold winter is just the "tip of the iceberg" as proof of this. I'm all for turning off lights when they aren't needed, but when American citizens will have to pay twice as much for energy under President Obama's "Cap and Trade" proposal, we need to stop and really examine what is going on. Higher energy costs based on an incorrect theory ! Very scary stuff...
The Antarctic continues to embarrass the prognosticators as it exhibits very strong sea ice growth. In fact the ice is growing by significant amounts (a total of 17% since 1979) and in direct defiance of the orders issued by the computer models.
For the month of December both sea ice extent and concentration were up significantly over 1979 (the first year satellite measurements were available for the full year), 17.3% for ice extent & 18.3% for ice concentration.
2008 had 11 out 12 months where Antarctic sea ice concentration was greater in 2008 than it was 1979. Many people like to point out that we're comparing the present with just one past year and perhaps that was an anomaly. But looking at Decembers past we found that December 2008 had more sea ice than 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1986. How can this be possible if the earth is warming?

[Hack72]

I'm afraid that is untrue.  The science behind the trend towards global warming as a result of increased CO2 in the atmosphere is virtually undisputed, despite the same outdated study that Rush Limbaugh quotes time after time. 

There is very little financial gain to be made by saving energy, and billions to continually be made by using fossil fuels in excess.  It is baffling to me that solar panels were being installed on homes all over California in the 70s.  Since then, technology has changed to an almost unrecognizable state, yet, solar sources are still under-studied and under-produced.  You can't sell sunlight, so no one is interested in it.  You can't sell wind, so no one is interested in windpower.  Oil?  Petroleum?  Now there are some money-makers.

Regardless of whether you accept that the warming trend is spiking (we're talking centuries here, not year by year), there is no denying that fossil fuels are a finite resource, so either way, conservation of energy, along with improving sources of renewable energy, is the sensible way to go.