Saturday, March 29, 2008
COLD AND DARK
A form of Gore Effect struck Melbourne’s anti-warmening Earth Hour:
More than 1000 people braved the chill and the rain to see Premier John Brumby and Lord Mayor John So lead the countdown to 8pm.
According to the same Age report, perhaps a few more turned up to watch football:
Of course not everyone switched off. Across at Telstra Dome perhaps 40,000 fans watched the floodlit clash between Carlton and St Kilda, the decision made for safety reasons.
To play in the dark or not? That debate must have raged for hours. More on AFL and Earth Hour here.
UPDATE. An Earthian has his say: “The kids who ran past my house yelling at my neighbours to turn their lights off though, well Earth Hour means plenty to them.”
Yep. Bossy little kids are like that.
UPDATE II. The Age predicts:
From something that started modestly — Sydney hosted the inaugural Earth Hour last year — it has blossomed in ways even its organisers weren’t expecting. Across the globe, Sears Tower in Chicago, the tallest building in the US, fell dark. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco turned its lights off.
Note the past tense. As I post, it’s morning in SF and just after midday in Chicago; several hours prior to the Great Unenlightenment.