[Mike Renzulli]

I got an e-mail about a GREAT idea from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Text of it is below:

Friends,

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has initiated the celebration of ‘Human Achievement Hour’ (HAH) between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009 in response to and coinciding with Earth Hour, a period during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change.

Unlike Earth Hour, the purpose Human Achievement Hour is to salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible. Many organizations and average folks around the world will show their support for human achievement by simply going about their daily lives.

The celebration of Human Achievement Hour has already garnered sneers and criticism from some of those supporting Earth Hour—they have even had the HAH Wikipedia entry deleted. In spite of all this, we believe that it is important that people around the world participate with us in acknowledging the achievements accomplished by the human race.

Please check out these links to the great new video and other info below, and help us spread the word about HAH--and let’s utilize the social web to do so!


Thanks,

Gary Howard Jr.
http://cei.org/

This post has been edited by Mike Renzulli: 28 March 2009 - 06:21 PM

[Rich Engle]

The way things go, they'll do this lights out dealio and somehow it will make the whole eastern grid go down again. That would make interesting press.

rde
Keeps his lights on whenever he's in the 'hood.

[Chris Grieb]

Good for CEI. As I said take a look at picture of the Earth at night. The places that are dark are where nothing is going on.

[BaalChatzaf]

Chris Grieb, on Mar 29 2009, 06:56 AM, said:

Good for CEI. As I said take a look at picture of the Earth at night. The places that are dark are where nothing is going on.

Africa is a dark continent and Antarctica more so.

There was a lot going on in Europe from 1400 to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution but it would look very dark from space. Candles and oil lamps do not produce that much light.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Selene]

Folks:

Roger Revelle, Al "who should be" Gored's Harvard professor who enlisted and taught him about CO2 being a pollutant and major contributor to climate change/global warming retracted his theory, but ole Al, the kiddies pal will not debate any issues!

Does his movie "An Inconvenient Truth, based on falsified Evidence" rise to the level of being child abuse when forced to be shown in public schools?

http://www.brasschec...m/page/586.html

Adam

[BaalChatzaf]

Selene, on Mar 29 2009, 09:27 AM, said:

Folks:

Roger Revelle, Al "who should be" Gored's Harvard professor who enlisted and taught him about CO2 being a pollutant and major contributor to climate change/global warming retracted his theory, but ole Al, the kiddies pal will not debate any issues!

Does his movie "An Inconvenient Truth, based on falsified Evidence" rise to the level of being child abuse when forced to be shown in public schools?

http://www.brasschec...m/page/586.html

Adam

What is the major difference between physics departments and political science departments? In physics departments they have waste paper baskets.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Ellen Stuttle]

Selene, on Mar 29 2009, 08:27 AM, said:

Folks:

Roger Revelle, Al "who should be" Gored's Harvard professor who enlisted and taught him about CO2 being a pollutant and major contributor to climate change/global warming retracted his theory [...].

Roger Revelle never taught anyone that CO2 is a pollutant. He was a good scientist. He theorized that CO2 produced in the burning of fossil fuels might raise atmospheric temperature via a "green-house effect." 

Toward the end of his life he concluded that this theory was mistaken. There was then an attempt by Gore and allies to present Revelle as having become senile and being unduly influenced by Fred Singer.  There was even an attempt to claim that Revelle wasn't really the co-author of the Cosmos article he and Singer wrote, an article which concluded, "The scientific base for a greenhouse warming is too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time."  Singer filed successful libel suit against Dr. Justin Lancaster of the Environmental Science and Policy Institute, Harvard University.

Singer tells the story in Chapter 11 of Politicizing Science (link to advertisement).

A .pdf version of Chapter 11 can be found here.

An html version can be found here.

In a talk he gave at the Heartland Conference on Climate Change (which took place in NYC, March 8-10), John Coleman included some material he'd recently uncovered about Revelle's concluding that the AGW theory was a mistake.

You can access audio of this talk at the Heartland conference Proceedings website.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Coleman's talk is listed in the break-out session just before the final lunch session. It's titled "Dead Wrong about Global Warming: How Al Gore Got that Way."

Ellen

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[Selene]

Ellen:

Yes, I apologize, that was my assumptive conclusion. I misspoke.

Appreciate the correction and the links, I will utilize them effectively with the Goreists.

With apologies to John Norman.

Adam