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gfloyd
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Is there some sort of experiment tonight where most of London's public buildings are turning off their lights between 9 and 10pm tonight?
Sounds like a burgulars idea of Christmas!
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PJ in Kent
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Ernie, it's probably another knee-jerk, hare-brained scheme intended to teach us all to conserve power and "save the planet" 
Give me strength... when will the peoples of the earth wake up and realise that "global warming" alarms are the biggest political screw-over of the populace in the history of mankind 
It's just another excuse to squeeze more tax out of us 'til our pips squeak!
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gfloyd
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a Canadian scientist was today predicting that global cooling is the real scare that we should be worried about. He claims it will start in 2020 and is linked to the periodic cycles of the sun's output.
Wont we look stupid if we stop producing Co2 and it starts to turn cold. 
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PJ in Kent
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Pass me a string vest
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| gfloyd wrote: | | Wont we look stupid if we stop producing Co2 and it starts to turn cold. |
All these new Chinese power stations will keep us warm.
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| I'm sure it was Errol Flynn plus someone else who persuaded th people in the Empire State Building to switch off the lights in a pattern to spell "F off", sometime in the 1930's. Wasn't there myself I hasten to add. |
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SantaFefan
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| Getting really fed up with this 'global warming' cr*p now what we do makes no difference while the Chinese are building power stations like they are going out of fashion. |
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Hi All .  .. back from my holibags! had a great time ... a picture or two coming next week. Been snowed under at work since Tuesday with meetings and more meetings ...... guess why? .....We're putting together a "Green Team" here at work, with the job of reducing the Organisation's Carbon Footprint. This new work is in addition to my everyday job. ( they must have noticed I never do anything) It was like that IBM advert yesterday.... so, I said, whose job is it to sort this lot out? A brief period of silence , a few clearing throats ... followed by, yours!
I guess I always wanted to be a trippy hippy sandle wearing lesbian:- now I can be!  |
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Briant
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Of course some of the planet's changes are cyclical, but why should we add to the problems?
It is a poor bird that fouls it's own nest! |
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| Briant wrote: | | It is a poor bird that fouls it's own nest! |
Why do that when you can drop it on someone's head!!
I'm still trying to imagine our Rachel at Stonehenge yesterday at dawn!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: Lights Off! |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | Is there some sort of experiment tonight where most of London's public buildings are turning off their lights between 9 and 10pm tonight? |
I'm surprised the capital's seemingly frail power system was able to cope with the surge when they all went back on again.
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PJ in Kent
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| Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | Briant wrote: | | It is a poor bird that fouls it's own nest! |
Why do that when you can drop it on someone's head!!
I'm still trying to imagine our Rachel at Stonehenge yesterday at dawn! |
I'm trying to imagine her as a trippy, hippy lesbian 
Hey I can dream, can't I? 
Good hols Rachel?
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| PJ in Kent wrote: | | Give me strength... when will the peoples of the earth wake up and realise that "global warming" alarms are the biggest political screw-over of the populace in the history of mankind |
Of course you might ask why it is necessary to have lights on in a building and all consuming electricity when there is nobody in there to use them. Or is that just too sensible a reaction? |
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gfloyd
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| firewirefred wrote: | | Of course you might ask why it is necessary to have lights on in a building and all consuming electricity when there is nobody in there to use them. Or is that just too sensible a reaction? |
For once I agree with you. They should be fitted with activity sensors that turn the lights off automatically.
However it is crazy from a public safety perspective to turn lights off in a city street area when there are many people about. Not sure if they actually did this or just switched off the floodlighting of public buildings last week. Anybody know?
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