EARTH HOUR 2009





Take note!
Local time, 8.30pm
Wherever you live on planet,
Saturday, 28th March 2009.


I'm sure those peoples who do net surfing,
watch tv programmes should know about it.


Well,
the first thing running through my mind,
why switch off the non-essential lights & electrical appliances
for ONE HOUR??


Let me ask you this.
Hustle bustle life of today,
When is that we do not have any lights/electrical appliances switch on?
ALL THE TIME!
ONLY we don't have chance to switch it on when blackout.


In Wikipedia,
the decrease usage of electricity by 73.34 watt for 1 hour in Bangkok,
cut down 41.6 tonnes of CARBON DIOXIDE!!


Hey, that's for only 1 hour!!
We human destroy our earth by relying too much on technology.


Here's some photos I grabbed for google,
credit to the owners of it.
Before & during Earth Hour.







Earth Hour is international event created by WWF.
fyi: it's World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund,
not the World Wrestling federation.


VOTE THE EARTH!!
Everyone, turn off lights/electrical appliance
off for one hour please!
Even google will be homepage will be blackened!
Help to reduce the power consumption.

If you have them on, you are VOTING FOR GLOBAL WARMING.


And I have to agree too, climate changed a lot nowadays.
Share the short stories from earth hour website.



Climate Witness: Vladilen Ivanovich Kavry, Russian Federation

Shorter periods of sea ice
The ice-forming period now lasts for about a month,
which is longer that before.
The ice now breaks up a month earlier than before.

Many of the people in my village have experienced
the ice fields melting that used to last all summer,
and there is no more old ice left here.

Polar bears
The bears depend on sea ice to get to their prey,
mostly seals and without sea ice their hunting ground is shrinking.

The polar bears cause problems because
they come looking for food in the village and
often attack the sled dogs.




Climate Witness: Penina Moce, Fiji

The sea is slowly eroding the coastline
We used to catch enough fish in the shallows.
But now we have to go further out,
and the women are spending longer in the seawater.
Fish used to bite quickly –
now we can spend more than an hour
in the seawater before we get a single bite.

The fish are often tiny. Barely enough for a meal.
One of our great delicacies, the gera shelfish,
is now very difficult to find.
Another thing we’ve noticed is that the
sea is slowly eroding our coastline and
spreading the sand over our fishing grounds.
The seagrass beds have also spread quickly,
clogging up the natural flow of water
within the fishing grounds and burying the coral.


It's so true! I was at Permai beach for day trip last Monday.
The sea really covered up the beach.

Before





Now







Climate Witness: Gung Qiu Lai Jia, China

Water source is disappearing
Some 20 years ago when I first moved here,
the rivulet in front of my house was about a foot deep.
There're a couple of springs upstream,
which used to flow water all through the year.
In rainy season, the water would rise in the rivulet.
It provided all the water for both local residents and yaks.
However, in recent years,
the water level has been decreasing in the stream.
And the springs upstream have long stopped flowing.
If there's no rain for a long period,
as it happens more and more often these days,
the rivulet will dry up.


Changing rainfall patterns
The rainfall pattern has also changed in recent years.
It used to rain continuously in the wet season each June.
The drizzle would go on for more than a month and swell the rivulet.
Now, such rainfall has disappeared;
instead there often come sudden showers,
which cannot replenish the stream and
will only make the water muddy and undrinkable.
As a result, now we have to store rainwater in summertime
so that we can have something to drink in the dry season.
In the winter, we have to fetch ice from the lake
and melt it at home for water.



Hope this stories help to increase the awareness of global warming.
Visit the website, www.earthhour.org


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God bless you.