Boston buildings, landmarks to go dark tonight for Earth Hour

Please keep these fools away from the Boston Garden - the East Regional finals will be going on during your "Earth Hour" - what a gimmick.

How are all of the lights possible "non-essential"?
Are we supposed to sit in the dark?

I'm turning on all of my lights at 8:30 pm!

I'll be turning on every light in the house at 8PM, the pc, oven and anything else electric I can put my hands on to protest the whackos of the World Wildlife Foundation.

There's an elite eight basketball game on and you want me to turn my lights out for these moonbats. You're outta your mind!!

To protest all of this global warming anti-science, lets all turn on all of our lights for the same hour to counteract the moonbats turning theirs off. We can also get in our SUVs and pickup trucks, and drive down to the local ice cream stand to get a cone.

What a great way to celebrate Moonbat day.

What a bunch of hogwash, turn off your lights moonbats. I bet it will make you feel the same way you did when put Deval in charge. RECALL!

Ummm...you guys aren't required to do it you know. Nobody's telling anyone to sit in the dark. I think the real "moonbats" are overreacting here.

What a joke. Was this thought up by President NObama and Governor Devalue Patrick?

WOW. posters 1-5 you really have not a care in the world do you? i mean obviously sports.. but nothing with any soul apparently. nothing that actually matters in the grand scheme of things. imagine if the world got so warm we couldn't freeze your hockey rinks. or there was no fuel to air condition your basketball stadiums. you people have one track minds and its all focused on you. very selfish.

It didn't take long for those wingnuts posters to come out of their caves and rant on this board when hearing about Earth Hour and global solidarity against climate change... I hope you all feel the same way when our environment is polluted and wasted (which we are headed towards, if we don't take collective action).

I think the same jerk keeps posting with different accounts. He/She needs to get a life.

Not only will I turn on all my lights, I plan on eating a big bowl of chili. My dog will have some, too. Our carbon footprint is gonna be humongous.

Smart comments. Get a battery powered radio and listen to the game for an hour without having the announcers spoon feed you on TV. You might actually get more out of the game...

All comments & writers prior to me are completely incompetent.

enough said.

How can anyone possibly object to a symbolic show of support to reduce energy consumption? Amazing that you would pick to "protest" saving energy. Oh, and yes AP, you're supposed to sit in the dark. Or light a candle. Or go for a walk outside. Shocking, I know.

Really? Moonbats? That's mature.
If you don't want to participate in Earth Hour then fine, but really? Is it that offensive to you that some people want to be a part of a symbolic gesture which a lot of people put time and resources into conceiving and promoting to show the effect that human beings and technology have on a planet that is slowly dying.
And not everyone cares about college basketball. Considering the millions around the world who have and will participate in Earth Hour, I don't think anyone's really gonna notice if you watch a game instead. So chill out. This can in no way hurt you.

As far as I'm concerned, those of you who think that this is a waste of time and want to protest it by turning on all your lights, are nothing more than a bunch of uneducated, selfish, half-wits. Get a life.

You want to know what the company I work for did? They had the janitorial staff circle every floor and close all the blinds Friday night. Total fraud. I'm even willing to bet a picture of the building is shown as a great example of the company going green. Nothing accomplished, no trees saved. People who literally did nothing will pat themselves on the back.

Republicans suck.

I’ll be watching the Bruins on my 700 watt plasma screen with every light on in the house - including the garage and attic. Nuke a couple bags of microwave popcorn while I'm at it. Turn up the fridge to ice cold #8 for my Bud Lites.

And now that I think about it. My Christmas spotlights are still connected so I might as well fire those babies up too.

The libs can pound sand.

I'm sure criminals are loving the one hour of darkness to work with tonite.

It's painful to see such cynical comments about Earth Hour. I'm hoping there's a silent majority who sees the symbolic gesture as a valuable first step to a global effort to reduce our carbon-based energy consumption.
Actually, for my part, I want to see what Boston skies might look like with reduced light pollution.

I'm turning off all of my lights and hoping to see a few stars extra stars in the sky.

Don't worry Steve. The purpose of Earth Hour is to get people thinking about their habits and the consequences of them. Some people are so entrenched in their habits that they will never change. Fortunately they are a small (but obviously sometime vocal) group. Folks we've got some work to do if we're going to turn this around - and turn our couch potato, burger munching, SUV driving, zombie tube watching culture into a productive, creative, healthy and sustainable one. Let's get to work!

In addition to turning on all your lights, why don't you idiots also burn some tires and throw some old fluorescent light tubes into the water supply? Science is for suckers.

I'm turning ON everything in my house. Al Gore made millions while he lives in a compound and flies on private jets, sickening.

Come on Republicans, sure it's funny reading your comments on how you're going to bump up your electric bill by turning on all your lights, but so far I only hear you blaming liberals for caring about the environment. Where are all the comments about how it's race or sexual orientation related? If I don't see something soon I'm going to have to go back to checking the AOL bulletin boards to get the laughs :)

Symbolic value? That adds up to zero. If you really care about energy use, change the way you live every day, every hour. This Earth Hour nonsense is nothing but a distraction.

While you're at it, try making every day an "Earth Day" and cancel the date in April. It's just an excuse for WBOS to run a promotional concert anyway.

Enough people think its a good idea, bringing a good part of the world together. It's a great time to spend with family. i love power outages. If we all thought alike, what a boring world it would be, that being said, i wonder where all the rage comes from in some of these comments. Take a deep breath and have a good night.

I cannot believe that everyone is complaining about Earth Hour. Just think if you turn off your electricity for one hour the less pollution there is and how much cheaper your electric bill will be. For that one hour get away from the TV and Computer talk to your family and your children, play a game, ask them how they are doing. Go for a family walk.

To Steve the astronomy teacher, be assured: everybody does not subscribe to the cynicism of those people! I think the Earth Hour is kind of contrived and silly, but I do not denigrate the attempt to illustrate the principle. Don't worry, the naysayers are just letting off steam, and most people will see it for what it is: a symbolic gesture. Of course, much more is needed, and indeed I hope the night sky darkness will improve when we do reduce ALL the lights.

I can't figure out if some of these comments are just to ruffle feathers or if you really believe that this simple act of symbolism won't send a message to all the leaders of the world? And what is really wrong with at least trying? All I know is, I want this planet to be around long after my grandchildren's grandchldren. Would you really be out anything by participating in something like this?? I can spend this hour on this night, taking a walk with my children and my family or just talking. I don't understand why people are so afraid to disconnect the t.v, the computers, the phones, ect. for an mere hour?! My hope is that my children are concerned with the future of their planet. Thank you.

i guess the losers who were inside their homes at 3:30 this afternoon were available to make their comments. I was outside enjoying the weather. Man, to be cooped up inside today......LOL

I agree with comment 21. For all of my life, I've never seen Boston without lights. For all of you who care more about basketball than your environment, i feel sorry for you; i hope you realize that your comments are going to be read by everyone who sees this, and that everyone who reads it will wonder who the selfish jerk is that put in comments 2, 3, 4, etc. Whoever you are, I would strongly consider changing your mind, because many more people agree with the hour of darkness, and this gesture, than you who don't. Btw, enjoy the chili, #11.

Wow! There really are some major whiners out there...I bet they don't vote either. I, for one, am proud to be part of a global protest. Turning out your lights for one hour is no big deal & shows the worlds politicians that people care what happens to our earth...so go turn out your lights! Vote for the Earth.

All I can hope is swimmerkennedy has a beach-side property. Once winter storms start to threaten that, helped by rising sea levels, I guess he'll be screaming for insurance to compensate him for the lost value. And mocking us for paying.

Meanwhile, I'm sure glad I don't have to live with this person - what immature nyah-nyahnyah-nyah-nyah threats.

Last year I arrived at a friend's house for the weekend & found the household in darkness. We spent the hour in conversation with our friends by the light of candles. It was fun & made a point. I will observe the hour at home this year in Ramsey, NJ with my husband.
I agree with Steve. Why are you so cynical? Complaining for complaining's sake?

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
"When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves."
"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."

Its a good idea that should be implemented once a month.

Just do it and stop complaining. What a bunch of babies that are suppose to be adults. I am sitting in the dark right now even before this starts.....What a bunch of major whiners that have nothing else to do but complain about anything unless it involves their selfish lives......

I can't believe how many of us are so selfish that we cannot give up one hour of light. I wonder if Las Vegas will turn off some of their lights.

I have one word for poster #8. Punctuation. What are they teaching you at BC? How to be intellectually and physically lazy? Good luck getting a job.

When the government controls your thermostat we will have plenty of Earth Days, every day.

There are alot of whiners tonight. I am in the dark burning a hershey candle

Get a life and go green

Ohh, look at me, I am a good person, I turned off my lights... I also have 5 different colored plastic bracelets to show I care about all the fashionable causes... I also have a lawn sign to show I care about Darfur.. oh and those bad, bad, republicans... they are so mean and selfish. What a bunch of feel good nonsense. They reading something besides the Globe and watch something besides SNL. Think for yourself for a change.

This farce makes as much sense as when the Mayor serves Thanksgiving dinner. I guess the homeless starve 364 days waiting for this show of 'support'. Going dark for an hour perpetuates the junk science Al Gore is trying to sell. If we were immortal and could live 2 or 300 years we'd se that weather is cyclical and mans egotistical influence amounts to a pea (pee) hole in the snow. Well, what ever rocks your boat

Old Milwaukee Light

OK buddy. Just don't threaten people who do turn off their lights.. Just stay calm. Don't hurt anybody.

There is no global warming...excuse me, climate change. It is a scam.
What you see here is a successful symbol from the extreme antihuman cultists who really DO want the cities to go dark forever.

Celebrate human achievement. The ability to drive back the night with fire, then with electric light is what separates us from the animals.

Turn ON your lights. A dark planet would be death. Jewels of cities from space are life.

Neanderthals sat and watched as world evolved away from them. Mired in their old ways, they could not adapt to a changing world and they became extinct. Sad that today's Neanderthals have the capacity to bring the evolved down with them.

What pisses me off is that if modern science is wrong and they are right, then worst case scenario is that economic growth might -- and I stress might -- be a little less, and our standard of living might be a little lower than maximum consumption possibility. However, if modern science is right and they are wrong, the worst right and they are wrong, the worst case scenario is that we as a society don't do anything about global warming and the world is rendered uninhabitable for humans.

The whole point is to condition you to having power rationing, so you accept having a lower standard of living. Wake up to the agenda...CO2 makes plants grow and they in turn make oxygen for you fools to breathe...The more CO2 the better. The sun makes it warm or cold not gasses...the worst greenhouse gas is H20...lets ban that.

This is not a left or right issue this is a people against banker issue...like everything. Stop fighting with each other.

Looking forward to a candlelit dinner, seeing some extra stars and thinking about my great grandparents. Well done the organizers. Let's roll.

Its the massive intention that counts, not the massive impact. The true impact is on the minds of those who believe its important and make the effort.

The rest of you will never have a clue- and thats ok. Its all good!

Its a great gesture, but the reality is that turning off the lights only makes a difference in the carbon footprint if power companies turn down the power plants to compensate for the lack of power consumption. Something that can be accomplished on a smart grid.
The point is that although turning off the lights has good intentions, the better way to go would be to write to Congress and the newspapers to promote investment in more efficient energy infrastructure...or even more simply, to use time to walk to the store and buy an energy-efficient light bulb.

Hi, everybody.
My household's going to participate. And as to those who will "protest" against Earth Hour by jacking up their power usage, I say just ignore them. They're probably only trying to get a reaction, like naughty little kids. If not, their malice makes them look foolish, as they'll probably realize when they look back on their "demonstration" against whatever they think they're demonstrating against. If nothing else, maybe it lets a few overstressed people let off some steam by ranting instead of driving badly or beating up on their families. Ya never know, :>

sophie08 , your candle is producing more eeevil greenhouses gases than having all the lights on in your house would for several hours.

This is so asinine. Are people really this stupid and jingoistic?

Oh, right. They are. Look who they elected President. Mister Teleprompter who is destroying the economy with the amateur league.

I'm sure this will make all the arrogant, self-important "I'm saving the world!" types very warm and fuzzy inside. Newsflash, though. The world couldn't care less if you have your lights on, off, or you flicker them to achieve both. You're not saving the world from an increase in a degree of Celsius in the Antarctic. You're just sitting in the dark in a vain attempt to feel like you're doing something.

Want to be useful? Join the Peace Corps, donate to charities that actually have a direct influence on people, spend time at a homeless shelter, or something. This nonsense with global warming is just an excuse to push a carbon tax. You're actually making the future worse for people. Not better.

Let me see, crooks have an hour to rape some women, steal stuff, and kill a few enemies before the lights come back on. I think the next time we need to shut the lights off for a longer period of time.

This is what we all need...a common cause and good idea to help the earth. I would be willing to do this an hour once a week, not just tonight.

To all who are protesting the protest against global warming by watching your basketball game(s).... you're attitudes are certifiably "non-essential."

Poor vein popping conservatives. The annoyance of people they deem as lower than them making a positive gesture. Must drive them crazy to know that most do not have their high blood pressure and condescending attitudes.

Have a nice evening.

I am not much for symbolic gestures. Why don't they just turn off all the lights illuminating the exteriors and caps of buildings permanently? No one is even going to notice.

I think many of the rabit right-wing posters here have missed something: Earth Hour just asks that you turn off all your lights for one hour tonight, NOT that you refrain from using any electricity at all. It allows using your computer, watching TV, etc, if you are so inclined to do so. Ain't no big thing and should not put anyone out too badly, I would think. Snuggle up with your honey and do what pleases you - just do it in the dark. :-)

Why is everyone so angry? Regardless of ideology, or what you think about CO2 and the atmosphere or Obama or Exxon - what could be bad about an event intended to promote less consumption and more efficiency? Scientists, politicians, economists, laypeople - we should be looking for points of agreement instead of dissention... I am going to cut my lights off now.

God it's pitch black- I'd move to NH if I wanted to live like this!

It is so sad to see so many people afraid of the dark. I thought people outgrew that when they turned, say, 8?

Those who say they are turning all the lights etc also seem to be afraid of the dark and being targets of crime -- but they may well be the best targets that hour since they are the ones that criminals can clearly see the bit flat screen TVs from a far distance away and make an easy target ... Idiots!

While this stunt might raise awareness, do you folks realize that unless the power plants shut down - no effect to the planet will occur? The power that is produced is AC current - which currently cannot be stored for later use - so any electricity that is not used is wasted - so every light that does not burn which all this electricity was made to be used, causes more damage to the planet than if it was turned on. So don't worry I'll turn on every light I can so we don't waste the power that is created while the rest of you waste it.... Enjoy!

I pay for my electricity. Who benefits from my lights not being on? This makes a statement all right...a stupid one!

8:30 - Lets see who has the lights off in my neighborhood........Just the folks with the two volvos who are always sueing everyone. Figures.

Nova 54, Pitt 51 for all of you who shut off your electicity!!

Earth Hour?? Global warming is so important and so dangerous to the survival of man that we give the earth a whole hour??? What a joke. And you are all hypocrites - after the Earth Hour is over you will all go back to your CO2 belching habits anyway.

Can the global warming jihadists come up with ANYTHING that makes sense in combatting the dreaded danger? Carbon trading and caps?? Last time I checked, trading is not reducing so that will not acheive anything. KYOTO - same story. At least the UN is honest and tell us that Kyoto means re-distribution of power technology, jobs and energy. Obama's carbon tax - a drain on our economy with NO IMPACT ON GLOBAL WARMING.

Man made global warming - a junk science hoax. Take your Earth Hour, feel good about yourself and then start saving money for when you lose your job because of this self-destructive insanity.

I did have to laugh when I read the Mayor's suggestion to break out the board games. Ahhh, hello, how are you going to play board games in the dark. Gimme a break. Sorry, I agree with lots of people on here, it's all a fraud.

It's 9:20. Obama can turn his tellie prompter back on.

My girlfriend burned her hair on a candle in the bathtub... enough said

We turned off our lights! My 5 year old ran around the house with a flashlight and pointed to the LEDs, then my husband and I unplugged. It was great. The house was peaceful and quiet. We could actually hear ourselves think. I see no problem doing this. What's the big deal? BTW, we started at 7:15 and didn't know what time it was until 9:15, so we counteracted one of the many "happy" plugged-in posters who was protesting.
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PS For all you negative dudes, don't worry, I think we were the only ones on our street unplugged!

its amazing how close minded peoples comments are. Any bashing on a political party over "earth hour" is insane. Want to hear something crazy????? I am a republican, well really independant, but I believe in being fiscally conservative, and I care about the environment. To call someone a democrat, or a moonbat, because they are trying to help the future of the planet is what is really crazy. Get over yourself!!!

If you can't stand to have your lights off for one hour, how do you sleep at night??

Scrabble by candlelight, a bottle of '05 Bordeaux, some pate, and cheese with the person I love. Life was good tonight. Thanks Boston.
B & K from Weymouth

So a symbolic hour outrages people - especially college sports fans. Are these same people outraged at the poor graduation of these athletes? And we who support this symbolic hour are moonbats? My grandnephew attends Villanove so I am cheering for them - but - what does that mean fot the future of this world???? Nothing!!!! What does a worldwide hour without lights men? Maybe nothing. Maybe a few people's consciousness will be raised. If so, it will be worth it. Slainte

Symbolism over substance. And control of the sheeple by media hype. Chapter one of the Democrat/Socialist playbook..

SamS said,"Is it that offensive to you that some people want to be a part of a symbolic gesture which a lot of people put time and resources into conceiving and promoting to show the effect that human beings and technology have on a planet that is slowly dying."

How much Kool-Aid did it take to turn you into mush?

Go Bonas said, "Republicans suck."

Yeah. We just like freed the slaves and pushed through the Civil Rights Act. No biggie.