By Susannah Rosenblatt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 29, 2007
Following San Francisco’s lead, Los Angeles County and city officials are urging people, businesses and government to switch off nonessential lights for one hour next month to save energy.

Led by Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke and City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, the proposed effort asks Angelenos to simultaneously go dark between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, as San Franciscans do the same. Local officials are expected to vote on the plan next week.

What’s the point?

Nonessential lights, aren’t they a waste of time to be on in the first place? That’s like having nonessential employees. If they are nonessential, why have them?

“This effort is really about public education,” Greuel said. She hopes it will encourage people to “think twice about leaving the kitchen light on at night.” She estimates the hour of darkness could cut energy use across the county by about 10%.

The idea is to show people that a simple action can affect climate change and global warming, said Brian Scott, director of operations for the Lights Out effort in San Francisco and nationwide. “It’s not this insurmountable thing,” he said. “Wherever this message can get out, it’s a good thing.”

Since when does turning the light out effect global warming? That’s a bunch of crap leftists want to propagate because they figure the more they say it, it will eventually be true. But no matter how much they say it, they can’t be anymore incorrect. This global warming, climate change “awareness” is nothing more than a political ideology designed to extract money from our pockets.

It is proven, CO2 does not impact climate change, but climate change impacts CO2. Al Gore just fudged the charts just a little bit to make his movie, but the science isn’t there.

Although officials still are finalizing which public buildings will join in the voluntary blackout, possible candidates include City Hall, the county Hall of Administration, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, DWP headquarters, the Port of Los Angeles and the multicolored pylons at Los Angeles International Airport.

“I think it will have a big visual impact,” Katona said.

I wonder how many people will really notice, or care for that matter.