Flicking The Lights Off

Earth Hour Parody

Why do we have so much trouble listening to Science?

"It's as if scientists know a bomb will go off, but can't find the right words to warn the people who might be able to defuse it." - Marlowe Hood

Read the article Climate change blues: how scientists cope from the Vancouver Sun.

Earth Hour March 28th, 8:30

"Earth Hour is a symbolic event. Turning off our lights for an hour won’t stop climate change but it does demonstrate that our individual action is important and adds up to make a big difference. More importantly, it sends a very powerful message to government and world leaders that people want policies and regulations put in place that can achieve meaningful emission reduction to help fight climate change."

Read more at Earth Hour Canada.

Climate scientists warn of "irreversible" climate shifts

CNN reports "The world is facing an increasing risk of "irreversible" climate shifts because worst-case scenarios warned of two years ago are being realized, an international panel of scientists has warned.

Drought, flooding, storms and mass extinction in the future will have a heavy social cost as well.
Temperatures, sea levels, acid levels in oceans and ice sheets were already moving "beyond the patterns of natural variability within which our society and economy have developed and thrived," scientists said in a report released Thursday.

The findings came at the end of a three-day conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, where nearly 2,000 researchers gathered to discuss climate change."

Read full article.

The Great Tar Sands Debate

MUENSTER, ST PETER’S ABBEY – Michael Hall, Rm 101 Sunday / March 15 / 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.  Doors open at 1:00 pm
5 miles east of Humboldt, south side of Hwy 5 – use Parking Lot C For more information: please call Elaine Hughes (306-323-4938)
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SASKATOON – Broadway Theatre – Broadway Ave. between 10th & 11th Streets Sunday / March 15 / 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.   Doors open at 6:30.
For more information: please call Nayda Veeman (244-0034).
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SASKATOON – Uof S – Rm 241, Arts Bldg.
Monday / March 16 / 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.    Doors open at 3:00 For more information: please call Shannon Dyck (966-6970) ======================
 
SASKATOON – McNALLY ROBINSON BOOKSTORE – 8th St. at Circle Drive Monday / March 16 / 7:30 p.m.
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PRINCE ALBERT  - Cuelenaere Public Library – 125-12th St. E.
Tuesday / March 17 / 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Doors open 6:30 For more information: please call Rick Sawa (306) 922-3851 / (306)
961-7894
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NORTH BATTLEFORD – Chapel Gallery – 203 - 891 – 99th St.
(note:  this is the only location with a 7:30 pm start time) Wednesday / March 18 / 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.   Doors open at 7:00 (Going west toward the River, take the last left hand turn off South Railway Ave.) For more information: please call Reid Stewart (446-4512) ==========================
 
REGINA – U of R – Education Auditorium
Thursday / March 19 / 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Doors open at 6:30 (enter campus on Kramer Blvd.  Education Auditorium is about 3 blocks in, on the left.) For more information: please call Don Narine (527-4566).
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MOOSE JAW – MJ Public Library
Friday / March 20 / 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  Doors open at 11:30 For more information: please call Larissa Shasko ( 692-7925 / 684-3463)

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SWIFT CURRENT – Great Plains College
Friday / March 20 / 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.  Doors open at 3:00