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'''Earth Hour''' is a campaign created by the [[World Wildlife Fund]] <ref>[http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2009/03/you-oughta-know.html You oughta know about Earth Hour]USA Today</ref> to promote the awareness of [[Global Warming]] by turning off lights for an hour on March 28th at 8:30 p.m. local time. The campaign enlists individuals, businesses and governments to do their part to save the planet. It is heavily promoted in nations such as [[New Zealand]] and the [[United Kingdom]].
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'''Earth Hour''' is a campaign created by the [[World Wildlife Fund]] <ref>[http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2009/03/you-oughta-know.html You oughta know about Earth Hour]USA Today</ref> in conjunction with the [[Sydney Morning Herald]] to promote the awareness of [[Global Warming]] by turning off lights for an hour on March 28th at 8:30 p.m. local time. The campaign enlists individuals, businesses and governments to do their part to save the planet. It is heavily promoted in nations such as [[New Zealand]] and the [[United Kingdom]].
    
==Al Gore==
 
==Al Gore==
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==Reality==
 
==Reality==
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Work with the lights on creates more wealth and alleviates more hardship than laziness with the lights off does. Earth Hour does nothing meaningful for the planet. Anthropogenic global warming has not been proven and currently, the globe is in a cooling phase.
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Work with the lights on creates more wealth and alleviates more hardship than laziness with the lights off does. Earth Hour does nothing meaningful for the planet. Anthropogenic global warming has not been proven and currently, the globe is in a cooling phase. It has also been revealed that the campaign was heavily promoted by the [[Sydney Morning Herald]] so that it could sell more newspapers.
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==References==
 
==References==
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