Dimming the planet from space?

Have you received this email yet? It's a good excuse to wrap up in several woolly jumpers, get out of the house (turning everything off before you leave), climb a hill and watch some fireworks. No doubt some bright spark is going to tell me that Katherine Wheels aren't actually very eco-friendly. But you can't win them all.

"You are invited to take part in the largest demonstration of People Power that London has ever seen on Saturday 4th November 2006, by turning off all your lights, and switching off all your non-essential electrical equipment at Sunset.

The principal cause of Global Warming is the rising Carbon Dioxide emissions
into the atmosphere from the burning of Fossil Fuels, for electricity
generation, transport, manufacturing, industry, space heating and air
conditioning.

For one day in November, we are asking everyone who receives this message to
think about what they can turn off, switch off and unplug, to show support.

We want the power demand in the United Kingdom to reduce so much that the
newspapers are obliged to report it.  We want the lights to go out in
London, so that on the evening of 4th November 2006, the dimming effect will
be visible from space.

If  you are at home, switch off your set-top boxes, pull all the chargers
out of the wall sockets, turn off lights in any room you are not using,
switch off any machine with a digital clock in it, unplug the hi-fi and the
TV and the games console, de-frost your freezer, switch off your fridge for
a couple of hours. Turn the central heating thermostat down to 16 degrees
and put a woolly sweater/jumper on if you're cold."

Comments

[Peter Richards]

Re the question in last Saturday's Times about what to do with unwanted audio cassettes. The Torch Trust for the Blind uses large quantities of audio cassettes, many of which go to third world countries and are listened to many times over by blind and partially sighted people. The Trust receives thousands of unwanted cassettes, which are wiped clean and re-recorded with magazines and books. The Trust can be contacted at their offices in Market Harborough 01858 438260 email: info@torchtrust.org Web: www.torchtrust.org

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