{"id":3703,"date":"2009-03-31T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:54:47","slug":"un-participation-in-earth-hour-this-saturday-will-result-in-102-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER Global Warming\/Climate Change Update: UN participation in &#8220;Earth Hour&#8221; this Saturday will result in $102 savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,511102,00.html\"><font color=\"#810081\"><strong>FOXNews.com &#8211; U.N.&#39;s Participation in Earth Hour Is Full of Hot Air, Critics Say &#8211; United Nations<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p  _extended=\"true\" itxtvisited=\"1\">It&#39;s called Earth Hour \u2014 and among the places where the lights will go out are the Eiffel Tower, the Bird&#39;s Nest Stadium in Beijing, the Pyramids of Giza and Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p  _extended=\"true\" itxtvisited=\"1\">And, for the first time in the event&#39;s three-year existence, the New York headquarters of the United Nations will also go dark, a move officials say will save $102, a figure that fluctuated wildly from its whopping initial estimate of $81,000 when requested from U.N. officials. After the story appeared on FOXNews.com, a spokeswoman called back to say their estimate was incorrect and the savings was $24,000, but then called back a third time to say it was really $102. <\/p>\n<p  _extended=\"true\" itxtvisited=\"1\">Earth Hour \u2014 8:30 to 9:30 p.m in every time zone on the planet \u2014 promises to be \u201cthe largest demonstration of public concern about climate change ever attempted,&quot; U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOXNews.com &#8211; U.N.&#39;s Participation in Earth Hour Is Full of Hot Air, Critics Say &#8211; United Nations It&#39;s called Earth Hour \u2014 and among the places where the lights will go out are the Eiffel Tower, the Bird&#39;s Nest Stadium in Beijing, the Pyramids of Giza and Niagara Falls. And, for the first time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}