Sydney in climate change blackout

[Jcrowley]

Source: CNN

Sydney in climate change blackout
POSTED: 8:00 a.m. EDT, March 31, 2007

• Sydney landmarks turn off their lights for an hour to highlight global warming
• Landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House thrown into darkness
• Residents also turned off the lights in event organized by environmentalists
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Australia's largest city dimmed on Saturday night as businesses and homeowners switched off the lights to draw attention to global warming.

The normally gleaming white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened, and so did the iconic harbor bridge and chunks of the city skyline. Security and street lights, as well as those at commercial port operations, stayed on.

Throughout the city of about 4 million people, residents turned off the lights for one hour in an event organized by environmentalists and supported by Sydney city officials, the New South Wales state government and thousands of businesses.

Restaurants throughout the city announced candlelight-only specials, and families gathered in parks and other public places to take part in a countdown to lights out, sending up a cheer when the switch was flicked at 7:30 p.m. local time.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/31/sydney.lights.ap/index.html

[eleny]

1. Wow - the sky got so dark. The stars must have been so much more visble

A nice gift to themselves. I wish they'd do that here in the Denver area. Can you imagine how the sky would look since we're up so high?

[Gloria]

2. Wonder what PM Howard said??

[Kolesar]

3. Do we need lighting of "landmarks" to survive? No.

So turn the lights off permanently.

[krkaufman]

4. Using candles as alternative lighting seems sorta anti-thetical. n/t