Earth Hour 2010 - Did you miss it too?

Mission, History & Earth Hour 2010
Earth Hour 2010 aggressive an estimated one billion people, organizations, corporations and governments to appear calm and yield a able attitude adjoin altitude change. Starting in New Zealand and afterward the sun about the globe, Earth Hour asked anybody to do something absolutely simple—turn off the lights at 8:30 p.m. bounded time. Just one hour for an individual, and 24 hours for the accomplished world.

In the U.S., area the furnishings of altitude change are added apparent, it acquainted acceptable to vote for activity with a ablaze switch, concealment lights at home and watching iconic landmarks from the Las Vegas Strip to the Empire State Building go dark. Here, Earth Hour’s bulletin hit home: We affliction about this country and wish to about-face off the lights on bedraggled air, alarming assurance on adopted oil and cher altitude change impacts; and accomplish a about-face to a cleaner, safer and added defended world.

Keep Up the Momentum
Now that Earth Hour 2010 has been declared a aural success, what’s next? There’s plan to be done. Explore the website to apprentice added about the analytical issues and how you can accomplish a claimed difference. The toolkits appearance you how to advance the chat and get involved, including arch an Earth Hour accomplishment in your community.

Spark a Movement
Launched three years ago, Earth Hour has become a all-around phenomenon, and its non-partisan access to bond activity use and altitude change has captured the world’s imagination. Staying complex will advice anniversary of us transform the Earth Hour accident into a full-fledged movement.

Jembatan Es Antartika Pecah

Gimana jadinya kalau pulau-pulau di Indonesia terendam air?

Yaiks! Itulah salah satu akibat jangka panjang dari pecahnya jembatan es yang menahan beting es berukuran sangat besar di Kutub. Yang lebih parah lagi, pecah satu pecah seribu!

“Ilmuwan meramalkan pecahnya satu beting es kemungkinan akan mengakibatkan makin banyak beting es yang pecah berkaitan dengan pemanasan global. Menurut David Vaughan, ahli glasiologi di British Antartic Survey, efek dari pecahnya beting-beting es di Antartika akan berujung pada kenaikan permukaan air laut global. Vaughan juga menekankan penyebab utama terjadinya bencana global ini adalah perubahan iklim, meski hubungannya nggak sepenuhnya jelas. Wew! Siap-siap belajar berenang nih!

Gambar satelit diatas, yang diambil oleh European Space Agency (ESA), memperlihatkan jalur es sepanjang 40 kilometer yang dipercaya mempertahankan Wilkins Ice Shelf tetap berada di tempatnya telah putus di tempat paling sempitnya, dengan luas sekitar 500 meter, di lepas pantai Semenanjung Antartika.

"Sungguh membingungkan bagaimana es itu dapat pecah. Dua hari lalu, es tersebut masih utuh," kata David Vaughan, ahli glasiologi di British Antartic Survey kepada Reuters, saat menjelaskan citra satelit mengenai Wilkins Ice Shelf. "Kami telah menunggu sangat lama untuk melihat ini."

Pecahnya jembatan es tersebut meninggalkan sejumlah gunung es terapung yang sangat besar dengan bagian atas datar di laut. Hilangnya jembatan es itu, yang memiliki lebar hampir 100 kilometer pada 1950 dan telah berada di tempat tersebut selama sedikitnya ratusan tahun, dapat memungkinkan arus samudra menghanyutkan lebih banyak bagian Wilkins Ice Shelf.

Temperatur di Semenanjung Antartika, yang merembes ke arah Amerika Selatan, telah naik sebesar 3 derajat Celcius (5,4 derajat Fahrenheit) dalam 50 tahun belakangan, tingkat pemanasan global paling cepat di Bumi Belahan Selatan.
Akibat pemanasan global, reaksi Kutub Selatan terhadap pemanasan akan melewati jalan panjang guna memastikan langkah kenaikan permukaan air laut global.

Wah, semoga saja ngga makin parah pecahnya es diantartika. Kalau semakin parah, bisa-bisa Indonesia bisa jadi lost country hehehehe (yach, jangan sampe dech)....

Turn Off the Lights For Earth Hour 2009 on March 2009

Earth Hour is a global climate change initiative by WWF. Governments, business and individuals turn of their lights for an hour to support action on climate change.

Earth Hour is symbolic event where people around the world are encouraged to turn off their lights for one hour to show support for action on climate change. Millions of people around the globe turning off our lights together demonstrates that individual efforts, when taken together, add up make a big difference and can be as easy as a flick of a switch.

Earth Hour is a WWF event and it began in Sydney, Australia in 2007. It was such a huge success that in 2008, WWF decided to make Earth Hour a global event and its been growing ever since. In 2008, millions of people in hundreds of cities in more than 30 countries turned off their lights for Earth Hour.

WWF created Earth Hour to help show people how they can be a part of the climate solution and use that participation to show government that people are taking action for the planet and want that same leadership from local and national governments.

Through Earth Hour WWF can mobilize millions of people as a global cry that action is needed now to stop the climate crisis.

As an international conservation organization WWF is uniquely positioned to tackle climate change because we can work with all the necessary players - individuals, business and government - to achieve results.

Why Everyone must be participate?
Climate change is the most urgent environmental issue facing our planet and every one of us has a role to play to help stop it. Earth Hour is an easy and powerful way to send a message that you care about your planet and want to be part of the climate solution. More importantly, it sends a very powerful message to government and world leaders that people want the right policies and regulations put in place that can achieve the meaningful emission reductions necessary to help fight climate change.

Turn Off the Lights For Earth Hour 2009 on March 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009 was the day the world's most efficient. Because on this date the incident happened very useful result for us and our children and grandchildren later.

WWF Earth Hour urges people around the globe to turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28, 2009 between 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Earth Hour is a global effort to bring awareness to the dangers of global warming and climate changes. Individuals, business and governments are being asked to turn off the lights for one hour in support of Earth Hour.

So far, 538 cities in 75 countries have committed to turning off their lights in support of the light-out campaign for Earth Hour 2009. WWF is hoping that there will be 1,000 cities signed on by the end of March.

Some of the world's most famous landmarks with participate in the lights-out campaign, including:

1. Eiffel Tower in Paris
2. The New World Tower in Hong Kong
3. The Merlion in Singapore
4. The Christ the Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro
5. Table Mountain in Cape Town
6. Sydney Opera House in Australia
7. CN Tower in Toronto
8. The MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas
9. Adia Building in Abu Dhabi
10. Burg Dubai
11. Federation Tower in Moscow, Russia
12. The Alhambra in Grenada
13. Burg al Arab in Dubai
14. Tapei 191
15. Millennium Stadium in Cardiff
16. Atomium in Brussels
17. National University in Singapore
18. Sky Tower in Auckland
19. Auckland Harbour Bridge in Auckland
20. Helsinki Cathedral in Helsinki