French Shut Off Eiffel Tower, Saves the World

Just to show their dedication to stopping global warming, the French will shut off the lights on the Eiffel Tower...for five minutes:

Even the Eiffel Tower is out to save the planet.

On Thursday evening, as scientists and officials put finishing touches on a long-awaited report about global warming, the Paris landmark will switch off its 20,000 flashing light bulbs that run up and down the tower and illuminate the French capital's skyline.

The Eiffel Tower's lights account for about 9 percent of the monument's total energy consumption of 7,000 megawatt-hours per year.

The five-minute blackout comes at the urging of environmental activists seeking to call attention to energy waste _ and just hours before world scientists on Friday unveil a major report Friday warning that the planet will keep getting warmer and presenting new evidence of humans' role in climate change.

This move is symptomatic of the whole global warming argument. Meaningless gestures like this make the warmies feel all fuzzy and teary-eyed, while accomplishing absolutely nothing.

Plan ahead now for Friday's onslaught of Chicken Little reporting as the UN issues their scare report which promises us all a toasty future. You won't hear much if any opposition to the UN report, nor will any alternate theories of warming be offered (like this one). It'll be a hysteria festival.