Earth Hour 2016 – The Future Starts Today

Explaining Earth Hour: Why changing climate change begins with people

Marco Lambertini, 18 March 2016 (Earth Hour/World Wildlife Fund)

“2015 earned the dubious distinction of being the hottest year on record, but barely a couple of months in, 2016 seems to already be putting up a tough fight with January 2016 being declared the most abnormally hot month in history, according to NASA…[R]ecord hot years should occur once every 150 years. Yet 1998, 2005, 2010, 2014 and 2015 have all been record breakers. In 2015, the strong El Niño had a role to play, but scientists argue that, we would have set an all-time global temperature record even without any impact from El Niño…[The] impact of our activities and the risk to the health of global ecosystems as well as to the stability of our economic and social systems is vividly obvious…[But] I am awed by the scale of the possibilities this generation is facing to build a future that is in harmony with the planet. We simply need to follow science and pull together and Earth Hour is our time to do just that…[On March 19, at] 8:30 p.m. local time around the world, homes, offices and landmarks in countries around the world will switch off their lights for the tenth edition of WWF’s Earth Hour. As the lights turn off, people and communities will come together to shine a light on the climate action our planet urgently needs and the role society can play…” click here for more

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