Thursday, February 08, 2007
Support for Climate Change protest in the Canary Islands was absolutely undetectable
The decision, by thousands of citizens, to switch off lights and electrical appliances for five minutes between 19:55 and 20:00 last Thursday, to show their preoccupation for climate change, caused a fall in demand by around 2.5% of the usual figure at that time, according to the Spanish Electrical Network. However, sources at Unelco-Endesa in the Canary Islands say that the effects were "absolutely undetectable".
Far be it for me to speculate, but one of the reasons for this might be that we didn't know about it. Whilst I'd heard about the protest internationally, via the internet, I hadn't seen anything on local news. And, given the frequency of the times we've already gone without electricity, maybe we thought we'd already done our part?
Canarias no se 'apaga' contra el cambio climático
