Earth Hour: Preview of things to come

This Saturday, cities around the world will shut off power at major public locations for one hour to show solidarity with the global warming alarmists.

The World Wildlife Fund is sponsoring the event, which is being promoted as a symbolic gesture promoting efforts to fight global warming.

(The fact that we just recently finished the coldest winter since the 1960s apparently has not cooled environmentalists’ enthusiasm for half-baked ideas.)

The more level-headed among us will see this as a highly symbolic event: There will be a lot of blackouts in the future if we rely more on intermittent power sources such as solar and wind and restrict oil use in a misguided effort to kill the global warming bogeyman.

Now that so many metropolises have announced plans to shut off the power for an hour, it may be interesting to see if crime goes up while liberals are making a statement. …

Best plan for Saturday night: lock the doors, stay inside and light a fire before it’s illegal.