Can We End Global Warming By Ending Daylight Savings Time?

Question

That way there would be one less hour of daylight, and less time for the Earth to get warm.

Answer 1

Hey, maybe you're on to something. How about a couple of times a year, just as the sun's rising, we all switch our clocks to 9 p.m. so that we skip a whole day of sunlight, and then at 4 a.m., we all switch our clocks back to 8 p.m. so that our clocks don't get out of sync, but.... we've avoided warming the planet because we switched the time at night?
Problem solved!

Answer 2

The Mayans had a lot to say about time. We have a certain hubris to think that we know all there is to know. However they had at least 17 different calendars. Just one ended on a certain date. If you have even the smallest understanding of popular media today it may come to you that sensational news sells better than something that requires some understanding. And so when we put our modern touch on an ancient system understanding will be very hard to find. It is not likely to be found in shifting a few of our modern calendar dates around to try and match a date in one of 17 calendars. Rather the Mayans were discussing a transition. A period that started in the 1980's and will continue to a few decades from now. If you look up from your calendar dates and look around, you might get a sense of this. Satellites, Computers, media, and the internet have all changed our world in the same way that explorers made it smaller 500 years ago. These are only some of the most obvious changes. Other fundamental changes in politics and economics are not so obvious. You may notice a lot of using our overwhelming amount of knowledge badly. Change is its own form of destruction as what existed before disappears and the new takes its place. Hindu philosophy also embraces this in the recognition of three forces: creator, preserver and destroyer. You may be on the scent of a new understanding but don't get too wrapped up in the details. Sometimes what needs to be read is between the lines.

Answer 3

Not at all.

Daylight savings time is really so there is more apparent clock time after work to go to the stores and spend!!

But as pointed out, where you set your clock makes no difference in how much time there is sunlight on the earth. The only thing affecting that is all the wind turbines taking energy from the earth's rotation microsecond by microsecond...and making the days and nights equally teensy bits longer, so it still balances out!

Besides, History tells us we have not got a lot longer in this part of the warming-cooling cycle; soon we will start the slide to the deepfreeze, and may be sad we stopped the warming so soon!!

Answer 4

I like your thinking but why not wind the clocks back by 12 hours then there will be 12 hours less daylight, the sun will never come out and the Earth won't just stop getting warm but it will become really cold.

Answer 5

The whole idea of DST is making the most use of the Sun - free energy. It's a different world today, and may not be anymore advantageous.

Many people remember that Ben Franklin was the champion of DST here in the States. I came across this humorous, if not frightening anecdote about Franklin (Imagine if he were an Alarmist heading the IPCC - talk about loss of liberty!)

"To remedy this waste of both sunlight and candles, Franklin became the first proponent of government action to alter the hours of human activity to make the best use of daylight. Continuing in the whimsical yet practical vein of his letter to the Journal, he put forward a four-pronged "Economical Project":

1. Let a tax be laid… on every window that is provided with shutters to keep out the light of the sun.

2. Let… no family be permitted to be supplied with more than one pound of candles per week.

3. Let guards be posted to stop all coaches, etc. in the streets after sunset…

4. Every morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all the bells in every church be set ringing; and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in every street, to wake the sluggards effectively, and make them open their eyes to their true interest."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4572036

Answer 6

One less hour of daylight would be counter productive, Mr. Jello, as more resources would be needed to generate the electricity to light the darkened world.

But you don't believe in global warming anyway, so why even bother asking?

Answer 7

I realize that's an illogical troll question, but I'm for any excuse to get rid of daylight savings time.

Answer 8

Silly boy! Changing the clocks has no effect on the amount of daylight; just on how much of it you sleep through.

Answer 9

if you took away daylight savings it would be the same. if you add an hour here and take one away later it all balances out. like having a -1 and a +1 charge, they balance and become 0. its a good idea but there would be no difference.

Answer 10

Daylight savings time saves neither daylight nor time.