REMEMBER: Turn off the lights!

French green groups call for national lights-out on Feb 1 (Fri Jan 19, 9:33 AM ET)French environmentalists have called on citizens to switch off their lights for five minutes on February 1, coinciding with a major meeting here on climate change, to show concern about global warming.By turning off lights and also electrical gadgets that are in stand-by mode, "citizens, the media and decision-makers will get the message about energy waste and the urgent need for action," the Alliance for the Planet said on Friday.The scheduled event is for 7:55 pm and 8:00 pm (1855-1900 GMT).The Alliance for the Planet is an umbrella of about 50 green associations, including the local branches of Greenpeace and WWF, and professional organisations connected with the environment.The UN's paramount scientific authority on climate change meets in Paris from January 29 to February 1 to hammer out the first volume of a long-awaited report on the state of global warming today.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is widely expected to declare that climate change is already on the march, many years sooner than expected, and the consequences for humans and biodiversity could be dire.The volume is to be released at a press conference on February 2.The other two follow in April, dealing specifically with the effects of climate change, coping with those impacts and the possibilities for reducing the fossil-fuel pollution causing the problem.View the article:p241.news.mud.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070119/sc_afp/unclimatefr...1. Turn off the lights on February 1st from 7.55 to 8.00 pmCreated with fd's Flickr Toys.