The worldwide event to call attention to climate change puts up its strongest numbers in the three-year history of Earth Hour. From the remote Chatham Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean to Sydney’s Opera House to the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building to Seattle’s Space Needle, lights dimmed for 1 hour in a symbolic call to change the Kyoto Protocol. It began over the remote Chatham Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean and from there-time zone by time zone-Earth Hour 2009 marched around the globe March 28, with hundreds of cities and communities and millions of individuals dimming their lights to call attention to climate change. In all, nearly 1,000 global landmarks went dark for an hour, including New York’s Empire State Building, Paris’ Eiffel Tower, the dome of St. Peters in the Vatican and the Christ the Redeemer statue on Mount Corcovado overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro. While Earth Hour sponsor World Wildlife Foundation did not have all the data yet, it predicted that participation in the third annual event exceeded 2008, when some 53 million people in 371 cities in 35 countries participated. The 2007 inaugural Earth Hour was limited to Sydney, […]