Will
21-06-2010, 11:04
I heard this on the news driving into work this morning.
The crux of it is, they are wanting to keep GMT+1 but then instead of dropping back an hour to GMT, leave it throughout the winter and go to GMT+2 in the summer next year. It basically means it stays lighter in the evenings in the winter.
They list a few benefits being (http://www.lighterlater.org/benefits.html):
Cut at least 447,000 tonnes of CO2 pollution – equivalent to more than 50,000 cars driving all the way around the world – each year [1]
2 Save 100 lives each year and prevent hundreds of serious injuries by making the roads safer [2]
3 Lower our electricity bills by maximising the available daylight and reducing peak power demand [3]
4 Create 60,000–80,000 new jobs in leisure and tourism, bringing an extra £2.5–3.5 billion into the economy each year [4]
5 Reduce crime and the fear of crime [5]
6 Help make people healthier and tackle obesity by giving people more time to exercise and play sport outside in the evening [6]
7 Save the NHS around £138 million a year through reducing road casualties [7]
8 Improve quality of life for older people [8]
9 Make the nation happier – including reducing the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder [9]
10 Demonstrate that dealing with climate change can be good for the economy, good for people and good for society as a whole
Their website is here: http://www.lighterlater.org/
There's an article here too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10362295.stm
Just curious as to what people think? I think it means that for some places in Scotland they wouldn't get any light until about 9am in some parts.
Apparently they already trialed this after the war and another time in the past,. Do you believe the benefits? I believe the part about leisure and tourism, as if it stays light later people are more likely to be out and about later, and certainly it could reduce a lot of the SAD incidences we seem to get in this country...
I think it might be quite sensible, but then again I hate winter gloom so maybe a it biased!
The crux of it is, they are wanting to keep GMT+1 but then instead of dropping back an hour to GMT, leave it throughout the winter and go to GMT+2 in the summer next year. It basically means it stays lighter in the evenings in the winter.
They list a few benefits being (http://www.lighterlater.org/benefits.html):
Cut at least 447,000 tonnes of CO2 pollution – equivalent to more than 50,000 cars driving all the way around the world – each year [1]
2 Save 100 lives each year and prevent hundreds of serious injuries by making the roads safer [2]
3 Lower our electricity bills by maximising the available daylight and reducing peak power demand [3]
4 Create 60,000–80,000 new jobs in leisure and tourism, bringing an extra £2.5–3.5 billion into the economy each year [4]
5 Reduce crime and the fear of crime [5]
6 Help make people healthier and tackle obesity by giving people more time to exercise and play sport outside in the evening [6]
7 Save the NHS around £138 million a year through reducing road casualties [7]
8 Improve quality of life for older people [8]
9 Make the nation happier – including reducing the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder [9]
10 Demonstrate that dealing with climate change can be good for the economy, good for people and good for society as a whole
Their website is here: http://www.lighterlater.org/
There's an article here too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10362295.stm
Just curious as to what people think? I think it means that for some places in Scotland they wouldn't get any light until about 9am in some parts.
Apparently they already trialed this after the war and another time in the past,. Do you believe the benefits? I believe the part about leisure and tourism, as if it stays light later people are more likely to be out and about later, and certainly it could reduce a lot of the SAD incidences we seem to get in this country...
I think it might be quite sensible, but then again I hate winter gloom so maybe a it biased!