Is there a connection between Daylight Saving Time and global warming?

Answer 1

No. There is no connection.

Any given day has the same amount of hours of light. Day light savings time just moves it from the morning to the evening. So a day that has a sunrise at 6 am and sunset at 7 pm has 13 hours of daylight, We move our clocks forward so sunrise will be at 7am and sunset at 8pm. Still 13 hours of daylight. So there is no "extra" daylight to heat the earth. It is a time change only meant to give more daylight hours in the afternoon for recreation and leisure.

No, man's arbitrary calculations of time have no affect on temperature or solar isolation.

A:A given day has the same amount of hours of light. DST does not elongate the path of the sun, so DST itself does not have any direct correlation. But DST is contrived... by humans, who are unwittingly reacting physiologically to DST. In that regard, DST does have, at the very least, statistically significant negative impacts on global warming. Would you like to know how? Okay. :-)

Regardless of the love affairs that have sprung up between golfers, or shop-a-holics, and the glorious extra sunshine of DST, researchers have been screaming tapping Congress on the shoulder for years and saying, "Not so fast."

1. DST saves zero -- ZERO -- electricity. Humans use more electricity. Summers are officially hotter than HELL. The extra after-work hour we have, thanks to DST, means less sleep. People who are not asleep run their A/C colder and longer. We eat out more often, socialize at bars and restaurants more often, go out for a spin on the power boat more often, and frankly, get drunk more often in DST. [Just guessing about the "drunk" part; I'm right, though.]

As an aside, when sweaty human bodies are crammed into small establishments, the owners of those establishments run the A/C, which works much harder to cool. Drunk, sweaty people are even hotter. And drunk, sweaty people set the A/C to 55 and pass out in puddles of their own urine.

2. DST gives modern humans an extra hour slot on our calendar. Free time is the ENEMY to Modern Humankind. Consumers shop more (and all night long, at late-night and 24-hour retailers), drive more, and spend more money than they can afford.

3. DST -- most important of all -- affects our circadian rhythms and has been linked to fatigue, ill health, mental fog, auto accidents, and most importantly, obesity, all of which indirectly affect "global warming."

The above rant about the impacts of DST is not exhaustive. But to sum up, isn't it enough that DST negatively impacts us humans? Forget global warming. Robbed of our natural physiological rhythms, we will take care of the global warming part.