Light Polution Petition

[umadog]

Please check out this website and sign the petition. It's something we can all do.

Fix the MLO

[rfdesigner]

I'm unfamiliar with the details of the various bodies etc, being UK based, can someone more in the know fill in the who's who on this, it appears very serious and I'd like to sign, but as a professional electrical and electronics engineer I feel I must know exactly what it is I'm signing here.

DErek

[umadog]

Many of those who have signed are not US based, as it happens. I wasn't able to get much more info from the site. Maybe I missed a link.

[iamjulian]

Sounds like some kind of internal disagreement over how to move forward with the US dark sky campaign. I'd have to read the other side of the argument before I could make a decision over who is correct.

[umadog]

That's what I thought when I read the first bit, but later sections appear to be related to conflict of interest with the lighting industry. The section on uplight and lumen allowances seem reasonable. I too would like to see the other side, however. There are comments up there which you can read.

[umadog]

Bump.

I would once again encourage people to sign this. It may be US-centric but could well have global implications and others from non-US countries are signing. Additionally, we should show solidarity.

The disagreement alluded to by Jullian reflects the fact that the lighting industry wants to make things brighter and the astronomers oppose that. There's all sorts of politics going on which I don't understand, but that's the bottom line. The "other side of the argument" is not one we want to support. For instance, the lighting industry wants no restrictions on bright blue/white LEDs. These will produce *3 times as much sky glow*, partly due to the colour of the light and partly because they'll be so bright they that they can't be effectively shielded. If you don't like the sound if that, please sign the petition.

http://docs.darksky.org/Reports/IDA-Blue-Rich-Light-White-Paper.pdf

http://docs.darksky.org/Nightscape/Article_SeeingBlue.pdf

[pagan]

It wont let me

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