Too many wars to promote.
"Hybrid boat turns heads at Maine marina" by Associated Press | July 22, 2008
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine - A hybrid power boat that does not require gasoline or diesel fuel is generating interest at a Maine marina.
Some are asking if boat owners are ready to go the way of car owners, who are bypassing sport utility vehicles in favor of smaller, energy-efficient and hybrid models.
Nim Marsh, editor of Points East, a magazine that covers boating on the New England coast:
"I think Scout is really a generation or two away from something that's really marketable," he said. "If they can get a boat that gets up on a plane, that could change everything."--MORE--"
Then the agenda-pushing picks up in earnest!
"Fewer days, longer hours; Employers weigh savings from short workweek against need to provide service" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | July 22, 2008
The shorter week, which some New England employers are exchanging for longer workdays, is being touted as the latest way to go green and lower energy costs. But while the trend seems to be catching on with government agencies, adoption by the corporate world is lagging.
Then it CAN'T BE THAT SERIOUS an issue!!!
So GET YOUR NOSE out of my CARBON-CREATING FART CANAL, will you?
The idea is meant to save money by allowing employers to conserve power - and even shut down operations completely - for extended periods. No workers means no need for air conditioning, lights, electronics, or machinery. That, in turn, should translate into less energy-related overhead and a reduced carbon footprint.
PFFFFFFFFTTTTT!
Employees who drive to work also benefit by saving a round-trip's worth of gas every week. It's already happening in Sudbury, Winchester, and Concord, N.H., where those municipalities recently started some employees on trial four-day workweeks. Both Newburyport and Westport are considering the option.
Rex L. Facer, an assistant professor of public finance and management at Brigham Young University, has been studying four-day workweeks since 2004, and now believes that a sixth of US cities are on a four-day, 10-hour shift schedule.
"They've found that by only being open four days a week they can save substantial amounts on the utility costs: on heating, lighting their buildings," Facer said. But in the private sector, many business owners regard the four-day week as unworkable.
Where the four-day workweek has caught on in the private sector, it's often been for nongreen reasons.
PFFFFFTTT!
Companies in highly competitive industries have long experimented with four-day workweeks, and other scheduling alternatives, primarily as a way to attract and retain employees who need to coordinate work and family obligations.
"People have complicated lives outside of work, so flex time is a selling point," said Thierry Guedj, a psychology professor and the associate director of the Faculty and Staff Assistance Office at Boston University.
Yeah, like it is FOR US!!
Workers are TIRED of that HORSE SHIT being shoveled at them when it is COMPLETE BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!
Four-day workweeks are old hat for 6,000 employees at BAE Systems Electronics and Integrated Solutions, a defense and aerospace company with offices in Lexington and Nashua. They've been on a compressed workweek that gives them every other Friday off since 1997.
"We started doing this as just a way to help our employees balance their work and family life," said Bob Paul, the company's director of employee relations, ethics, and business conduct. "And now the benefit is it really helps with the energy crisis."
Still, Paul said, despite the environmental benefits, not every business model is conducive to giving employees a shorter workweek.
"I think it's a very worthwhile exercise to look at, depending on the business and the industry. I think the first thing the company needs to look at is their customers," Paul said. "Is it feasible and acceptable to the customers?"
Ultimately, the potential energy savings may win over the private sector. The rising cost of gasoline was a motivating factor for Concord, N.H., which is experimenting with a four-day workweek, said Chip Chesley, the director of the city's General Services Department.
"The catalyst that made us scratch our heads and take a look at it was the escalating price of fuel," he said. "We are going to meet at the end of the fall season to see how it works."
Yeah, not HAPPIER WORKERS!!!
You can see why I rage now, right, readers?
On a recent Thursday, one of Concord's sewer crews was just finishing a repair job at 4 p.m., past the time when they would usually clock out if working a five-day week. The workers said the longer days, which affect 55 employees on highway and utility crews, let them take care of big jobs all at once, rather than having to send a crew back to finish something up. Still, the change means rearranging some of their personal schedules.
"It's a bit of an adjustment," said Bob Demers, a utility technician. "Usually, I'd get home and I'd cut my grass or something, but now it's not that there's no time but now I find myself starting dinner for the wife."
Significantly, EMC Corp., a Hopkinton-based data storage company with 9,000 employees in Massachusetts, this year began experimenting with several flexible work arrangements for mainly nongreen reasons. But fuel costs have recently entered the equation.
"We want to help employees effectively balance the needs and interests in their personal lives with their work commitments," said company spokeswoman Lesley Ogrodnick. "I definitely would say, like everyone, we are concerned about gas prices and how they are affecting our employees, and it is part of the discussion."
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Look at how they are all claiming that the reduced week and longer days is being done for the EMPLOYEE!!!
Gimme a fucking break!!!!
It's bad enough they are fucking raping us, but do they have to FART in OUR FACES, too!!!!
Ummm, are the LIES about GLOBAL WARMING FOR US, too, assholes?!!!!!!!!
“Top Rocket Scientist: No Evidence CO2 Causes Global Warming; Another major man-made climate change advocate recants
Paul Joseph Watson
[1] Prison Planet
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The campaign to force people to accept that “the debate is over” and that man-made CO2 emissions are driving climate change is in deep trouble, with another top global warming advocate - rocket scientist and carbon accounting expert Dr. Richard Evans - completely reversing his position.
Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005 and he wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.
[2] In an article for The Australian newspaper, Evans highlights why he was so keen to jump on board the man-made explanation without there being any clear conclusion as to what was driving temperature increases in the period from the end of the 70’s to 1998.
The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly?” writes Evans. “Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.”
“But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming,” he concludes.
Evans points out that the “greenhouse signature” that would indicate CO2 emissions are driving temperature increases - “a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics” - which would be evident if climate change was man-made, is simply non-existent.
“If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming,” he writes.
Evans highlights data collected from satellites positioned around the globe that indicates temperatures have dropped about 0.6C in the past year - back to 1980 levels. Such figures are complimented by anecdotal evidence of a cooling pattern - China recently experienced its [3] coldest winter in 100 years while [4] northeast America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its [5] coldest April in decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost daily basis.
Evans also cites historical climate change and the fact that CO2 does not cause, but in fact lags behind temperature increase by as much as 800 years.
“The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect,” he writes.
“The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician’s assertion,” writes Evans.
Evans warns that the insistence on behalf of the man-made advocate establishment that “the debate is over,” despite the fact that a CO2 link to climate change “was merely asserted, not proved,” and the glee with which governments have adopted measures to fight global warming under this false assumption, will cause economies to be wrecked and as temperatures cool further, authorities will have to face charges of “criminal negligence” for deliberately lying to the public about climate change.
Evans’ public reversal of his position [6] arrives on the back of two peer reviewed scientific papers, one of which documents how C02 emissions in fact cool the planet’s temperature and another that shows how the IPCC overstated CO2’s effect on temperature by as much as 2000 per cent.
[7] As we reported last week, the world is cooling, sea levels are falling, ice is spreading, there are fewer extreme weather events, and it was hotter 1000 years ago, yet the myth of global warming is providing governments the excuse to micromanage every aspect of our lives, with Al Gore now openly calling for a carbon tax on the energy we use.
[8] Andrew Bolt of the Australian Sun-Herald has put together a series of graphs based on numbers from a plethora of scientific bodies to prove that the most alarmist claims about climate change are not only unproven, but in fact the complete opposite of what man-made global warming advocates proclaim is now being observed.
[2] RELATED: No smoking hot spot
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You really don't need me to say case closed on the lying AmeriKan MSM, do you, readers?!
I mean, you can SMELL IT if anything!!!!
