This is more of a financial issue than a warming issue. You should understand who "The Money Masters" are. There's a YouTube video that explains this very well. You can find "The Money Masters" on a 22 part video. "Global warming" is just a distraction.
I have a question posed that has a lot to do with what I am saying: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
I always respond to your questions and appreciate your humour, but I would hope that you see things in a different way and see things in a financially political way that seems more in-line with what is really happening.
I see nothing but hate and discontent spewed out here. Global warming is only a way to divide people while the monetary Elites go along in their merry way. I'm not concerned with personal attacks although the temptation to 'lash out' is always there. I hope you find my post intriguing enough to investigate.
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I saw Xi Gua's answer and had to tell a joke.
These 3 strings went out drinking. The first string was worried. He said, "I don't know about this."
The 3rd string said, "We'll be OK. There's so many bars here we should have a great time."
They went happily down the boulevard.
They arrived to the first bar. There was a big sign outside "NO STRINGS ALLOWED!"
They looked at each other confused.
The first string told the other 2, "I'll check it out."
He walked to the bar. The bartender asked, "What'll you have?"
The string said, "How about a Bloody Mary?"
"Are you a string?"
"Yes"
"Didn't you read that sign outside? It said NO STRINGS ALLOWED now get the hell out of here!"
He left the bar. When he got outside his friends asked what happened. He said, "I don't know. I guess they don't like strings."
The 3rd string replied, "That's OK. We'll find a place and have a good time."
They found the next bar and there was the same sign outside, "NO STRINGS ALLOWED!"
The second string said, "You must have done something wrong. I'll check it out!"
He walked up to the bar. The bartender came over and asked, "What would you like?"
The second string pondered a moment and then said, "Give me a Jack and Coke."
The bartender backed off a bit and said, "Are you a string?"
"Yes!"
"Didn't you read the sign? No strings allowed so get your *** out of here!"
In and out of bars and getting kicked out of everyone of them until the 3rd one gets an idea, "Hey! Tie me in a knot and frey my ends!"
The other two said,"What?"
"Tie me in a knot and frey my ends!" he exclaimed
He went be-boppen into the bar and found his way to a bar stool. He shouted at the bartender,"Hey bartender! Give me a beer!"
The bartender looked him up and down and all around. Then he said, "Wait a minute. Are you a string?"
The 3rd string answered, "Nope! I'm a freyed knot!"
You expect starving people in Asia to agree, yes we would all like less work more vacations, especially those people who have to work 16/18hrs a week just to feed their families.
This sounds like a Marxist dream everyone equal everyone having the same.
We have a huge world population some who have, some who have not, the have not's are going to do whatever they can to get what the haves get.
Global CO2 is rising and will continue to rise, and not much you can do about it (except Nuke half the world) you can play around with carbon taxes and rules and regulations limitations etc, but when half the world is not taking notice and doesn't care what good will that do.
Anyway global temperature are not rising, they will probably cool until 2050 and then rise again, and where is it proven that warmer temperatures are bad.
I would favor this over a Chinese work schedule.
As the article states, this is a study that has not been made clear as to what the overall impacts would be in its ability to reduce CO2 emissions. I would like to see the study further examined and I hope it is discovered that this would indeed make a difference in the amount of CO2 emitted. Should it prove to be a reasonable response then I think that the biggest bottle neck to implementing it would come from the business owners. Most manufacturing industries like to run 24/7 and would not like to see reduced production. Still, if this one step would ultimately prove more productive and cost effective, they may come on board with the proposal. ... First, we need to determine that a difference could be made in lowering the CO2 emissions before I believe that they would even consider it.
There may actually be some merit to this when you consider that Beijing recently shut down manufacturing and transportation due the extremely hazardous air quality they were suffering. - Source - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/...
Europe as a whole produces far less CO2 per head of population then the US does and enjoys a high standard of living. Countries like The Netherlands even have a higher GDP then the US despite people working 37.5 hours a week and having 4 - 6 weeks payed annual leave. (and despite having legalized soft drugs, drug use and murder rate is lower then in the US)
Of course employers in the US will never allow this to happen as they only care for their bottom line and not for the environment, the nation or it's people. And why should they, if other companies don't either?
It is funny that people would put out crap like this and expect to be taken seriously. Everyone wants to work less and get paid more but having governments mandate wages and hours is a recipe for unemployment and stagnant economies. Alarmism always has increased socialism as the solution to all our problems and it is amazing how the alarmists who post here regularly soak it up and pretend it is science.
<<>> (assuming you don't go anywhere on your vacation) <<< could prevent as much as half of the expected global temperature rise by 2100, according to the analysis, which used a 2012 study that found shorter work hours could be associated with lower carbon emissions.>>>
I appreciate the humor in this article becauase it is so absurd and stupid. It may be one of the best examples yet.
Well I do like their vacation structure, at least I am very familiar with Germany's. But saving energy by going on vacation is ludicrous. In the US the gas prices traditionally go up during the summer months due to increased driving. It takes so much energy to build a Mercedes. I don't think it will take less if they shortened their work week.
Morons.
At least they're showing their hand.... they probably assume that we'd all be able to maintain the same standard of living while this happens too.
No.
"A worldwide switch to a "more European" work schedule, which includes working fewer hours and more vacation time, could prevent as much as half of the expected global temperature rise by 2100, according to the analysis, which used a 2012 study that found shorter work hours could be associated with lower carbon emissions." http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/04/-study-global-warming-can-be-slowed-by-working-less
