Comments on: A Shift Toward Worker Power? http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/a-shift-toward-worker-power/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Wed, 08 May 2013 02:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: anthony innes http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/a-shift-toward-worker-power/#comment-37585 anthony innes Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:31:08 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6503#comment-37585 FIRE economy (Finance,Insurance,Real Estate) holds sway.I do not want in way to denigrate James Hansen’s message that the enviromment is in peril. The tyrany of money imposed by the Bank of International Settlements in Basel Switzerland and its cartel has a stranglehold on MSM and any appeal to Politics and Business as usual is futile while this central bank to the central banks is not challenged in internationally transparent Commissions .Those who care for this Planet and Individual sovereignty this is the enemy.

]]> By: Don Hawkins http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/a-shift-toward-worker-power/#comment-37573 Don Hawkins Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:12:57 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6503#comment-37573 In the United States over the last 20 years business and government became one and the games being played by only a few that is best described as greed has now brought us all to this point. This is not a Worldwide recession but depression and very tuff times ahead. Right now in the States the fight is on to bring back the system to normal. The talk on the right is to not use the money for research into clean energy or build the systems we now have and will work but they want more tax cuts for the very people who caused this problem and more money for the banks that people is called insanity. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So far this is not going to workout well. Steven Hawking when asked about climate change said we human’s need to use reason to overcome our instincts. What we see now in the States is the other way around. Of course there is nothing wrong with conservation and will have to be done on a grand scale and the big one the one many are having a problem with keeping as much as possible fossil fuels in the ground that over hundreds of thousands of years the Earth did that for a reason. We are all in big trouble and will take focus and imagination and hard work to solve. It looks like in 5 to 7 years it will be ice free in the summer in the Arctic well that is where the weather not the climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere and just draw a line around the Earth at about 48 degrees and think crops. It’s the rate that we are putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere it is big very big compared to the past and for a start go back about 800,000 years. Like George Monbiot James Hansen is one of the best at connecting the dots and I will put his math at the end of my comment. The time to act is now we are out of time to try and slow this down. Here in the States the have and have more are fighting reason it’s about the money and control I guess but the next two summers should be an eye opener a little thing called El Nino and record temperatures again. There is still time if we can use reason to overcome our instinct.

This yields an empirical climate sensitivity. It is ¾ C per W/m2 or 3 C for doubled CO2.
This climate sensitivity includes all fast feedback processes: water vapor, clouds, sea ice, snow, and aerosols.
The physics is exact, it is not modeled. All of the feedbacks operate correctly.
Two conclusions should be emphasized. First the natural imbalance between geologic sources and sinks of CO2 is of the order of one ten-thousands of a ppm per year. In a million years that can cause a change of 100 ppm.
But the human-made rate of change is today about 2 ppm per year, about ten thousand times greater than the natural rate.
So the assertion that we should not be concerned about human-made climate change, because there have been much larger natural climate changes is nonsense. There have been larger changes, but on very long time scales. On any time scale of interest to humanity, humans will be in charge of the climate change. James Hansen

Ten thousand times greater than the natural rate. That is almost the same rate Wall Street used to bring down the World economy’s I think they called it leveraged up. The time is now.

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