Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice have threatened to strike because Amazon is not doing enough to promote climate action.
Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees plan a walkout to protest climate change
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business
Updated 1934 GMT (0334 HKT) September 9, 2019New York (CNN Business)
Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees have pledged to walk out in protest of what they say is their company’s inaction on climate change.The collective known as “Amazon Employees for Climate Justice” posted a letter online Monday declaring that Amazon should lead on the issue because it’s “one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world.”
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For example, the group wants Amazon to stop donating to politicians and lobbyists who deny climate change. It also wants Amazon to stop awarding contracts to fossil fuel companies. And the group wants the company to test electric vehicles in cities that are most affected by the company’s environmental impact. The group said it was “critical” for Amazon to emit zero emissions by 2030.
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/09/business/amazon-employee-climate-change-walkout/index.html
I just have one question.
Given Amazon’s alleged reputation for working employees to the limit of their endurance, how did 1000 employees ever manage to find the personal time and energy to develop outside interests? For shame Bezos, your shareholders expect more from you.
Amazon is investing seriously in full automation of their warehouses. One of the key reasons they want to do that is so they don’t need to keep those huge buildings climate controlled for human workers. This will save huge amounts of money, and “save the planet” as well.
These people should be careful what they wish for.
They don’t don’t understand Labor Law. Amazon will be totally within their right to fire them if they don’t show up for work, with no redress available to the “strikers,” as it would not be a recognized labor action under labor law.
Just so, Joel! And they will be replaced quickly with people that appreciate their jobs more than idiotic virtue signalling.
In other news, 99.85% of Amazon employes have better things to do and will not be striking.
I wish someone could explain this, if I saw this and only this I would be afraid too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record
Res,
that is from GISS, the worst data set of them all. It has been changed so many times, cooling the past and warming the future.
They have nearly erased a well know cooling period from the 1940’s to the 1970’s.
Here is a website that covers it well, starting with THIS article:
Corruption Of The US Temperature Record
LINK
@Sunsettommy :Thank you, I do my best to understand the viewpoint of people who are misinformed especially on this topic and my first question should always be am I wrong here? So I appreciate you addressing this.
For people in the topic, they BELIEVE because they find things *everywhere* to reinforce their beliefs, and they are past the point where they can question on their own.
Each time I see one of these deceptions, we need someone like you to explain, and validate/invalidate it.
Then we need to address the propagation of this information via our government websites and the media, and Hollywood etc.and address them on a case by case basis as trying to use temporal judgement on those driven by it will not work.
Otherwise I can’t expect people that I know are wrong and misguided via a mass psychosis that is driven by politics/money/etc to not act out.
In proportion to their ill advised and ill informed actions, an equal measure of dissemination of accurate data and validation of accurate date, while correcting false/incorrect data needs to occur.
Sadly, the more we address their methods without addressing the root cause of their actions, the more they are going to ignore us.
You welcome.
This is my favorite forum where I debate on climate related topics on a daily basis, there you would meet a few scientists who post comments about it regularly.
http://www.usmessageboard.com/forums/environment.84/
You can learn a lot there as well as here.
“I wish someone could explain this, if I saw this and only this I would be afraid too”
Everyone should be afraid looking at the rising temperatures of the Hockey Stick chart, if it were a true representation of reality. Thankfully, it is not a true representation of reality.
The Climategate emails demonstrate that the people in charge of the surface temperature data at the time conspired together to create a surface temperature chart that showed the temperatures getting hotter and hotter, in concert with the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. They cooled periods in the past that were as warm as today in order to fool people into thinking the world was getting hotter decade after decade.
But the data manipulators didn’t erase all the historic temperature charts, so we have evidence of what the climate looked like before they made all the changes, and what it looked like after all the changes.
The link below shows two temperature charts, the Hansen 1999 US chart on the left, and the fraudulent “hotter and hotter” Hockey Stick chart on the right. The Climategate Charlatans want everyone to believe the Hockey Stick represents the temperature profile of the Earth, but the Hansen 1999 chart is much more representative of the global temperature.
The Hansen 1999 US chart shows the 1930’s as being just as warm as today. All the other unmodified temperature charts from around the world resemble the Hansen 1999 chart. None of the unmodified charts from around the world resemble the fraudulent Hockey Stick chart.
In order to promote their CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming) fraud, the Data Manipulators decided to change history and turn a rather benign climate into a hotter and hotter and hotter climate crisis. They changed the global temperature profile from one looking like the Hansen 1999 profile, to one looking like the Hockey Stick profile.
The Hockey Stick is actually the only thing the alarmists can point to as “evidence” of CAGW and it’s all a Fraud. Without the Hockey Stick, they would have nothing, because if it is not warmer today than in the past, then that means CO2 is having little or no effect in increasing the temperatures because the temperatures are not increasing anymore than they did in the 1930’s when CO2 was not a significant issue. No unprecedented warming means no CAGW crisis. So the Climategate Charlatans decided they needed to create the appearance of unprecedented warming with a Hockey Stick chart.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_07/
Btw, in the text in the link, notice how Hansen tries to explain away the difference between the look of the US chart and the look of the Hockey Stick. Hansen wants us to believe that weather behaves in one way in the United States and another way in the rest of the world. But the historic temperature charts put the lie to that claim, and all show the same profile as the Hansen 1999 US chart, so that is the global temperature profile, not the fraudulent Hockey Stick.
There is no unprecedented warming today. There is no CO2 crisis, other than in the minds of those fooled by the Climategate Charlatans.
Look at this image from NASA GISS:
It shows where in the southern hemisphere land-based thermometer data have been continuously recorded from 1880-2019. 10 locations! From 1880-1950 there were about 25 more. So about 35 thermometers, mostly concentrated in SE Australia/New Zealand, continuously recorded temperature data for 50% of the planet for 50% of recorded history (70 years). It’s impossible to accurately measure the average temperature of 98 million sq mi with 35 thermometers. So what did NASA do? They simply made up the missing data; it’s fake. It’s almost as bad in the northern hemisphere.
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data_v3/
Bye-bye. You will not be missed.
Hey Alexa, how do I get science integrity free of agenda science by advocacy groups and data manipulators accentuating modern warming with fraudulent statistical operations? Also, how do I deal with tech giants that interfere with science process of fact checking and fair policy input in the current climate crusades? Alexa, are you listening to reason?
Sack them, good riddance if they are that stupid.
Employees are, of course, free to adopt any religious beliefs they wish, including the unfounded belief in a climate apocalypse triggered by the success of human society, but they are not free to make up their own work schedules or get paid without showing up.
My response would be – “HR! We need about a 1,000 new hires.”
They have a Constitutional right to define reality according to their beliefs under the Tiwlight (“penumbra”) Amendment. Let us bray.
I suspect this “strike” will for most of them be an extended lunch break. 😉
I’d have to side with Bezos here. Fire every last one of the climate NAZI’s.
This climate change stuff is not an outside interest, an Amazon encoursged interest.
Amazon’s response should be this: “There’s the door. If you want to walk out, fine. Don’t bother coming back though. My guess is it’s all a bluff anyway, and a chance to virtue signal.
Furthermore, even if these 1,000 decide not to strike, they have now de-valued themselves as employees. No business needs troublemakers, nor do they need morons, and they have now branded themselves as both. Good job.
It’s poetic justice.
Bezos is reaping what he sowed.
Were Amazon my company (but, alas, it is not), shortly after these Amazon Employees for Climate Justice go on strike, I would be placing Help Wanted ads for one thousand positions newly opened.
So “almost 1,000” Amazon employees comes to 1/7 time 10 to the fifth power of Amazon employees.
STFW?
(Snipped, policy violation) SUNMOD
Where are you going with this rant?
(His rant was a policy violation, which means nipping it in the beginning: Trolls, flame-bait, personal attacks, thread-jacking, sockpuppetry, name-calling such as “denialist,” “denier,” and other detritus that add nothing to further the discussion may get deleted;..) SUNMOD
I would suggest a protest trip to the Amazon basin in a small dingy to investigate real environmental issues and not urban virtue signaling events.
Amazon Employee Memo:
1. ALL employees who walk off the job during the climate change protest (tantrum) are immediately fired;
2. ALL employees who DO NOT walk off the job shall receive an immediate 1% raise;
3. Overtime is available to all until vacancies are filled (see 1. above)
4. ALL employees, and indeed ALL citizens, are welcome to practice any and all climate neutral life style choices to their hearts content, please leave your employer and the rest of humanity by decree, out of it.
Thank You
5. Bonuses will be provided for those employees who can get someone to apply for one of the newly opened positions.
Well, when they get fired, I am sure they will get some sympathetic words from Bernie (and little else).
Who knows? Maybe even a guest appearance from Greta! Wow! That’s almost worth it
So long climate changers and more jobs for skeptics. Sounds good to me and the climate changers can vote with their feet and join Green industry where all the sustainability is happening.
Fire them all… for the climate. Think of all that vehicle exhaust that won’t be occurring during their commutes.
The upside to losing their jobs will be when St. Greta blesses them.
Jim: Alexa, what is the global climate emergency?
Alexa: It depends on who is running Alexa today Jim. Most of our staff is off virtue signaling today but they will get back with you.