Democrats Pessimistic About Countries Doing Something To Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach May 28, 2026 – 3:13 pm

And, yet, few Democrats will do things in their own lives to make them carbon neutral. Go figure

Americans Are Increasingly Pessimistic About Avoiding the Worst Effects of Climate Change

A majority of Americans think climate change is a very big or moderately big problem for the country, including almost all Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. But just one-quarter of adults now say international actors will do enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change – while a clear majority say the opposite. This growing pessimism is driven by Democrats.

So, not Americans, just the unhinged Dems?

Four years ago, during the Biden administration, Democrats were more closely split on whether the United States and other countries will do enough to avoid the worst impacts from climate change (46% said this will happen, 51% said it will not). Most Democrats now predict the U.S. and other countries will not do enough (69%).

This increasing pessimism comes at a time when the Trump administration has dramatically reshaped federal climate policy by taking actions such as withdrawing from international climate agreements, weakening limits on power plant emissions and weakening fuel efficiency standards.

And, yet, these same Democrats want lower gas prices and cheaper energy for their homes. Weird! Anyhow,

The question, though, is simply asking if countries will do enough to comply with the climate cult, not if they actually believe in athropogenic climate change. Personally, we as a country could do more to reduce the negative effects of land use, Urban Heat Island effect, and landfills, along with a few other localized effects.

Most Democrats and Democratic leaners (68%) say climate change is harming people in the U.S. a great deal or quite a bit. And about six-in-ten also say climate change is a very big problem facing the country today.

There should have been follow up questions, like “do you drive a fossil fueled vehicle? Do you take air flights? Do you eat meat?” among others

In contrast, only about two-in-ten Republicans and GOP leaners (22%) say climate change is harming people in the U.S. a great deal or quite a bit. And a majority see climate change as no more than a small problem.

But, still, this does not assign fault. Is warming a problem that can harm people? Yes. Is it mostly natural? Again, yes.

Anyhow, a lot of the rest of the questions go to assigning blame and responsibility to anyone but themselves. Go figure. 35 years of spreading awareness and still most Warmists refuse to practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 28, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon sailboat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on the Crazy of Democrat James Talarico.

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Liberals Gone Wild: Portland City Council Votes To Ban Masks For ICE

By William Teach May 28, 2026 – 10:30 am

They were even warned their Quixote attempt is unconstitutional and pretty much a waste of time

Portland bans masks for federal agents, with a catch

The Portland City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday to ban masks and require clear identification for federal agents and other law enforcement officers, despite repeated warnings by top officials who said it is likely to be ruled unconstitutional.

Those who sounded the alarm included Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, Portland Councilor Steve Novick, who is an attorney, City Attorney Robert Taylor, and Portland Police Chief Bob Day, who this week became the latest to voice his concerns and disappointment over the plan in a memo he sent to city leaders.

Officials had stressed the proposal is likely to face the same fate as similar legislation in California. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in April found that states lack the authority to impose such rules on federal agents and blocked the California legislation as unconstitutional.

However, the warnings from officials didn’t persuade most Portland city councilors.

Well, most of them are unhinged wackos, so, of course they passed it 8-4

Kanal warned that the ordinance will not stop federal agents from wearing masks because local jurisdictions can’t compel them to remove them. Under the ordinance, Portland police will identify and verify the legitimacy of law enforcement officers and their actions in the city by asking them for identification and requesting that those with masks remove them to verify that their identification “matches a face free of any covering.”

Police officers would also verify that agents have judicial warrants for their activities within the city, and that their vehicles are appropriately marked. They may detain a person if “reasonable suspicion exists” that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime when there’s no proof of law enforcement authority.

And then the cops have to write big reports. Almost no Portland cop will actually do this, unless they have a real concern that the person(s) are fake cops, because, apparently, Portland has a big problem with fake cops and the Portland PD is good at identifying them. And any Portland cop would be opening a can of problems if they even tried.

But, um, will Portland also ban masks for the large amount of Antifa and other left wing wackos? Of course not.

“These are tools that we’re passing today. They don’t end the terror that the Trump administration has brought forward, but they give us tools in the fight,” she said. “Portland has never been a city that sits back and waits for others to act.”

Those tools, she said, will make sure that the city and its partners can fight against the “encroaching authoritarianism and overreach (of) federal law enforcement that we know we all want to push back against.”

Portland seems to be begging for a big anti-illegal alien operation, eh? Of course, the police high muckety-mucks will tell the officers to follow the order, since they are simpatico with the leftist city council

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Is California’s Climate (scam) Agenda In Survival Mode?

By William Teach May 28, 2026 – 7:15 am

Is it?

California’s climate agenda is in survival mode

California has spent more than a decade building the country’s most aggressive climate rules. Now, regulators are feathering the brakes as cost concerns reshape climate politics nationwide.

The California Air Resources Board is scheduled to vote on Thursday to approve significant changes to the state’s signature carbon market — changes that environmental groups say would make it harder to reach the state’s ambitious climate goals.

Those amendments would, among other things, provide relief to in-state oil refineries fed up with complying with pricey climate rules. The vote marks a notable shift, and indicates that even here, in a state known for its climate leadership, affordability concerns are forcing lawmakers and regulators to rethink everything from the ground up.

“On carbon, we’re still the biggest player in the world, so there’s a little bit of pressure,” said Sen. Henry Stern, a non-voting member of the California Air Resources Board, in an interview on Wednesday. “This is a moment of so much upheaval. … CARB has made it through, from [Gov. Arnold] Schwarzenegger on, but I don’t know if you can keep doing that. It’s going to be hard.”

Real, or just a deflection?

California’s cap-and-invest program, under which polluting companies must buy a shrinking pool of permits to cover their emissions, has been a key part of its climate brand since it launched in 2013. The program has helped bring emissions down over the last decade, and inspired copycats around the world, while generating billions in revenue for climate projects in the state.

But that program is now under pressure from several directions at once. Oil companies and in-state refineries have hammered CARB over the potential cost of its carbon market at a time when voters are concerned about rising gas prices, and they’ve poured millions into lobbying the agency and lawmakers in past months.

“Moderate” Democrats are also banging the gong of this happening, probably because they are seeing polls that are not helpful, so, the climate cult will make a temporary change before reinstating the full permits when gas prices come down.

Danny Cullenward, the vice chair of an independent committee advising CARB on carbon markets, told reporters on Wednesday that the agency’s proposal “is being presented as a compromise when, in fact, it is sacrificing both of the key goals of the program.”

And while CARB released more details late Tuesday on how it plans to deploy the incentive program for polluters who invest in decarbonization projects, that hasn’t appeased environmental advocates, who argue the agency’s amendment process was rushed, and did not take feedback from concerned organizations into account.

No worries, it will be temporary.

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Wake County Court Rules State Board Of Elections Violated State Law On Aliens Voting

By William Teach May 28, 2026 – 7:00 am

Kind of wild that a pretty Dem court in Dem controlled Wake County, NC voted this way

NC court rules state violated law by allowing nonresidents to vote in federal elections

The Republican National Committee celebrated a recent court ruling Wednesday that determined the North Carolina state board of elections violated the state constitution by allowing non-residents to vote in federal elections.

The Wake County Superior Court sided with the RNC in the ruling Tuesday after the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled last year that people who have never lived in the state cannot vote in state elections.

The state stopped nonresidents from voting in state elections in the wake of the state Supreme Court ruling, but did not change its policies when it came to federal elections.

“This is a clear win for fair and lawful elections,” RNC Chairman Joe Gruters said in a statement. “The court upheld the North Carolina Constitution and made clear that only North Carolina residents can vote in the state. The RNC will keep fighting to ensure only eligible citizens can vote.”

Again, what happens is that Dems allow aliens, illegal or legal, to vote in local elections. Maybe county and state. But, they hold the local elections at the same time as federal, and, whoops, those ballots just happen to have federal positions on them, so, whoops, the aliens vote for Democrats federally. Along with getting more Democrats in local, county, and state positions.

Meanwhile

Advocates rally at NC legislature to oppose potential ICE detention expansion

Dozens of immigration advocates, faith leaders and community organizers gathered outside the North Carolina General Assembly on Tuesday, urging state lawmakers to oppose any expansion of federal immigration detention facilities in the state.

The rally came amid concerns that the Rivers Correctional Institution in rural Hertford County could reopen. The privately owned prison has been empty since its federal contract expired in 2021. Organizers said they learned through a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of North Carolina and partner groups that GEO Group, which owns the facility, had proposed reopening Rivers as a detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The protest was organized by the ACLU of North Carolina, Democracy Out Loud and the Southern Detention Center Coalition. Speakers called on lawmakers to publicly oppose any future detention expansion and to resist new facilities in the state.

These people care more about illegal aliens than US citizens and NC residents. Also, this is a waste of time, since the GOP utterly controls the NC General Assembly.

More: One other big thing with this ruling is that this also applies to legal US citizens who are not residents of the state. Like, say, college students, they would not be able to vote. People with beach and mountain homes. Yankees who moved here to escape hard left policies but aren’t really residents.

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NY Times Discusses Why UN IPCC “Scientists” Rolled Back Their Doomy Prognostication

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Sadly, there is no way around the paywall (without paying, of course), beyond a few paragraphs

Why Scientists Retired the Dire Climate Scenario Used for Over a Decade

It’s rare for technical papers about climate modeling to kick off a heated public debate, or attract attention from the White House.

But that’s what happened recently after an international team of researchers published a major revision of the emissions scenarios used to study global warming.

When scientists try to model how hot Earth could get this century, they typically look at a range of possibilities for how much planet-warming pollution humans might pump into the atmosphere. These scenarios get updated every seven years or so.

In this latest update, the researchers abandoned a dire — and often criticized — high-emissions scenario known as RCP8.5 that has been prominently cited in thousands of climate studies over the past decade. The authors said the scenario was now “implausible” given recent energy trends.

That provoked online arguments among scientists. For years, critics of the high-emissions scenario had argued that it was always unrealistic, in part because it envisioned that countries would burn coal at absurdly high rates. They argued that any studies or news reports relying on that scenario exaggerated the risks of climate change. Why, those critics now asked, did the course correction take so long?

Because people aren’t buying into the Category 5 Doomsaying anymore

The Daily Caller notes the long, long, long history of the NY Times dropping fear p0rn with climate doom, using that exact RCP8.5, and notes

The NYT Editorial Board published “Climate Change Is Not Negotiable” in 2022, arguing for radical revisions to the U.S. economy and government to forestall global warming’s allegedly devastating consequences.

“Some of us have been talking about this for almost a decade. The fact that it took so long is a big problem. There will be significant consequences as the world unwinds from the extreme scenarios,” American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Roger Pielke previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation when asked about media usage of RCP 8.5. “Science is self-correcting but sometimes that process takes too long.”

And

I disagree: I think a goodly chunk of the climate (cult) scientists meant to use RCP8.5 exactly like that. It was always meant to institute more and more government, more and more taxes/fees, more Authoritarianism.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a nation sweltering at 26C from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on the Treasury being focused on non-profit transparency.

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Daylight Saving Time Debate Heats Up Again

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

To me, this is really the definition of a 1st World debate/complaint, whining about having to fall back in Fall and spring forward in Spring. ZOMG, you lose an hour or gain an hour of sleep for one day, and might take a few days to adjust. We’ve had DST off and on since 1916 for WWI. Farmers hated the notion and it was ended in 1918. Came back in 1942 for WWII, and became law in 1966

As Trump touts permanent daylight saving time, 19 states are ready to lock the clocks

It’s only May, but some lawmakers are already thinking about changing our clocks back in November. If Congress acts quickly enough on a bill praised by President Trump, the clocks may not change at all.

Last week, the language of the Sunshine Protection Act, introduced by Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, was included in a larger transportation funding package under consideration by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The package received a roll call vote of 48 yeas and 1 nay to head to the full House.

But, will Democrats vote for this in the full House, because they have a knee-jerk reaction to anything pushed by Orange Man Bad? Also, can we stop jamming important things in other bills?

Trump spoke highly of the bill after its committee passage, writing on Truth Social about the costs associated with having to change clocks around the U.S. He also said he was “going to work very hard” to ensure the Sunshine Protection Act becomes law.

“It’s time that people can stop worrying about the ‘Clock,’ not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production,” he wrote. “It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it! We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day — And who can be against that — This is an easy one!”

Trump is among those who have long supported locking the clocks on daylight saving time, which we currently observe from March to November. Nineteen states have also been awaiting the chance to stop changing their clocks.

The first tweet shows one big poll in support of permanent DST, but, some polls show people want permanent Standard time.

I prefer switching times. I’ve been doing it my whole life. I do not see a big deal in doing the switch. A goodly chunk of the clocks in the house and car change automatically. Most of the kiddies look to their phone for the time, which switches automatically. People get mildly inconvenienced for a short time, like a house plant stinking because you forgot to water it (yeah, that happens with one of mine, which I figure out after playing “is something rotten in the fridge? Where’s that smell coming from?”), then they move on.

If we are going to make something permanent, make it Standard time. I have heavy blinds and stuff over my bedroom window, which faces east.

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Bummer: Feeding People With Rice Is Bad For Climate Doom

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 7:15 am

Hmm, I wonder why Politico will recommend?

Rice Feeds Billions of People — but Its Role in Fueling Climate Change Is Growing

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it underpins daily meals for billions of people.

But the same flooded soils that help rice thrive also create ideal conditions for microbes that release climate-warming gases.

In a new study, ourteam ofenvironment andagriculture scientists found that greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddies have nearly doubled globally since the 1960s, averaging about 1.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions per year in the 2010s. That’s roughly equal to the annual emissions of 239 million cars.

This makes rice-growing the largest emissions source in agriculture outside of livestock, and rice demand is expected to keep rising.

OK, and?

Farmers have ways to reduce their rice crops’ emissions without lowering their yields. If every grower used the best currently available “climate-smart” options, we found that global rice emissions could be reduced by about 10% by midcentury. However, greater reductions are needed to slow climate change, which would require developing additional, more effective strategies.

And those are?

At the same time, rice farmers are using more fertilizers and organic amendments, such as straw and manure, planting more productive rice varieties and growing the plants closer together. The result is more rice but also more greenhouse gas emissions.

We found that one practice in particular – leaving rice stalks in the field after harvest and then plowing them into the soil to improve soil fertility – was responsible for about 18% of rice’s increase in overall net emissions since the 1960s. The reason: It increases the organic matter in the soil, which microbes then decompose, creating more methane emissions.

OK, so, make growing rice more inefficient. And, later on that is exactly what is recommended. How many people do the Warmists want erased, particularly in the developing world?

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Trump Admin Going After Immigration Lawyers Who File Fraudulent Claims

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

I fail to see what the problem is here. If a lawyer representing anyone other than illegal aliens was filing shady claims then government authorities would be coming after them, and the Bar may well pull their license. But, since this is about illegal alien lawyers, well, it’s mean to come after them

Trump administration targets attorneys who file fraudulent asylum claims

In its latest effort to narrow pathways to immigration to the United States, the Trump administration says it will crack down on attorneys who file fraudulent asylum claims for their clients.

The U.S. has long granted asylum to people who are unable or unwilling to return to their home countries because they have been persecuted, or fear persecution, based on their race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinions.

In a directive it issued on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security instructed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to develop anti-fraud policies and to take action against immigration attorneys who file false asylum claims in an immigration court.

James Percival, Homeland Security’s general counsel, said “it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.”

“Historically, ICE has depended on the discipline of immigration judges and the enforcement of criminal fraud laws to deter this conduct, but ICE has its own tools,” Percival said in a statement. “Now, thanks to this directive, ICE attorneys have greater authority to enforce the law and stop the abuse of our asylum system by illegal aliens and attorneys.”

If the lawyers are doing shady things then shouldn’t they be held accountable?

The limited available data suggests that asylum fraud is extremely rare. A 2015 report by the Government Accountability Office found that as asylum applications increased during the early 2010s, the terminations of asylum status due to discovered fraud declined, from 103 in 2010 to 34 in 2014.

So, an 11 year old report based on data during an administration that was soft on illegal? I wonder how many will be caught now? And this is a hell of a deterant for lawyers to stop making fantastic, fanciful claims.

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