Teachers To Be Required To Teach That ‘Climate Change’ Is All Your Fault In PRNY

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

See, Democratic Science requires a one sided belief in the People’s Republik Of New York

State Ed says teachers must teach human causes of climate change

Students must learn about climate change and environmental stewardship, the Board of Regents has decided.

The topic has been required in high school science classes for years. But now it must also be taught in elementary and middle schools.

Surveys suggest it will be a rough transition.

Few elementary school teachers feel prepared to teach about climate change, and almost half of middle school science teachers tell students that humans haven’t caused climate change, according to national surveys published in 2022 and 2024.

At every level — K-4, middle school and high school — students must learn about the causes, impacts of and solutions regarding climate change. The curriculum must be implemented by the 2027-28 school year for middle and high school students, and by 2028-29 for elementary school students, the Board of Regents decided.

We know what the curriculum will read like, as the doomsday cult writes it. I wonder how well this will work in the vast areas of the PRNY which vote GOP? Will they abandon the state, further eroding the tax base and leading to even more Congressional seats being lost?

“I have gotten so many calls from students advocating for climate education,” said Regent Frances Wills. “It’s very connected to what kids are really interested in.”

OK, so, some youts complained, and, instead of doing their own reading, they are demanding that all youts be indoctrinated.

But teachers are not completely on board.

In a 2022 survey for the North American Association for Environmental Education, 37% of teachers agreed with the statement, “Climate change is a political issue that does not belong in the classroom.”

If you think about it, that’s a pretty big percentage, since the majority off teachers are liberals

Among urban teachers, 56% agreed with the statement, “There is too much emphasis placed on climate change when there are other issues to be addressed in education.” About a third of other teachers also agreed.

Climate doom is something that is mostly for affluent white liberals who rarely practice what they preach.

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Cool: Border Patrol Coming To Charlotte, NC

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 6:05 am

I hope the Raleigh area is next. It’s always fun to watch the moonbats go bat guano insane

Border Patrol agents coming to Charlotte after days of speculation

Border Patrol personnel will be coming to the Charlotte area as soon as this weekend, the Mecklenburg County sheriff confirmed on Thursday.

Federal officials contacted Sheriff Garry McFadden on Wednesday, Nov. 12 to make him aware.

The sheriff’s office said members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection — which includes Border Patrol — were expected to move into the Charlotte region by Saturday or the early part of next week.

Confirmation that Border Patrol will come into the area comes days after CBS reported that the federal agency could target Charlotte as it prepared to lessen its presence in Chicago. (snip)

While officials confirmed to the sheriff that Border Patrol was coming, the sheriff’s office said “specific details regarding the federal operation have not been disclosed.” The sheriff’s office also said it had not been asked to help with any enforcement actions.

North Carolina law bans counties and cities from being illegal alien sanctuaries, but, really, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (and several other cities and counties in NC) do what they can to restrict cooperation. Sheriff McFadden has said Mecklenburg is not a sanctuary county, so, we’ll see what shakes out.

Excitable Governor Josh Stein is throwing some shade, a little fearmongering

(MyFox8) Gov. Josh Stein told Queen City News on Wednesday that if agents do land in Charlotte, he does not want to see a recreation of scenes that have played out in Chicago. 

“We’ve seen them assault senior people,” Stein said from an economic development announcement. “We’ve seen them go after people who were peacefully protesting, this is not how policing is supposed to happen in this country.”

Bullshit. Throwing things at ICE and CBP agents, obstructing, harassing, running into their cars, and more. That’s not peaceful. Get in the way of lawful arrests and expect Bad Things to happen.

The governor added that he’s not necessarily against immigration law being enforced but said there must be a limit on what agents can do.

“If we had absolute confidence that ICE was going to come here and they were going to go and find violent, dangerous drug traffickers and criminals and be targeted in their work, the city would welcome them with open arms, I’m almost certain of that,” he said. “We haven’t heard from them, so we don’t know what their plans are.”

Limits? If they are in the U.S. illegally that is the limit.

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“Scientists Say” Gulf Stream Is On Verge Of Collapse, Will Lead To Ice Age

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 3:23 pm

And cause sea levels to rise

Climate scientists claim Gulf Stream could be near collapse — predicting a new ice age

A key Atlantic current could be pushed to the brink of collapse within decades, supposedly ushering in a new ice age and dramatically raising sea levels, climate scientists have claimed in a controversial new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

The apocalyptic predictions came as a result of a collaboration between researchers at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, San Diego — weeks after one-time climate alarmist Bill Gates publicly downplayed the impact of temperature fluctuations on the planet.

Per the new findings, the at-risk current in question is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a “conveyor belt of the ocean” that funnels warm water toward the ocean surface from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.

This current, which includes the Gulf Stream that runs from the Gulf of Mexico to the US East Coast and across the Atlantic to Europe, helps maintain the mild climate of Europe, the UK and the US East Coast. (snip)

The researchers reportedly happened upon this warm spot by using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model — a computer model that simulates the ocean, atmosphere and climate — to monitor how “AMOC-related signals” like energy waves ripple rapidly toward the equator.

So, no actual direct observations and measurements? Huh. Anyhow, do you know what happens when an ice age hits? Water is locked in glaciers. Sea levels drop, not rise. During the last ice age the Mediterranean was divorced from the Atlantic, as the Atlantic’s level was below the Meds, causing the Med to dry up considerably, which is why there are so many fantastic salt mines under the Med, and they have found, for instance, elephant bones at the bottom of the sea.

But, wait, didn’t computer models say we aren’t doomed this century or anytime soon from AMOC collapse? And weren’t we told that the AMOC was speeding up, not slowing down? Increasing? Seriously, this is all part of the natural cycle on Earth. They think it slowed down a bit prior to the Little Ice Age after the Medieval Warm Period. This stuff happens. Chill, people. Of course, the entire point here is to 1) get more government funding, 2) scare people into demanding government run their lives.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle causing heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on the Net Zero lie.

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Politico: The World Wants A Climate President Or Something

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Are Americans supposed to care what the world wants? Anyhow, I thought Obama was the climate president? Or was that Biden?

The climate president in waiting
The world wants an American climate leader, and Gavin Newsom is happy to play the part — even if the country he represents isn’t quite ready to follow.

BELÉM, Brazil — Gavin Newsom can’t get out of a meeting or a talk at the international climate talks here without being swarmed by reporters and diplomats eager for a quote, a handshake, a photo.

On a tour Tuesday of a cultural center with Gov. Helder Barbalho, the leader of the Brazilian state hosting the talks, a passerby recognized them both. “There’s the governor,” he exclaimed. “And there’s the California governor.” Later in the day, as Newsom rode up an escalator packed with reporters and international officials on his way to deliver a speech, a bystander shouted: “The escalator’s not broken for you!” — a dig at President Donald Trump, who once had an escalator malfunction on him at the United Nations.

Newsom grinned wide: “Oh, I like that.”

The adulation was gold for a governor with presidential aspirations as he steps into a power vacuum. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle climate policies both at home and abroad, and other likely Democratic presidential contenders are absent from the United Nations climate talks. Seeing a chance to plant his green flag on an international stage, Newsom is embracing the role of climate champion as his own party backs away at home and the politics of the issue shift rightward.

This would be the same Gavin Newsom who flew over 5,000 miles on a private jet to BELÉM, Brazil, right? It’s all a gorgeous little bit of slobbering over Gavin from Politico, but, are Americans slobbering? Do they care about a “climate president”? Who’s 100% Trump deranged, despite Trump not running in 2028? Many Americans may care about ‘climate change’ in theory, but, when it comes to practice? Ask Jay Inslee, who ran his campaign in 2019-2020 as being a climate president and only that, and having to drop out early in the Democrat primaries.

Exposing Gavin Newsom’s Top 10 Failures

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  1. Highest Cost-of-Living in the Nation
  2. Soaring Crime
  3. Worst Homelessness Crisis in the Nation
  4. Weakest Election Integrity in Nation
  5. Helping Human Traffickers While Creating a Border Crisis
  6. Failing Schools – And Attacks on Parents
  7. Negligence Creating an Insurance Crisis
  8. A Pattern of “Pay-to-Play” Politics
  9. Destroying Direct Democracy by Gutting Citizen Initiative Rights
  10. Failed Green New Deal Policies (Energy, Water Rationing)

That last one has led to much higher energy costs, especially as 30% of the used energy must be brought into California from other states. Gas prices are the highest in the lower 48. Water issues abound, such as the failure to have water available for the Palisades wildfire. For which barely any homes have been built and permitted to be built.

Under Gavin, there is water rationing, rolling brownouts and blackouts, and highest taxes in the nation. And so, so much more. Refineries are closing due to legislation and lawfare, not market forces. And

Newsom’s climate warrior image is backsliding, environmental groups say

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As Newsom was touting himself as a climate change warrior in New York, back home in California a coalition of more than 40 environmental groups was chastising him in a sharply worded letter for, they said, backsliding on the issue.

“As Governor Newsom touts his climate record on the national and international stage, we must not let him forget that it takes more than words to be a climate leader,” Nicole Ghio, executive director of Food & Water Watch California, said in a statement accompanying the letter.

The Google AI blurb that led to this says

Gavin Newsom’s climate failures include vetoing a bill to protect environmental regulations, failing to prevent worsening wildfire seasons, and cutting climate funding. Critics also cite his administration’s actions, such as seeking potential bailouts for a refinery, and vetoing bills that could have reduced emissions or protected air quality.

Anyhow, good luck running on the climate scam.

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Strange: Fossil Fuels “Emissions” To Hit Record Highs In 2025

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 7:15 am

How can this be? Aren’t more and more people driving hybrids? Buying EVs because they are being forced into them/enticed with insane subsidies? Aren’t some nations, like in the EU, going nuts in blocking the use of fossil fuels, blocking new drilling/extraction? Stopping the use of natural gas for home heat, cooking, and hot water? Replacing fossil fuels with “green” energy? And many US states doing the same? How is this possible? Aren’t all the Warmists giving up their own use of fossil fuels?

Global fossil fuel emissions to hit record high in 2025, study says

Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that also warns curbing warming under 1.5°C would now be essentially “impossible.”

The annual Global Carbon Budget report looks at humanity’s emissions of planet-heating CO? from burning hydrocarbons, cement production, and land use — such as deforestation — and relates the figures to the warming thresholds outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

An international team of scientists found that CO? emissions from fossil fuels will be 1.1 percent higher in 2025 than a year ago, with the massive rollout of renewable technologies still not enough to compensate for growing energy demand.

With emissions from oil, gas, and coal all set to rise, the overall figure is due to reach a record 38.1 billion tonnes of CO?.

If all those Warmists stopped using fossil fuels that would drop quite a bit, right?

Released as nations meet for COP30 climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, the new study calculated a remaining allowance of 170 billion tonnes of CO? to limit warming to 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels — the target outlined in the Paris Agreement.

“This equates to four years of emissions at the current rate before the budget for 1.5°C is exhausted, so that is impossible, essentially,” said Pierre Friedlingstein of Britain’s Exeter University, who led the research.

I wonder how many tons of “emissions” could be cut if 40K weren’t taking long, fossil fueled trips to COP30 to complain about Other People using fossil fuels and trying to restrict them for those Other People?

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Oh Noes, Tariffs Could Skyrocket The Cost Of Italian Made Pasta

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s horrible!

Since the WSJ has a pretty hard paywall, let’s go to the NY Post

Thirteen Italian pasta brands could pull their products from US grocery stores — or potentially be forced to hike prices dramatically as soon as January, when punishing 107% tariffs are set to take effect.

The levies — the highest the White House has moved to impose on a specific product since the start of President Trump’s crackdown on imports — come from the US’ 15% baseline tariff on European Union goods plus a punishing 92% levy over accusations that Italian pasta makers have been undercutting US competitors.

The Commerce Department says the penne purveyors have been violating “antidumping” laws, exporting their products to the US market at a very low price to gain an advantage over local businesses.

One affected company decried the new policy to The Post, declaring it would not pass on costs from the new tariff to customers. (big snip)

Last year, the Department of Agriculture launched an investigation after two US pasta manufacturers called for a review of Italian exporters.

So, this all started under Biden. Huh.

Along with Pasta Garofalo, La Molisana and Rummo, the impacted pasta brands include Agritalia, Aldino, Antiche Tradizioni Di Gragnano, Barilla, Gruppo Milo, Pastificio Artigiano Cav. Giuseppe Cocco, Pastificio Chiavenna, Pastificio Liguori, Pastificio Sgambaro and Pastificio Tamma.

Barilla makes pasta for the US market within the States and is less likely to be impacted by the tariffs than the other businesses, Italian media noted. The Post has sought comment from Barilla.

Barilla accounts for around 30% of US pasta sales, made in Ames, IA and Avon, NY for both US and Canadian sales. I usually buy Barilla or some off brands, like at Lidl. And, I will make my own when it comes to thin spaghetti and similar, as well as some thicker noodles, at times. Weird shapes and egg noodles, nah, always buying. Most people are not buying Italian import pasta. So, chill out, News Media.

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ABC News Helpfully Explains How Cultists Can Alleviate Their Climate Anxiety

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 3:43 pm

Me, I’d suggest visiting a fully accredited mental health professional who can deprogram the Warmists. Let’s see what ABC has to say

Climate change is in the news during COP30. We’ve got tips to tackle your climate anxiety

Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about climate change. That’s because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of planet-warming gases, released primarily from oil, gas and coal.

Some of the information coming out of the COP30 conference is bleak. But it’s not just COP. Climate stories can be difficult to consume year-round, whether it’s about natural disasters, victims of heat waves or sea level rise or new studies about global warming impacts.

“When you throw a ton of scary facts and information at people, their nervous system shuts down. It’s a coping mechanism,” said Sarah Newman, founder and executive director of the Climate Mental Health Network.

Like this?

How Climate Change Can Lead to Earthquakes

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to that list earthquakes, continental rifting—or breakup—and magma production. That’s the conclusion of a new paper in Scientific Reports, which adds to a growing agreement among scientists that the Earth’s atmospheric processes can affect its geological processes in surprising ways.

Those things never happened before fossil fuels, you know. Anyhow, there’s lots of wackadoodle in the ABC piece, getting to

Newman said that one of the most effective ways to combat climate anxiety is to find other people who are experiencing it too, and to talk about it.

Every year, New York City hosts something called Climate Week. Folks from all over descend upon Manhattan for hundreds of events and panels on energy, the environment and climate change.

Between 15 and 20 people showed up to one event about finding connection and hope in the face of climate change. It was intimate, but so is confiding feelings of dread and isolation with a room full of strangers.

“How many of you wake up in the morning with feelings of despair or hopelessness?” asked the leader at the front of the room.

Just about every hand sheepishly went up.

Maybe it’s not the best idea to be associating with people who reinforce your cultish beliefs. You wouldn’t look for other alcoholics who are still drinking to help you stop drinking, right?

Immediate grounding exercises include the 3-3-3 technique, where you name three things you see, three you hear and three parts of your body that you can move. Another one is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, where you identify five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell and one thing you can taste.

Prozac would probably work better for these nuts.

That starts with something Doherty calls ceremonial actions. They don’t meaningfully change the world, but they’re easy, they can be repeated, they align with a person’s values and make them feel better, like picking up litter or bringing reusable bags to the grocery store.

Then those ceremonial actions fuel the desire and resilience needed for something larger, like getting rid of the gas appliances in the house, which could take years to afford and invest in. The U.N. lists 10 actions to reduce a person’s impact on the planet.

How about giving up all use of fossil fueled vehicles in their own lives?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 1:02 pm

…is a horrible weapon of war due to climate crisis strife, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on raw sewage and a lack of water in Belem, Brazil, where COP30 is being held.

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Too Bad: Obamacare Could Collapse Under Trump’s Plan

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

It would be a terrible thing giving money directly to those on Ocare instead of the insurance companies, right?

Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say

Republicans are putting their own spin on subsidizing Americans’ health care: Route money away from insurers and put cash directly in consumers’ hands to give them more choice over their coverage.

Economists and policy experts suspect President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers are presenting this alternative to extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies because they want to undermine or even replace Obamacare — something the party has repeatedly failed to do in the past.

Ocare is probably not going away. How many big federal programs ever go away? But, can it be changed into something that actually works for the citizens? Something that makes sense?

With direct cash payments from the federal government into special accounts, “healthy people could get much cheaper insurance that has medical underwriting and doesn’t cover preexisting conditions, but that would leave much sicker people in the ACA pool, and likely send it into a death spiral,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan research organization.

If younger, healthier consumers choose such so-called junk health plans — with lower costs and less robust coverage — or don’t use the money for health insurance, it could throw off the balance of risk and prompt insurers to exit the market entirely, Levitt and others said.

Republican proposals for the direct payments still lack key details. They include creating health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts for millions of Americans and depositing cash into them instead of providing the enhanced premium subsidy that goes directly to health insurers.

How many in the existing pools are sick, and how many are just getting insurance because they are required to by law? What if this plan ends with the insurance companies lowering premiums and deductibles? Don’t forget, one of the original complaints about Ocare plans was that deductibles made the insurance unusable. We knew this back in 2013.

Democrats appear unlikely to buy in.

“We are not going to come up with that deal during open enrollment,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “Right now, the only option is to extend the subsidies for a year.”

How about putting language in a subsidy extension, with the GOP plan kicking in prior to the next enrollment year?

Providing health insurance subsidies, like the enhanced Obamacare tax credits, meanwhile, can have an upward impact on health care price inflation, because people are more likely to seek out medical care if they’re insured, they said.

But the Republican plans, depending on how they’re designed, could prompt fewer people to enroll in ACA marketplace coverage.

What if Ocare was changed so that the insurers could offer bare-bones plans via the exchange, ones with lower premiums and deductibles, higher copays because lots of the healthies rarely use the plans, ones that fit the people signing up? This can actually help reduce costs in the non-Ocare market.

But former Trump adviser Brian Blase, now president of the influential right-leaning think tank Paragon Health Institute, argues that some plans to divert funds from insurers and into Americans’ pocketbooks would have little to no impact on Obamacare enrollment.

Paragon wants Republicans to let the enhanced ACA subsidies expire and has been promoting a new health care plan that would allow some lower-income Obamacare enrollees to take a portion of the government cost-sharing subsidies that go to health insurers and instead use them as health savings account deposits.

It’s funny, because people thought Ocare was meant to put health insurers out of business originally, which would require the government to be the insurer. To get to single payer. Who knew that it would end up being a way to reward those companies and make them reliable Democrat donors.

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