‘Climate Change’ To Make El Nino Worse Or Something

By William Teach June 2, 2026 – 7:42 am

This is something that has been on the back burner since meteorologists started saying there could be a huge El Nino this year, but, suddenly over the last 24 hours there are a ton of news organizations running with this, so, obviously, someone or organization is pushing this and the “independent” news media

A strong El Nino may be imminent. Climate change will make its effects worse

The El Nino weather pattern is forming, and is expected to cause extreme weather around the world this year, the WMO said on Tuesday. Scientists say climate change will make ?its impact especially severe.

The World Meteorological Organization said there is an 80% chance that an El Nino event develops between June and August, and a 90% ?chance it will last until at least November. The statement is the clearest signal yet of the likelihood.

The El Nino phenomenon naturally occurs every two to seven years, when weakening trade winds result in warmer waters in the eastern Pacific. The result tends to be higher global temperatures, and disrupted rainfall – meaning drought in some regions, heavy rains in others. It also affects hurricane formation.

Two things make this year’s forecast particularly worrying.

The first is the ?chance that this year’s El Nino – and its impact – will be stronger than typical.

The WMO said there was still uncertainty, and some models predict a “strong” El Nino while others ?do not. WMO forecasts suggest a strong El Nino is possible, defined by sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific of at least 1.5 ?degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above average.

Are these the same models that predict rain and we get none? The models that failed to anticipate the massive dry spot running from north of Raleigh all the way to Wilmington during the last snow event, while the amateurs predicted it? The models that predict a foot of snow and we get a trace? The models that prognosticate massive sea rise and temperatures by 2050/2100 which make zero sense in reality?

The second cause for concern is climate change.

Greenhouse gas emissions have increased the planet’s average temperature by around 1.3C since pre-industrial times.

That higher baseline supercharges the effects ?of El Nino – enabling higher temperature spikes, more intense droughts, heatwaves, rains, and the resulting disasters, including bushfires, floods and crop failures.

“When we get an El Nino, because of the underlying climate change … ?these things become more intensified and they’re more impactful,” said Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds.

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The View Host Say She Supports Platner Even Though A Racist And Jew Hater

By William Teach June 2, 2026 – 7:00 am

Sure, Sunny Hostin is just one Democrat, but, she perfectly encapsulates what a lot of Democrats think

Sunny Hostin supports Graham Platner despite calling him ‘a liar, a racist, an anti-Semite’

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin called Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner “a liar, a racist, an anti-Semite” on Monday, but still defended supporting his run for office in order for Democrats to win the Senate majority in November’s midterm elections.

Platner has faced a series of controversies in recent weeks, including criticism over a tattoo with links to Nazi imagery, resurfaced Reddit posts in which he made inflammatory comments about veterans, sexual assault and political opponents, and reports about sexually explicit messages exchanged with other women during his marriage.

During a discussion of Platner’s latest scandal, Hostin admitted that she was conflicted due to her belief that the Democrats need to win back Congress.

“So he’s a liar, a racist, an anti-Semite. He’s a homophobe,” she said. “So he has all the things and character does matter. But we have someone that has almost unbridled power in the White House at this point. There are no checks and balances and the only way that we can maybe bring a bit of our democracy back is by having a Congress that functions and that has these checks and balances. And I do think one of the only ways is to win that seat in Maine.”

Got that? Democrats have to support the guy who had a Nazi tattoo for decades and was proud of it because Orange Man Bad and it’s more important to win the Senate. The only belief of Democrats is power at any cost. If Platner came out as anti-abortion they’d still support him because winning the Senate is more important.

In fairness, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sara Haines both said he is essentially unfit for office. But, does anyone think they would vote against him or just not check the box for Senate if they voted in Massachusetts?

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LOL: Now Black Bears Are Threatened By Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Have they given up on the whole polar bears thing?

Black bears are threatened by climate change. How can we help?

Black bear encounters are on the rise in Tennessee, and climate change is often a hidden culprit, tampering with ecosystems in unexpected ways.

Along a steep, forested hillside in Gatlinburg, Janelle Musser, a biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency, is looking for black bears.

Within minutes, a woman in the distance calls out excitedly.

It’s a female bear, maybe about 200 pounds, and she has two cubs with her.

“Oh my goodness, look at them,” Musser whispers.

Bears? In Tennessee? Who knew?

“If you come home and someone’s been making chocolate chip cookies in your house, and you think how amazing that smells, now imagine being able to smell that a mile away,” Musser said.

The trend is, in part, driven by convenience for the bears. They are opportunistic feeders. Last summer, for example, bears were content gorging on cicadas during the emergence of a 17-year brood. They mostly just sat up in trees during that time, Musser said.

But there is another, quieter factor: climate change.

And here we go

Bears used to cover all of Tennessee.

After centuries of hunting, mining and logging, they retreated to the high terrain of the Appalachian Mountains.

Populations have since grown, and the state now has an estimated 6,000 bears. But their forest habitat is under threat, according to Matt Drury, science director of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.

That all sounds like land use and environmental destruction

Climate change poses additional challenges.

Take extreme weather events like Hurricane Helene: Two years ago, rapid wind and record rainfall flowed down the mountains and knocked down hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Then, non-native plants seized the opportunity to spread and knock out native species, disrupting a web of animals in the process.

A lack of rainfall is also a significant issue. In the third week of May, Great Smoky Mountains National Park was in severe drought.

A once in a blue moon event that none can say is unusual for a Holocene warm period, the same as with drought periods. Anyhow, there’s plenty more doom and gloom in the article, and even a mention of polar bears, if you care to read the full doomsday cult screed.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on German forests getting cleared for wind turbines.

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Time: Trump Admin Looks To Roll Back Safety Regs After Big Chemical Plant Incidents

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 10:30 am

It’s wild how many times I read a rage-bait headline about a Republican, a bit of the article (3 paragraphs 30 seconds is the Internet rule to get your message out before most move on), and then find out some rather pertinent information

Back-to-Back Chemical Disasters Strike as Trump Seeks to Roll Back Safety Rules

Two major incidents at chemical plants within the past week sent tens of thousands fleeing from their homes in California and left 11 people dead in Washington.

But despite a spate of similar incidents over the last year, the Trump Administration is planning to roll back federal regulations designed to prevent similar disasters. Experts and environmental groups have warned that such a move would make chemical accidents far more common.

Mass evacuations were ordered and a state of emergency declared when a tank containing nearly 7,000 gallons of highly toxic chemical methyl methacrylate became unstable at an aerospace plastics facility in Garden Grove, California, causing it to heat up and risk explosion.

Just as those residents were cleared to return home on Tuesday morning, a 900,000-gallon tank containing a mixture of sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide, and disodium carbonate, known as “white liquor,” imploded at a paper mill in Longview, Washington. It was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the U.S. in years, and came not long after safety complaints were filed against Nippon Dynawave in March and May. The state’s labor and industries department said on X that they were about “various violations that weren’t related to chemical process or storage safety.”

So, got that? Orange Man Bad is going to roll back the safety regs for chemical plants which….had incidents with the safety regs in place?

The incidents have drawn fresh scrutiny to plans by the Trump Administration to repeal regulations designed to prevent and investigate catastrophic industrial chemical releases, fires, and explosions.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is led by Trump appointee Lee Zeldin and oversees the chemical industry, has sought to loosen reforms introduced in 2024 that were designed to “further protect vulnerable communities from chemical accidents, especially those living near facilities in industry sectors with high accident rates.” The 2024 Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention (SCCAP) changes implemented by the Biden Administration included additional safeguards, third-party audits for facilities with prior accidents, and employee participation in facility accident prevention.

The EPA’s revisions would slash these safeguards and propose removing the agency’s rule that facilities should establish a process for employees to report unaddressed hazards. They would also eliminate the requirement for facilities to consider climate-related disasters such as floods when developing emergency plans.

So, despite the Biden admin putting in those rules, the incidents kept happening. The climate scam rules would make zero difference in plant safety, and, there are still plenty of methods to report unaddressed hazards, including through their unions. Removing the rules won’t make a difference in the world, especially when the far let states have plenty of regulations of their own.

An EPA spokesperson said in a statement to TIME that the regulations implemented by the Biden Administration in 2024 “disregarded warnings from national security experts that it would make chemical facilities and other sensitive sites more vulnerable to attack,” and that the Trump EPA’s changes “would preserve every core accident-prevention protection while removing duplicative, contradictory, or unproven requirements, ensuring stronger safety outcomes through clearer and more workable rules.”

The spokesperson said both the California and Washington facilities “are highly regulated and these regulations are largely overseen by the states — not EPA.”
“It’s clear that these far-left activists have no idea how to actually prevent chemical disasters. Nor do they seem to have any grasp about how EPA regulations actually work,” the spokesperson said, referring to criticisms from environmental justice groups.

Huh. Rage-bait headline.

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Whoa: Washington Post Editorial Board Takes Exxon’s Side In Leaving NJ

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 7:15 am

Was this from an alternate WPEB? Because this is not the kind of thing you usually see

Exxon says goodbye to New Jersey

The only surprising aspect of ExxonMobil relocating its legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas is that it took this long.

The company is headquartered in the Houston area, and three-quarters of Exxon’s U.S. employees are already in Texas, but the firm retained a Garden State incorporation as a vestige of its 19th-century legacy as Standard Oil. No more.

In March, Exxon’s board of directors unanimously recommended relocation to Texas, to take advantage of its friendlier business climate. The proposal passed this week at a shareholder meeting with over 70 percent support.

It isn’t difficult to imagine why Exxon wants to move its legal responsibilities from a state that has tried to sue major oil companies to the country’s hydrocarbon capital. CEO Darren Woods said the relocation would situate the company in a state “with legislators, judges and juries” who “understand our business and our contributions to society.”

They should also stop selling their products to the government of the state of NJ. See how that goes. Too bad it would create way too many issues pulling their refining and storage operations out of NJ and moving them

Not everyone is happy. New York City Comptroller Mark Levine (D) urged Exxon shareholders to vote against the relocation because it would “disenfranchise” them. Proxy advisories Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services claimed it could limit shareholder rights.

In other words, a lot of revenue would be leaving the area, including NYC. Maybe they should have thought of that before going full climalawfare on Exxon and other fossil fuels companies.

Politicians like to blame companies for acting in their self-interest, but that’s the easy way out. If New Jersey and Delaware want to retain companies, let alone attract them, they need to take a hard look at what they’re doing to drive so many away.

They won’t. Their cult and hard left political beliefs will continue to run the states down.

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Senator Spartacus Has “Concerns” Over Guy With Nazi Tattoo Running For Senate As A Democrat

By William Teach June 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

“Concerns”

Cory Booker Has ‘Concerns’ About Platner Revelations in Maine Senate Race

Senator Cory Booker said Sunday that he had “concerns” that the candidacy of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, could be damaged by recent revelations, including that Mr. Platner exchanged sexual messages with women outside his marriage.

Asked on ABC’s “This Week” if he was worried that Mr. Platner’s messy personal history could hurt Democrats’ chances of winning a potentially critical seat in the battle for Senate control, Mr. Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, said: “Yeah, I have concerns. That guy has questions to answer. And that’s what campaigns are for.”

Look, if this nutjob, Platner, though, Booker is still moonbat, was running as a Republican the NY Times and every other news outlet would be calling for him to end his campaign and for every Republican to disavow him. Ever Democrat would be doing the same. But, see

Mr. Booker added that “so much is riding on Democrats’ taking control of the Senate,” saying that the country needed a check on an “out-of-control president” who he suggested was driving up costs of health care, child care and gas.

And there it is: Democrats wouldn’t care if he was expressing his love of Adolph Hitler, it’s more important for them to win the Senate. There’s really no need to dig deeper into the Times’ article, paragraph three sums it up.

Here’s the Washington Post

The Platner sexting controversy and what it could mean for Democrats
Democrats consider the Maine race crucial to regain the Senate. Platner’s latest controversy, one strategist said, will be “very material.”

The WP spends plenty of time trying to minimize all the revelations. Because they want Dem control of the Senate

There’s plenty more over at Twitchy where Democrats are bending themselves into knots to defend Platner, just like when the Nazi tattoo came to light. Because it’s more about winning than any ethics

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 31, 2026 – 1:45 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on some time surfing in D.C.

It’s sundress week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 31, 2026 – 9:01 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the mockingbirds are mocking, and, dang, it’s almost June. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in the Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Wake Up America: Never Let Politicians Decide What Is True: In An Age When Liars Rule, Question Everything
  2. The Right Scoop: GOOD VIDEO – Washington Nationals fire commie director, issue genuine apology and correction
  3. The Red Squirrel Report: This Is Memorial Day In Minneapolis
  4. The Other McCain: Trump Derangement Syndrome: Some Historical Perspective on Political Manias
  5. The Gateway Pundit: California Spending $49 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Give FREE Solar Panels and Refrigerators to Illegal Aliens
  6. Sister Toldjah: How It’s Done: NY Giants QB Defies Haters in Directly Addressing Trump Introduction Nontroversy
  7. Pacific Pundit: And now, it’s monkeypox – Boston sees uptick in cases
  8. Moonbattery: Minimum Wage Wipes Out Jobs in California
  9. Legal Insurrection: San Francisco Unified School District Workshop Labels Teachers as ‘Oppressors’
  10. Jihad Watch: Montreal: Muslim cleric says ‘the most beloved act of Allah is to shed blood’
  11. IOTW Report: Michigan Dem candidate wants to pull the stock trading ladder up behind her
  12. Geller Report: Democratic Candidate Charged with Terroristic Threat After ‘Pulling a Firearm on Government Workers’
  13. Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Winterthur
  14. Don Surber: Making DC worthy of our greatness
  15. And last, but, not least, Climate Depot has “Microsoft Pauses Its Carbon Indulgence Spending – Microsoft ‘was the carbon removal market’ – Climate activists go bonkers, ‘accuse Microsoft of abandoning its climate commitments’”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Oh Noes: Trump Squeezing “Immigrants” Out Of Jobs, Healthcare, And Housing

By William Teach May 31, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s so terrible! And the NY Times is big mad

Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Healthcare and Housing

For nearly three decades, Raquel Molina — an immigrant from El Salvador who has a valid Social Security number and permission to work in the United States — swabbed the toilets, wiped down the seats and vacuumed the aisles of airplanes at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

But last summer, Ms. Molina, 65, was abruptly fired from her $19.75-per-hour cleaning job, alongside dozens of other immigrants who have long legally worked at Logan. Her supervisor told her she no longer had clearance to enter secure areas at the airport. The Trump administration had decided that only U.S. citizens, green card holders and others with more permanent forms of residency should be granted access, according to a lawsuit that a labor union filed in federal court.

“I didn’t understand what was going on,” said Ms. Molina, who has been living legally in the United States under Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian program that shelters people from troubled countries until they can safely return home. “I had worked hard at my job. This news put me in a state of shock.”

“Temporary” doesn’t mean almost 30 years. It means here temporarily then you leave. If you don’t want to go back to El Salvador, you can go elsewhere.

For more than a year, administration officials have sought to pull every bureaucratic lever possible to cut off immigrants — both documented and undocumented — from jobs, medical care, financial services, tax credits and even from enrolling their children in day care. The goal has been to compel immigrants to leave the country, and, in the long run, to eliminate incentives that draw many people to the United States in the first place.

Interestingly, if you are going through the citizenship process you have to prove you can take care of yourself. You don’t have access to government programs. Most on a work or student visa are not eligible, either.

The initiative underscores the president’s ability to reshape immigration policy through executive orders and the vast power of federal regulations while sidestepping Congress. And it shows how the administration has pursued more creative — and lower-profile — tactics after Mr. Trump’s militarized deportation raids into major cities prompted political backlash earlier this year.

Everything the Trump admin is doing is based on previously passed laws by duly elected Congresses. If Congress wanted to do something they could step in and pass laws.

The changes range from structural shifts in the immigration system to small-scale, regulatory tweaks taking away jobs or services from just a few thousand people like Ms. Molina. In her case, the administration no longer considered T.P.S. a form of “authorized residency,” said Justin Long, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, meaning Ms. Molina could not be “given official government credentials and granted unescorted access to secure airport areas.”

The U.S. is not the dumping ground for every sorry sack from around the world. Ms. Molina had a long time to apply for citizenship, or even permanent residency (why the f*** do we have people living in the US getting all the benefits as “permanent residents”?).

The administration’s strategy, along with the threat of arrest and imprisonment, has helped drive many immigrants underground, intimidating them from filing taxes, visiting doctors and even traveling. So far, more than 116,000 people without permanent legal status have voluntarily left the United States, including some through a government self-deportation program, according to internal Department of Homeland Security figures reviewed by The New York Times. Many others are believed to have departed without telling the government.

And boom, there it is: all this drives these people living off the backs of US citizens out of the country. I wonder how many went back to their home countries? And this keeps oh so many from trying to come to the US illegally.

But this year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposed a rule that would effectively prevent people seeking asylum from receiving work permits. The move could be hugely consequential: Over the last fiscal year, more than two million asylum seekers received or renewed their permits, according to federal data.

Darn.

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