…is a village which will soon be wiped out by Bad Weather flooding, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is the First Street Journal, with a post noting you will own nothing and like it.
Sorry, got distracted before work trying to learn Cat Scratch Fever on guitar, forgot I never finished this.
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Can you guess what’s coming?
How cities can adapt to climate change without starting over
Local governments make infrastructure decisions all the time – rebuilding roads, expanding housing, and updating public services. A new proposal argues those everyday choices could also become some of the most effective climate actions communities have.
Instead of treating climate adaptation and emissions cuts as separate goals, the approach urges cities to link them.
By “urge” they mean force
The pitch starts with a reality check. Many cities aren’t planning for climate change as a distant possibility. They’re already responding to it.
They’re dealing with storms, flooding, heat, and shifting population patterns that force practical decisions about where people live and what infrastructure can handle.
“Local governments are already dealing with the impacts of climate change,” said Christopher Galik, a professor of public administration at NC State.
“There are more extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and flooding, which force municipalities to make decisions about how, where, and – in some cases – whether to rebuild.”
First, there aren’t more. However, because of expansion with poor planning it looks like more. Streets, sewers, etc, that are not set up for the number of buildings and cars. Instead of putting in some single family homes they build massive apartment and townhouse complexes. There is no way for the normal rain to run-off correctly, so, you get flooding. Clearcut properties, all the concrete and paving instead of ground. Tiny young trees replacing old growth. Giant factories, storehouses, and so forth, all jammed in. Limited roads. We have a big problem in the South with this where growth radiates out from the center in a circle, limiting primary and secondary roads. It’s the problem of land use. I’ve seen floods where I never saw them before because of new apartment complexes. Anyhow
The power of forced decisions
Municipal change is rarely easy, even when it’s clearly needed. Updating zoning or construction requirements can trigger fierce debates, and it often costs money up front.The paper argues that climate disruption, ironically, can create windows where change becomes more realistic because the alternative is rebuilding the same vulnerabilities again.
“Instituting new policies and regulations that govern zoning, construction requirements, and so on, can be expensive and politically challenging,” Sanchez said.
“But if communities are already having to build or rebuild in response to climate change, implementing compound resilience policies may be more feasible.”
In other words, you will comply, Comrades. Like it or not, you will comply. It all sounds so non-authoritative, but, that is what they want: total governmental control.
Read: Say, How Can Cities Adapt To The Climate Crisis (scam)? »
Weirdly, there’s one name not mentioned anywhere in this NBC News article
Average nationwide gas prices will dip below $3 per gallon this year, GasBuddy projects
For the first time since 2020, the annual average price of gas is projected to fall below $3 a gallon in 2026, the price-tracking group GasBuddy said in a new report Tuesday.
At $2.97, GasBuddy’s projected average for the year is 13 cents below the average price per gallon nationwide in 2025, which was $3.10.
“The world has spent years recovering from the economic whiplash of the pandemic and the shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the situation has been improving quietly since 2022,” Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, said in a statement.
GasBuddy calculated the average by determining a monthly price range, averaging that and then taking the average of all 12 months. Full results were included in the group’s 2026 fuel price outlook report.
The last year that average annual gas prices nationwide were as low as GasBuddy projects for this year was 2020, when the Covid pandemic kept millions of Americans working from home and schools largely virtual.
It was $2.17 in 2020. $3.03 in 2021, $3.98 in 2022, $3.54 in 2023, $3.32 in 2024, $3.13 in 2024. Thanks to COVID and the policies of Biden and his Democrat Comrades it spiked hard and then was slow to come down. Now it’s up to Trump to set the conditions to get more drilling going and get the refineries working.
The events unfolding in Venezuela won’t immediately change anything for consumers at the pump, however.
“A lot of Americans may think there’s going to be some sort of overnight or even weekly or monthly improvement in Venezuela’s oil output, but this is really a clock that’s going to tick much slower,” De Haan told NBC News.
“Gas prices almost always start going up in the spring,” he added. “What’s happening in Venezuela is not going to stop that seasonal trend.”
Well, they sure went up quickly, but, yeah, harder to bring down, just like most goods.
Hmm, there’s something interesting here
Capitalists Want You to Stop Worrying About Climate Change
Andreas Malm and Wim Carton have an enemy, and it’s not “climate deniers.” These authors acknowledge that the original Big Oil brand of climate denialism — which rejected the scientific fact that through the burning of fossil fuels humans emit carbon dioxide, which in turn warms the planet — is now less prevalent than a newer denialist argument, asserting that “climate change exists but it is not much of a problem.”
Nor is their enemy as broad or systemic as “capitalism,” although the authors have half-jokingly described their book as a sort of “readable IPCC report of a Marxist nature” and advocate goals like the “infliction of serious material costs on fossil capital.”
For these professors at Lund University in Sweden, the authors of the new book The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late, the enemies du jour are the “rationalist-optimists.”
Um, they wrote a book, with the intention of making money via a capitalist system, right? Let’s skip through all the cult propaganda to the end
There is no path to net-zero emissions without discomfort, without the stranding of assets, without people and corporations losing money. While there’s certainly a role for CDR, and perhaps maybe even SRM one day, we must cut emissions above all else. With decarbonization at the fore, we can then — as a report from researchers at American University puts it — focus on how much CDR we can do well.
Doing CDR well means building CDR as a public good, marshaling massive public investment and policy — perhaps via a federal carbon authority — to deliver removals outside some make-believe free market. We need to ensure removals are publicly monitored and verified, set removal targets that complement but don’t replace emissions cuts, and sharply curb the use of CDR for enhanced oil recovery.
Unsurprisingly, tons of government. The article is in Jacobin, which is a seriously far left Socialist (really, far far right, because Modern Socialism is authoritarian) website. Anyhow, pushing ‘climate change’ sure seems like a Modern Socialist thing if it’s not a capitalist thing, eh?
Read: Bummer: Capitalists Want You To Stop Worrying About Climate Doom »
It makes a lot of sense, and I bet Marco Rubio is behind this
Trump backs Maduro loyalist over Venezuela opposition leader in post-capture transition
When Nicolás Maduro was removed from power by the United States, many in Washington expected the U.S. to rally behind Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leader.
Instead, the Trump administration moved to engage a longtime Maduro loyalist, signaling a transition strategy driven less by democratic symbolism than by concerns over stability on the ground.
The approach sidelined María Corina Machado, the opposition leader who claims the strongest popular mandate and international profile, while elevating Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president and a central figure in the outgoing regime.
Administration officials and outside analysts say the shift reflects a calculated effort to avoid a power vacuum and maintain control during a fragile transition, even as it complicates Washington’s longstanding support for Venezuela’s democratic opposition.
And President Donald Trump is betting Rodríguez now lives in fear of what might happen to her if she defies the U.S.
Trump, describing his phone call with Rodríguez, said she offered: “We’ll do whatever you need.”
“I think she was quite gracious,” he said.
But in a separate interview with The Atlantic he warned: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
Now, let’s consider: she stays in power during the transition. Trump doesn’t want to run Venezuela. He doesn’t want nation building. He wants a stable Venezuela, and, at that point, elections. Sidelining Machado and the guy everyone says won the 2024 election, Edmundo González, means they won’t be accused of being Trump’s people, or America’s people. If Biden or Harris were president right now it would be best to sideline Machado and Gonzalez, do not want them to appear to be in Los Yankees pockets.
A classified CIA intelligence assessment examined who would be best positioned to lead a temporary government in Caracas, Venezuela, and maintain short-term stability, a source familiar with the intelligence told Fox News Digital. The report, requested by senior policymakers and presented to Trump, aimed to offer the president “comprehensive and objective analysis” on possible scenarios after Maduro’s capture. (snip)
“There was sentiment among senior officials that Machado lacked the necessary support in Venezuela if Maduro was to be removed,” the source familiar told Fox News Digital.
Neither she nor Gonzalez would, at least on paper, be able to get the support of the military or security services, at least not in a time that matters, and right now it is time to stablize Venezuela, get the oil flowing, get goods coming in and out, and shut off the flow of drugs (as much as possible, of course).
How do they write this with a straight face?
What these ancient clues tell us about future global sea level rise
Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?
When the researchers first arrived at their field camp at Prudhoe Dome, atop the Greenland ice sheet, they felt they had been swallowed by a monster.
The mountain of ice in northwest Greenland was more than 50 miles wide and 1,600 feet tall. The temperature at its summit was well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. The scientists’ experiment there — an unprecedented effort to extract bedrock from deep beneath the ice sheet — was routinely disrupted by howling winds and blizzards so dense they blocked the sun. It was hard to imagine that this formidable, frozen expanse could ever disappear.
But the rocks they uncovered on that 2023 expedition contain chemical signatures showing that Prudhoe Dome completely melted within the past 10,000 years — and it might soon suffer the same fate amid modern climate change.
How do Warmists not notice that this has, in fact, happened before? Oh, of course, they’ll say “oh, this was totally natural before, but, today it’s totally Your Fault. Not natural at all. Trust us.”
The results published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience hold a warning for a warming planet, lead author Caleb Walcott-George said. The study suggests that large portions of Greenland were ice-free in Earth’s recent past, when global temperatures weren’t much higher than they are now. If the same melting occurred today, it would raise average sea levels anywhere from 7.5 inches to 2.4 feet.
Present-day melting may not precisely emulate what happened in the past, the researchers acknowledged. The cause of modern climate change — pollution primarily from burning fossil fuels — is distinct from the slight wobbles in Earth’s orbit that triggered warming thousands of years ago.
FFS. These people are cultists.
The GreenDrill team had hoped they would find that Prudhoe Dome hadn’t melted since the last interglacial — a geological period more than 100,000 years ago, when global temperatures were slightly warmer than they are today.
But the luminescence measurements suggested that the sediments had been buried for only about 7,100 years. This meant the ice atop Prudhoe Dome disappeared amid conditions similar to the current climate, when the Arctic was about 3 to 5 degrees warmer than it was in the 19th century.
Hoped, found they wrong, but, still hold on to the climate scam, even though it was apparently much warmer.
…are world killing dogs, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on Berlin’s terror blackout entering the 4th day.
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Suddenly the NY Times is concerned about the economic viability of Venezuela
Venezuela Braces for Economic Collapse From U.S. Blockade
Even before American forces blasted their way into Venezuela’s capital and seized President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, the nation was already facing dire economic prospects.
The partial blockade imposed by the United States on Venezuela’s energy exports was expected to shutter more than 70 percent of the country’s oil production this year and wipe out its dominant source of public revenue, according to people briefed on Venezuela’s internal projections compiled in December.
The Trump administration’s decision last month to begin targeting tankers carrying Venezuelan crude to Asian markets had paralyzed the state oil company’s exports. To keep the wells pumping, the state oil company, known as PDVSA, had been redirecting crude oil into storage tanks and turning tankers idling in ports into floating storage facilities.
If the blockade held, the Venezuelan government expected national oil production to collapse from about 1.2 million barrels per day late last year to less than 300,000 later this year, said the people briefed — a drop that would significantly reduce the government’s ability to import goods and maintain basic services. The people had access to the projections and discussed them on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
OK, you see where this is going, Orange Man Bad for potentially maybe possibly seeing oil production crash. Even though one would think leftists who are usually climate cultists hate oil. And the money previously made was not going back into helping the people of Venezuela
Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate
Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves, is a case study in the perils of becoming a petrostate. Since it was discovered in the country in the 1920s, oil has taken Venezuela on an exhilarating but dangerous boom-and-bust ride that offers lessons for other resource-rich states. Decades of poor governance have driven what was once one of Latin America’s most prosperous countries to economic and political ruin.
In recent years, Venezuela has suffered economic collapse, with output shrinking significantly and rampant hyperinflation contributing to a scarcity of basic goods, such as food and medicine. Meanwhile, government mismanagement and U.S. sanctions have led to a drastic decline in oil production and severe underinvestment in the sector. Though Washington eased some sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector in 2023, signaling a potential détente, Caracas’s failure to meet conditions for a fair election prompted the U.S. government to reimpose sanctions in 2024.
Well, that’s one way to look at it, because it comes down to Venezuela being run into the ground by hardcore leftist dictators. Other petrostates are doing fine. And the above article was before Trump took office the second time.
(Economic Observatory) Living standards in oil-rich Venezuela plummeted by a staggering 74% between 2013 and 2023. This is the fifth largest fall in living standards in modern economic history.
The country’s economy collapsed under a single government during peacetime. But this economic implosion is comparable to those seen in Iraq, Lebanon and Liberia – countries that have been ravaged by war or civil war – or Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan after the Soviet Union fell and brought down the state and entire economic system.
Venezuela had problems getting food to the point that zoos were being raided. They couldn’t get toilet paper and beer.
Here’s the UK Guardian as they attempt to say arresting Maduro was Bad and causing problems
“Anger,” said Sauriany, a 23-year-old administrative worker from Venezuela’s state-owned electricity company as she queued outside a supermarket on the other side of town with her 24-year-old partner, Leandro.
Leandro voiced shock as the couple waited in a 100-person queue to buy flour, milk and butter alongside a quartet of nuns. “Who could have imagined that his would happen? That right at the start of the year they’d bomb our country while everyone was asleep?” he asked. (snip)
But many locals were quietly rejoicing at the demise of a politician who many loathe for leading their oil-rich country into years of ruin and repression since he took power in 2013 and is widely believed to have stolen the 2024 presidential election.
The nation is already in economic collapse. It’s why about one third of the citizens left and moved to other countries: US, Argentina, Brazil, EU nations. Arresting Maduro didn’t lead to those food lines within a few hours. The Trump admin will use pressure to get reform into Venezuela via their oil production, which could lead to the ability to produce other products, like rice, corn, fish, tropical fruit, coffee, pork and beef in levels that would feed the citizens and allow exports. The nation needs political stability, and to actually rely less on oil revenues. We’ll see what happens, but, the current economic crisis is not because of Trump arresting Maduro, and can only get better.
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Of course, they seem to be merging common headaches with actual migraines
What’s behind the mysterious rise of migraines?
Weather patterns such as extreme heat and storm conditions have been linked to migraine attacks, and research shows those environmental conditions are becoming more common. As National Geographic recently reported, one of the leading theories behind this mysterious rise is that climate change may be playing a role.
“If you have global warming and higher temperatures to begin with, you’re going to have more headache,” says Vincent Martin, a University of Cincinnati professor of clinical medicine in the College of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine and president of the National Headache Foundation. “With more low pressure systems and turbulent weather rolling in, the fluctuating weather patterns that are occurring with climate change can trigger more frequent and severe attacks of migraine and longer duration headaches.”
A systematic review of medical research published in May of 2024 found a growing trend of more frequent and worse migraine attacks. While the review found that migraines in the U.S. are as common as they were three decades ago, the severity and level of impairment from migraine attacks nearly doubled between 2005 and 2018. While women tend to be more prone to migraine attacks than men, men are increasingly affected by the neurologic condition.
Martin coauthored research presented at the 2024 American Headache Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting. It found that for every 10°F increase in outdoor temperature, there was a six percent increase in the occurrence of any headache on that day (based on headache diaries kept by 660 migraine patients). In a study in a 2025 issue of the journal Headache, researchers spent 12 years following 407,792 people in the U.K. who didn’t initially report experiencing migraines. That paper found that more migraine cases occurred among people who had higher exposure to nitrogen dioxide levels (a form of air pollution caused by burning fuel) and exposure to more extreme temperatures in the summer and winter.
Um, we’ve had hot weather across the world for a long time, and people have survived. Lots of people live in, get this, hot places. A 1.6F increase in global temperatures since 1850 is a blip. And, have we considered that there could be other cause of the increase in severity and level of impairment, such as looking at computers and TVs and phones so damned much? Spending too much time inside? Too much caffeine, alcohol, bad diets, and more? No, of course, not, ‘climate change’ is always the answer to the cult.
Dems love them some illegal alien criminals
Over 1,000 arrested in ‘massive’ Minnesota operation, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles
Federal authorities have arrested more than 1,000 in Minnesota, including alleged murderers, rapists, pedophiles and gang members, after sending a surge of agents to the state in its “massive” response to the rampant fraud still being uncovered.
Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that since the agency “surged law enforcement” to Minnesota last week, it “has already made more than 1,000 arrests of murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members.”
DHS said that among those arrested was a Somali criminal illegal alien named Liban Ali Osman, 43, who the agency said was convicted of robbery in Columbus, Ohio. Osman was sentenced to three years in prison and has had a final order of removal since May 17, 2011.
Federal agents also arrested another Laotian, Por Moua, 50, during the operation. Moua has convictions for first-degree great bodily harm, sexual intercourse with a child in California, and false imprisonment.
These are the people Democrat are fighting for. And the list of some of these people goes on and on. And
Minnesota has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks after authorities revealed multimillion-dollar fraud operations in the state, resulting in dozens of arrests and indictments.
Last week, Homeland Security announced it was launching a “massive operation” in Minnesota to “identify, arrest, and remove criminals who are defrauding the American people.”
I’m wondering if Tim got a letter from the DOJ that he is a target of a federal investigation?
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