Doom: Hotcoldwetdry Will Make Mediterranean “Hurricanes” Worse Or Something

By William Teach May 19, 2026 – 7:15 am

Did you know that the Med has Bad Weather? And that you are making it worse?

The Mediterranean sea is capable of generating hurricanes and climate change will make them worse

In March 2026, a tropical-like cyclone named ‘Jolina’ produced significant damage across North Africa. In 2020 and 2023, storms Ianos and Daniel both caused severe damage in Greece, and the latter triggered a humanitarian disaster in the city of Derna, Libya, where thousands were declared dead or missing.

These tropical-like cyclones occur in a non-tropical region. They are known as “medicanes” – a portmanteau of Mediterranean and hurricanes.

As any major storm, medicanes know no borders. Their impacts spread across multiple countries as they sweep across the Mediterranean coast, one of the world’s most densely populated and vulnerable regions (the total population of Mediterranean countries in 2020 was about 540 million people, around one-third of them living in coastal areas).

Rising sea temperatures due to climate change increase the reservoir of energy these storms can feed on. More research on this phenomenon, which couples atmospheric and oceanic effects, is urgently needed in order to improve early warning systems and the preparedness of populations, in terms of civil protection and regarding how we would affront a catastrophic event that might exceed our ability to prepare for them.

They’re always looking for something to fearmonger about. Big storms are the norm in the Med, and have been since the great pulsewater around 12000 years ago when the seas rose high enough post glacial age to refill the Med. There are poems and stories about huge storms going back thousands of years. Around Greece, which has long been a shipping capital, you find huge numbers of shipwrecks under the water, most with the remains of ballast stones and amphora from the time, from as far back as the 6th Century BCE. Oh, and here’s one from 3,300 years ago. Harsh weather is a part of the Med, especially around Greece. Gale force storms can blow up in a minute and then just completely disappear.

But, you know, now it’s all your fault.

One of the earliest research papers on the subject, in 1983, opened with the sentence: “At times, Mother Nature does her best to deceive us”, accompanied by a satellite image of a cyclone displaying a well-organised spiral cloud structure and a cloudless eye at its centre, strikingly similar to those that habitually occur in the tropics. The opening line implies what a surprise it would be to encounter such an impressive and counterintuitive occurence of a tropical-like storm structure in the Mediterranean.

So, do we have any satellite data from before, say, 1979? Oh, right, we didn’t have the satellites to view them, so, we have nothing to compare to.

Ultimately, however, efficient adaptation requires better climate prediction models and therefore more reliable and accurate estimation of extremes caused by cyclones. This can be only achieved through scientific research. An end-to-end approach that translates research findings into actionable information for climate adaptation and civil protection is both timely and essential, including for example infrastructure resilience planning and early warning systems to reduce vulnerability and socioeconomic impacts.

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LOL: Minnesota County Charges ICE Agent Over Shooting

By William Teach May 19, 2026 – 7:00 am

Do they actually think this is going to go anywhere? That they have any power here?

Minnesota county charges ICE officer in shooting during immigration crackdown

A Minnesota prosecutor on Monday announced charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota.

The officer, Christian Castro, is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said at a news conference. A warrant was issued for his arrest.

A federal officer shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh after he and another officer chased a different man to the apartment duplex where the man and Sosa-Celis lived. Moriarty said both Sosa-Celis and the other man were legally in the U.S.

Federal authorities initially accused Sosa-Celis and Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna of beating an officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel during the incident, but a federal judge later dismissed the charges and federal officials opened an investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about what happened.

If they did wrong, well, they will be disciplined by the DOJ. A county prosecutors office has no power here. Those agents will not stand trial.

Yeah, they were illegal aliens. They were simply released by the Biden regime. That doesn’t make them legally in the U.S.

Attempting to evade arrest, Sosa-Celis fled the scene in his vehicle, crashed into a parked car, and proceeded to flee on foot. The law enforcement officer pursued Sosa-Celis also on foot, caught up to him, and attempted to apprehend him when Sosa-Celis began to resist and violently assault the officer. While Sosa-Celis and law enforcement were in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment and attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle.

So, they were, in fact, chasing Sosa-Celis, unlike what the story and the prosecutors are saying.

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Your Fault: Ebola Is Spreading

By William Teach May 18, 2026 – 3:00 pm

So, we have this

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a global health emergency, with at least 80 dead

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern, after officials identified more than 250 suspected cases and 80 suspected deaths linked to the disease.

Officials warned that the true scope of the outbreak could potentially be much larger than what has been reported so far, as health workers raced to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease.

The WHO said the outbreak fell short of the criteria for a “pandemic emergency,” like COVID-19, and advised against closing international borders.

In other words, they do not want the US and EU, Australia, other 1st world nations to ban people coming from Congo and Uganda. Even though it’s dangerous. If you’re an idiot and have risky contract, especially sexual contact, with people from those areas. Don’t touch them or their fluids. It’s not airborne or waterborne.

And, of course

From Ebola to hantavirus: Why the world is seeing more disease threats now

The headlines have become grimly familiar.

A deadly Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. A hantavirus scare aboard a cruise ship. Rising dengue infections in Europe. Bird flu spreading among mammals. Health alerts flashing across continents within hours.

Scientists say the anxiety is understandable. But they also say something deeper is happening.

Humanity, experts warn, is entering an era where outbreaks may become more frequent — not necessarily because viruses are suddenly “new”, but because the world itself has changed dramatically.

Experts say one of the biggest drivers behind modern outbreaks is the growing collision between humans and wildlife.

As forests are cleared, mining expands, cities spread and ecosystems shrink, humans are increasingly coming into contact with animals carrying dangerous pathogens.

That makes sense, and, I’d agree with that

Jason Rohr, a professor at the University of Notre Dame whose research focuses on environmental drivers of disease outbreaks, said biodiversity loss, climate change and ecosystem disruption are increasing disease risks globally. (snip)

Scientists increasingly see climate change as a major threat multiplier.

Seriously, they pulled this crap a few years ago, there was never even a mild pandemic.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 18, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible cooler made with terrible carbon polluting plastic, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the Monday morning stimulus.

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Idaho Requires Allowing House Plots To Be As Small As 1,500 Feet

By William Teach May 18, 2026 – 10:30 am

An interesting idea

Why wide-open Idaho is mandating houses on the smallest lots in America

Idaho, one of the most sparsely populated states, is known for its vast stretches of open land. And yet a new Idaho law has imposed the country’s smallest minimum lot size requirements for houses.

The law requires that cities approve housing on lots starting at 1,500 square feet, if certain conditions are met. That’s just a bit more than half the playing area of a doubles tennis court.

Smaller lots exist in parts of the country. Some D.C. rowhouses can be found on land as tight as 900 square feet. But no other state has mandated lots anywhere near as small as Idaho’s.

This seems to be for aimed for single family dwellings, as opposed to duplex townhomes.

“We love our wide open spaces,” said Sen. Ben Toews, a Republican who led the bipartisan legislation. “Having smaller communities actually allows more wide open spaces, because suburban sprawl is a real issue. You’re seeing our farmlands get eaten up by houses.”

Plus, Toews said, he doesn’t think cities should be allowed to prevent developers from building small houses if buyers want them: “I know there’s demand, and I know that regulations have stopped the supply for that demand. I’m a free market guy. I’m just counting on the free market to supply the demand.”

One of those potential buyers is Nicklaus Jones, a welder who moved from Utah to Idaho three years ago. (snip)

Jones said he wants something small — nothing like the mini-mansions he sees under construction. But the small house he envisions is a rarity in Idaho, as it is in most parts of the country, where “starter homes” have been disappearing.

He has a point. Most of the homes that I see being built around Raleigh are bigger. Not necessarily big land, but, not a lot of those 1,100-1,500 square feet homes. They’ll build townhomes instead.

According to the most recent numbers from the Census Bureau, 6 in 10 new homes in 2024 were built on more than 7,000 square feet of land.

Do those numbers include townhome developments?

Opponents say the state shouldn’t block cities from making the rules they want about lot sizes. “The question comes down to: What do we want our town to look like?” said Ben Adams, a state senator who voted against the law. “I was very frustrated that it was called ‘starter-home subdivisions.’ Because the American Dream itself of homeownership? Nobody is dreaming of an 800-square-foot home.”

I expected the people against this to be Democrats, but, Adams is a Republican. Maybe people are good with those small homes, at least to start out. Anyhow, it’s a worthwhile article to read. And, good idea? Bad idea? I’m in favor of it. Heck, maybe you get builders doing tiny homes, under 500 square feet, for young people, who want their own stand alone domicile, rather than a townhome, which also gotten freaking expensive.

Also, why was the government determining the size of plots of land and homes in the first place?

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UN Climate (scam) Models Adjusted Away From Doom

By William Teach May 18, 2026 – 7:15 am

The UN gives a hilarious reason

Climate group reverses course on doomsday predictions — and Trump takes victory lap: ‘WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!’

President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining that they were not the most plausible outcomes.

The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had quietly adjusted its modeling frameworkof a 4–5°C warming by 2100 last month. That framework had underpinned a myriad of other analyses predicting terrifying consequences for greenhouse gas emissions.

“GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate Change’ is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” Trump chided on Truth Social.

Again, they had been prognosticating a 7.2F to 9F rise by 2100, despite the Earth only seeing a 1.7F increase since 1850

The IPCC framework in question was used to forecast a dramatic rise in sea levels, global crop failures, rapid melting of glaciers, and more, which made some hardcore climate change activists fret about future extinction.

But ultimately, scientists cited data and argued that the push towards renewable energies made that scenario less likely.

There’s always some excuse when a doomy prognostication is made and fails. Well, when they bother to address it at all. And their models usually fail.

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LOL: NC Dems Try Introduce Bill To Seek Protections For Illegals

By William Teach May 18, 2026 – 7:00 am

The Don Quixote party

NC bill seeks protections for immigrant students amid ICE fears

More than 20,000 students were absent from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools during immigration enforcement operations last fall, according to district reporting, a wave of fear that helped spark a new bill in the North Carolina General Assembly aimed at protecting immigrant students in public schools.

House Bill 1061, titled the “Plyler Educational Protections,” would reinforce students’ right to public education and establish clearer guidance for how schools respond to federal immigration enforcement requests.

Sammy Salkin, a senior policy strategist for the ACLU of North Carolina, said the legislation was created with one focus in mind.

“We want to make it clear that all children in North Carolina, regardless of immigration status, have a constitutional right to a free public school education,” Salkin said.

Well, the thing is, federal immigration agents weren’t going into schools. And it is insane that the Supreme Court ruled in 1982 in Plyler v. Doe that illegal alien kids have to receive education on the taxpayer dime. But, there’s plenty of law that says the illegal alien parents can be picked up and deported

Salkin said North Carolina immigrant communities across the state have experienced increasing fear over the past year after “Operation Charlotte’s Web” in November 2025. This initiative was a Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement operation in which many people were arrested across the Charlotte area and the surrounding regions of North Carolina.

Good. They should self deport.

State Representative Julia Greenfield, one of the bill’s primary sponsors, said the legislation is intended to accomplish the goal of making schools safe environments for students.

I wonder what party she is?

Despite support from advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers, Greenfield said she does not expect the legislation to advance this session.

“I don’t believe that it will go anywhere here in the legislature because we are in the minority,” Greenfield said. “The Republican majority is not interested in legislation that would keep ICE and CBP out of our schools.”

They still don’t mention here party, just hint at it. She’s a Democrat, a member of the Progressive House Caucus, and her district, 100, covers part of uber-leftist Mecklenburg County (where Charlotte is). AWFL. And,  yeah, the legislation will never make it out of committee.

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California Solar Project Spent 7.2% Of Allocated Money On Solar

By William Teach May 17, 2026 – 6:21 pm

This caught my interest enough to post again on a Sunday, less because of the climate scam, and more on the actual scam

Continuing

The same nonprofit that WROTE the law that gave them the money ALSO got the contract to run “community outreach.”

Same guy runs the nonprofit AND the program. Chris Walker. Two paychecks. Look it up.

And their SISTER organization — same building, same staff, same donors — is a 501(c)(4) that endorses Democrat candidates and runs door-knocking operations in the EXACT SAME NEIGHBORHOODS.

Taxpayer money essentially going into the pockets of friends, family, and donors, then a portion kicked back to elect politicians. Mostly Democrats. And this isn’t like so many of the scams, where 20+% is at least spent on the intended mission, no, this is 7.2%

And not one journalist in this state asked a single question until  @jennyraeca and CAL DOGE pulled the receipts.

They probably still do not care. This is not new. It goes back to reporting in February, yet, the California media is still quiet.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 17, 2026 – 1:48 pm

…are horrible world killing totally Evil fossil fueled vehicles that Other People should be restricted from using, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The View From Lady Lake, with a post on how the TSA wants to speed up screening.

It’s shorts week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 17, 2026 – 9:16 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the deer are walking through the backyard. This pinup is by Gil Elgren with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Flopping Aces: Is it Time for the Base to go Nuclear on the GOP Senate?
  2. Climate Change Dispatch: New Zealand Moves to Shield Fossil Fuel Companies From Climate Lawfare
  3. Green Jihad: Ex-Climate Cultist Speaks Out: “I Was In A Death Cult”
  4. Jo Nova: $9b EV experiment failure: Honda posts first annual loss in 70 years, abandons targets
  5. No Tricks Zone: Scandal: Although Climate Panic Is Canceled By IPCC, Europe’s Policymakers Continue With Their Crushing Policies
  6. Bearing Arms: Virginia Governor Admits She Just Banned Guns ‘Frequently Used for Hunting’
  7. Chicks On The Right: Democrats Are FLIPPING OUT Over Pratt Boy Summer!
  8. Climate Depot: America’s energy comeback is leaving green fantasies behind
  9. Common Cents Blog: Breaking: CIA Whistleblower DETONATES Fauci’s COVID Narrative — “Lab Leak Cover-Up Was Intentional” – Video
  10. Gates Of Vienna: Knife and Vehicle Jihad in Modena
  11. Geller Report: Israel to Sue New York Times for Blood Libel
  12. IOTW Report: A non-existent apartment, expensive rugs, a $4,500 coffeemaker, and zero businesses attracted
  13. Jihad Watch: NYC: Muslims carry out prayers directly outside all girls’ Jewish school
  14. Legal Insurrection: Feds File For Death Penalty In DC Murders of Two Israeli Embassy Staffers By “Pro-Palestinian”
  15. And last, but, not least, Moonbattery: A Multiculturally Enriched Way to Die
  16. And one to grow on, MOTUS A.D. has “Incompetency ‘R Us”

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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