…is a world killing dog causing Bad Weather which creates flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on there still not being any kings.
It’s sunny days week!
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…is a world killing dog causing Bad Weather which creates flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on there still not being any kings.
It’s sunny days week!
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Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers have started off the season 3-0, taking care of division rival the Diamondbacks. This pinup is by Edward D’Ancona, with a wee bit of help. I don’t think I’ve used this one before, have over a 1K pinup posts, hard to see.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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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Has it been? How so?
This potent greenhouse gas has been ‘widely’ underestimated, study finds
Parts of the U.S. may be emitting much more of one of the most potent greenhouse gases than previously thought, according to new research.
Satellite observations suggest that methane emissions in urban areas may be “widely underestimated” – up to 80% higher than noted in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory, an annual report that accounts for total greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks for all man-made sources in the U.S., according to a paper published Wednesday in Science.
Researchers analyzed satellite images taken by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on the Sentinel-5P satellite and found that emissions from 12 major urban areas – New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Miami, Houston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Cincinnati – were emitting up to 80% more methane than reported by the EPA, according to the study.
The finding suggests that urban sources of methane, such as landfills and natural gas infrastructure, play a larger role in near-term climate warming than previously realized, Xiaolin Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in atmospheric science at Harvard University and lead author of the paper, told ABC News. (snip)
Urban areas have complex, population-driven methane sources, including landfills, natural gas distribution systems, wastewater treatment plants and residential combustion, Wang said.
So, basically, urban areas which are dominated by Democrats who make up the vast amount of Warmists are horrible people who want to destroy the planet, burn it to a cinder? Huh. How about that!
Really, though, we’ve know about the problem with methane, especially as it relates to agriculture and landfills, for quite some time. This was a big focus of early IPCC reports, but, no one wanted to focus on it because 1) people will make lots of fart jokes and 2) unlike CO2, it couldn’t be fearmongered in a way to take away money, freedom, and life choices from people by The Government. You can’t force citizens to give up their fossil fuels and ride the bus over methane. Yammer about methane and people worry about being able to eat, hence why only the cultiest of culters talk about taking on the agriculture sector.
Meanwhile, climamoonbats
Regardless of whether the foam is polyurethane, polystyrene, or synthetic latex, it involves petroleum. Only natural latex doesn’t. Most foam is made from the first two/
Read: Huh: Methane “Widely Underestimated” For Climate Doom Or Something »
…is a field perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on the 90 day empire for energy.
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If it turns out cops are telling federal authorities about the really bad ones, will the People’s Republik of California tell us about it?
After immigration arrests, California lawmakers wonder: Are police telling the feds too much?
Citing fear of authoritarianism and invasive surveillance, California lawmakers voted this week to audit the operation of joint intelligence centers where federal, state, and local agencies share information.
The decision was made Tuesday along party lines by the Joint Committee on Legislative Audit, a 14-member body made up of members of the California Senate and Assembly. Nine members voted in favor, one against, and four did not vote. The audit will be conducted by State Auditor Grant Parks.
Advocacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Oakland Privacy urged lawmakers to demand the audit to rein in what they described as abuses at the facilities, known as fusion centers. They cited an incident in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly asked La Habra police to run searches on its behalf at an Orange County fusion center and several others in which San Francisco police circumvented a local ban on facial recognition by asking for help from a fusion center with access to the technology.
CalMatters investigations last year and last month found instances where local law enforcement agencies shared license plate information with ICE or the Border Patrol, violating state law. California Attorney General Rob Bonta sent letters to more than a dozen local law enforcement agencies since 2024 for potential violations of the state law banning it and sued the City of El Cajon for allegedly violating the ban.
See, they do not care a whit if the cops are sharing information with Los Federales on U.S. citizens who are, say, wanted fugitives, they care if the people are illegal aliens. And it’s somehow “authoritarianism” to alert Los Federales. I don’t remember it being “authoritarianism” when ICE and others were being told when Obama and Biden were in office. They never say why they consider it authoritarianism.
Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, a Democrat from Riverside, requested the audit. She believes that fusion centers have undermined state law that prohibits cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies for immigration purposes. A 2024 Surveillance Technology Oversight Project report cited in her audit petition alleges that a California fusion center routinely shares information with ICE. She also said the centers put at risk the privacy of Californians more broadly, particularly given what she describes as the slide of the federal government into authoritarianism.
Federal law takes presedence over state law on immigration matters, and, the state of California’s, the counties, and local police all receive federal money. Stop taking it and maybe you’ll have a leg to stand on.
Meanwhile
Santa Fe has short time to spend housing funds after immigration fight with feds
Six local nonprofits have a shrinking window of time to spend federal funds meant to help reduce Santa Fe’s severe housing problems.
The funding must be spent by the end of the federal fiscal year in September, but with just six months remaining, the nonprofits are still waiting for the city, which administers the federal program, to allocate the money.
The money was specifically stated to not be used for illegals, but, of course, a judge said that was mean. So, now, Santa Fe has a severe housing problem because there are too many illegals, making it difficult for the Americans who live there, raising the cost of things like rent.
Read: PRC Investigating Whether Local Cops Are Snitching On Illegals »
So, they want to get rid of fossil fuels? Really, without them Alaska would be a back country wilderness. No one would really go there
Small group of Alaskans rally for climate action at Capitol
Organizers and lawmakers gathered on the steps of the Alaska State Capitol on Thursday morning to rally in support of bills and funding to address climate change in Alaska.
At the gathering of about 25 people, Rep. Donna Mears, an Anchorage Democrat, said climate disasters are expensive for the state.
“The additional cost to government for responding to climate disasters like interior wildfires and the storms in western and northern Alaska,” Mears said. “So we’re getting budget pressures from that, but we also we can’t just spend money on that. We need to work upstream.”
Mears said she supports programs like the Renewable Energy Fund, which was established in 2008. The Alaska Energy Authority requested $41.2 million dollars from the Legislature to help pay for 29 renewable energy projects across the state next year.
Funny how they always want Other Pay to pay for their beliefs. How well will solar panels work in the winter when the sun is scarce, both from storms, fog, and fewer daylight hours? How about wind turbines when it can get way too windy for them to operate and very cold for extended periods of time? Look, in fairness, a lot of Alaskans have solar panels for their personal homes, since laying power lines is not easy in the frozen soil. Many do not have running water, relying on cisterns. Many heavily rely on fossil fuels for transportation, power, and heating.
Felix Rivera is an Anchorage Assembly member who works at The Alaska Center, an environmental advocacy nonprofit. He spoke in support of two bills that haven’t made it out of committees.
Seems rather a conflict of interest.
Read: We’re Saved: Small Group Of Alaskans Take Fossil Fueled Trips To Demand Climate (scam) Action »
The hard part is Thune sent the Senate off on a two week break from D.C. I mean, is he trying to lose the mid-terms?
House GOP rejects Senate-passed DHS bill, proposes stopgap
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but not immigration enforcement, instead proposing a stopgap to fund the entire department for eight weeks.
The move amounts to a stunning rebuke of the upper chamber by GOP leaders — and extends the length of what is already the longest partial government shutdown in history in its 42nd day.
“This gambit that was done last night is a joke. I’m quite convinced that it can’t be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill,” Johnson said, going on to read the Senate-passed bill language that provides zero dollars for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border security operations.
“We’re not doing that,” Johnson said. “And it is unconscionable to me that the Democrats would force some sort of negotiation at three o’clock in the morning.”
Johnson said he intended to hold a vote “as soon as possible” on a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the entirety of DHS through May 22. Such a bill will mark the fourth time that the House has passed funding for the full department.
Of course, it’s hard for that CR to go anywhere even if the Senate was still in D.C.
House GOP leaders were also outraged at the Senate deal. Johnson was visibly frustrated in comments to reporters as he slammed the Senate GOP bill, putting him at odds with his counterpart in the upper chamber, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.).
“I wouldn’t call John Thune the engineer of this,” Johnson said. “Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate have forced this upon the Senate. I have to protect the House.”
Thune is the majority leader, right? If the situation was reversed do you think that Schumer would have allowed this? Or would he have found a way to get it done? Hell, Schumer crowed about the GOP caving.
The bill funding much of DHS also passed the Senate by unanimous consent, underlining its broad support, even as Johnson on Friday sought to put the blame on Senate Democrats.
So, they didn’t actually vote? Put themselves on the record specifically? Huh.
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The Warmists are very upset that Iran is having the shit kicked out of it, and want this to stop
The war on Iran is a war on the climate
Every missile fired, every refinery burned and every pipeline ruptured does more than damage and destroy infrastructure and take human life — it releases vast quantities of greenhouse gases into an already overheated atmosphere. In Tehran, military strikes have turned the sky black and the air caustic, a stark reminder that modern war runs on carbon.
Preliminary modeling and calculations by the Climate and Community Institute estimate that the first 14 days of the current Iran conflict produced more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, an amount equal to a year’s worth of emissions from 1.1 million gas-powered cars.
Emissions will continue as the war goes on, but they will increase exponentially when it is over. Clearing rubble and then rebuilding are the biggest source of emissions in any war. One study estimates greenhouse gas emissions for rebuilding Gaza and Lebanon after the war to be at least 24 times more than those from the war itself.
Just as concerning as increased greenhouse gas emissions from war and the repercussions are the prospect of feverish production of fossil fuels and a return to a greater reliance on coal to meet current and future demand. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the war shut it down. Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, has called this the greatest energy security threat in modern history.
The obvious answer from the cult is to top using fossil fuels. Also, to leave the Islamic extremists in Iran and Gaza alone. Who cares if women are treated like chattel: it’s a small price to pay for the Warmists. Well, a small price to pay for Other People. The Warmists are safely ensconsed in their air conditioned homes with full Internet and food and energy.
Weird how the same people really didn’t complain much about the war in Ukraine. Hell, most of them supported it.
…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Common Cents Blog, with a post on a hero ICE agent saving the life of a baby at JFK.
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