Will New York Relent On Their Climate (scam) Goals As Energy Skyrockets?

By William Teach March 13, 2026 – 7:15 am

It’s bad enough that even PBS noticed

Are changes coming to New York’s climate law?

A recent state memo is creating a political tempest over New York’s ambitious climate change law.

The New York State Energy Development and Research Authority, or NYSERDA, estimates a speedy transition to non-carbon energy sources could hike upstate residents’ electric bills by thousands of dollars a year.

Republicans pointed to the memo as a sign of failed policy. Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to delay the law. Environmentalists see it as a huge setback in the fight against climate change.

It is a failed policy. But, the Elites do not care, because their lives aren’t really harmed. How many of the “environmentalists” actually live in NY? Hochul? She just wants to play games through the next election.

But now, Gov. Kathy Hochul said she wants to adjust that timeline, in the name of affordability.

“I’ve said for a long time, affordability is my number one priority,” she said. “We’re seeing now that people are reeling under the effects of policies that could not have been foreseen in 2019 when this was passed.”

Hochul blames the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions and the Trump Administration’s rollbacks of green energy subsidies.

Of course she blames Trump. Without massive subsidies “green” energy is expensive. Why doesn’t the NY state govt pay for those subsidies for their citizens?

Then, NYSERDA, an agency in her state government, released a memo in late February, forecasting that Upstate homeowners could see their heating bills rise by roughly $4,000 by 2031 if the law is implemented as is.

So, probably like $8000. Anyhow, the next part is f’ing hilarious

But environmentalists and experts say that is misleading.

“This calculation is based on nothing. It’s based on hypotheticals, right?” said Michael Hamersky, the executive director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center at Pace University’s Elizabeth Haub School of Law.

The whole climate scam is based on nothing. On hypotheticals. On computer models and crystal balls.

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Weird: Celebs Who Hate Guns To Get Even More Security Against Iranian Drones

By William Teach March 13, 2026 – 7:00 am

I mean, having more security to protect against the Iranian drones which we’re told are fictitious wouldn’t really stop them, right? Also, haven’t most of these celebs advocated for banning guns, “common sense gun control”, taking them away from Americans? All while being protected by people with guns?

Security to Be Increased at 2026 Oscars Amid FBI Alert About Iran’s “Surprise Attack” Plan on California

Oscars producers have promised that they “want everybody to feel safe and protected” at the 2026 Academy Awards on Sunday amid reports of an FBI alert about Iran‘s plan to attack California with drones.

During a press conference on Wednesday, days before Hollywood’s biggest night at the Dolby Theatre, Oscars telecast executive producers Katy Mullan and Raj Kapoor said the ceremony will have increased security.

“We have the support of the FBI and the LAPD, and it’s a close collaboration,” Kapoor said. “This show has to run like clockwork. But we want everybody that is coming to this show, that is witnessing the show, that is even a fan of the show when they’re standing outside the barricades, we want everybody to feel safe and protected and welcome, so it’s our job as a producing team to make sure that that translates.” (snip)

While security will be increased at the Oscars again this year, security at the celebrity-filled awards show has always been robust in the past as well.

Well, I like to feel safe so I have multiple firearms. The celebs do not like that. But, then, they can afford private security. They get multiple levels of law enforcement to protect them. Many of them are, in fact, gun owners.

When contacted by The Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shared in part in a statement, “In light of current global events, the Department remains at an elevated level of readiness and is maintaining increased vigilance as we continue to protect our residents of Los Angeles County. We are working closely with our federal and local law enforcement partners to share intelligence and monitor the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and assess any potential impacts in our communities. The safety of the public remains our highest priority. As part of our preparedness efforts, we remain attentive to all potential threats, including lone-actor attacks, sleeper cells, and advanced technological or cyber-related threats.”

There is that, and we’ve already seen a bunch of Islamic extremist nutjobs attack. But, why would they attack the same people who are taking the side of Iran now, as they have taken the side of the Palestinians and Hamas? The same people who were mostly silent on the Iranian regime killing the Iranian protesters? The ones blasting Trump more than the murderous Iranian regime?

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Slowing Earth At An “Unprecedented” Rate

By William Teach March 12, 2026 – 4:06 pm

All you had to do was stop eating meat and give your money and freedom to government to stop this

Climate change is slowing Earth’s spin at unprecedented rate compared to past 3.6 million years

Climate change is lengthening our days because rising sea levels slow Earth’s rotation. Researchers from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now show that the current increase in day length—1.33 milliseconds per century—is unprecedented in the past 3.6 million years. The team reconstructed ancient day-length fluctuations using the fossil remains of single-celled marine organisms known as benthic foraminifera.

An exact 24-hour day is not a given—day length changes due to gravitational effects of the moon, as well as various geophysical processes acting within Earth’s interior, at its surface, and in the atmosphere.

Today’s climate change also affects day length: prior work showed that from 2000 to 2020 our days were lengthened by a rate equivalent to 1.33 milliseconds per century due to climate-related factors, especially the continental-ocean mass redistribution due to the melting of polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers.

In a new study, appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi (University of Vienna) and Benedikt Soja (ETH Zurich) demonstrate that this rapid rise in day length is unparalleled over the last 3.6 million years.

You know, I’m not even going to delve into the notion that they really do not have data, and zero comparisons to previous Holocene warm periods. We all know it’s simply being made up, that all their conclusions are pre-formed

To answer this question, the researchers used the fossilized remains of single-celled marine organisms known as benthic foraminifera.

“From the chemical composition of the foraminifera fossils, we can infer sea-level fluctuations and then mathematically derive the corresponding changes in day length,” says first author Kiani Shahvandi from the University of Vienna.

“Infer”. Good grief. And, I’m sure you were expecting this, right?

To draw more robust conclusions, the team employed a probabilistic deep learning algorithm—a physics-informed diffusion model.

“This model captures the physics of sea-level change, while remaining robust to the large uncertainties inherent in paleoclimate data,” adds the climate scientist and geophysicist.

It’s all so tiresome.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 12, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on the reality of ‘climate change’ in Somalia.

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“Hard-Right” Jose Kast Sworn In As Chile’s President

By William Teach March 12, 2026 – 10:30 am

Yeah, perhaps there are more important issues, like big big things going boom in Iran and everything associated with the war, but, this is a very illuminating, and, at times, absurdly humorous, piece by the AFP

Hard-right Chile leader sworn in on promise of change

Chile’s most right-wing president in over three decades, Jose Antonio Kast, was sworn in Wednesday on a promise to tackle surging rates of violent crime and carry out mass migrant deportations.

Chile becomes the latest Latin American country to lurch to the right as voters back law-and-order candidates to fight the spread of organized crime.

“Things are going to change,” Kast told reporters minutes before taking the oath of office to succeed leftist Gabriel Boric.

Kast, 60, trounced Jeannette Jara, a communist from Boric’s coalition, in December’s run-off to clinch the presidency on his third attempt.

So, wait, it’s considered “hard-right” to want to reduce crime, to have law and order? Is that what the Lefties in the Credentialed Media are telling us? In fairness, Chile doesn’t really have bad crime, it is considered to be mostly safe for travelers, just stay out of certain areas. But, there has been a surge in lower level crimes, especially since the Venezuelans surged into Chile. Hence wanting to deport them.

He is Chile’s most hardline leader since the brutal 1973-1990 dictatorship of general Augusto Pinochet — whom Kast greatly admires.

The ultraconservative Catholic father of nine was sworn in before Congress in the central coastal city of Valparaiso, to cries of “long live Chile!” from right-wing lawmakers.

Got that? Someone who wants low levels of crime is basically a dictator. He also wants to (this comes from AI summery)

  • lower corporate taxes to stimulate investment.
  • Focuses on cutting public spending and reducing government bureaucracy.
  • Encourages private sector growth, including support for industries like aquaculture
  • Shifts focus towards stronger ties with the U.S. and Israel, with a potential withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. (you can see how the Credentialed Media hates that)
  • Proposes merging ministries to reduce the size of the state

Yes, because all dictators in waiting want to *checks notes* reduce the size of government, streamline it.

Martina Vivar, a 20-year-old occupational therapy student, said she felt “rage” faced with the victory of Kast’s “campaign of fear and terror, just like during the dictatorship.”

LOL. “Just like.” She’s 20. What the f*** does she know? Most of these yutes know nothing about anything from prior to 2000. And why do so many of these yutes go immediately to violent feelings?

Chile’s new leader has promised to move fast to tamp down a rise in murders, kidnappings and extortion in what remains nonetheless one of Latin America’s safest countries.

He wants to give the police more firepower, deploy troops to crime hotspots and deport large numbers of undocumented migrants, whom many Chileans blame for violence.

His proposals have resonated in a country which takes pride in being a stable and orderly outlier on a continent throttled by organized crime.

So, obviously, Chileans are backing this, preferring to nip the crime in the bud now, rather than when cities are like Baltimore. But, you know, according to the media and leftists Kast will soon turn into a dictator, which they didn’t have a problem with when it was Maduro or Chavez before him.

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Florida Senate Passes Bill Banning Net Zero At The Local Level

By William Teach March 12, 2026 – 7:15 am

I’m not sure how to feel about this: on one hand, let cities be stupid. On the other, States have primacy

Ban on local government ‘net-zero’ policies clears Legislature on final vote

The Florida Senate has voted final approval of an amended tax bill (HB 1217) to ban local governments in Florida from using net-zero policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — the primary driver of climate change.

The vote was 24-12, with Miami Republican Alexis Alexis Calatayud joining all the Democrats in opposing the bill. The House had already approved the bill, which will head to the governor’s desk. If signed into law by DeSantis, it would go into effect on July 1.

Miami-Dade Republican Sen. Bryan Avila amended his tax bill (SB 7046) last week; it originally bundled together dozens of tax and policy changes.

That current language says government entities may not enact, enforce, or require any person or legal entity to enact or enforce any net zero policy by resolution, ordinance, rule, code, or policy. It would ban local governments from expending any funds (including taxes, fees, or assessments) that support, implement, or advance net-zero policies.

Personally, I would amend it to say that the only way to implement any part of a net zero policy is by the citizens of a town voting for it, at least 66%. Particularly since so often this crap is voted in by the city council, often over the objections of the citizens, who then have to work to get those council members out, and it’s still then a crapshoot if they can get rid of the policies.

Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Crestview, said there is nothing in the legislation to preclude local governments from purchasing buses that don’t use gasoline, or plant trees or reserve green spaces.

“I’m not going to debate climate change. I didn’t get elected to the Florida Senate to argue with a thermometer,” he said.

“This bill is about when you make a decision to do something in business, or in government, or in community, you don’t use just one driving force, regardless of all other consequences and all other variables. This bills says that net-zero policies should not be the one-trick pony in planning what you do in a community.”

Exactly. They simply cannot use Cult dogma to do everything, when there are better options. Anyhow, you can bet DeSantis will sign it.

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Report: Iran Could Launch Drone Attacks Against California

By William Teach March 12, 2026 – 7:00 am

Well, this is confusing, considering how many politicians and Comrades in the People’s Republik Of California support the Iranian regime

California could be attacked by drones because of Iran war, memo warns. Officials downplay threat

Law enforcement agencies across California were recently warned that the Iran war could lead to a surprise drone attack in the Golden State, but sources told The Times on Wednesday there’s no credible intelligence to support it.

In a memo sent to agencies that are part of a federal Joint Terrorism Task Force, the government said, “We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran.”

A source with knowledge of the memo who was not authorized to discuss it publicly said the warning was issued based on intelligence received by the U.S. Coast Guard. Law enforcement sources experienced in intelligence said such alerts are cautionary in nature.

The source is experienced in counterterrorism and said “that it’s not been deemed credible at this time.”

It’s credible enough to generate warnings and articles in California news outlets. But, yeah, it mostly like would never happen, since it would require Iranian ships to cross the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean with pretty much no support before launching.

“While we can’t discuss sensitive details, Californians should know that this kind of coordination happens every day to keep people safe,” a spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said in a statement. “California is prepared to protect its communities, and we’ll continue working closely with our federal partners.”

State officials would not comment on the memo but said that state, local and federal agencies were continually sharing information about threats and security efforts.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials would not comment on the memo, but in a statement said the department was continuing to operate at an “elevated level of readiness and is maintaining increased vigilance.”

It’s nothing, but, we can’t discuss it. I have to wonder what Californians would do if they were attacked, though. Would they root for America against Iran, or, Blame America/Trump/Israel?

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Bummer: News Coverage Of Climate Doom Falls For 4th Straight Yea

By William Teach March 11, 2026 – 3:00 pm

I mean, really, in a post-COVID word, a lot of the public just doesn’t care. They aren’t interested in reading about it or watching it. There are many reasons, and this is not making the cult happy

Global News Coverage of Climate Change Falls for Fourth Straight Year

climate change joke

Global news coverage of climate change declined for the fourth straight year in 2025, even as emissions hit new highs, according to a new analysis.

Coverage is down 14 percent from 2024 and down 38 percent from 2021, when the volume of reporting on climate change peaked, according to an analysis from the Media and Climate Change Observatory, a project at the University of Colorado. Coverage of climate change declined in every region, but the drop-off was most pronounced in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.

“Ongoing political economic headwinds and newsroom consolidation and reductions have contributed to this diminished coverage, said lead author Max Boykoff, a professor at the University of Colorado. “Moreover, there is finite news space for competing stories, with the Trump administration flooding the public sphere with news stories across several domains.”

Trump wasn’t president from 2021 through 2024. Even if the US media was deranged over Trump even while Biden was in office, would the news in Africa, the ME, and Europe spend lots of TDS time?

In the U.S., climate journalists have found themselves on the chopping block at leading news outlets. CBS News laid off most of its climate team in October, and in February The Washington Post followed suit. The paper dismissed 14 climate journalists, including reporters, editors, and videographers.

I guess these outlets are supposed to be forced to cover this?

Anyhow, let’s head to the unhinged coverage of this story

The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?

Scientists are pretty sure that Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years, but the news media is moving on, trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news — from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran. The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and, despite a temporary rebound, has gathered pace in recent years: Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent, according to data from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory.

“Pretty sure”. It either is or isn’t. That’s science. Anyhow, the planet is overheating from a whopping 1.7F increase since 1850, which is less than during the previous Holocene warm periods.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 11, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a view of what Canada will look like in 2100, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on science having a fraud problem

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Campbell University Accused Of Discrimination For Removing Charlie Kirk Fliers

By William Teach March 11, 2026 – 10:30 am

Obviously, since it regards Charlie Kirk and a Conservative student, the Raleigh News and Observer fails to editorialize in the article in favor of free speech

From the link, with a story that is going to go exactly how you think

Last semester, a day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a Campbell University Law School student hung images of Kirk and his family around Raleigh campus buildings. The flyers displayed the message, “End Political Violence.”

The school promptly took the posters down — and sent the law student a disciplinary warning.

The student, Justin Booker, said taking his flyers down while leaving others up in the same areas amounts to viewpoint discrimination in violation of his rights to free expression.

Originally, the assistant dean of student life, Regina Chavis, told Booker the school didn’t allow the posting of personal messages, he said. But Booker couldn’t find this provision in the school’s student handbook, he said.

“I filed a formal complaint with the administration about this, because not only is this a free speech issue, it actually risks the law school’s accreditation,” Booker, 24, told The N&O. He contends Campbell violated its own free speech policy and that of the American Bar Association, or ABA.

He filed all sorts of appeals with the school, who, being run by liberals, denied them, so, he reached out to Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

“It’s particularly noteworthy that other political content was allowed to stay posted, as was other commercial content,” said FIRE program officer Dominic Colletti, who wrote the letter to Campbell. “It’s really hard to come up with a policy based explanation for this, other than they did not like the image of Charlie Kirk. That is the most likely explanation here and they haven’t given us another.”

Booker said letters notifying students about Black History Month and celebrating figures from Black and Hispanic civil rights movements are allowed to stay up, while his was taken down. The FIRE letter asks Campbell to consider whether it would’ve sanctioned the removal of flyers about voting rights or vaccination.

“For law schools, part of their job is to teach the First Amendment and the free speech rights that we as a country imbue our citizens,” Colletti continued. “There’s some irony to the university punishing that same kind of free expression.”

Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought would happen. That there would be all sorts of left wing flier up which the school never removed. Here’s the bigger issue

Because Booker was the subject of a disciplinary warning on this issue, he’ll have to disclose that on every bar application he ever submits.

“All I really want from this is for the people who did the wrong thing to admit they did wrong, promise they won’t do it again to me or anyone else, and apologize,” Booker said. “Instead, I have been brushed off, ignored, disrespected, and censored. No due process, no transparency, and no one actually willing to address my concerns.

I suspect if the school doesn’t address this within a week as requested and remove the disciplinary warning there will be a lawsuit filed. And Campbell will have to show that they have give the same type of official warnings for people putting up fliers on a first “offense”. Democrats love Free Speech, as long as the speech complies with Democrat beliefs.

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