Tiny Fossil Fuels Reliant Nation Of Vanautu Pushes For End Of Fossil Fuels

By William Teach April 10, 2026 – 3:00 pm

What would this island nation do without fossil fuels, considering there are 30 airports? And they rely on fossil fueled ships for goods like, oh, food?

How Vanautu’s proposed UN climate change resolution may shift climate accountability for decades

A draft United Nations (UN) resolution on climate change is seeking to turn the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations concerning the “urgent and existential threat” posed by climate change, into a roadmap for concrete action and accountability.

Although non-binding, the landmark opinion issued by the world’s highest court in 2025 is widely regarded as an authoritative opinion that clarified the obligations of states in respect of climate change. It will significantly strengthen efforts to hold world leaders to account, guide the just and equitable phaseout of fossil fuels, reinforce climate laws and policies, and advance climate justice for billions of people globally.

I would say authoritarian, but, OK, whatever

In a rare unanimous opinion, the ICJ made it clear that protecting the global climate system is a legal obligation – not a political choice. Not to do so threatens human rights and the well-being of present and future generations. The ICJ also stated that countries must act together to remediate existing harm and prevent more climate havoc.

Did all the judges stop using fossil fuels? Here’s what the draft resolution would lay out (copied directly)

  • Keep to 1.5°C: Adopting and implementing national climate action plans aligned with keeping global heating below 1.5°C with efforts reflecting each State’s highest possible ambition;
  • Pass Strong Climate Laws: Adopting and enforcing laws and policies to prevent global environmental harm and protect human rights from the adverse effects of climate change;
  • Phase Out Fossil Fuels: Taking effective steps to protect the climate system from greenhouse gas emissions, including through measures to urgently and equitably phase out fossil fuel production, use and ending fossil fuel subsidies;
  • Centre Frontline Communities: Ensuring the full, meaningful and equal participation of women, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and other marginalized groups in all forms of climate action;
  • Protect Climate ?Displaced People: Upholding the rights of people displaced by climate impacts and creating safe, regular and nondiscriminatory pathways for cross? border? protection;
  • Deliver Reparations: Providing full and prompt reparations when states violate their obligations, including through an International Register of Damage attributable to climate change and an accompanying International Mechanism for Climate Reparation.

Hmm, doesn’t look very sciencey, eh? Looks like typical cult socialism.

UN member states are currently expected to vote on the resolution towards the end of April 2026. If governments adopt it, this will send a strong message that the world is ready to follow the ICJ’s legal guidance and turn it into concrete measures to protect people and the planet.

Yeah, well, we’ll see if the rich, 1st world governments do so, probably over the objections of their citizens. The US will shut it down. Even if China votes for it they’ll ignore it. If Vanuatu votes for it they’ll have to revert to living like it’s 1499

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 10, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the amnesty bill of Maria Salazar.

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Oh Noes, Trump Is Dismantling The US Forest Service

By William Teach April 10, 2026 – 10:30 am

It’s so terrible!

Gallego is a sitting US Senator. He doesn’t know? And we end up with articles like

The Trump Administration Is Killing The U.S. Forest Service So It Can Also Kill U.S. Forests

There’s lots and lots of crazy like that. But, of course, reality

US Forest Service agency headquarters moved to Utah as ‘sweeping restructure’ begins

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced the beginning of a “sweeping restructure” of the U.S. Forest Service, beginning with the relocation of the agency’s headquarters from the U.S. capitol to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Moving the headquarters from Washington D.C. to the West aims to improve the agency’s core mission of managing U.S. national forests and grasslands, a USDA press release said.

“For an agency whose lands, partners, and operational challenges are overwhelmingly concentrated in the West, the shift represents a structural reset and a common-sense approach to improve mission delivery,” the press release announcing the agency restructuring said.

A goodly chunk of states west of the Mississippi are owned by the federal government (which is insane, but, separate commentary). Most of their mission is out west, hence, they should be out west, not in the District Of Columbia.

“This is a big win for Utah and the West. Nearly 90% of Forest Service lands are west of the Mississippi, so putting leadership closer to the lands they manage just makes sense,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said. “This isn’t symbolic. It means better, faster decisions on the ground. Everyone who depends on our public lands, from hikers and campers to ranchers and timber producers, will benefit from this change.”

Makes sense

In the restructure, the Forest Service will transition to a more state-based organizational model, moving away from the regional model the agency has operated under since its formation.

All the agency’s nine regional offices will be closed, and under the new model, 15 state directors will be distributed throughout the country to oversee operations in one or more states.

So, better command and control, better work chains with employees closer to the actual work areas. No one is being fired, there is no reduction in workforce. They just have to move to different areas closer to work.

Under the restructure, 57 of the U.S. Forestry Services 77 research stations will be consolidated under a national Forest Service Research and Development organization in Fort Collins. The remaining 20 facilities will continue to serve the agency by supporting essential functions during and after the transition.

According to the USDA, the reorganization does not eliminate scientific positions, cancel research programs or reduce the national research footprint.

So, not being eliminated. Did Rubin consider asking the USDA/Forest Service about this? Placing a phone call to the head of USDA or Forest Service? Maybe going to their website and reading it? Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden could have given Rubi the necessary information. But, you know, Orange Man Bad makes some people wackadoodle. With the whole of the Internet at their fingers, perhaps they should do a 5 minute search before posting? Of course, they don’t care, many know the reality, but, their voters are unhinged and will believe the Crazy.

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Unknown Ocean Mechanism Could Maybe Possibly Accelerate Climate Doom

By William Teach April 10, 2026 – 7:00 am

When Skeptics talk about this being an unscientific doomsday cult, this is a damned good example

Hidden ocean feedback loop could accelerate climate change

The world’s oceans may be quietly amplifying climate change in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Rochester scientists—including Thomas Weber, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and graduate student Shengyu Wang and postdoctoral research associate Hairong Xu in Weber’s lab—uncovered a key mechanism behind methane production in the open ocean. Their research indicates that this mechanism could intensify as the planet warms, providing an alarming feedback loop for global warming.

“Only beginning to understand” means they are as clueless as the 18 year olds signing loan forms for college money. “Could intensify” means we don’t know, but, we’ll scaremonger on it anyhow.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and for decades scientists have puzzled over a paradox: Surface ocean waters consistently release methane into the atmosphere, even though surface water is rich in oxygen. Traditionally, methane production has been associated with oxygen-free environments, such as wetlands or deep sediments.

Weber’s team set out to solve this puzzle using a global dataset and computer modeling. Their findings point to a specific microbial process that is responsible for methane production in the ocean environment: Certain bacteria generate methane as a byproduct when they break down organic compounds, but they only do this when the nutrient phosphate is scarce.

And, if true, this is all natural, and rather harms the “Mankind is killing the planet!!!!!!!” talking point. But, remember, computer modeling.

But the study extends further than explaining marine methane production in the present—it also offers a troubling glimpse into the future.

“Climate change is warming the ocean from the top down, increasing the density difference between surface and deep waters,” Weber says. “This is expected to slow the vertical mixing that carries nutrients like phosphate up from depth.”

Whoops, they are blaming you.

According to the team’s model, with less vertical mixing, surface waters could become increasingly nutrient-starved, creating ideal conditions for methane-producing microbes to thrive.

Could.

Crucially, this feedback is not currently included in major climate projection models. As researchers continue to refine climate models, incorporating feedback such as this may be essential for accurately predicting the pace and scale of future climate change.

So, include something that they are utterly unsure about into the doomsday Hotcoldwetdry models, and, hey, give us money.

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Wacko Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Terminating TPS For Ethiopians

By William Teach April 10, 2026 – 6:45 am

Dude is seriously looking for a hat-trick of being overturned, but, instead of hats, if SCOTUS overturns you three times you should be booted from the bench

Biden-appointed judge at center of repeated clashes with Trump administration issues new immigration block

A Biden-appointed federal judge twice rebuked by the Supreme Court temporarily blocked another Trump administration immigration priority, postponing the termination of temporary protected status for Ethiopians living in the U.S.

Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts, who has become a frequent legal hurdle for the Trump administration, found that the Department of Homeland Security did not follow proper protocols when it decided to cancel the temporary protected status (TPS) of more than 5,000 Ethiopians in the United States.

DHS’ decision would have made the migrants eligible for deportation in 60 days and aligned with the Trump administration’s goal of dramatically narrowing the government’s use of TPS as part of its immigration crackdown.

TPS was originally set to end Jun 12, 2024, and it was extended till December 12, 2025 (they are done in 18 month blocks), yet, courts said they had to be extended, even though the situation on the ground in Ethiopia was fine, and, why did these Ethiopians get TPS and not others? Murphy has been rebuked, and, even if his order stands, it can only apply to his little court fiefdom, not the rest of the country.

Conservatives lashed out at Murphy on social media for dealing another loss to the president they perceived as unjust. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said the ruling was not subject to judicial review under federal immigration law. Murphy had found that DHS did not meet the necessary conditions under the law to legally cancel TPS.

“This Rogue Judge lacks the subject matter jurisdiction to issue this order,” Schmitt said. “The assault on the rule of law continues.”

Why would Schmitt think a Dem judge cared about the law?

Murphy noted that he was not bucking the Supreme Court with his TPS opinion after the justices issued a string of emergency rulings green-lighting the cancellation of TPS for some countries, while holding off on addressing it for others.

TPS was not cancelled: it was not extended. If a football game goes to OT and ends in a tie it doesn’t mean it is cancelled, it means it has ended, and the teams and fans go home.

Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan said the law did not permit judges to weigh in on TPS and noted the Supreme Court’s position.

“One big problem for Murphy is the statute: It explains TPS determinations aren’t reviewable. Another is the Supreme Court, which has stopped similar orders twice!” Wessan said. “He finds neither statute nor SCOTUS stops him. I’m unconvinced.”

Liberal judges do not care.

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AP Concerned Over Petrochemicals Due To Iran War

By William Teach April 9, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Did you know that 50% of every barrel of petroleum is used for around 700 products other than fossil fuels? The AP is Very Concerned

Iran war puts focus on petrochemicals used in numerous products and a driver of climate change

The Iran war has exposed deep vulnerability in the global economy: dependence not just on oil, gas and coal for fuel, but on petrochemicals that underpin everything from food production to plastic packaging.

As disruptions ripple through energy markets, the war is highlighting how fossil fuels are embedded far beyond transport and electricity. In the short-run, the widespread reliance will lead to higher prices for myriad products, while long-term the pollution that comes from petrochemicals will exacerbate climate change.

A two-week cease fire announced late Tuesday is a hopeful sign that the war, and energy disruptions, will abate. But no matter when it finally ends, for many environmentalists to energy experts, ultimately the war is a stark sign that the status quo needs to change.

“We cannot continue relying on fossil fuels neither for energy nor for material,” said Delphine Lévi Alvarès, global petrochemicals campaign manager at the Center for International Environmental Law. “We cannot continue relying on fossil fuels for absolutely everything around us.”

The article was surely written on a computer made with petroleum. And being read by people using computers, phones, and tablets made with petroleum. And the clothes and hat worn by “reporter” Steven Grattan are made with petroleum. The photos I see of Ms. Alveres show her wearing glasses, for which the frames and the lenses are made with petroleum.

Petrochemicals are expected to be a central topic of discussion in Santa Marta, a northern coastal city in Colombia, where governments will gather from April 24-29 for an international conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels. Experts say discussions will center on reducing demand because the sector is a major driver of future fossil fuel use. Indeed, environmentalists have long argued that fossil fuel companies, realizing that electric vehicles and green technologies like solar threaten their industries, see petrochemicals as a place for their products.

Hmm, so, all these Elites will take long fossil fueled flights on planes which are also made with lots of petrochemicals, wearing clothes made with petrochemicals, phones made with, etc and so on? Huh.

Trisia Farrelly, an environmental anthropologist at the Cawthron Institute in New Zealand, said that the crisis underscores how exposed global systems remain after decades of dependence on fossil fuels.

“For me, this is like another COVID wake-up call,” she said, pointing to risks for food security and livelihoods tied to rising costs and supply disruptions.

So, an attempt by the Elites to institute authoritarianism?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 9, 2026 – 1:47 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Wake Up America, with a post on Catholic conversion skyrocketing.

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Washington Post Finally Finds Government Waste They Don’t Like

By William Teach April 9, 2026 – 10:30 am

The WP has been against demolishing wasteful spending from federal agencies like USAID, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and many, many more. Against getting rid of tons of federal govt bureaucrats who bring little to no value and/or are doing redundant jobs. Against waste in DEI, environmental justice, and grants. Against investigating all that waste in places like Minnesota and California. Waste that accounts for hundreds of billions, if not into over a trillion, dollars. But, the editorial board finally found something that upsets them

Zombie flights to nowhere

The Essential Air Service program, through which the government subsidizes money-losing commercial flights to tiny airports, was supposed to expire 38 years ago. Like so many zombie programs, this wasteful spending — nearly $700 million last year — persists because a small constituency, with outsize influence in the Senate, fights for it while few others care enough to push back.

That risks happening again. President Donald Trump’s new budget proposes $372 million in cuts to EAS, but key lawmakers in both parties declared that dead on arrival, including Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), a member of the committee. Their partisan affiliations are less important than the number of airports in their states receiving subsidized service: four in Maine, five in New York.

The EAS program was part of the 1978 compromise that deregulated passenger air travel, allowing airlines to compete freely on price and scheduling. Congress feared service to smaller airports would disappear without government mandates, so the deal created EAS as a 10-year stopgap to soften the transition to the free market. As the deadline approached, legislators extended it another 10 years. Then, in 1996, they made the program permanent.

Once something is created in D.C. it’s almost impossible to get rid of

It was never necessary. From 1978 to 1982, the number of passengers on flights subsidized by EAS fell by over 50 percent, even as the total number of passengers increased nationwide, suggesting that passengers did not view the “essential” service as very essential.

Nevertheless, the government continues paying to keep flights operating with barely any passengers. The floor to continue receiving subsidies is an average of just 10 passengers per day.

How dare the govt help out those rural folks!

People in communities receiving EAS subsidies frequently don’t use the subsidized flights, preferring instead to drive to larger airports with more options, according to a 2025 study by Austin Drukker, an economist at the Federal Trade Commission. The people who do take the subsidized flights tend to be from out of town and have incomes 40 percent higher than local residents.

In other words, a program created to keep people in rural communities connected to air travel is now allowing the affluent to fly in and out of remote destinations, underwritten by taxpayers.

$700 million is nothing to sneeze at, but, usually Democrats tell us this is a big nothingburger when compared to the (bloated, wasteful, insane) federal budget. Why does the WPEB have such a hate-on for this one program enough to write an editorial on it?

Trump is not even trying to eliminate the subsidies, just reduce them. If D.C. was serious about fiscal restraint, that would be on the table. Instead, the zombie flights to nowhere will continue.

Nothing like a little TDS to end the piece, trying to say Trump is not serious. Even after allowing DOGE to take a chainsaw to federal agencies and the number employed by the government, the WPEB says Trump is not serious. The thing is, DC is not serious about fiscal restraint, hasn’t been for 50 years? 100 years? Every representative and senator has their own thing they want funded. Which, really, tends not to help Americans since earmarks were eliminated (at least earmarks, no matter how wasteful, were designed to go back to districts and states, rather than overseas).

To be clear, I fully support ending the subsidy, but, now I look forward to the WPEB telling us about more wasteful spending, especially the type that goes to foreign citizens, gets used to fund Democrat campaign coffers, and bloats the federal bureaucracy.

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Oklahoma Latest State To Look To Block Climalawfare Against Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach April 9, 2026 – 7:15 am

I think it would be more fun if they instead passed a law that said that anyone or any entity that sues fossil fuels companies must show that they have stopped using fossil fuels in their own lives. Maybe even as far as showing they are not using any plastics or one of the 700 products made with petroleum

Oklahoma bill would block climate change lawsuits against fossil fuel companies

A measure introduced in the legislature this year would prohibit anyone in Oklahoma from suing fossil fuel companies for damages related to the effects of climate change or greenhouse gas emissions.

Senate Bill 1439, which would create the Energy Security and Independence Act, was authored by Sen. Julie Daniels, R-Bartlesville, and Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton.

Fossil fuel companies violating their permits or environmental laws are exempt from the bill’s language.

That’s reasonable

Moore said the legislation would protect the industry, which includes any company working with oil and gas, coal, natural gas liquids or refined petroleum products.

“The reality is, if you were to get that judgment, billions and billions of dollars, that’s just passed on to the taxpayer — that would be passed on at the pump, that would be passed on through electricity costs, energy costs across the board would dramatically change,” he said. “There’s no reason that that has any place in any court of law, but especially in Oklahoma.”

And the people filing the nuisance suits use lots of fossil fuels themselves.

Both authors of the Oklahoma bill say there is no statewide quantifiable impact of climate change or greenhouse gas emissions. Yet researchers with federal agencies and other organizations have estimated the U.S. is burdened with billions of dollars each year because of climate-related damages and costs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they’re just making numbers up. Maybe they should be sued for contributing to climate doom via their own use of fossil fuels.

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Minnesota Totally Wants Judge To Force Immigration To Stay Away From Schools

By William Teach April 9, 2026 – 7:00 am

Last time I check, it was never a law or regulation

Minnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near school

Attorneys for two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near schools.

The Department of Homeland Security last year rescinded longstanding nationwide restrictions on immigration enforcement in or near “sensitive locations” such as schools and school bus stops, churches and hospitals that effectively made them off limits except in rare circumstances.

The Fridley and Duluth school districts, and the Education Minnesota union, sued to block the new policy in February, at a time when the Department of Homeland Security had sent around 3,000 federal officers into the state for Operation Metro Surge. Federal agents involved in the crackdown killed two citizens in Minneapolis in January.

The plaintiffs asked the court Wednesday for either a stay or preliminary injunction that would restore the previous restraints.

Attorney Amanda Cialkowski, who represents the district and union, told reporters afterward that it was unclear if a ruling in their favor would apply outside of Minnesota, or to other “sensitive locations” like churches and hospitals.

The “sensitive” locations restrictions was never passed by Congress. It was never a rule or regulation that went through the process, it was simply an agreement that immigration officers followed. For the most part. They would certainly go to them for the really bad people. And they still mostly stay away, but, the very notion that an illegal alien parent could be scooped up when dropping the kids off terrifies the illegals, which is the point. It’s all about freaking the illegals out, to get them to self deport.

If the wacko leftist judge in Minnesota rules to put the “restriction” back in place, which I’m sure will happen, they’ll just lose on appeal.

School districts across the Twin Cities area saw absenteeism spike during the crackdown. In St. Paul, over 9,000 students were absent in mid-January, more than a quarter of the district, according to attendance data obtained by The Associated Press.

Minneapolis Public Schools had over 8,000 students stay home on the last school day in January, close to 30% of students. And Fridley saw attendance drop by nearly a third, according to court filings.

That should tell you how many illegals are in the Twin Cities area.

Immigration arrests of people without criminal convictions have increased eightfold under Trump, report says

Arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions by ICE have surged 770%, while street arrests saw a more than 1,000% increase during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new analysis released Tuesday.

You know, this could have been avoided had Democrats not allowed millions and millions of illegals to stream into the U.S. under Biden, along with all the TPS folks who should have been returned to their nations, all the Haitians, and so many more, and then demand that the US taxpayer pay for everything, all while Americans were suffering, and focus all their attention on the illegals/fake asylum seekers. It could have been avoided if Democrats turned the criminals over easy peasy, rather than trying to shelter them. So, guess what? Now ICE is going to get them all.

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