We Need To Reframe Our Nagging On Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 3:15 pm

How about they simply practice what they preach in their own lives?

We need to rethink how we talk about climate change

Even the most cynical viewer of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the 2006 documentary by former Vice President Al Gore on climate change, would probably not have predicted that, 20 years later, the White House would be occupied by a climate denier. For the second time.

How — after all the pictures of red-topping thermometers, melting icebergs, starving polar bears, swirling hurricanes, burning rainforests and bleaching corals — could that have happened? And what do we do now?

Casual reflection would suggest that if we’ve been working on a problem for 20 years, and more, and we’re still this far away from a solution, then maybe we should try something different.

35+ years of spreading awareness and they still haven’t succeeded.

Following this line of thought led “pissed” millennial Will Hackman to write his new book, “Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves” (Bloomsbury Publishing 2026). In it, he draws on a career that includes U.S. political campaigns, strategic communication, public policy advocacy, coalition building, climate activism, and global environmental conservation. His 2022 TEDX talk, “The Future of Climate Change Is Personal,” previewed some of this work; he continues to develop and present his ideas through his column on Substack, “Reframing Climate Change to Save Ourselves.” He lives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia with his wife, Paula.

Yale Climate Connections spoke with Hackman via Zoom.

Yeah yeah, blah blah. Go away. Make your own lives carbon neutral. Leave the rest of us alone, Cultists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on “Haitian migrants are fleeing the U.S. for Canada after Trump canceled their TPS status”

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Australian PM Has Snit Fit Over AI At UN

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 10:30 am

This would be the same UN that Argentina’s president referred to as “a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats”

Australian PM warns in UN speech about the ‘furious pace’ of AI after security breach

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged world leaders Thursday to erect more guardrails on artificial intelligence following a breach of a government services website in his country.

Albanese, speaking at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, warned of the “furious pace” of development of the emerging technology as his country grapples with the first publicly known breach of government systems by AI models. He called the hack of a system that contains Australian Medicare data “unacceptable” as he urged world leaders to commit to stronger regulations.

“We can’t ignore AI or prevent it,” he said. “And it’s why we joined with other nations this week to call for action to shape artificial intelligence development, rather than be passively shaped by it.”

His address to the U.N. comes a day after the Australian leader told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly about the breach by rogue OpenAI agents in June, which the company only discovered two months later.

Well, I can certainly understand why he’s so upset, it could mean outsiders seeing the poor spending habits of governments

(Financial Times) Transluce said AI agents — bots that can perform complex tasks independently — tried to hack the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the University of New Mexico’s digital library and Data USA, a public US government data platform run by Deloitte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and tech company Datawheel.

None of this happens without programing at some point. Hacking/attempted hacking happens all the time. It’s a fact of life. It sucks. But, does it mean that government, and the United Nations, should be in charge? Oh, right, it puts money in their pockets

(The American Prospect) A lot of rich and influential people have suddenly become very worried about artificial intelligence models’ danger to humanity, thanks to several recent episodes in which various AI “agents” carried out hacks of other websites and systems. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and xAI’s Elon Musk all now agree that the government needs to help them set up a cartel in violation of antitrust law—er, I mean, “pace the frontier.”

Yet for odd reasons, the “AI safety” discussion has been focused almost entirely on rather weird-sounding future scenarios. Will artificial intelligence models unleash an economic or social cataclysm? Or cause the extinction of the human race? Or destroy all life on Earth? Or even turn all the matter on the planet into paper clips? Or all the matter in the galaxy? The universe??

Dooooooomed! (and lots of stock purchases and payoffs from the big AI companies)

This focus on future as opposed to current risks reflects recent political history. A group of AI safety advocates, centered around the “rationalist” and “effective altruism” movements and taking a long-term view, have been organizing and building power in Washington for the last several years. They have effectively seized control of the policy discussion around AI regulation, and now, as political scientist Henry Farrell points out, openly proclaiming the imminent birth of the literal “Machine God” is considered grounded and rational in these circles.

I’m skeptical.

Call me suspicious of the people pushing the doom. Unless they can hook me up with some stock and slush funds.

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The Big Nor’Easter Is Partly Your Fault, You Know

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 7:15 am

Well, I guess without hurricanes the cultists have to try something

Climate change is adding fuel to this weekend’s Nor’easter

A developing nor’easter is expected to strengthen along the U.S. East Coast through the weekend, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds, dangerous surf, and coastal flooding from the Mid-Atlantic into New England. As of September 24, coastal flooding has already affected portions of Virginia and North Carolina, with ocean overwash closing a miles-long stretch of road on the Outer Banks and breaking waves of 12-17 feet forecast along Hatteras Island, North Carolina. (snip)

Dangerous surf is expected, with coastal flooding possible along much of the Northeast coast Friday through Sunday, including the Jersey Shore, Long Island, Rhode Island, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and portions of coastal New Hampshire and Maine. Breaking waves of 6-17 feet are possible along the Massachusetts coast, while offshore seas near Jeffreys Ledge in the Gulf of Maine could reach 15 feet. Prolonged onshore winds and repeated high tides, amplified by Saturday’s full moon, will increase the risk of coastal flooding, beach erosion, and damage to coastal infrastructure

How is climate change influencing this storm?

The developing nor’easter is forming over exceptionally warm Atlantic waters off the Mid-Atlantic coast, where sea surface temperatures of 81-83°F are 2-4.5°F above normal.

According to Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index: Ocean, these unusually warm waters have been made 10 to 50 times more likely by human-caused climate change.

Um, that’s a pretty damned wide Blamestorm. 10 to 50 times. Because nor’easters do not usually happen. But, um, if the water is so warm, which, according to the cult, causes more and bigger hurricanes, where are they?

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A Bunch Of Left Wacko Groups Launch “Day Of Action” To Keep Haitians In US

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 7:00 am

Hey, maybe if they spent their money on making Haiti a nice place (didn’t they say Haiti was a nice place?) Haitians could return home, right?

Fifty organizations launch nationwide ‘Days of Action’ to restore TPS for Haitian immigrants

A coalition of 50 organizations across the United States has launched a multi-day nationwide mobilization to demand the immediate restoration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians affected by the recent termination of the humanitarian U.S. visa program.

Running Thursday through Sunday, the “Days of Action to Restore Haiti TPS” features over 20 coordinated events spanning seven states, including California, Florida, New York, and Massachusetts. The effort brings together Haitian community organizations, immigrant-rights advocates, faith leaders, and allies. For a complete list of events, please click here.

Demonstrators and advocacy groups are calling on Congress and the executive branch to take immediate legislative and administrative action. Specifically, organizers are demanding that U.S. Senators co-sponsor S. 4814 — legislation that would extend Haitian TPS for three years. They also want the Department of Homeland Security to immediately halt arrests and deportations of former TPS holders and reinstate TPS for Haitians and other impacted populations facing unfair termination.

The Trump administration has been deporting hundreds of Haitian immigrants since winning a legal battle this summer to end TPS for about 350,000 Haitians, including 158,000 in Florida, most of whom live in South Florida.

Yeah, like that legislation will actually pass, and the Trump DHS will stop.

Organizers said that returning individuals to Haiti poses severe risks due to ongoing violence, widespread displacement, sexual violence, food insecurity, and limited healthcare access.

Indeed, gang violence already has displaced a record 1.5 million people across Haiti, where more than 3,100 people were reported killed from January to June and another 1,189 injured, according to U.N. statistics.

Cool, and we’ve allowed these people into the US. There’s a reason the Dominican Republic has a big wall on their border with Haiti. Hey, perhaps these people can ask where all that money the UN and Clinton Foundation raised for saving Haiti went.

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Surprise: Tons Of Biden Era Money For EV Buses Disappeared

By William Teach September 24, 2026 – 4:26 pm

I’m shocked! Are you shocked?

Less than 40% of EV school buses purchased with Biden-era EPA grants have been delivered: ‘Taxpayer dollars vanished’

Less than 40% of electric school buses purchased under a multibillion-dollar Biden-era program have been delivered, new statistics released by the EPA Thursday reveal.

The slow pace of deliveries, coupled with concerns over the reliability of the EV buses, have prompted many school districts to pull out of the $5 billion “Clean School Bus Program,” for which some $2.7 billion in taxpayer funds has already been doled out — and almost exclusively on electric buses versus other alternative fuel vehicles.

“Instead of following Congress’ directives to effectively provide safe and reliable transportation for American school kids, the Biden-Harris administration rushed money out the door without enough thought or oversight,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.

I mean, seriously, this is government in a nutshell: rush the money out, it disappears into graft, waste, overspending, people’s pockets. It can pass through multiple NGOs, who all take their cut to pass it on, before finally being spent. Is this fully legal, or is there a way to prosecute for defrauding the government, even though it has essentially been normalized?

“This carelessness resulted in 90% of the money going to ‘buy’ electric school buses; yet over 5 years later, there are very few tangible buses to show for it,” Zeldin continued. “In essence, American taxpayer dollars vanished into thin air, and our children were left without school buses.”

Under the program guidelines, 50% of the federal money was meant for EV buses while the other half was intended for other types of “clean” transportation methods, like biofuel, liquified natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), hydrogen or propane vehicles.

And, for the most part, there are tons of problems with getting the buses delivered, and, for those that were delivered, keeping them running.

The EPA pegged the average cost per bus purchased through the Biden-era program at over $1 million.

New diesel and propane buses typically cost less than $200,000. The average EV school bus sells for about $300,000-$400,000.

I’ve mentioned this a few times. What a bargain!

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 24, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a beach being inundated with waves from a climate driven hurricane, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on “Dem Senate Candidate: We Would Trade Five Americans for One Illegal Alien”

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Say, How Will AI Kill Us All?

By William Teach September 24, 2026 – 10:30 am

Will it be in fun ways?

How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios

Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after just four months. In an announcement on X, he stated: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

A senior member of Anthropic’s staff, Evan Hubinger, actually agreed with Coxon, adding he personally thinks the chance of this happening in the next decade is more than 10%.

So, are we dying by ‘climate change’ or AI?

I’ve distilled these scenarios down to the top five, ordering them roughly from most vague to most precise. And I’d argue the list is also ordered from least to most probable.

1. We’ll never know: AI doomers often justify their concerns by means of an annoying catch-22 paradox: how can we possibly imagine what a superintelligence might do to take out less intelligent beings like us?

2. Paperclips: A classic example of such indifference comes from Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom’s imagined superintelligent AI that has been designed to optimise paperclip production. To produce its preferred form of office supplies, it quickly converts all available matter – including humans, planets and stars – into paperclips.

What we have here is the perfect execution of improperly specified objectives. The AI doesn’t hate humanity; it simply recognises we’re composed of atoms that could be better utilised for paperclips. It’s not personal.

3. Bioweapons: Humanity could be killed by a superintelligent AI making and releasing some dangerous new bioweapon into the atmosphere. This is, in fact, one outcome of the AI 2027 scenario by the AI Futures Project, a non-profit dedicated to forecasting the impacts of advanced AI.

4. Nuclear war: What if AI got into the nuclear command and control chain and started a nuclear war? We’ve come close to nuclear war by mistake several times in the past 50 years. (yeah, we saw the movie)

5. Other humans: Perhaps the most likely risk is that we take ourselves out. And AI might precipitate this.

There’s more to each one, but, you get the gist. We’re doomed!

AI leaders warn UN of security risks as systems grow more powerful

The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday of the risks posed by AI to humanity, appealing for governments to work together to manage the increasingly powerful technology.

Yes, these same big companies ahead of most who want “guardrails” to limit the up and coming companies. You know, money. If they’re so concerned then why not limit their own companies? They can, in fact, right software, right?

Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher

In the latest sign that artificial intelligence is fueling higher health care costs, a group of insurers released a report Thursday claiming that hospitals’ use of A.I. was responsible for nearly $1 billion in additional expenses over two years.(snip)

“Coding is changing because of this technology,” said Luke Chalker, a senior vice president at the association. By describing patients as having more complicated conditions and adding a secondary diagnosis, like anemia or low sodium, the hospitals were paid an average of nearly $12,000 more per case.

Well, they know about this, so, they can simply say “no, stop.” And software designers can change code, right? Because that is all this is. Code. It’s not sentient. But, the news likes doomy stories.

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Gavin Newsom Takes Cross Country Fossil Fueled Flight To Yammer About Climate Doom At UN

By William Teach September 24, 2026 – 7:15 am

Nothing like being lectured by a guy who took a private fossil fueled flight across the country, who can’t even get his choo choo train running

Newsom talks climate with world leaders in New York, accuses Trump of abdicating that responsibility

Saying President Donald Trump has abdicated his responsibilities on climate change, California Gov. Gavin Newsom met with world and business leaders Wednesday to advance climate action and clean energy on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

State and local governments are leading, he said, as “Trump is trying to recreate the 19th century” by reopening coal plants, announcing new plans for oil drilling including off California, and centering his energy policy on fossil fuels that cause climate change.

“He’s doubling down on stupid, and he’s putting the American economy at risk,” Newsom said in an interview. He called Trump the most destructive environmental president in American history and “an invasive species.”

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers used Trump’s derogatory nickname for the governor, “Newscum,” in responding to the comments. She said his “doubling down on Biden’s unpopular, unreliable and costly Green New Scam is stupid.”

“No one is surprised to see him whining about the climate change hoax at another conference instead of fixing the problems plaguing his state: out-of-control crime, the highest homeless population in the United States, and wildfire victims still waiting on state permits to rebuild their homes and businesses,” Taylor wrote in an email.

So, basically Gavin is hobnobbing with foreign leaders, yammering about globull boiling and TDS.

Newsom is scheduled to speak at the United Nations on Wednesday. While in New York, he signed a new agreement with Spain’s prime minister to strengthen collaboration on clean energy and climate issues and announced progress to link carbon markets with Washington state.

Um, why is he speaking? He’s a governor. He really shouldn’t even be invited into the UN building.

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Bummer: NICE Is “Electronically Disappear” Illegals With Final Deportation Orders

By William Teach September 24, 2026 – 7:00 am

Hey, there is actually a way to avoid all this: leave voluntarily. The government will even pay you to leave

ICE Begins Electronically ‘Disappearing’ People in Custody: What You Need to Know

When a person is arrested and detained by the U.S. government, it should be possible to find out where that person is being held. For generations, that was true for people held in immigration detention centers — until last week, when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rolled out a startling new policy.

Beginning September 15, people held at ICE detention centers who are subject to final orders of removal (even if they are appealing that order or have some other legal basis to remain in the country) will no longer be listed in the Online Detainee Locator System; and according to the Washington Post, ICE staff have been instructed to refuse to provide the location of those people to attorneys and family.

The online detainee locator system was first put in place during the Obama administration, and allows anyone to enter a person’s name and country of birth and find out where that person is being detained by ICE. Before the system went into place, families and attorneys would have to call the local ICE office and ask for the person’s location. But at no point in the past were officials ever ordered to deliberately withhold detainees’ locations.

Generations? Obama wasn’t in office generations ago.

ICE’s new policy specifically targets people with final orders of removal. Those people enter ICE detention in a couple of different ways. Some people are detained by ICE before they have been ordered removed and go through the removal process while in detention. These people are now disappearing from the detainee locator system the moment their removal order becomes final, even if their physical location has not yet changed.

Other people who are taken into custody already have final orders of removal and have been targeted by ICE to execute the order of removal and carry out a deportation. In total, there are at least 1.4 million people living in the U.S. who have final orders of removal. Many people in this situation were ordered removed in the past for missing a court hearing (often unintentionally). After this latest policy change, these individuals will never show up on the ICE detainee locator system once arrested.

Well, darn, looks like they are going bye bye. As should happen.

Knowing where a person is being detained is very important to people on the outside trying to get in contact. Each detention center has its own visitation rules and processes, and there is no centralized visitation and contact system. Without knowing where a loved one is held, family members would have no choice but to wait until the person being detained finds a way to contact them from the inside. But that may not even be possible — for decades, ICE has made it incredibly difficult for people to have phone access in detention.

So, they’re all being scared? Yeah, that’s the point, so whole families up and go.

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