It’s Your Fault It’s Cold Outside

This is the kind of screed that proves the point that this is a doomsday cult using non-falsifiable “science”

Why is it so cold? Some researchers say there may be a surprising culprit: climate change.

As climate change reshapes winter in New England, the brutal winds and bitter cold of December felt like a throwback to seasons past.

Scientists say these bone-chilling days do not mean that climate change took a vacation. In fact, instead of contradicting the reality of global warming, some researchers have suggested that surges in Arctic air could be one of its strange new hallmarks. (snip)

The overall trend still holds: New England winters are becoming undeniably shorter, milder, and less snowy. But some new research links climate change with disrupting the rings of fast-moving wind that circle the Arctic, unleashing frigid air to head south.

This December marked the coldest in years for parts of New England. The region kicked off the month with an early winter snowstorm and strong blasts of Arctic air that drove record-setting low temperatures. More cold snaps followed, culminating in an icy New Year’s Eve complete with snow showers. In Boston, temperatures in the city averaged slightly below freezing at 31.3 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the chilliest December since 2017.

So, does this mean the Paleolithic humans who lived during the last glacial age were burning too many fossil fuels? How about during the cool periods during the Holocene? It’s almost not worth arguing with these people. It’s that crazy. Everything proves their cult dogma.

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If All You See…

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is neo-neocon, with a post wondering where Mamdani is going to get other people’s money.

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“Scientists” Pre-Determine 2026 Will Break Global Temperature Records

Of course they do

Scientists warn that 2026 could break global warming records

Forecasts from international organizations indicate that 2026 is expected to be among the warmest years ever recorded on Earth.

This assessment, published by the United Kingdom’s Met Office, is based on recent studies that reveal a continued increase in average global temperatures, with values ??exceeding previous records, reinforcing the urgent need to limit global warming and the serious impacts of climate change.

The rise in temperature is directly linked to human activities and greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations (UN):
“The main greenhouse gases that cause climate change are carbon dioxide and methane. They come, for example, from the use of gasoline for cars or the burning of coal to heat buildings.” (snip)

The report estimates that the average global temperature in 2026 will reach 1.46°C above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900), with a possible range of 1.34°C to 1.58°C. This is slightly below the record of 1.55°C recorded in 2024, the highest to date.

That doesn’t seem like it could maybe possibly break records

Global temperature records go back to 1850 and show a strong upward trend in recent decades. Adam Scaife, head of the Met Office’s global forecasting team, explained: “The last three years have probably exceeded 1.4°C and we expect 2026 to be the fourth year in a row that this has happened. Before this sudden increase, global temperatures had not exceeded 1.3°C.”

Um, OK, so, pretty much what’s expected during a Holocene warm period, and, as I’ve mentioned many times, this is all worthless without being able to compare it to the previous Holocene warm periods over the past 7,000 years.

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Surprise: Mamdani Revokes Eric Adams’ Orders Which Protected Jews

All you Jews in NYC, what did you think you were going to get voting for him?

Mamdani revokes Israel-related executive orders signed by Adams, directs team to focus on housing in first acts as mayor

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his executive powers to revoke a handful of orders put into place by his predecessor after the former mayor was federally indicted, including a directive that expanded the definition of antisemitism and another that barred city employees and agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel.

Mamdani signed the orders on Thursday afternoon, just hours after his inaugural ceremony at City Hall. As part of the move, he rescinded directives signed by the former mayor, Eric Adams, after September 26, 2024 – the date Adams was indicted. (snip)

It was also a chance for Adams to tout his support for Israel in contrast to Mamdani, who is a fierce critic of the Israeli government. The 34-year-old democratic socialist had been eyed with concern by many Jewish leaders since his meteoric political rise began last year.

One of the revoked orders blocked all city agencies from divesting from Israel and the other expanded the definition of antisemitism to match the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition, which classifies some criticism of Israel as antisemitic.

Mamdani defended his orders during a press conference on Friday, telling reporters some Jewish organizations in the city also shared his concerns with the expanded definition of the term. In explaining his directive, Mamdani pointed out new mayors have the choice to either sign a continuation of previous orders, revoke them or amend them.

Obviously, CNN sees nothing wrong with rolling back protections from Jews. Now, imagine Mamdani did this for Blacks or Hispanics. Will Mamdani also ditch the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism that Adams established? In 2023 “the New York City Police Department (NYPD) reported that 54 percent of all hate crimes in New York City were against Jewish New Yorkers.” The expanded definition Adams established is the one that the US recognized in 2016 under Obama.

New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman, supported Mamdani’s move saying Adams’ executive orders “adopted a flawed and far too broad definition of antisemitism, and that prohibited city agencies from boycotting Israel.”

Now, let’s see what the NYACLU would think if this was about Blacks or Latinos.

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US Captures Maduro In Overnight Operation

I’m wondering how Democrats are going to take this

US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country

Trump saying hello to Judge Sara

The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack.

Multiple explosions rang out and low-flying aircraft swept through Caracas, the capital, as Maduro’s government immediately accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations. The Venezuelan government called it an “imperialist attack” and urged citizens to take to the streets.

It was not immediately clear who was running the country, and Maduro’s whereabouts were not immediately known. Trump announced the developments on Truth Social shortly after 4:30 a.m. ET. Under Venezuelan law the vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, would take power. There was no confirmation that had happened, though she did issue a statement after the strike.

“We do not know the whereabouts of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores,” Rodriguez said. “We demand proof of life.”

Will Judge Boasberg demand he be released?

The legal implications of the strike under U.S. law were not immediately clear. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted on X that he had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who briefed him on the strike. Rubio told Lee that Maduro “has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States.”

The White House did not immediately respond to queries on where Maduro and his wife were being flown to. Maduro was indicted in March 2020 on “narco-terrorism” conspiracy charges in the Southern District of New York.

Maybe it’s time to put Edmundo González Urrutia in the Venezuelan president’s office, since he most likely won the last election. Or hold new elections and let Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado run.

Now we await the moonbats to go moonbat over this. Oh, and this

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Warmists Say Wood Stoves And Fireplaces Kill 2,500 A Year In The UK

Because of this, they certainly want to ban them. They’d rather your freeze

New study uncovers unexpected culprit behind 2,500 deaths per year: ‘Simply too big to ignore?

The use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes has been linked to 2,500 deaths in the U.K. a year.

The Guardian summarized a report released by Global Action Plan and Hertfordshire County Council explaining that wood-burning stoves and open fires are one of the biggest culprits of small-particle pollution.

Meanwhile, their use has risen in recent years, the publication added, citing an April 2025 study.

While 90% of people have other sources of heating, many still use stoves and fires for aesthetic reasons.

“We all need to stay warm this winter [but] an open fire or wood-burning stove is the most polluting way to heat a home,” Global Action Plan’s Larissa Lockwood told The Guardian.

“Air pollution from wood-burning stoves is cutting lives short and putting people in hospital — the health burden on the British public is simply too big to ignore.”

All they are really doing is linking, but, they cannot 100% definitively state the burning of wood was the cause, but

Lockwood told The Guardian that the government needed to strengthen the powers of local authorities to enforce regulations, better communicate the dangers of burning wood and other solid fuels to the public, and help people to insulate their homes and install cleaner heating systems.

In other words, the Government needs to ban them, even though more and more across the UK, and Europe, are using wood fireplaces because the cost of energy has gotten so high due to climate scam restrictions.

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If All You See…

…is horrible heatsnow from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the protests in Iran.

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Strange: Ilegals No Longer Eligible For MinnesotaCare

Hey, weren’t we told that illegals were not get government healthcare? Not Obamacare or Medicare or Medicaid? The media and Democrat politicians were very explicit about this

As new year arrives, undocumented immigrants lose access to MinnesotaCare

About 15,000 undocumented adults in Minnesota lost access to their state-funded health care on Jan. 1.

In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature — which then had a DFL trifecta — passed a bill that granted undocumented Minnesotans access to MinnesotaCare, a health care program for low-income people that began in the 1990s. The program helps those who are ineligible for Medicaid but unable to afford private health insurance.

Enrollment opened in 2024, and beginning in 2025, undocumented people were able to get care through the program if they were eligible based on their income.

But about halfway through the year, a divided Legislature voted to end those benefits for undocumented adults.

Ma Elena Gutierrez leads the group Fe y Justicia, a faith-based nonprofit that has organized around health equity. She said undocumented people are likely to put off care like surgeries and preventative checkups, and to forgo medications.

Well, they can go back to their home countries if they don’t like it. It’s that easy. The US is not your mommy and daddy.

John Connolly, deputy commissioner and state Medicaid director in the Department of Human Services, said that those who no longer have coverage can be seen at federally qualified health centers or community health centers, which provide care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. But he said that might put a strain on those clinics, which won’t be reimbursed for those services.

“We worry both for people in terms of their access to services, but also in terms of providers having a steady form of payment which strengthens them overall,” he said.

Wait, you mean illegals are going to jam up health centers in Minnesota? I have zero sympathy for the people of Minnesota who keep voting for lefty politicians who support illegal aliens.

Hennepin Healthcare frequently serves undocumented patients. Pam Quast, director of patient access and financial security for Hennepin Healthcare, said that those who no longer have health insurance coverage can still get care through Hennepin Healthcare’s uncompensated-care program. Under that program, patients don’t receive a bill. Hennepin Healthcare conducts their own financial calculations and write-offs, and is then reimbursed through the state and federal government.

A program meant for Americans who cannot afford the care will be taken over by illegals, and then gets reimbursed for those illegals

The Department of Human Services has issued this guidance for undocumented immigrants in English, Oromo, Somali and Spanish.

Come to the U.S. and do not speak English.

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Scientists Find 7,000 Year Old Wall In Mediterranean, Take Exactly Wrong Message

I love history, I love shows on discovering things and talking about old things. Expedition Unknown, Mysteries At The Museum, Histories Greatest Mysteries, and so many more

Experts stunned by incredible 7,000-year-old structure found deep underwater: ‘Must have left a lasting impression’

Archaeologists off the coast of Brittany, France, have discovered a 394-foot wall beneath the waves.

The threshold of solid stone, which could date back to 5,000 BCE, may just show what happens when humans try to build walls to block the ocean’s might.

The wall is believed to have been built for catching fish or protecting people from destructive seawater, according to the BBC.

At around 66 feet wide and seven feet high, the solid 3,600-ton mass of stone has lasted for about 7,000 years, per the researchers, who believe it to have been constructed in the context of a Stone Age community of hunter-gatherers.

While the wall would have been well-situated on the shoreline when in use, it is now 30 feet underwater.

If we look at the average of 6-8 inches of sea rise per century over the last 8,000 years we’re looking at 35-46 feet of sea rise. And the rising seas from the great pulsewater melt started filling the Med. Of course, here we go

With big risks posed by ever-rising seas, discoveries like this one help to demonstrate how coastal communities could one day disappear beneath ocean waters.

Those who built the wall may have put it up to try and mitigate a rising tide in their own time.

In its coverage, the BBC cited a paper published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. “The submersion caused by the rapid rise in sea level, followed by the abandonment of fishing structures, protective works, and habitation sites,” according to the paper, “must have left a lasting impression.”

Driven by human activity — namely, the burning of polluting fuels — which is contributing to the overheating of the planet and the melting of glaciers, sea levels are now consistently reaching all-time highs. Their impacts are already being felt, particularly in vulnerable coastal and island communities.

What caused the big sea rise back then?

People can take steps now to lower their contributions to the pollution that is heating the planet and driving rising seas. And these can look like everything from avoiding fuels such as oil and coal to exploring plant-based diets.

Oh, piss off.

Anyhow, the wall is pretty cool. And, I suspect if the lost city of Atlantis is real it most likely was swallowed up by the same rising Med along with subsistence from earthquakes.

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Trump Admin Freezes Childcare Payments To States Without Proof Of Legitimate Spending

If Democrats are upset, perhaps they should be reconsidering the notion that the federal government should pay for everything. Oh, and keeping a tighter control on all that money

Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states

The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump’s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday. States’ funds will be released “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately”.

The report came a day after Jim O’Neill, the HHS deputy secretary, and Alex Adams, an HHS assistant secretary who oversees the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), appeared in a Tuesday evening video message. O’Neill declared that the department had “activated our defend-the-spend system for all ACF childcare payments across America” and would now require “justification, receipt or photo evidence before we make a payment”.

Originally, O’Neill and Adams’s message was interpreted as an announcement that HHS would stop childcare funding in Minnesota, not all 50 states. However, the Associated Press reported late on Wednesday that the freeze would apply to every state, and that all states would need to provide more documentation about their childcare programs before receiving federal money.

The department did not immediately reply to a Guardian request for comment to clarify the nature of the freeze, but HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told ABC News: “It’s the onus of the state to make sure that these funds, these federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, are being used for legitimate purposes.”

Is it that difficult for Democrat run governments and all the Democrat bureaucrats in government to not be shady? To stop giving money to NGOs and groups and completely not bother accounting for it? They aren’t failing, because, failing would imply that they actually tried. They just do not care to try. Now, if they want the money they are going to have show they are safeguarding the People’s Money properly.

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