Horror: War With Iran Accelerating Climate Doom

By William Teach April 24, 2026 – 6:00 pm

If only Trump had just let Iran get their nuclear weapons this wouldn’t be a problem

US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating climate change

A new analysis published March 21 by the Climate and Community Institute (CCI) has quantified the greenhouse gas emissions produced in the first 14 days of the US-Israel war on Iran, finding that the conflict released more carbon pollution in two weeks than many smaller nations, such as Iceland, emit in an entire year. The findings begin to expose the full environmental cost of the war, a cost whose largest portion has yet to be emitted and will be borne by the international working class.

The analysis covers the period from February 28 to March 14, 2026, and estimates total emissions of approximately 5.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) across five categories: the destruction of homes and civilian buildings, the burning of oil stored in bombed refineries and tankers, fuel consumed in combat and support operations, the embodied carbon of destroyed military equipment, and the embodied carbon in missiles and drones used by all parties.

What would be the carbon footprint if Iran dropped a nuclear weapon or two on Israel? Is suspect the people pushing this crap wouldn’t care, and would probably cheer. Also, who are the people pushing this crap? That would be the World Socialist Website. Huh.

The largest source was not the weapons or the fighter jets and bombers flying from as far as western England, but the destruction of civilian infrastructure. Based on Red Crescent Society of Iran reports that approximately 20,000 civilian units were damaged or destroyed, including 16,191 residential buildings, 3,384 commercial units, 77 medical centers and 69 schools, the researchers estimated 2.4 million tCO2e in embodied emissions that will be released when rubble is cleared and infrastructure rebuilt.

Um, OK, listen to the hardcore Islamist government of Iran.

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If All You See…

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

…are carbon pollution driven Bad Weather clouds causing flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on DOT pulling $73 million from New York over CDL licenses.

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Oh No: DOJ Program Not Approving NGOs To Help Illegal Aliens

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

This sure seems like one of those crazy programs designed to help illegal aliens avoid being deported, but, even more so, redistribute taxpayer money to friendly NGOs as slush money

From the link

The Justice Department program that accredits nonprofit organizations to help provide legal aid to low-income immigrants has failed to approve a single new application since March— after its attorneys were quietly reassigned to other offices, sources with direct knowledge of the program told CBS News.

A month ago, the small group of senior attorneys who operated the Recognition and Accreditation program, part of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, were transferred without explanation to work in nearby immigration courts, CBS News previously reported.

The Recognition and Accreditation program certifies non-attorneys who work for largely faith-based legal advocacy organizations such as Catholic Charities and Jewish Family Services so they are authorized to assist immigrants on everything from naturalization petitions to representation in the Justice Department’s immigration courts.

The reassigned DOJ lawyers were responsible for renewing and approving new applications for the program.

Think on that: the illegals have come to the US illegally. Many of them spent thousands and thousands of dollars to travel to the US, some way more because they came from Asia and Africa, yet, the United States government is going use taxpayer money to help people who aren’t even lawyers to try and find loopholes to stay in the US, rather than using that money to deport them. What they hell is wrong with our laws? They are contradictory. The Constitution isn’t: it says to protect the US from invasion. This is an invasion.

That’s just a few short years, but, it’s been going on for decades.

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Excitable Adam Schiff Introduces Bill To Look At ‘Climate Change’ And Superfund Sites

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

It’s not like these superfund sites aren’t already environmental messes, no, Schiff for brains wants to drag ‘climate change’ into it, which would waste time and money in cleaning them up

New US Bill to Require EPA to Examine Impact of Climate Change on Superfund Sites

US Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced a bill to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to account for climate change risks, including natural disasters and extreme weather hazards, when managing toxic waste sites.

The legislation, Preparing Superfund for Climate Change Act of 2026, aims to strengthen protections for communities near Superfund sites—polluted locations that contain hazardous toxic waste and other contaminants harmful to public health. In 2018, the Carr Fire in Northern California burned over 300 square miles and swept over the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site—finding its way into the pipes that convey acid mine drainage and threatening to release toxic chemicals to surrounding communities.

“With the ongoing and ever-worsening climate crisis, we must take strong action to mitigate the climate risks on Superfund sites across California and the country as more and more of these toxic sites become vulnerable to natural disasters. As the EPA manages and plans the cleanup of these sites, they must account for and recognize the impacts of climate change in order to protect the health and well-being of the public,” said Senator Schiff.

US Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-Mo.-5) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.-37) introduced companion legislation in the House.

This will go nowhere, at least as long as Republicans hold the House and Senate. Even if Democrats retake both, Trump will veto the legislation.

“As the climate crisis causes more and more extreme weather, we must ensure our communities have the resources they need to be resilient,” said Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove. “With 15 active EPA Superfund sites across LA County, climate-driven disasters like last year’s LA Fires threaten to upend pollution cleanup efforts that keep our neighbors safe. I’m proud to join Sen. Schiff and Rep. Cleaver in introducing this legislation that would better prepare us for climate disasters and help protect our communities from toxic waste.”

Reports this month from the EPA’s Office of Inspector General found that 100 of the nation’s most contaminated federal Superfund sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires. There is a total of 114 Superfund sites in California.

Why is California so polluted? Meanwhile

DeSantis signs bill on Earth Day reversing local climate change action

Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law on Earth Day that blocks local governments from enacting policies to track how their emissions contribute to climate change.

“Floridians should not be forced to pay for radical climate agendas or identity politics with their hard-earned tax dollars,” DeSantis said.

Good. The law takes effect in July.

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Unsurprising: 4 RINOs Help Dems Keep SAVE Act Out Of Funding Package

By William Teach April 24, 2026 – 6:45 am

Can you imagine this happening if Democrats were trying to get something in their own budget package? Nope. They’d be bribing and cajoling, much like they did with Sinema and Manchin for Biden’s big green bill. How they got Obamacare passed

Republicans fail to attach SAVE America Act to party-line funding package

A cohort of Senate Republicans joined Democrats to sink a late-night attempt to attach a version of voter ID and citizenship verification legislation to the GOP’s bill funding federal immigration enforcement.

Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., all voted against a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act early Thursday morning.

Their defection came during the Senate’s marathon “vote-a-rama,” where lawmakers could force votes on any number of amendments, regardless of whether they mesh with the underlying budget blueprint.

The amendment’s 48-to-50 failure crystallized what several Republicans had warned for weeks before launching a quasi-floor takeover to debate the SAVE America Act last month — it didn’t have the support among the GOP to pass.

Tillis, who’s out at the end of 2026, used to be reliable, but, went full Squish over the past two years. Collins and Murkowski were expected. McConnell is always a hit or miss.

It appears the proposal was doomed even if Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., launched an oral filibuster to advance the measure with a simple 50-vote majority.

Thune didn’t seem to want to try and get it passed. He seriously could have bribed them to get their votes in the time honored manner of politics, but, no. He’s never pushed it hard despite a vast majority of Republicans wanting it, and a vast majority of Americans.

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Trump Admin Causing Issues At World Bank And G7 Over Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 3:00 pm

It’s easy to talk about Resistance. Actually doing something?

US pressure puts World Bank’s climate plan at risk

With the World Bank’s key climate policy framework set to expire in June, closed-door negotiations between shareholders and the bank’s management over its successor have stalled, sources familiar with the discussions told Climate Home News.

This throws into doubt the future direction of the world’s largest provider of international climate funding to developing countries. Rajneesh Bhuee, just transition lead at campaigning group Recourse, said that scrapping the bank’s climate targets and markers would be “worrying”.

First introduced in 2021, the Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) has driven an expansion in the World Bank’s funding for emission-cutting projects and support for vulnerable communities dealing with the growing impacts of climate change.

The plan embedded climate considerations across the bank’s lending practices and committed it to directing a defined share of its annual budget – now 45% – to projects with climate benefits.

Sounds like a nice little slush fund full of waste and graft

That trajectory is now under threat. Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the US – the bank’s largest shareholder – has waged an aggressive campaign against its climate commitments.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on last week that the World Bank should abandon its “distortionary” climate finance target, claiming without evidence that it “undermines efforts to reduce poverty and spur economic growth”.

“We welcome the coming expiration of the Climate Change Action Plan, and upon its long-overdue expiration, expect the bank to immediately shift its myopic focus on climate,” he added in the statement issued during the World Bank’s Spring Meeting in Washington DC earlier this month.

Or, the US can stop giving them money.

G7 omits climate change from Paris talks to avoid US clash, France says

A meeting of G7 nations on the environment begins in Paris on Thursday but climate change has been left off the agenda to avoid a row with the United States.

The office of France’s ecology minister Monique Barbut said the two-day meeting would focus on “less contentious issues” in an effort to appease the largest and most powerful G7 member.

“We chose not to address the climate issue head-on … because the United States’ positions on this subject are well known,” the ministry said.

Why was time on complete bullshit?

Barbut’s office said attendees would discuss themes including ocean conservation, biodiversity funding and the transformation of dry areas into desert.

Those are worthy discussion. Real environmental issues which do not require the climate scam as part of the discussion.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the UK bigwigs not seeing Islam as a threat.

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Judge Kills Virginia’s Redistricting Referendum

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 10:30 am

There were many reasons for it to be killed, starting with it being unconstitutional

You knew that the minute this was passed there would be lawsuits

(Fox News) Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley ruled Wednesday, one day after the Democrat redistricting referendum passed, that all votes for or against the proposed redistricting amendment were unconstitutional, citing rules that impose certain requirements that the referendum did not meet.

There are a handful of cases making their way through the Virginia court system challenging various aspects of the referendum, including the one Hurley ruled on Wednesday.

“The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed,” former Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said on X after Hurley’s ruling.

Cuccinelli, who heads the American Principles Project Election Transparency Initiative, indicated Wednesday there are four constitutional challenges to the referendum making their way through the courts, three of which are challenges to the amendment process itself.

The whole process bypassed the actual Virginia Constitution, so, it will be interesting to see what happens when this gets to the Va Supreme Court, and then possibly beyond that to federal courts.

Democrats’ Virginia Gerrymander is GOP’s Sign to Play Hardball

On Tuesday, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment that will allow Democrats to draw new maps, handing them control of 10 of 11 U.S. House seats in a state that Kamala Harris won by just five points in 2024. The result should be a shock to the senses for Republicans nationwide that it’s time to get serious about redistricting – starting with a push in Florida next week. (big snip)

But while a post-mortem of this specific election is perhaps in order, Republicans’ biggest takeaway should be that Democrats are willing to be as ruthless as necessary – even violate the law – in pursuit of power. Republicans’ only option is to respond with similar determination.

Yeah, well, good luck with that. The vast majority of them have failed to learn this lesson for the better part of this century. They’ve wanted to be comrades and The Adults In The Room, reasonable, all while Democrats have gotten more and more vicious. Republicans “don’t want to play that game.” There are too many who go Squish. They do not learn.

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Climate Cultists Embracing Joy To Fight Doom Or Something

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 7:15 am

Well, there’s always some outlier, right?

Climate doom and gloom? Try laughing instead. Activists embrace joy in the fight to save Earth

When several different team-building groups shared space at a retreat center in New York’s Hudson Valley, one bunch of people stood out because of their constant laughter — so much that someone from another group eventually asked, “Who are you guys?”

They were activists meeting to figure out how to better fight against worsening climate change, a cause usually associated with failure, sacrifice and doom. (snip)

“I believe that joy is all the more necessary and maybe all the more holy in difficult times,” said Katharine Wilkinson, an activist who led the Hudson Valley seminar that got the other groups’ notice. “Joy is like, how do we take part in the shimmy and the shimmer even as the world lurches?”

People like Wilkinson want to harness happiness to power those fighting to curb the burning of coal, oil and gas and the heat-trapping gases they emit, causing Earth to warm. In a recent speech at American University, Wilkinson called power and joy “a really potent portal to the gifts that we want to offer in this time of immense trouble and yet also immense possibility.”

So, um, exactly how are they doing this?

Emphasizing sacrifice “is counterproductive,” said Zhao, who teamed with Dunn to write the book “Leave the Lights On.”

“Instead of asking people to sacrifice the things that bring them joy, our book is making the exact opposite claim: Do more of the stuff that brings you pleasure but also have a low carbon footprint,” she said.

“We’re actually trying to get people to change their behaviors. And joy is the missing ingredient here,” Zhao said. “All we’re saying is give this a shot.”

Dunn, using biking to work as an example, said, “If we enjoy doing something, it is a lot easier to stick with it.”

I’m not buying it.

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9th Circuit Crushes California’s Mask Ban For ICE

By William Teach April 23, 2026 – 7:00 am

I mean, seriously, one would have thought that all those lawyers in the People’s Republik Of California’s General Assembly would have realized this

Bummer, I was really looking forward to seeing some idiot in California’s state, county, or local law enforcement try and arrest a federal law enforcement agent

That California Ban on Masked ICE Agents Just Got Struck Down

A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit just made permanent an injunction that blocks the enforcement of California’s law banning masks on federal agents — basically because a state can’t tell a federal agency what to do.

In a 3-0 ruling, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that California’s law, SB 627, which was co-authored by state Senator Scott Wiener, likely violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, and runs afoul of Supreme Court precedent that prevents states from prosecuting federal agents acting in the course of their duties.

The law, dubbed the No Vigilantes Act, which took effect in January, bans the wearing of masks by law enforcement officers, in the interest of public safety.

The judges said that the state law “purports to override the federal government’s power to determine whether, how, and when to publicly identify its officers.” And they add, “in so doing, it aims to regulate the manner and conditions under which federal agents can enforce federal law.”

Pretty much everyone saw this coming. Not sure why the CA GA bothered, except maybe to whip up their unhinged base.

At the same time, same ruling

Federal court makes stunning ruling on California law forcing ICE agents to wear IDs

A California appeals court has blocked a move by Gov. Gavin Newsom to force ICE agents to wear identification, saying that the state couldn’t regulate actions by the federal government.

The three judge panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday agreed with the Trump administration that the California law violated the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause by interfering with federal officers’ duties. It had previously granted a temporary administrative injunction to block the implementation of the law.

Nice try, Gavin.

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