It’s Super Important You Get Out Of The US To Find Out About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 7, 2025 – 5:44 pm

I don’t think Time Magazine is making the point they think they are

What Global Climate Action Looks Like at COP30 Without the U.S.

Greetings from São Paulo where corporate executives from around the world have gathered ahead of this year’s United Nations climate talks—known as COP30. This is my second stop in a two-week trip to Brazil as I try to understand how the world is approaching climate change at this moment.

People always ask me whether it’s really worth spending so much time and energy at COP. This year, I’ve heard that question even more than usual given the rapid developments in the U.S.—from the AI-linked rise in power demand to the Trump Administration’s ongoing assault on climate policy.

My answer has never been clearer: to understand the state of climate efforts requires getting out of the U.S.—now more than ever. Acquiring a true sense of where things currently stand almost requires going region by region, sector by sector, technology by technology. And anticipating where things are headed means grappling with changing economics. For me, the COP experience is an opportunity to drink from a firehose and get a crash course in answering these questions. What I’ve learned is that geopolitical tension, reshaped trade dynamics, and technological advances all mean that when it comes to climate change, the U.S. is no longer in the driver’s seat.

For the past decade, a decent portion of my time at COP has been dedicated to trying to track down what the U.S. delegation is doing—whether that’s watching the U.S. broker compromises to help deliver the Paris Agreement or sitting in as the first Trump Administration pitched coal-fired power as a source of clean energy.

In other words, hobnob with the other cultists, especially the government wonks, rather than asking the average Bob and Betty what they think. What cult policy is doing to them.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 7, 2025 – 1:59 pm

…is a rising sea bumping up against the mountains, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on Ford potentially trashing the entire F-150 EV line.

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Europeans Think Mamdani’s Radical Policies Are Normal Or Something

By William Teach November 7, 2025 – 12:00 pm

Which policies, though?

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

After New York City’s race for mayor catapulted Zohran Mamdani from state assembly member into one of the world’s most prominent progressive voices, intense debate swirled over the ideas at the heart of his campaign.

His critics and opponents painted pledges such as free bus service, universal childcare and rent freezes as unworkable, unrealistic and exorbitantly expensive.

But some have hit back, highlighting the quirk of geography that underpins some of this view. “He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,” said the Dutch environmentalist and former government adviser Alexander Verbeek in the wake of Tuesday’s election.

Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal.

“Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his newsletter, The Planet. “Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

Those policies, specifically rent control, government owned grocery stores, and free transit, may seem great on the surface, but, in practice but do not work out in reality all that well.

That view hit on the wide differences in how Mamdani’s promises are seen by many across the Atlantic. “Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return. The debate here isn’t whether to have these programs, but how to improve them.”

So…….they aren’t actually free? They come about via higher taxes? Don’t forget, it’s pretty much everyone who pays those higher taxes, not just “the rich.” Funny, half of European countries fought against the same policies the Soviet Union wanted to push on Europe by force, now they are implementing the same failures. The other half were actually forced to live under Communism (not the Political Science 101 definition, but, the real world practice type), and many tried to escape from it over the walls and fences guarded by people with machine guns.

Of course, it’s now the Democratic Socialists Of America policies that are truly the issue: it’s the hardcore Islam policies, turning NYC into the cities overrun by Islamists in Europe that are the problem. It’s not as easy to reverse bringing in gobs of Islamists to NYC as it is to end rent control.

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Trump Derangement Syndrome In One Photo

By William Teach November 7, 2025 – 7:53 am

This is going around hard on Twitter Bluesky, and others

The reality?

Democrats are not well, and, I think the GOP should put money into the Continuing Resolution for more mental health professionals.

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World Leaders Who Took Long Fossil Fueled Flights Snipe At Trump

By William Teach November 7, 2025 – 7:15 am

I love how these yahoos yammer about Doing Something but that’s only for Other People

‘Trump is against humankind’: World leaders at climate summit take swipes at absent president

Donald Trump isn’t at the global climate summit in Brazil. But he was on the minds of some of his fellow world leaders Thursday, who used their time on stage to try to isolate the U.S. president and his hard-line opposition to their agenda.

In speeches meant to highlight their support for efforts to halt rising temperatures, a few of the heads of state at the COP30 climate talks in the Amazonian port city of Belém could not resist the chance to admonish the U.S. president directly.

“Mr. Trump is against humankind,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who pointed to the American president’s absence from the gathering and called for an economy free of oil and natural gas.

And how did Petro get to Belem? I’m betting not in a sailing ship

Gabriel Boric, Chile’s president, took Trump to task for a September speech to the U.N. General Assembly in which the U.S. leader denounced the notion of human-caused climate change as a “con job” and a “hoax made up by people with evil intentions.”

“That is a lie,” Boric said, emphasizing the importance of science and facts. “We might have legitimate discussions about how to face these things, but we cannot deny them.”

Did he take a bike or an EV?

When asked for comment, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers responded that “President Trump will not allow the best interest of the American people to be jeopardized by the Green Energy Scam.

“These Green Dreams are killing other countries, but will not kill ours thanks to President Trump’s commonsense energy agenda!” she said by email.

I just don’t get it: time and time again those with a platform never say “hey, did y’all in the media ask how these people whining and saying we need to Do Something got there?” The Trump admin could have included photos of the private jets for all these wackos.

The speeches from a handful of leaders displayed, at times, the anger and dismay that countries feel about the U.S. breaking its promises and attempting to undermine the global effort to tackle global warming. Other leaders tried to brush off the American absence as simply an act of economic self-harm.

Obama promised. It never went through the US Senate, so, if Obama wants to do something in his own life, have at it.

Just a small number of European leaders turned up, while some other countries have sent ministerial representatives. Canada’s Mark Carney, a former U.N. climate representative, stayed home. The EU’s 27 member countries could not agree on a climate goal to present at the conference until Wednesday morning — and only after watering down existing pollution-cutting rules to get a deal. Also absent is Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose country tops the U.S. as the world’s No. 1 greenhouse gas polluter.

But, hey, around 40K other people will be taking long fossil fueled trips to see and be seen in cult.

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PRC Judge Sara Puts More Restrictions On Immigration Cops Or Something

By William Teach November 7, 2025 – 7:00 am

Seriously, she really thinks she is able to put restrictions on federal law enforcement despite Congress having authorized the arrests and never having passed legislation with any of these restrictions

Federal Judge Imposes Strict Restrictions on Immigration Agents’ Use of Force Against Protesters, Media, Clergy

Finding that federal immigration enforcement agents repeatedly used force that “shocks the conscience” and then lied about their actions, U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis issued a sweeping injunction Thursday designed to permanently rein in agents’ use of tear gas, pepper balls and other crowd control measures.

Ellis ruled that there was ample evidence that federal agents had violated Chicagoans’ First Amendment rights to free speech and free assembly to protest what the Trump administration calls “Operation Midway Blitz” while also impermissibly preventing the free exercise of religion by targeting members of the clergy with force.

“The use of force shocks the conscience,” Ellis said. “This conduct shows no sign of stopping.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security vowed to appeal Ellis’ order, calling her an “activist judge that risks the lives and livelihoods of law enforcement officers.” (snip)

To begin her order, Ellis read Carl Sandberg’s famed poem, “Chicago,” in full. That poem dubbed Chicago the “City of Big Shoulders.”

“And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer,” Ellis read, pausing to look at the packed courtroom as she did so.

As usual, moonbat judges are high on feelings and short on law. What will happen is that the Trump admin will appeal, and there’s about a 90% chance the appeals court will say that Judge Sara has vastly exceeded her authority.

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HotCold Take: We’re Losing The EV Race Because It’s Not About Climate Change

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Nice try, Sparky

Opinion – We’re losing the EV race because we still think it’s about the environment

While Beijing built gigafactories, the United States debated tax credits. China saw electric vehicles as an industrial strategy — we saw them as climate policy. Now, China commands 60 percent of global battery electric vehicle sales and dominates the battery supply chain that will power tomorrow’s cars, trucks and buses. America barely reaches 16 percent. (snip)

That same year, Beijing launched “Made in China 2025,” an industrial policy to accelerate advanced manufacturing capabilities and reduce foreign dependence. But China’s leaders had identified “new energy vehicles” as a strategic sector long before that — as early as 2006 — and followed up with a National Energy-Saving and New Energy Vehicle Development Plan in 2012. When “Made in China 2025” elevated electric vehicles as a national priority, the industry exploded.

Meanwhile, the U.S. took a wrong turn. Instead of focusing on the electric vehicle as a breakthrough technology, Washington framed it as an environmental issue — one that remains politically divisive.

Beijing forced this on their citizens, in a much stronger manner than the US and state governments did. And, it wasn’t just Washington, it was the climate cult, most of whom didn’t buy EVs for themselves, because they are inconvenient.

Electric vehicles are not just clean cars, but rather computers on wheels, connected to data, chips and infrastructure. Losing the electric vehicle race means losing leverage over critical technology standards, supply chains and industrial jobs. This isn’t just about automakers; it’s about national power and the future of our tech ecosystem.

Sounds like a bunch of BS to me as the cult tries to reframe why they want to force US citizens into EVs

The U.S. must start treating electric vehicles as an advanced technology sector central to our economic competitiveness and innovation power. National leaders should move beyond purchase subsidies to focus on industrial build-out, software-defined vehicle research and development, and secure data infrastructure.

And we don’t have to do it alone. Allies from Japan to Germany face the same challenge. Joint battery production, shared industrial standards, and coordinated investment can strengthen all our industries — together.

Electric vehicles aren’t a climate accessory. They’re the next platform for global technological power. America can’t afford to sit in the passenger seat.

Nah, I’m good. Really, there’s been little change in guitars for a long, long time. Not a whole lot of difference between my 2020 Epiphone Les Paul Studio and the original Les Paul created. Don’t need all sorts of stuff. Works just fine. And I’m more than happy with my Accord Hybrid. If you want an EV, get one. Stop trying to force others into them.

Oh, and then there’s the next story on Yahoo News

EV drivers could face new tax in Budget

Drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) could face the prospect of a new tax in this month’s Budget.

With pressure on the chancellor to find tens of billions of pounds in additional revenue, the BBC understands there have been “conversations” within government about the possibility of a new levy on EVs.

A government spokesperson told the BBC: “Fuel duty covers petrol and diesel, but there’s no equivalent for electric vehicles. We want a fairer system for all drivers.”

“Buy an EV and you’ll save money over driving petrol vehicles. Oh, and here’s a new tax to erase those savings.” When government talks about “fairer”, watch your wallet. And freedom.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are trees falling due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on the feds busting a bunch of Mississippi cops for running drugs from Mexico.

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Surprise: Jewish NYC Fire Chief Resigns Day After Mamdani Wins

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 10:30 am

I wonder why

From the article

Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker handed in his resignation Wednesday morning — just one day after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor, The Post has learned.

Tucker, a proud Jewish philanthropist and businessman, informed Mayor Eric Adams that he would step down from the role he has held for just over 12 months on December 19, according to sources.

The FDNY boss was concerned about Mamdani’s anti-Israel hostility, with a source noting that Tucker’s support of the Jewish state “does not align with the new mayor.” (snip)

“I will leave this critical role on December 19, 2025. Between now and then, I will continue to lead the greatest fire department in the world and will ensure an orderly transition.”

What often happens with people like this is they wait and see if the new incoming mayor wants them to stay on the job, because they are good at it. And Tucker was very good at the job, settling things down after a tough time with the previous commissioner. Tucker knows Mamdani is an Israel and Jew hater

The Mayor-elect’s transition team pointed to comments he made during a Wednesday press conference when asked about Tucker’s exit.

“I am willing to consider anyone to work in my City Hall so long as they are committed to working for my administration and to delivering on an agenda to lower costs for New Yorkers in the most expensive city in the United States,” Mamdani told reporters.

Anyone who doesn’t want to fall in line with his radical agenda, including the radical Islam agenda, the Jew hatred, can leave. We can be sure that lots of members of the NYPD will leave; will we see what happens in the FDNY. There are reportedly about 200 employees who are Jewish. And surely many who are not on board with the hardcore Mamdani agenda.

Don’t forget

Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting largest exodus in history: poll

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, an alarming new poll warned early Monday.

Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave, with about 9% of New Yorkers sharing that they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor, the Daily Mail reported, citing a survey conducted by J.L. Partners.

Another 25% of New Yorkers — about 2.12 million — said they would “consider” packing up and leaving.

Among high earners, 7% of those making over $250,000 a year said they would definitely flee.

What do the numbers actually end up looking like? I guess we’ll see. Hopefully the liberals who are not Mamdani supporters will flee to other liberal areas, not Southern states like during COVID, bringing their leftist opinions with that.

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Weird: COP30 Host Brazil Drilling For Oil In Amazon

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

The NY Times is shocked over this

Save the Amazon or Drill for Oil? Brazil Says It Can Do Both.

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action.

He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of planet-warming gases, raise global funds to tackle the climate crisis and curb the rampant destruction of the Amazon rainforest, just as he had done in his first two terms in office.

Hosting this month’s U.N. climate summit, which for the first time is being held in the Amazon, was to serve as a sort of victory lap, offering Mr. Lula, a leftist, a chance to cement his nation’s return to the world stage as a leading voice on climate diplomacy.

Does this including cutting down lots of the Amazon to build a road to transport the 40K+ people coming to COP30 via fossil fueled flights, then have them drive on said road in fossil fueled vehicles?

Yet three years after returning to office, Mr. Lula heads into the world’s most important climate talks with a more checkered track record.

On his watch, Brazil has succeeded in dramatically reducing deforestation in the Amazon, which plays a crucial role in absorbing the greenhouse gases warming the planet. But Brazil has also angered climate advocates by trying to loosen environmental laws and allowing, just weeks before the summit, oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River for the first time.

“This sends a really bad signal to the world,” said Marcio Astrini, executive secretary of the Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental groups. “It’s impossible to imagine a worse moment for this.”

I’d think the clearcutting and 40K+ taking fossil fueled trips would be a bad signal. That’s just me.

Mr. Lula has defended the decision to drill near the Amazon, arguing that oil revenues will help Brazil finance its transition to cleaner forms of energy.

But the controversy threatens to tarnish Brazil’s image abroad and weaken its clout in the climate negotiations, known this year as COP30, at a pivotal moment, as nations prepare to debate moving away from fossil fuels to limit rising global temperatures.

Making climate cult signals is easy: actually having affordable, dependable energy is hard, hence the petroleum drilling. Don’t forget, roughly 50% of every barrel is used for around 700 products other than fuels and oils.

And Brazil’s seemingly contradictory approach underscores a key challenge facing Mr. Lula and other leaders around the world: How can countries balance environmental ambitions with the economic and political realities they face at home?

They can’t. But, the big shots do not care, because none o the policies they push hurt their own lives.

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