To Solve Hotcoldwetdry, We Must (Be Forced To) Change Our Lifestyles Or Something

By William Teach October 12, 2019 – 7:21 am

First, let’s note that St. Greta didn’t get her Nobel Prize, with a scorching hot take by Newsweek

https://twitter.com/atheistcritique/status/1182681000033300480

Perhaps they should have mentioned that St. Greta’s Sweden only sees 36% of its citizens believing that climate change is mostly caused by Mankind. Anyhow, over to the BBC

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer

The UK government must tell the public small, easy changes will not be enough to tackle climate change, warn experts.

Researchers from Imperial College London say we must eat less meat and dairy, swap cars for bikes, take fewer flights, and ditch gas boilers at home.

The report, seen by BBC Panorama, has been prepared for the Committee on Climate Change, which advises ministers how to cut the UK’s carbon footprint.

It says an upheaval in our lifestyles is the only way to meet targets.

The new report, called Behaviour Change, Public Engagement and Net Zero, amounts to an extensive “to-do” list for government.

It says subsidies for fossil fuels have to go and taxes on low-carbon technologies must be cut.

It also urges the government to consider introducing a carbon tax, increasing the prices of carbon-intensive products and activities.

They want the government to be nags

The Committee on Climate Change’s official recommendation to government is that a 20% cut in red meat and dairy is needed – the emissions from the other 80% will have to be matched by CO2 that has been captured and stored permanently in order to meet the net zero ambition.

The report implies a bigger shift in diets could be needed, and says one way to get people to change will be to emphasise the health benefits this could bring.

Another will be to give people much more information on the environmental impact of different foods. It calls for mandatory carbon impact labelling on products, on till receipts, and via shopping websites and apps.

There couldn’t possibly be a backfire when citizens get tired of being nagged, right? Especially by the same people who excuse all the violence by Islamic extremists, right?

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California Bans Private Prisons And Illegal Alien Detention Facilities

By William Teach October 12, 2019 – 7:06 am

Where will California put all its criminals, of which it has quite a few due to the lax law enforcement?

New California law bans private prisons and immigrant detention centers

California must phase out private, for-profit prisons and immigrant detention centers by 2028 under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom announced signing Friday.

The measure, Assembly Bill 32, represents a step toward the governor’s campaign promise to end the state’s use of private prisons.

It will prohibit state officials from signing new agreements with private prisons or renewing existing contracts starting next year, unless needed to comply with court-ordered population caps.

It will also ban all private detention centers from operating in California by the time their current contracts run out, including private immigrant detention facilities that contract with federal immigration authorities. It wouldn’t prohibit the federal government from building its own detention centers in California.

The time frame for this is by 2028. New contracts will not be signed, and all existing contracts end by that year. Where will they put the criminals? No one seems to be discussing that. That being said, many of these private prisons are a disgrace, even by prison standards. But, then, no one really wants to discuss what a disgrace many of the prisons run by the State Of California and counties can be.

The night before Newsom signed the bill, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency would relocate migrants housed in California facilities if the state bans private detention facilities.

“If this bill, or any similar bill, were to take effect, ICE would simply transfer individuals elsewhere at a greater distance from their arrest location to where they’d be detained,” spokeswoman Lori K. Haley said in a statement. “The impact of such a state law would be felt almost exclusively by residents of California who would be forced to travel greater distances to visit friends and family in custody, not by a federal law enforcement agency.”

Can the state ban the federal government from contracting with a private company to house illegal aliens? That could be a fun court suit if ICE gives it a shot. If California thinks that Los Federales will simply release illegals as well as not detain them, they’re sorely mistaken. Or, hey, maybe they can release the illegals in the capital of Sacramento with electronic trackers.

California increased its use of private prisons roughly a decade ago after courts determined the state’s prisons were so overcrowded they violated inmates’ constitutional rights.

The California State Sheriffs Association argues banning private prisons takes away an important option the state has to ensure its prisons aren’t overcrowded.

“The concern of the sheriffs is that if you take tools off the table, you start taking things that can help address population management,” said Cory Salzillo, a lobbyist for the sheriffs. “You increase the likelihood that people could be released from prison because of, say, a population cap.”

This should get interesting when there’s nowhere to put all the criminals in California. Really, this is all based on liberals suddenly getting upset over prisons making a profit, and, rather than fixing those with issues, they just wanted them gone. Why? Because. There really is no reason. They freaked out about them first, then came up with Reasons.

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Green New Deal Inventor Slams Climate Lunatics, Pushes Nuclear Power

By William Teach October 11, 2019 – 5:10 pm

He may still be a believer in anthropogenic climate change, but, he’s step back from the cliff

Inventor of Green New Deal Renounces Eco-Lunacy, Goes Nuclear

(Delingpole goes through a hole bunch of the climate nutter actions recently)

What does all this tell us about climate change? Nothing that we didn’t know already: that it’s a bogus cause, invented by dodgy, activist scientists, propped up by mainstream media lies and hysteria and promoted by soap-dodging loons who are not only naive and ill-informed but outrageously hypocritical in the way that they want to end Western Civilisation but still somehow keep their mobile phones powered…

This is why I was so pleased to meet just about the world’s only sensible Greenie, Mike Shellenberger. Shellenberger used to be a deep green activist – pushing heavily for renewables – but then saw the light.

He still cares about nature very much. But he thinks greenies like Extinction Rebellion are doing more harm than good.

Like this?

Anyhow

“So in the early 2000s I was the co-founder of our original Green New Deal. We called it the New Apollo Project. It was for a $300 billion investment in renewables. And we succeeded. We got President Obama, he did about $150 billion in renewables between 2007 and 2015 but right away we started running into big problems.

The first you’re all familiar with: unreliable electricity means you always have to have fossil fuel power plants backing up when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow. But the other issue, which had a bigger impact on my heart, is the environmental impact of all those solar and wind farms.

So you started having local conservationists raising concerns about the impacts of wind farms on bird and bat species; about the impact of solar farms on our desert tortoise. So you started having environmental consequences of renewables. I started running the numbers. It takes 150 times more land to get the same amount of electricity from a solar farm as from a nuclear plant; 17 times more materials are required for solar than for nuclear; and if you just total up all the used solar panel waste compared with nuclear, solar actually creates 300 times more toxic waste than nuclear.

For me it was like, if I care about the environment, why are we not doing more nuclear power? Even if you don’t care about climate change. Nuclear has the smallest environmental footprint because it has the highest energy density. So for me my red pill moment was realising that energy density determines environmental impact. A single coke can of uranium provides enough energy for my entire life. Whereas it would require many train cars full of coal, oil or gas; many more of renewables. So that for me was what made me change my mind.”

Many leading climate cultists are also calling for nuclear, but, the wider Cult of Climastrology is dead set against it. AOC’s Green New Deal is against it, as are many of the climate (cult) plans from the Democrats running for the nomination. They should all try living strictly on solar and wind. See how that works out.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 11, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon intensive dog causing pumpkins to disappear in the future, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on the Ukraine whistleblower having worked with Biden while he was VP.

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More Extinction Rebellion Moonbattery

By William Teach October 11, 2019 – 12:25 pm

The climate is solved!

and more

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Beto Calls For Stripping Churches Of Tax Exempt Status If They Don’t Support Gay Marriage

By William Teach October 11, 2019 – 7:45 am

The guy running for President doesn’t understand the Bill Of Rights

From The Blaze

CNN’s Don Lemon asked O’Rourke how far the government should punish organizations for following traditional religious beliefs about marriage.

“This is from your LGBTQ plan, and here’s what you right, here’s a quote, ‘freedom of religion is a fundamental right but it should not be used to discriminate,'” Lemon said.

“Do you think religious institutions, like colleges, churches, charities, should they lose their tax exempt status if they oppose same sex marriage?” Lemon asked.

“Yes,” O’Rourke said simply to loud applause from the LGBTQ audience.

“There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for any one or any institution, any organization in America that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us,” O’Rourke added.

“And so as as president, we’re gonna make that a priority,” he said, “and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the civil rights of our fellow Americans.”

Gays can always go to another church to get married. But, Progressive World is all about forcing other people to believe what Progressives believe, using the government as the stick.

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Bummer: Climate Crisis (scam) Disasters Could Get Worse If We Don’t Pass A New Green Deal

By William Teach October 11, 2019 – 7:05 am

You need to be taxed out the wazoo and have your liberty, freedom, and choice removed so we can “solve” this

Climate crisis disasters that could get worse if we don’t do anything

(skipping past all the yammering about the UN IPCC saying doom is coming and typical Warmist cultism)

The “business-as-usual” scenario, referred to as RCP8.5, considers no change in the world’s greenhouse gases emissions. Under this scenario, some climate scientists estimate that temperatures would rise by over 4 degrees over preindustrial levels by the end of the century. Some anticipate even higher temperature increases. The consequences of such an increase would probably be disastrous to humanity.

24/7 Wall St. consulted reports by groups such as the IPCC, NASA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association, the U.S. Global Change Research Program and more to identify the potential effects of global climate change on the Earth and its inhabitants. Many of these predictions are based on average global temperature increases of at least 4 degrees Centigrade above preindustrial levels by 2100. Even if we manage to avoid the worst-case scenarios, many serious consequences of climate change are already being seen and felt around the world.

1. Rising temperatures

Global average temperatures could rise by as much as 7 degrees Centigrade, or 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2100. The average has risen by about 1 degree Centigrade.

Yeah, that’s not happening. Even in fantasy world that will not happen. The temperature has only risen about 1.5F since 1850, and even that could be debated as too high due to land use and the urban heat island effect artificially raising the average global temperature.

2. Even higher regional temperature increases

Regional temperatures could increase much more than the global average in North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Summer temperatures could increase by 9 degrees Centigrade, or about 16 degrees Fahrenheit, in some places.

Nope. Alarmist claptrap.

4. A rise in hurricane and storm activity

Though the jury is still out on whether global warming has significantly contributed to an increase in the frequency and strength of hurricanes affecting the USA, scientists project global warming is likely to cause a substantial increase in the severity of these events.

Hasn’t happened yet, but, SOON, right? (I’m skipping some for slight brevity)

7. Arctic-free summers

If the Earth warms by 2 degrees Centigrade above preindustrial levels, scientists predict that one out of 10 summers in the Arctic will be ice-free.

Do they really want to make this prognostication again? Hasn’t worked out too well so far.

9. Sea level rise

Warming of 4 degrees Centigrade would lead to a sea level rise of 22.6 to 35.4 feet.

The first won’t happen, so the second won’t. But, this is all about Scaremongering.

10. Long-term major sea level rise

Sea levels could rise by as much as 50 feet, meaning less livable land area for humans.

Scaremongering, with more about Florida and Bangladesh being virtually gone. Oh, and major droughts to go with the flooding. And we get

18. Increase in vector-borne diseases

19. Extreme political instability

22. Starvation and food riots

24. Mass extinction

20. Nuclear war

But, remember, they are all about Science!

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Democrat Party Supporters Burn MAGA Hats, Throw Urine, Assault Trump Supporters

By William Teach October 11, 2019 – 6:47 am

Obviously, this is something that the nations two leading newspapers failed to cover. The Washington Post has a way down the page article on kids protesting a speech by Trump Jr in Florida. The NY Times discusses Trump lashing out at Dems and launching a coarse insult at Biden. ABC and CBS News mention the rally, but not the violence. Nothing from NBC. Now, just imagine these were Trump supporters acting this way at a Democrat rally

Trump protest in Minneapolis erupts in pepper spray, MAGA hat fires

Hundreds of protesters outside President Trump’s rally in Minneapolis Thursday night set fire to Make America Great Again hats and other memorabilia in an effort to show their defiance to the current administration before police broke up the crowd, reports said.

There were reports that multiple protesters were arrested. One report indicated that protesters threw urine.

Cell phone video posted by Star Tribune reporter Chao Xiong showed Trump supporters walking through a crowd of protesters outside the Target Center in Minneapolis, shouting, “Lock him up” and “Shame on you.”

A reporter for The Washington Post posted a video on Twitter that appeared to show a protester punch a Trump supporter in the back of the head as he left the rally. The crowd can be heard shouting “Nazi scum! Off our streets!” The video shows a Trump supporter being followed by protesters before someone calls out “There’s a Nazi over here,” prompting the attack.

The apparent Trump supporter was also slapped and pushed before eventually running to safety.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that police deployed pepper spray.

Police officers on horseback and bicycles formed a protective line in front of the arena, according to The Tribune. Officers with riot batons and shields also maneuvered through the crowd of protesters. The  Post captured video of one Hispanic family who wore pro-Trump clothing departing from the rally as one protester shouted “He hates you!” The mother repeated “Mexicanos for Trump!” as she left the scene.

Strangely, no article on this, though, at the WP

Now, if they want to burn MAGA hats that they purchased, that’s fine. Rude, but fine. It’s their property. And, of course, Democrats like burning things. US flags, crosses on the yards of black folks. It’s what they do. Once you start throwing urine and assaulting people, it’s gone too far. This kind of unhingedness is primarily a Democratic Party supporter thing. This is not protesting peaceably, not in the least.

Will any elected Democrat or Dem presidential candidate be asked about this? Will any denounce it?

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We’re Saved!

By William Teach October 10, 2019 – 5:25 pm

And this one

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Trump Looks To Increase Government Transparency

By William Teach October 10, 2019 – 3:14 pm

Obviously, this is an impeachable offense

Trump Moves to Increase Transparency in Government Regulations

Kevin Lunny and his family ran Drakes Bay Oyster Company for about 50 years on the Northern California coastline before the federal government shut down the business over regulations he wasn’t aware of.

“We produced nearly half of all the sustainable oysters in Northern California,” Lunny said Wednesday at the White House, before President Donald Trump signed two executive orders to prevent federal agencies from regulatory abuse.

“The National Park Service forced our oyster farm out of business,” Lunny said. “If that wasn’t enough for our family and our community, today the rest of agriculture, which includes another 24 ranchers and family farm businesses within the National Seashore, are facing the exact same process.” (snip)

One of Trump’s executive orders, titled “Bringing Guidance Out of the Darkness,” prohibits federal agencies from bypassing the cost-benefit analysis and avoiding public comment—both required when agencies adopt a regulation.

Another executive order, titled “Transparency and Fairness,” protects Americans from unlawful interpretations of existing regulations, or from unexpected penalties. Agencies would be required to proactively educate the public before imposing costly fines.

This goes right to the heart of the federal bureaucracies, which, while they certainly have some good people working there, as a collective they think they’re better than everyone else and In Charge of the American citizenry. They have their Own Ideas, turned into rules and regulations, and everyone must follow them, even when they don’t know what they are. They consistently over-reach and interpret Congressional laws how they see fit. Mission creep.

Further, this is exactly the kind of thing Trump was elected to do. He said he would take on this “deep state”, and he’s doing it. Over course, doing things like this, along with so many other things Conservative, will never see #NeverTrump give him any credit.

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