If All You See…

By William Teach February 4, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are trees killed to make books instead of sucking carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on your Tuesday feel good stories.

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Oxford Students Demand Divestment, Get Rude Awakening To The Real World

By William Teach February 4, 2020 – 10:30 am

See, some special brainwashed climate cultists at St. Johns College wanted the school to divest from fossil fuels. And bursar Andrew Parker had a reply for them

You aren’t going to be able to read the article, because it is behind a real paywall. Which is sad, because The Times Of UK has some really good articles. Anyhow, this caused the students to melt down, with them responding “This is an inappropriate and flippant response by the bursar to what we were hoping would be a mature discussion. It’s January and it would be borderline dangerous to switch off the central heating.”

And Mr. Parker had a reply for them

Excellent. “It is all too easy to request others to things that carry no personal cost to yourself.” I might have to change the tagline in the blog header to that.

The Wall Street Journal covers this story, and notes that the school has $10 million of its endowment invested in Shell and BP. That investment helps run the school. Someone in the WSJ comments writes “EnviroFascists version of NIMBY.” Warmists are rarely willing to practice what they preach, but they are happy to try and push it on Other People.

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Comrade Bernie, AOC Push Nationwide Fracking Ban By 2025

By William Teach February 4, 2020 – 8:08 am

I wonder if he plans to pay to convert my natural gas heating to something else inexpensive and reliable for me?

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Push Bill to ‘Ban Fracking Nationwide’ by 2025

An anti-fracking bill crafted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) aims to end the practice altogether, making it illegal “on all onshore and offshore land in the United States” by Jan. 1, 2025.

Left-wing actor Mark Ruffalo teased the bill last week, allowing Sanders to jokingly knock him for “ruining the surprise” of the new fracking legislation.

“I don’t mind if @MarkRuffalo spoils his own movies. But please, don’t ruin the surprise of our new legislation with Rep. @AOC, @SenJeffMerkley and @RepDarrenSoto,” Sanders wrote with an accompanying clip of the Avengers actor evidently “spoiling” the upcoming legislation:

The bill, according to the Hill, aims to end fracking altogether, revoking permits for “wells where fracking takes place and that are within 2,500 feet of a home, school or other ‘inhabited structure’” beginning February 1, 2021. It would also “immediately prevent federal agencies from issuing federal permits for expanded fracking, new fracking, new pipelines, new natural gas or oil export terminals and other gas and oil infrastructure.”

It would make the practice, which Ocasio-Cortez has identified as the “leading contributor to our climate emergency,” illegal by January 1, 2025.

“Fracking is a danger to our water supply. It’s a danger to the air we breathe, it has resulted in more earthquakes, and it’s highly explosive,” Sanders said in a statement, according to the Hill. To top it all off, it’s contributing to climate change.”

Uh huh. Also, here’s Comrade Bernie

https://twitter.com/dontraumpaga/status/1224519518346711040

Here’s also Comrade Bernie

(Hot Air) The Sanders campaign spent nearly $1.2 million on private jets last quarter as the candidate traveled between the Senate impeachment and campaign stops. The Washington Free Beacon reports Joe Biden wasn’t far behind:

The most recent filing from Sanders reveals $1,199,579 in spending during the final three months of 2019 to Apollo Jets, LLC, a “luxury private jet charter service.” The campaign spent an additional $23,941 for transportation to Virginia-based Advanced Aviation Team.

‘Climate change’ policy is always applied to Someone Else.

BTW, Elizabeth Warren also called for a total ban on new oil leases and a complete ban of all fracking. Then she jumps in a fossil fueled private jet.

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Excitable Adam Schiff: Trump Could Offer Alaska To Russia If Not Impeached

By William Teach February 4, 2020 – 7:51 am

There comes a point when you wonder if the House managers like Adam Schiff have been intentionally bat guano insane over the top on purpose, with the intention of of causing even the most squishy Republican Senators to say “enough. We don’t need witnesses, we don’t need to hear anymore, move on, vote to acquit”, which is meant to give Democrats election season talking points about collusion and Republicans not caring and such. Because we get things like this

Adam Schiff Warns Donald Trump Could Give Alaska to the Russians If Not Impeached

House Impeachment Manager and House Oversight Chairman Adam Schiff warned Monday that President Donald Trump might give Alaska to the Russians if he is not impeached.

Schiff disagreed with the president’s lawyers, who argued that Trump’s actions were not criminal and should thus not be considered impeachable.

He warned that they were setting a precedent that would only encourage Trump to pursue “unacceptable” actions if exonerated.

“Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election,” he said. “Or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago personally and let Jared Kushner run the country, delegating to him the decision whether to go to war.”

Schiff said Senate Republicans would create a “runaway presidency” if they failed to remove him from office.

“We have known since the day we brought these charges that the bar to conviction requiring a full two-thirds of the Senate may be prohibitively high,” he said. “And yet, the alternative is a runaway presidency and a nation whose elections are open to the highest bidder.”

Or, it could be that Adam Schiff is just completely nutso, that Donald Trump being president has driven him as mad as so many Democrats, and he just cannot even pretend anymore. This behavior is so deranged he should be asked to step down and let someone else sit in his elected seat. And, as Jason Chaffetz notes, he should have his security clearance pulled.

And Schiff has apparently made Rep Jason Crow bat guano insane

(The Hill) Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a House impeachment manager, on Monday quoted the “Harry Potter” character Albus Dumbledore during his closing remarks in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.

The Colorado Democrat turned to the best-selling franchise when wrapping up his arguments, citing the Hogwarts headmaster in a quote that he said hangs on his son’s wall.

“My wife and I have tried to teach our kids that what we can always control are our choices,” Crow said.

“It’s in that spirit that hanging in my son’s room is a quote from ‘Harry Potter,’” he added. “The quote is from Professor Dumbledore, who said, ‘It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.’ ”

Sigh. Just vote and move on. I’ve seen people asking why the GOP didn’t just vote on aquital last Friday. Perhaps because it gives the Dems 5 extra days to be wackadoodle on the record on the Senate floor, great material for the the GOP for the 2020 elections.

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New App Aims To Reinforce Climate Anxiety In Children

By William Teach February 3, 2020 – 3:15 pm

Kids are already learning to be mental messes in school, from the unhinged Warmist Credentialed Media, from activists, and so forth. So, why not an app?

New app aims to help kids suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’ due to climate change

Siblings Jasmine and Ben Estevao are children but they already consider themselves to be conservationists due to their deep concern over the state of the planet.

A children’s conservation organization called Earth Rangers in Woodbridge, Ont. says that children are increasingly feeling worried and anxious about the health of the planet and its creatures. (snip)

Earth Rangers’ president Tovah Barocas told CTV News Toronto that many young people who care about the environment are dealing with what’s becoming known as ‘eco-anxiety.’

“It’s a real thing. It’s this kind of stress that we’re starting to experience as a result of a lot of negative environmental news,” Barocas said.

Well, perhaps adults should be keeping kids away from this stuff, letting them be kids, instead of little unhinged activists.

With this in mind, Earth Rangers created an app that aims to create a safe place for families to learn about nature, while empowering kids to take environmental action.

The sibling’s mother Jennifer Estevao told CTV News Toronto that her children have reacted positively to the new app.

“I think it gives them a sense of pride and control over how they can help the environment,” she said.

“Through the ‘missions’ in the app, there’s little things like conserving energy – when you’re not in a room, turn the light off. If you’re not at home, turn the thermostat down a few degrees.”

This will simply reinforce their climate scam mental illness. Instead, how about

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 3, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climatism, with a post on polar bears being the new symbol of climate change realism and a stable Arctic.

BTW, ladies, it’s 2020, the whole grabbing the hair thing is so last decade.

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Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Caught Calling To “Take Down Civilization”

By William Teach February 3, 2020 – 10:50 am

The Warmists never quite get to telling us what they want to replace civilization with, though

Enough is Enough: XR co-founder filmed calling for ‘take down’ of civilisation

A co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has been filmed at an event calling for activists to “take down” civilisation as part of the group’s disruptive fight for climate change.

LBC can reveal today, as part of Nick Ferrari’s campaign for police to have greater powers to clamp down on the group, that Simon Bramwell spoke publicly at a meeting hosted by Deep Green Resistance UK, calling for them to adopt more extreme tactics. (snip)

Mr Bramwell was filmed at the event saying: “Extinction Rebellion is the spirit of our age. It contains absolutely every dichotomy and absolutely every flaw and beauty that our present society encapsulates. It is white-supremacist, it is racist. It is also very very beautiful and there is incredible people doing incredible work within the organisation. It is also deeply deeply patriarchal and people like Roger Hallam completely and utterly 100 percent exemplify that patriarchy” (snip)

“We are facing the hardest of times at the moment. Our civilisation is displaying every sign of collapse and because we have become so separated from nature, as that collapse occurs that pent up animal in us is gonna be released in utter savagery.

“And it is part of our duty in my opinion that we’ve also got to not only take down civilisation but shepherd ourselves and incoming generations back into a state of wilding as it were, into like a feral consciousness that is also one of the biggest tasks remaining to us. (snip)

“We can’t convince people that they are going to maybe *have to see their child die* because we don’t simply have the machinery and technology to keep them alive any longer.

“So we have to offer them something else along as these trajectories of civil disobedience and direct sabotage of civilisation…”

Obviously, there is a lot more to his comments, worth the read to see how fully unhinged these people are.

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St. Greta Of Stockholm Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize Or Something

By William Teach February 3, 2020 – 7:13 am

Well, if Al Gore, along withe UN IPCC, could be nominated and win the Nobel Peace Prize for his climahysteria (and climahypocrisy and climalying), and Barack Obama could be nominated and win for doing absolutely nothing but winning an election, then why not an 11 year old 17 year old who looks 11 and is blowing off school and now trying to make lots of money off her new-found fame?

Teenage Climate Activist Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Two lawmakers in Sweden have nominated Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.

Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, who are both members of Sweden’s Left Party, said Monday that Thunberg “has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis” and “action for reducing our emissions and complying with the Paris Agreement is therefore also an act of making peace.”

Yet, almost none are actually doing that much.

Thunberg, 17, has encouraged students to skip school to join protests demanding faster action on climate change, a movement that has spread beyond Sweden to other European nations and around the world. She founded the Fridays for Future movement that has inspired similar actions by other young people.

So, telling kids to blow off school is now grounds for a Peace Prize? According to Alfred Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who in the preceding year “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”. Tell kids to skip school doesn’t quite apply, eh?

The 2018 award went to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.” Telling kids to blow off school and governments to institute massive authoritarian controls on their citizens certainly qualifies, eh? The thing is, you can totally see her winning one, can’t you, based on who votes, right?

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LA Times: Coronavirus Fuels Our Xenophobia And Raaaaacism Because Jokes

By William Teach February 3, 2020 – 6:51 am

We already know that Coronavirus is linked to/caused by ‘climate change’, because the climate cultists had to hijack it for their dogma. Now the race baiters are doing the same. But, first, consider

Experts worry about pandemic as coronavirus numbers increase: report

If you don’t want to believe Fox News, well, search, and you’ll see the same at the NY Times and Washington Post. And then the same LA Times

Three new coronavirus patients confirmed in Northern California

But, you know

Column: Coronavirus, the outbreak narrative and how our fear fuels our xenophobia and racism

On Tuesday, around midnight, someone uploaded a video to Twitter showing emergency vehicles responding to an incident at an apartment complex near USC, the Lorenzo, known to be popular with Chinese international students.

The post claimed it was a case of coronavirus, and a screenshot of an email from the Lorenzo’s manager, Chance Kidd, seemed to confirm that.

The news that the first reputed coronavirus case in the center of Los Angeles had been detected near USC immediately went viral. A lot of people tweeted panicked, performative posts about hand-washing and the threat of disease. One poster claimed a friend’s roommate’s brother’s girlfriend had been infected.

The university later clarified that no coronavirus case had been discovered at the Lorenzo. And despite repeated requests for comment, Kidd and the Lorenzo declined to explain why they had made such a claim.

So, people fall for hoaxes, like they always do, and are very concerned about the Coronavirus, as the news media tells us about coming doom, the LA Times included. Things that always happen, but are so much easier in the age of the Internet and social media.

This is our new normal — a rumor becomes a fact, then turns back into a rumor, with no explanation. A dangerous event halfway around the world becomes entertainment for a night. The coronavirus, to a lot of us, is just another piece of content.

See? Even writer Frank Shyong agrees. But, see, your jokes about Coronavirus aren’t funny

Most of the time, I think this is good. Although many lament the loss of some fabled age of civility, I think a lot of us are just experiencing the discomfort of having to confront and value perspectives as we’ve never had to before. Jokes about minorities aren’t as funny when minorities are part of the audience. Novelists writing about the Mexican border now must confront the fact that they might have readers who ask them to do so accurately. It’s the age-old adage of reading the room — except social media are a room with potentially every kind of person in it.

But it also means that your joking posts about coronavirus — about frantically washing your hands and how you’re not the “diseased” kind of Asian — will probably appear on the feeds of someone with family whose relatives may be suffering or terrified. And it will probably make them very angry.

They have made me furious. I have relatives who live near Wuhan, where millions of people are under lockdown amid the declaration of a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.

Let’s be clear about this: Your fear does not justify your racism and xenophobia. Your jokes and performative panic about the coronavirus are not funny. They are deeply pointless and trivialize something that should be taken seriously. And they are creating an environment of fear, panic and disinformation that’s more dangerous than the disease itself.

Frank also decides to drag in things that happened back in the 1800’s during disease outbreaks, but, we’ve had enough silliness. You’re welcome to read the rest.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Possibly Pose A Threat To Future Super Bowls

By William Teach February 2, 2020 – 3:23 pm

The Cult of Climastrology just can’t help yammering and fear-mongering whenever something big is going on, linking their Fascist cult

Climate change poses threat to future Super Bowls in Miami

The forecast for the Super Bowl in Miami is grim.

Clear skies and temperature in the 60s are expected when the game kicks off, so weather won’t be a problem.

But climate change likely will be, sooner or later. The sea and temperature are rising, posing a threat to South Floridians’ way of life, including their customary spot in the NFL’s Super Bowl rotation.

The game will be played Sunday in Miami for the 11th time, the most of any city. Given the changing climate, how much longer will the region be a place where the NFL wants to bring its big party?

“In 10 years maybe we’ll still be functioning normally,” said Harold Wanless, a leading expert on sea level rise in South Florida. “Twenty years? I think that could be a problem.”

The Miami Dolphins’ stadium, the site of the Super Bowl this year for the sixth time, stands 10 feet above sea level. That will change, although projections vary widely.

The average sea rise through the entire 20th Century was just 7-8 inches, which is exactly average for the Holocene over the last 8,000 years. During a warm period, one would expect the sea rise to actually be higher, because it will be much lower during a cool period. The Miami Beach station hasn’t operated since 1981, but it showed just .78 feet over 100 years (it operated since 1931). The next closest station is Virginia Key, showing .93 feet per 100 years, closer to what is expected during a warm period. Mayport, Florida shows .86 feet. Regardless, nothing shows anthropogenic causation, just a low level Holocene warm period.

Of course, facts do not matter to cults. They have their Dogma, and will not only never let go, they’ll quadruple down on it.

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