Doom: Tropical Forests Losing Ability To Absorb “Carbon”

By William Teach March 5, 2020 – 8:18 am

A doomsday cult always has to keep trotting out doom to keep themselves going. And the nature of that doom always grows. And using proper scientific terms isn’t necessary

Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds

Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown.

The Amazon could turn into a source of carbon in the atmosphere, instead of one of the biggest absorbers of the gas, as soon as the next decade, owing to the damage caused by loggers and farming interests and the impacts of the climate crisis, new research has found.

If that happens, climate breakdown is likely to become much more severe in its impacts, and the world will have to cut down much faster on carbon-producing activities to counteract the loss of the carbon sinks.

“We’ve found that one of the most worrying impacts of climate change has already begun,” said Simon Lewis, professor in the school of geography at Leeds University, one of the senior authors of the research. “This is decades ahead of even the most pessimistic climate models.”

For the last three decades, the amount of carbon absorbed by the world’s intact tropical forests has fallen, according to the study from nearly 100 scientific institutions. They are now taking up a third less carbon than they did in the 1990s, owing to the impacts of higher temperatures, droughts and deforestation. That downward trend is likely to continue, as forests come under increasing threat from climate change and exploitation. The typical tropical forest may become a carbon source by the 2060s, according to Lewis.

Well, it’s nice that they mentioned carbon dioxide once, but, calling it carbon, and referring to carbon as a gas, shows this is an unscientific doomsday cult.

Doug Parr, the chief scientist at Greenpeace UK, said governments should heed the science and make strong commitments to cut greenhouse gases at the Cop26 summit, and agree to measures to protect and restore forests. “For years, we have had scientific warnings about tipping points in the Earth system and they’ve been largely ignored by policy and decision-makers,” he said. “That forests are now seemingly losing the ability to absorb pollution is alarming. What more of a wake-up call do we need?”

Hmm, sounds like this is less about science and more about politics.

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As Coronavirus Fears Rise, How Many Will Blow Off Quarantine?

By William Teach March 5, 2020 – 8:03 am

It really doesn’t take many, does it, to spread it around? Jazz Shaw notes how some people were jerks during the Ebola crisis in 2016, even though they knew they were in contact with people with Ebola, because they worked in Africa. And this wonderful person

New Hampshire’s first coronavirus patient, a hospital employee, went to an event tied to Dartmouth business school on Friday despite being told to stay isolated, officials say, and all others who went to the event are now being told to stay isolated.

The announcement on Tuesday came as state health officials said a second person in the state is presumed to have the new coronavirus, COVID-19. That person was in close contact with the first patient, and the officials expect more coronavirus cases may be found as they investigate.

The second, presumed patient is a man, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, which didn’t provide additional details or say exactly where he came into contact with the first patient.

That’s right, the person went to a party. A party. Despite knowing better as a health worker themselves. Don’t be surprised if they are terminated from their job in a couple months for being irresponsible. And then you have this here in the Wake County, NC area

(WRAL) The Wake County Department of Health and Human Services has notified a Raleigh restaurant that the person who they said has contracted the COVID-19 virus from this area ate there recently. Within 24 hours of being notified, a lot has changed for So•ca. Thursday, a team of professional cleaners will offer assistance, helping ensure their health and safety guidelines meet all standards.

According to officials, the man sat in a private room. The area where he sat was bleached and sanitized, and nobody was allowed to sit where he had sat several days before. They have compiled a list of any guests or employees who may have had interaction with the man.

“When the Wake County Department of Health and Human Services showed up early this afternoon, we compiled a list, using our reservation and point of sale systems, of all guests who could have potentially been in contact with the individual,” So•ca owner Sean Degnan said in a press release to WRAL on Wednesday. “We were able to bleach, rinse and sanitize every piece of silver, glassware, plate, table, door handle, touch screen, etc. and Lysol every chair and cushion before dinner service.

Despite all precautions being taken, some locals are still concerned about the days that passed between the time the COVID-19 patient ate at So•ca and when So•ca was notified.

This person traveled to Seattle and was in direct contact with the area that had the worst outbreak. There’s no way they didn’t know, and then they flew back. Then decided to go to dinner. And interacted with goodness who knows.

It can spread pretty fast when people do not take precautions, whether they know they have it or not. And there will be the jerks who won’t just stay home, putting the rest of us at risk.

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw Says It’s Time For Conservatives To Own The Climate Change Issue

By William Teach March 4, 2020 – 3:42 pm

Does he have a point? He claims his “My proposal resists the flawed reasoning of the radical Left while embracing market-based solutions to reduce carbon emissions”

It’s Time for Conservatives to Own the Climate-Change Issue

There is an interesting political tactic often employed by the Left, and it follows a predictable pattern. First, identify a problem most of us can agree on. Second, elevate the problem to a crisis. Third, propose an extreme solution to said crisis that inevitably results in a massive transfer of power to government authorities. Fourth, watch as conservatives take the bait and vociferously reject the extreme solutions proposed. Fifth and finally, accuse those same conservatives of being too heartless or too stupid to solve the original problem on which we all thought we agreed.

This is the pattern we have seen play out with respect to climate change. With ever-more-extreme “solutions” such as the Green New Deal being proposed, conservatives have quickly taken the bait, falling into the tired political trap set by leftists. But I believe we no longer have to do this. We can fight back against the alarmism with tangible solutions based on reason, science, and the free market.

I recently joined House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy in unveiling a proposal that takes existing innovative technologies — ones that have proven to reduce emissions here in the United States — that the U.S. can then market and export to the world. After all, climate change is a global issue, and with global energy demand expected to increase by 25 percent over the next 20 years, there is a distinct need for the U.S. to export cleaner energy sources to the developing world, as well as to the biggest CO2 emitters, such as China and India. Crushing our own economy, as the Green New Deal would have us do, will not stop worldwide growth in emissions or decrease worldwide energy demand.

He goes on for quite a bit, I’d recommend reading the whole thing. That said, is he right? Dan is a pretty reliable conservative, right?

No. He’s involved in two big fallacies. First, in order to “fix” the climate crisis caused by Mankind means admitting that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind’s action, which it is not. Second, he lays out the five parts of the predictable pattern. There is a 6th, which Dan, and other Republicans, are falling for, namely, that Republicans have to show that they are Doing Something so they don’t appear heartless or too stupid, when they know that the issue is a load of mule fritters at its base. Why respond to something that they know is false?

There’s nothing wrong with pushing for better R&D into alternative energy sources, in modernization, etc. They don’t have to have anything to do with the climate crisis scam. As soon as Republicans admit there is a crisis from anthropogenic climate change, they’ve lost. And fell right into the trap. And become Useful Idiots. Don’t be a Useful Idiot.

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If All You See…

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

…is a world turning to desert from the climate crisis, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post telling Liz to pack up her teepee.

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NY Times Knows What The Best Treatment For Coronavirus Is

By William Teach March 4, 2020 – 10:58 am

The NY Times Editorial Board thinks they’re on to something

Best Treatment for the Coronavirus? Paid Sick Leave

The Federal Reserve did what it could Tuesday to offset the growing economic impact of the coronavirus by announcing a supersize reduction in its benchmark interest rate — the first time the Fed has acted between its regularly scheduled meetings since the financial crisis in 2008.

But the Fed is ill equipped to limit the effect of a global pandemic alone. Lower interest rates may eventually soothe financial markets and help to hold down borrowing costs, but the Fed can’t speed the reopening of Chinese factories or reverse Facebook’s decision to cancel an annual developers conference that last year brought 5,000 visitors to San Francisco.

The feces and used drug needles, along with all the homeless living and peeing in the streets, probably didn’t help, either.

The real work falls on the rest of the government. The first step should have been simple: ensuring that testing for the coronavirus was readily available and, better yet, free. But even after weeks of lead time for the virus’s inevitable arrival, access to testing remains woefully inadequate as the domestic death toll rose to nine on Tuesday.

Well, first they had to actually come up with a test for it. They don’t magically appear.

At this point, the crisis also demands unorthodox solutions. To restrict the spread of the coronavirus, the government needs to put limits on commerce. The best way to protect people, and the economy, is to limit economic activity. That is an unfortunate but inescapable truth. Public health officials will need to impose quarantines, businesses will need to cancel meetings. And most of all, the problem now and going forward is making sure that sick workers stay home. That means not forcing employees to choose between penury and working while coughing.

Now, just imagine that President Trump institutes quarantines and stuff: the same editorial board will freak out. Consider the freakout when it was Obama and both Dem and GOP governors trying to have quarantines for Ebola. Now magnify that by about 10.

Congress can help by mandating that workers receive paid time off if they fall ill, or if they need to care for an ailing family member. Such a policy is necessary both to impede the spread of the virus and its economic harm. Roughly one-quarter of workers in the private sector — about 32 million people — are not entitled to any paid sick days. Absent legislation, they face a choice between endangering the health of co-workers and customers and calling in sick and losing their wages and perhaps also their jobs.

Government required private market paid sick leave is something the Modern Socialists have been pushing, because they really just want to pander to low wage workers to get their votes. This is the politicization of the Coronavirus to push it again.

But, just because you have paid sick leave doesn’t mean you’ll take it. Some companies are great about telling sick people to stay home, others, not so much. At my current company the boss wants you to stay home if you are sick, and sets the bar by staying home himself. And telling the managers to go home if sick. My previous company was kind of middle of the road, since we would have really sick managers working and spreading the sickness. Before that, they made you feel bad if you took the day off sick.

If the federal government fails to contain the spread of the coronavirus, and the economic outlook darkens, such a broad-based stimulus may well become necessary. But targeted policies — like sick days — are likely to remain the most effective form of response.

And, of course, the policy would stick around forever. Because it’s not about Coronavirus, it’s about the Government dictating how companies operate, because you know even more policies would be added on, and pandering to those in low wage jobs which usually do not have paid leave.

You know the best policy? People staying away from areas with Coronavirus. Not traveling when you’ve been in contact with those areas. Because the spread seems to be more about people who are failing personally rather than people who won’t stay home when sick because they don’t get paid for it.

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Climate Strikers Pen Letter To EU Complaining About Plan That Hasn’t Even Been Released

By William Teach March 4, 2020 – 8:02 am

The bedwetting, doomsaying, climate strikers are super upset that the EU isn’t doing what they Demand they do on ‘climate change’ before even knowing what the plan is

Climate strikers: Open letter to EU leaders on why their new climate law is ‘surrender

This is an open letter to EU leaders at the European Commission, European Parliament and member states from 34 youth climate activists, including Greta Thunberg. The European Commission will release its proposal for the EU climate law on 4 March.

Any climate law or policy that is not based on the current best available science and does not include the global aspect of equity or climate justice – principles at the very heart of the Paris Agreement – will do more harm than good.

Such a law sends a strong signal that real, sufficient action is being taken when in fact it’s not.

It also suggests that you, our elected leaders, fully understand the situation we’re in and that we can “fix the climate crisis” within today’s system without making any sacrifices.

The hard fact is that neither the awareness nor the politics needed are anywhere in sight. We are in a crisis that has never once been treated as a crisis.

The EU is already pretty strict on Hotcoldwetdry, and has tons of taxes and such. That’s apparently not enough for these climate cultists, despite not even knowing what the plan is.

For more than 1.5 years we have been sacrificing our education, protesting against your inaction. Last September more than 7.5 million people across the globe took to the streets – demanding that you unite behind the science and give us a safe future.

Well, that’s on them. If they want to blow off their own education, that’s on them. Maybe they should take up a hobby instead of attempting to force their Beliefs on Everyone Else. And those beliefs seem to include carbon budgets, and

“Net zero emissions by 2050” for the EU equals surrender. It means giving up. We don’t just need goals for just 2030 or 2050. We, above all, need them for 2020 and every following month and year to come.

What’s the “carbon pollution” output for the Internet publication of this open letter? When will the kids give up all trappings of a modern life?

They also want “climate justice”, which they do not really explain beyond going after fossil fuels companies. And they also…no, that’s it. That’s all these kids have. Yet, we are supposed to take them seriously.

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Nanny Bloomberg Tries To Explain Why Having Armed Protection Is OK For Him, But Not You

By William Teach March 4, 2020 – 7:48 am

Really, you can apply this argument to most of the leading gun grabbers, who so often either have their own firearm or armed security

WATCH: Bloomberg Tries to Defend Using Armed Guards While Pushing Gun Control

An attendee at the March 2, 2020, Fox News town hall asked Mike Bloomberg why he pushes gun control for the common man but surrounds himself with armed security.

The attendee said, “You have an armed security detail that is likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines you seek to ban the common citizen from owning. Does your life matter more than mine or my family’s?”

Bloomberg responded by admitting to having an armed detail, and suggesting he needs armed protection because he gets more threats than the common man.

On February 3, 2020, Breitbart News reported that Bloomberg enjoyed armed security even as he campaigned on a platform of gun control for the common man.

The New York Post reported on Bloomberg referring to the NYPD as his “own army,” while Mayor of New York City. And on January 25, 2019, NRA-ILA reported that after his tenure as mayor ended, “Bloomberg hired some of the same  [NYPD] officers from his security detail to work for him privately.” Yet he continued to push gun control for average Americans.

https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1234645209935421440

Bloomberg is the man behind Mom’s Demand and Everytown, groups that want way more than just expanded background checks. They want to turn the whole country into NJ and California and NYC, to have “universal background checks” which require firearms registration, to tax the hell out of firearms and ammunition, the current 4th Amendment violating Red Flag laws, and then to keep going, right up to what New Zealand has just done, which is ban most firearms from private ownership.

Of course, the Big Wigs like Mike would still have armed security, along with those gun grabbers like Alyssa Milano, who would be allowed to keep their own sem-auto pistols. Politicians and such would have the benefit of government armed security, typically carrying weapons that are already banned from private ownership right now.

Of course, Nanny Mike’s chances of being the Democrat nominee are about the same as you getting that $50,000 payoff from that lottery scratchoff. But, he pretty much wants the same as all the others. Sleepy Joe has long pushed this stuff, yet has had his own Secret Service armed protection for a long, long time. His plan is pretty extreme, including registration or buy back, bans, licensing, and so much more. Comrade Bernie’s plan is almost the same. The rest of the Dems still in, but with no shot, have plans that all look almost the same, because they are all coming from the same place, and like Obamacare is a step towards a government run health system, these plans are steps towards the New Zealand solution for guns.

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Cult Of Climastrology Now Causing 1 In 5 UK Kids To Have Nightmares

By William Teach March 3, 2020 – 4:35 pm

At what point do we consider this Warmist doomsday cult to be child abusers?

One in five UK children report nightmares about climate change

One in five children are having nightmares about climate change, according to a British survey on Tuesday, as students globally stage protests over a lack of action to curb global warming.

About 17% of children in Britain said worries about climate change were disturbing their sleep while 19% said these fears were giving them nightmares.

The survey of 2,000 children aged eight to 16, conducted by pollster Savanta-ComRes for BBC Newsround, also found that two in five, or 41%, did not trust adults to tackle the climate crisis. (snip)

Emma Citron, a consultant clinical child psychologist based in London, said young people were clearly fearful about climate change with the survey finding 58% were worried about the impact that climate change will have on their lives.

“Public figures like David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg have helped young people to voice their worries and we have to make sure that we as adults listen to them and … help them become involved in positive change,” she said in a statement.

“We all need to support them not to feel hopeless but rather to present to them hopeful and balanced messages about their futures and ensure that they get the right professional help if their anxiety is unduly high.”

It would be helpful if the mental health workers themselves weren’t so often taking the side of the CoC, because that just embeds that their fears are real, rather than just part of a complete scam. The Credentialed Media, along with cultists like St. Greta and David, do not help, not when all they proclaim is doom and gloom.

Interestingly, most of these kids don’t want to give up all their trappings of a modern life.

As a sidebar, yes, the Cultists are blaming/linking the horrible tornado strike in Nashville, for which 19 are confirmed dead at the time I’m writing this, to ‘climate change’. Because they are ghouls and cultists. But, I’m not going to post tweets.

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If All You See…

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

…is a wonderful hybrid vehicle that still isn’t good enough but it’s a start for Other People, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Barking Moonbat EWS, with a post wondering if Sen Chris Murphy will be tested for Coronavirus, since he just came back from Iran.

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Even CNN Is Not Enamoured With Comrade Bernie’s Medicare For All Plan

By William Teach March 3, 2020 – 10:30 am

Has anyone told CNN that pretty much every Democrat’s Medicare for All (government run health insurance) scheme is similar? Of course, Comrade Bernie iw the leader in all this, and his plan is putting the comrade in Comrade

Here’s what Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ proposal actually says

Sen. Bernie Sanders has been pushing a single-payer health care system for decades. It’s the centerpiece of his vision for a more democratic socialist America. There are several such proposals for a single-payer system, but what’s below is from the 100-page draft bill most recently introduced, with tweaks, by Sanders in 2019.

That CNN is deciding to fisk the plan now shows how concerned they are with the potential for Comrade Bernie to be the Democrat nominee

The Medicare for All plan would leave intact the current infrastructure of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, but nationalize the health insurance industry. Nearly all the money individuals and employers currently pay into the system as well as much of the money states pay would, under Sanders’ plan, instead go through the federal government.

Here are the most important elements:

They start at page one with excerpts, then offer some commentary. Here’s the first commentary

The first thing to note is that Sanders’ proposal has only 14 co-sponsors in the Senate. That’s not even a majority of Democrats. That’s less than a third of the 60 votes usually required to overcome a filibuster and pass major legislation, although he has said he would use budget rules to maneuver around the practice of the filibuster in order to get Medicare for All passed.

Well, that’s not good. Just 14. Then we learn

In Sanders’ proposal, everyone who is a US resident, including undocumented immigrants, gets coverage. That would be a likely point of contention with this plan. There is a prohibition on traveling to the US for free medical care.

That’s right, you get to pay for the healthcare of people banned from being in the country per federal law. We then learn that abortion on demand will be enshrined in federal law, and Other People will get to pay for irresponsible people to have abortions. Citizens will also be automatically enrolled in Comrade Bernie’s scheme.

Further, his scheme will ban all private insurance. All. Even nations like Canada and Great Britain allow some private insurance. So, that would put around 2.5 million people out of work, and kill numerous companies. The only exclusion would be for those few things not covered by Comrade Bernie’s scheme, like cosmetic surgery.

This is the most controversial element of this bill. Sanders would make it illegal to sell private health insurance that covers the benefits offered by Medicare for All. This provision would certainly be subject to lawsuits. A subsequent section says additional benefits not covered by Medicare for All (cosmetic surgery, for instance) could be covered by a supplemental insurance plan.

This is the nationalization of an industry in an unprecedented way. It’s important to note here that about one-third of the American seniors who currently get Medicare get it through private Medicare Advantage plans offered by health insurance companies. Those plans would go away.

“Nationalization of an industry.” There’s no way to not make those words sound like Big Government authoritarianism.

One last thing to note is how much power is given to Health And Human Services and other agencies

This would be a massive new federal bureaucracy, replacing, by some estimates, 2 million US insurance and health industry jobs. Setting up, enforcing and evolving a health care system for about 320 million people and transitioning more than 200 million from a private system to a public one would be a gargantuan undertaking. Sanders’ proposal imagines a regional administration system that would coordinate individual states and filter up to the HHS secretary, who would be in charge of setting policies. An official ombudsman would collect and hear grievances.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ie, Obamacare, gave HHS and the IRS massive new powers and abilities to make rules (the contraceptive mandate was created out of thing air, as it is not actually in Ocare). That’s nothing compared to the rule making ability in Comrade Bernie’s scheme.

By replacing the entire health insurance industry, the government could displace 2 million workers, according to some estimates. Some of those would find jobs in the new government systems. Others could be eligible for up to five years of temporary assistance.

The nationalization of an industry. Of course, there is way more not being touched on, because it’s not in the bill, such as how this will all be paid for, and how people will respond to the Government controlling their health insurance by being their insurer. And how much this will mess up the actually health care providers due to low payments.

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