What’s Next For Climate Cult? Human Rights Lawsuits

By William Teach March 24, 2020 – 11:23 am

It’s almost like this has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics

INSIGHT: Human Rights Laws Could Be Next Frontier for Climate Court Actions

Courtrooms across the globe have become a battleground for climate activists, nongovernmental organizations, and ordinary citizens to compel governments to combat climate change.

Climate claims raise complex questions of how authority and responsibility to deal with the climate crisis are divided between different branches of government in different jurisdictions.

The ways in which various national courts view the role of the judiciary in addressing this crisis differ significantly, as highlighted by two recent national court decisions from the Netherlands and the U.S. taking diametrically opposed approaches.

The Dutch case of Urgenda Foundation v. The Netherlands represents the most successful example of climate impact litigation to date. In 2013, the Dutch environmental group Urgenda Foundation and approximately 900 Dutch citizens sued the Netherlands alleging that the Dutch government’s failure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions violated obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Dutch Constitution, and the Dutch Civil Code.

What’s the old saying about being careful what you wish for? If they get their agenda passed and/or enforced by courts, what we’re seeing with the worldwide economy, which has an effect on us all, right now could become the norm. Sure, most likely not as bad, but, still pretty bad, along with Government in charge of our lives. Have Warmists really thought this out?

The Urgenda decision indicates that obligations arising under international law, such as the human rights protections enshrined in the ECHR, could prove a powerful tool that national courts can use to compel governments to undertake specific action to protect against the growing climate crisis.

Even if the slight 1.5F increase over the last 170 years is caused mostly/solely by the actions of mankind, that’s no crisis. Certainly not one requiring destruction of the economy and relinquish our rights, freedom, and choice to government.

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And More Warmists Demand That Coronavirus Relief Plans Include “Green” Initiatives

By William Teach March 24, 2020 – 8:24 am

Green on the outside, red on the inside

Covid-19 economic rescue plans must be green, say environmentalists

The economic rescue packages to deal with the impact of the coronavirus must also be green, a growing chorus of environmental campaigners have urged, concerned that hasty measures will lock the world into a high-carbon future.

“Governments need to put huge amounts of money into trying to sustain jobs and livelihoods,” said Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and UN high commissioner for human rights, who served twice as UN climate envoy. “But they must do it with a very strong green emphasis. The threat from climate change is as real as the threat from Covid-19, though it seems far away.”

“Money has poured into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement [of 2015],” she said. “That can’t continue.”

But she said the changes wrought in societies around the world by dealing with Covid-19 would also demonstrate to people that the changes needed to achieve a low-carbon future were much less drastic and far more palatable. As far as the climate was concerned, “we must not go back to bad habits afterwards”, she said. “It will be easier to persuade people, as we have had to change so dramatically because of this threat.”

In other words, she’s saying that what the world will look like when instituting their wish-list of ‘climate change’ policies will be like Coronavirus lite. So, maybe only 20% unemployment. Only half the shelves will be empty. Lines waiting for TP and paper towels will only be half as long. Companies will stay open till 9 instead of 8. You know what’s going on.

Economic plans worth trillions of dollars in public money are being rolled out to stave off the immediate collapse of some badly hit businesses, such as airlines and tourism – and to protect the incomes of workers in danger of redundancy as normal life becomes impossible across Europe and large parts of the US, as it already has in many parts of east Asia.

But while people’s health and the immediate welfare of workers caught up in the crisis are paramount, campaigners and experts fear that if the longer-term packages are not carefully designed they will only entrench fossil fuel dependence across the global economy.

I’ll believe Warmists are concerned with fossil fuels when the big-shots like Mary Robinson give up their own use of fossil fuels. The world-wide economy won’t get back to running without fossil fuels. Boats shipping product, planes flying product, trucks moving product, people driving to work, people going places to buy stuff and take vacations and just go do something for the day. Again, it’s easy for these rich climate cultists to push this stuff, because they aren’t being hurt.

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After Getting Senate Dems To Block Bipartisan Bill, Pelosi Offers Pork Laden Modern Socialist House Bill

By William Teach March 24, 2020 – 8:09 am

It’s easy for Nancy Pelosi to be cavalier when offer legislation that is supposed to help struggling and scared Americans, since she has made some serious money during her decades in Congress, and has no concerns with losing her house, her car, feeding her family, and so forth, not too mention that she draws a government paycheck, can eat at the Congressional building cafeteria, etc

Nancy Pelosi Proposes 1,400-Page Coronavirus Bill Stuffed with Special Interest Goodies

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi debuted a 1,120-page coronavirus rescue bill after Democrats tanked the Senate proposal on Sunday night.

The bill includes a wish list of Democrats’ pet issues including (I’m just listing the block lines, not full descriptions

  1. Increased fuel emission standards for airlines receiving funds and carbon offsets
  2. Payment for up to $10,000 in student loans
  3. Same-day voter registration, early voting, voting by mail, ballot harvesting (it’s much, much worse. It also someone else to return a ballot. Further, it is un-Constitutional to require states to have early voting. 10th Amendment and all)
  4. Preserving collective bargaining powers for unions
  5. The expansion of wind and solar tax credits
  6. Requirements for federal and corporate gender and racial diversity data
  7. Post Office Bailout
  8. Automatic extension of nonimmigrant visas.
  9. Restricting colleges from providing information about citizenship status (I’m surprised they didn’t slip in a provision to get rid of ICE)
  10. Money for Planned Parenthood

This is their focus. In a long Twitter thread, Senator Tom Cotton slams this

He goes on to list crazy stuff in their bill, including the stuff above, and

  • For companies accepting assistance, 1/3 of board members must be chosen by workers
  • Provisions on official time for union collective bargaining
  • Full offset of airline emissions by 2025
  • Greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights
  • Retirement plans for community newspaper employees
  • $15 minimum wage at companies receiving assistance
  • Permanent paid leave at companies receiving assistance

What does this have to do with helping citizens? Will Queen Nancy, Handsy Joe, and Comrade Bernie have to provide the statistics for their individual flights? Requiring a $15 minimum wage at all the companies receiving assistance…what will that percent be, especially for small companies: 70%? 80%? 90? Which means they can’t rehire as many people….is a job killer.

As Guy Benson notes “Benson continued, “Source writes, ‘not only are these completely unrelated to the coronavirus epidemic, they could prevent companies from participating in the loan programs altogether—directly causing unnecessary layoffs.’”” The Fed Chair says the U.S. could see 30% unemployment, which is worse than the Great Depression. And Democrats want to play these games. It’s no wonder gun and ammo purchases are spiking.

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Climate Cult Groups Urge Governments To Add ‘Climate Change’ Garbage To Coronivirus Relief Plans

By William Teach March 23, 2020 – 4:27 pm

People are hurting, and these psycho cultists want to take advantage of people who are vulnerable

Governments urged to attach green strings to long-term coronavirus recovery plans

Governments and financial institutions are under growing pressure to make economic bailouts designed to counter the coronavirus pandemic dependent on climate action in the longer term.

Over the last week, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of stopgap measures have been announced to fight the coronavirus and limit economic shortfalls. (snip)

Resounding calls have been made for governments and international financial institutions to put the clean energy transition at the heart of stimulus packages, once the human tragedy eases. Almost 15,000 people have died in the pandemic with more than 340,000 confirmed cases by Monday.

“We have a responsibility to recover better” than after the financial crisis in 2008, UN secretary general António Guterres warned.

“We have a framework for action – the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We must keep our promises for people and planet,” he added.

These people really are ghouls. All we need to do is look around and see what the results of implementing the the Paris Agreement looks like.

In the less immediate term, Palmer said he hoped the EU would “clip a recovery package to its Green Deal” – and use recovery efforts to boost energy efficiency, the electrification of transport, the deployment of renewable energy as well as land use change reforms.

Ghouls. They are worse than the rich celebs making stupid videos of all their suffering. At least they are just insufferable. These rich Warmists want to punish Everyone Else.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 23, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on being tired of the “in these challenging times” messages from companies and such.

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Good Grief: Some Christians Are Giving Up “Carbon” For Lent

By William Teach March 23, 2020 – 10:30 am

Nope, not a cult at all. It’s rather sad that some Christians have allowed this cult to take over their religion

Meet the Christians giving up carbon for Lent

From a distance, the Lenten display in the chancel of St. John United Lutheran Church in Seattle looks similar to displays installed by churches around the world in the weeks leading up to Easter Sunday. Sunlight streams through stained glass windows. A gothic arch frames a statue of Jesus Christ. A black shroud and a large wooden cross lay across the altar, signaling the coming of Good Friday.

But look closer, and you will spot something new: clear ribbons of plastic, winding their way from a font of holy water to the base of the cross. Members of the St. John United congregation cut the strips from an old plastic drop cloth that they found gathering dust in church storage. The imagery is ancient, but it serves a very modern purpose. This year, the community at St. John United is participating in a single-use plastic fast.

“It’s kind of pretty, but you recognize that it’s plastic,” Reverend Anna Rieke, who leads the congregation, says of the design. “It’s a conflicted experience.”

So, too, is the experience of trying to abstain from single-use plastic. Rieke, for example, discovered tofu in her fridge that she needed to eat before its expiration date. She added the tofu packaging to a bag of her fasting lapses, and other church members are doing the same. On Easter Sunday, they are envisioning a new sanctuary display—made out of their collective plastic waste.

So, why won’t they do this for the rest of the year, instead of taking advantage of a rather Holy time?

The season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends 40 days later with Easter celebrations, is in many Christian traditions a time of fasting. Following his baptism, Gospel accounts say that Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert while being tempted by Satan. Christians view Lenten sacrifice—like giving up meat, or candy, or fasting from trolling, per Pope Francis’s recent admonition against “verbal violence . . . amplified by the internet”—as a time of spiritual cleansing to prepare for Easter.

Oh, right, because the Pope is climate cultists, too.

But this year some churches are inviting their members to make Lenten sacrifices that raise awareness about caring for the Earth in an era of potentially catastrophic global warming. The hope is to both change consumer-culture habits and address climate anxiety. While some churches deny the reality of climate change, others are discovering that their members want to take action. There is also a growing network of climate activists working to convince their Christian brothers and sisters that loving your neighbor, in 2020, has to include lowering your carbon footprint. (Lent began before the coronavirus crisis became a global threat; some people’s commitments may have changed as they were forced into isolation).

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LA Times: ‘Climate Change’ Is Just As Real As Coronavirus Or Something

By William Teach March 23, 2020 – 9:15 am

Seriously, are people actually concerned with anthropogenic climate change, or even natural climate change, at this point? Does it need repeating what the concerns are right now of regular people? But, the LA Times editorial board is Concerned, like other members of this doomsday cult

Editorial: Climate change is just as real as COVID-19. Now’s the last, best chance for our government to treat it that way

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic is the crisis of the moment, and a terribly serious one at that, threatening not only human lives but also the global economy.

But it’s not the only crisis the world is facing, and we ought not, while confronting the immediate menace, disregard the other immense threat looming over us: global warming. Rather, somewhat counterintuitively, we should use the current pandemic to learn some lessons and glean some insights about the other perils we will soon be facing.

We’re not suggesting that climate change contributed to the coronavirus outbreak; there seems to be no direct link, although experts say a warming world could accelerate pandemics of insect-borne diseases (the coronavirus is spread person to person). But the global response to this pandemic does show that the world can come together to confront a shared threat. That could bode well for addressing climate change — if we treat it as seriously.

The pandemic is putting a chokehold on economic activity in hard-hit regions of the world — China, Europe and here in the U.S. When factories and businesses are closed, workers and customers stay home (here in California and in New York, by order of the governors). With few people traveling long distances, airlines slash flights. Sure, people and businesses continue to use energy, but not at the levels they did just a month ago. And that reduction in energy use in turn reduces fossil fuel consumption and emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Little of this will be long-lasting. Once the epidemic subsides, economic activity will resume and so, presumably, will emissions.

So, wait, are they saying this is what they want the world to look like? People sitting at home not working? Going to the grocery store and there being empty shelves? There being no toilet paper nor paper towels on the shelf (I mean zero), and a guy standing in the aisle controlling the distribution, only allowing one container of either (he tried to give me a big pack of towels, but, only needed a 6 pack. I was out)? This is what they want? No bread in the aisle (BTW, the secret, at least at Walmart, is to go to the freshly made section. It had plenty. But, it won’t last beyond a couple days since it is fresh).

But the crisis offers opportunities for change, and we ought to be mindful of them as the pandemic and the economic crisis play out. Businesses are learning how much of their workforce can do their jobs remotely, which offers guidance for how they might operate in the future with a lighter carbon footprint. Consumers are undergoing a forced experiment in changed patterns of shopping and consumption.

Why, yes, they are calling for this. Perhaps they should ask if consumers and workers are happy with this “forced experiment.”

Congress and President Trump also are negotiating a series of bailouts and other support packages to help people and businesses survive. They should take this opportunity to press for changes in how some of these industries operate.

I agree, Democrats should press, because it will not go well when it comes November, and voters remember Democrats f*cked around instead of trying to help citizens.

The science confirms all this, as it has confirmed the spread and dangers from the novel coronavirus. So maybe accepting the reality of COVID-19 will lead the administration to recognize the reality of climate change and work with Congress to begin addressing it in meaningful ways.

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Democrats Scuttle Senate Coronavirus Relief Bill, Playing Typical Politics

By William Teach March 23, 2020 – 8:40 am

If they think their polling is correct that this will help them come November, they are sorely wrong. The American people will remember them playing games while average citizens are worried about their jobs, their money, keeping their homes, cars, finding food, etc

Senate Fails To Pass Cloture Vote On Coronavirus Stimulus Bill

The Senate on Sunday night failed to pass a procedural cloture vote on a phase-three coronavirus stimulus bill as there has been continued internal dispute between both parties.

The vote was 47-47. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that the bill would include $75 billion for hospitals and that two-thirds of all new money in the bill would go to states, however, this vote will likely end consideration of this bill. McConnell also said, “it’s just about time to take yes for an answer.” Democrats have said the coronavirus bill lacks new SNAP funds and were reportedly pushing for expanded emergency leave provisions and more than three months of unemployment insurance.

Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin, who has been negotiating with members of Congress on behalf of the White House, was spotted entering Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office, 20 minutes away from the cloture vote.

McConnell voted no, which was not planned. He voted with the Democrats so he would have the option of recalling the vote, as Senate rules state.

This was literally a bill that the Democrats negotiated on over days. They knew what was in it, and then, instead of voting for taking care of citizens, they went rogue. They literally could have voted for it then worked on those other provisions, which make little sense, since those people are already being taken care of, especially with things like SNAP.

McConnell blamed this directly on Pelosi

McConnell added that there was bipartisan consensus among “regular members of the Senate, not in the Leadership office, not in the speaker’s office for goodness sakes.”

“She’s the Speaker of the House, not the Speaker of the Senate,” he added. “We were doing just fine until that intervention.”

Think about this, though

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said in a statement on Sunday:

‪How pathetic. Tonight’s vote was not even on passing a bipartisan plan, it was merely to begin debating it. The American people are hurting, the clock is ticking, but Senate Democrats would rather cave to Speaker Pelosi’s eleventh-hour demands. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle should worry more about getting relief to their constituents and less about the House Speaker’s partisan wish list. This cannot go another day.

They wouldn’t even vote to allow debate on (original article)

The text for a phase-three Senate bill announced Friday would give $1,200 checks to every person, while couples would receive $2,400. That $1,200 check will go to Americans making less than $75,000 annually. Each child will receive $500. The amount is reduced by $5 for every $100 a person earns over $75,000. Those making above $99,000 would not get any money.

No matter how places like the Washington Post and NY Times want to spin it…

…Democrats are playing with our livelihoods. The Wash Post subhead says “Democrats allege the $1.8 trillion package tilts too far in favor of corporations.” First, Democrats negotiated for all this. 2nd, who they hell do they think employs people?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 22, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is fishing in a flooded world from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Mike Bloomberg kicking employees to the curb.

It’s fishing week, because I might take fishing up again. Raleigh is not really conductive to fishing without a boat, but, my business went to part time. We’re split in two teams, so I’m off till Thurs (we also are now closed Sundays), then work Thurs-Sat, Sun off, then Mon-Wed, working open to close. Then have 7 days off. No NHL, no MLB, gym is closed. Can only read and watch TV/movies so much. Maybe I’ll be able to walk 9 holes a bunch of times? I can practice more guitar. Can’t even try and get a part time job doing deliveries or something because of work schedule. Most likely not going to drive to see the parents in case I’m one of the ones who is asymptomatic.

Anyhow, how are y’all doing? Surviving? Everything OK?

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 22, 2020 – 9:15 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! A strange day in America, but, it’s always better to be in America than anywhere else. The rain has knocked down some of the pollen (I’m allergic to oak and grass, so, looks like I have Corona, when it is just allergies), the mockingbirds are singing the song of other birds and frogs and stuff, and we will get through this. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is going on in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. I’ll give Gateway Pundit a rare link, with a post noting the Washington Post pushing for no one to cover Trump’s press conferences
  2. Hot Air covers Maryland Democrats killing a gun bill that would punish criminals
  3. Adrienne’s Corner covers Rachel Maddow calling for Trump to be kept off TV
  4. Blazing Cat Fur features class warfare in the Hamptons
  5. Blogs For Victory has some lockdown thoughts
  6. Bustednuckles notes how many people could be on lockdown worldwide
  7. Chicks On The Right covers NY advising people on how to have safe corona sex
  8. Climate Depot discussing the risks of contracting mass hysteria
  9. Real Climate Science highlights Dems setting their priorities, which is ‘climate change’
  10. Not A Lot Of People Know That notes the UK’s biggest solar farm being a risk to public health
  11. Datechguy’s Blog discusses the expectations for the Tom Brady Tamp Bay Bucs
  12. Diogenes’ Middle Finger covers Sleepy Joe Biden doing Mystery Science Theater on Trump’s press conferences
  13. Gates Of Vienna notes that jihad doesn’t stop in the time of Wuhan
  14. Geller Report News covers Democrats opposing all the travel bans that are now being put in place worldwide
  15. And last, but not least, IOTW Report highlights the fear factor.

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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