If All You See…

By William Teach February 25, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are trees that will soon starve due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on Baltimore Democrats liking high levels of violence.

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Our Coronavirus Response Shows We Are Not Ready For Climate Induced Pandemics Or Something

By William Teach February 25, 2020 – 10:25 am

You’ve seen this before, right? Something happens and the Cult of Climastrology has to link their cult to it. Well, they’re still going strong with the Coronavirus links

Coronavirus Response Shows the World May Not Be Ready for Climate-Induced Pandemics

For weeks, the second largest economy in the world screeched to a halt. Stunned by the rapid spread of coronavirus (now officially termed COVID-19), roughly half of China’s population welcomed the Lunar New Year in a state of lockdown. City streets — that would have on any other year been filled with festive red lanterns and rosy-cheeked families — laid empty. Shopping malls were abandoned, two of the world’s longest borders were closed, and thousands of travelers around the world were left stranded in quarantine.

Depictions of the “climate apocalypse” often fixate on the temperature changes, sea level rise and proliferation of natural disasters wrought by climate change. Epidemics are an often overlooked outcome that belongs to that future. Medical researchers and climate scientists note that viral outbreaks may become more common with the progression of the climate crisis, which is affecting the movement of humans, animals, and pathogens. Global reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak — which have ignited discussions of sinophobia, paranoia, and scientific misunderstanding, including at Columbia — show that the world may not yet be prepared to deal with these new health crises.

While COVID-19 took the world by surprise and rattled global markets, it offers a potential warning of what lies in store as zoonotic diseases proliferate at greater rates due to climate change. Empty streets and abandoned holidays could become a more frequent occurrence as disease outbreaks, both life-threatening and relatively benign, swarm the globe. Or, for better or worse, the frequency of infectious disease outbreaks could force people to rationalize and normalize the dangers, like with influenza. Regardless of which prediction reigns true, experts acknowledge that climate change will increase the frequency and severity of disease outbreaks. Finding a way to link public fear of epidemics—strong enough to halt the world’s second largest economic empire for several weeks—to changing climate patterns would go a long way to overcoming inertia on fighting the climate crisis.

We can fix this with a tax, you know.

But, you know, they are sorta right on one thing: it does show what happens when an authoritarian government is in charge, which is the type of government the CoC wants.

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Oregon Republicans Walk Out On Passing Carbon Tax, Want Voters To Vote On It Directly

By William Teach February 25, 2020 – 7:06 am

Why do Democrats not want to give the citizens of Oregon a direct vote on something this important?

GOP lawmakers walk out after Oregon climate bill advances

Republican senators slipped out of the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, preventing the state Senate from convening in an attempt to doom a bill aimed at stemming global warming.

The walkout was a repeat of action the GOP took last year to kill similar climate change legislation, a maneuver that prompted threats of having state police forcibly return lawmakers to the Statehouse.

The walkout threatens to derail the main legislation that Democrats had hoped to pass during a 35-day session: A bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions that threaten the planet.

Moonbat governor Kate Brown had a hissy fit

A visibly angry Brown denounced the boycott as undemocratic.

“If they don’t like a bill, then they need to show up and change it or show up and vote no. They should make their voices heard rather than shut down state government,” she said at a news conference.

Even if they vote no the legislation passes

Several Republican lawmakers were present earlier Monday as a legislative panel rejected a proposed GOP amendment to put the climate issue on the ballot in November. Instead, the Joint Ways and Means Committee approved the bill, sending it to the Senate floor fora vote.

The bill itself is all about cap and trade, instituting all sorts of taxes and fees and such, which will all just be passed down from the companies hit to the consumers. If you hit the fossil fuels companies, the cost of gas and oil go up, which means everything goes up, including food, clothes, housing, you name it.

Why don’t the Democrats want the citizens to vote on this directly? They usually love putting measures on the ballot.

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Comrade Bernie Release New Explanation On How He’ll Pay For His Plans, Control Citizen’s Lives

By William Teach February 25, 2020 – 6:48 am

Look, we all know that Comrade Bernie is Comrade Bernie, and he’s trying to win the Democrat nomination during the primaries, but, you have to wonder how well this will play with the primary voters who are not unhinged Big Government Dems, as well as during the general election

Bernie Sanders reveals ‘major plans’ to be funded by new taxes, massive lawsuits, military cuts

Bernie Sanders unexpectedly released a fact-sheet Monday night explaining that he’d pay for his sweeping new government programs through new taxes and massive lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry, as well as by slashing spending on the military, among other methods.

The move sought to head off complaints from Republicans and some rival Democrats that his plans were economically unrealistic, especially after a head-turning CBS News interview in which the frustrated Vermont senator said he couldn’t “rattle off to you every nickle and every dime” about his proposed expenditures.

He released his plan on his website just minutes after promising to do so during a CNN town hall.

It’s a doozy

However, the fact-sheet highlighted for the first time that many of Sanders’ expected cost-saving measures relied on conjecture and best-case scenarios. For example, Sanders’ document asserts that a “modest tax on Wall Street speculation … will raise an estimated $2.4 trillion over ten years” and, in one fell swoop, make all “public colleges, universities and trade schools tuition-free … and cancel all student debt over the next decade.”

The proposal specifically would place a “0.5 percent tax on stock trades – 50 cents on every $100 of stock – a 0.1 percent fee on bond trades, and a 0.005 percent fee on derivative trades.”

Meanwhile, housing for everyone would cost $2.5 trillion over ten years, and would be paid entirely by a “wealth tax on the top one-tenth of one percent,” raising a total of $4.35 trillion, according to Sanders’ fact-sheet. Similarly, “universal childcare and pre-school to every family in America” would be provided with a wealth tax on the “top 0.1 percent,” again raising more than $4 trillion.

Class warfare, baby

Sanders’ plan did not discuss the possible stock market ramificiations of a major seizure of some of this wealth, much of which is held in markets and other investments. The plan also did not discuss how the government would be able to reliably obtain the money, given that many investments could simply be liquidated or transferred elsewhere before his administration took office.

What happens when Alphabet (parent of Google), Microsoft, and so many others move their operations out of the U.S. between election day and the passage of any potential legislation. Which, unless Democrats take over the Senate as well as House, the legislation would never be passed, and there are probably enough non-unhinged Dems that it never gets passed.

Instead, Sanders’ proposal said only that it would eventually establish a “national wealth registry and significant additional third party reporting requirements,” buff up IRS funding and, and “include enhancements to the international tax enforcement.” The plan would require the IRS “to perform an audit of 30 percent of wealth tax returns for those in the 1 percent bracket and a 100 percent audit rate for all billionaires,” and would include a “40 percent exit tax on the net value of all assets under $1 billion and 60 percent over $1 billion for all wealthy individual seeking to expatriate to avoid the tax.”

Think this would drive them out of the U.S. and to do all sorts of things that mean their money isn’t being used to make them more money, which provides lots of jobs and seed money for small business? A “wealth registry”? Da, Comrade.

Sanders’ projections also stated without providing details that his Green New Deal plan would create “20 million new jobs,” thus ensuring $2.3 trillion in “new income tax revenue.”

Additionally, Sanders cited “economists” as he promised that by “averting climate catastrophe we will save: $2.9 trillion over 10 years, $21 trillion over 30 years and $70.4 trillion over 80 years.”

Good grief. This guy is nuts. He further wants to fund his everything is free agenda by suing fossil fuels companies. How will that work out when the price of gas and oil spikes (what say to $150 oil changes for your vehicle?)? What happens when the oil companies cut the federal government off and Comrade Bernie can no longer fly on Air Force 1 nor operate his big limo?

He also has more taxes directly on all employees and businesses to pay for his Medicare for All plan, as well as some other taxes and gimmicks and the rich pay, oh, and don’t forget serious reductions to military spend

As the numbers were released, Sanders doubled down on his comments praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s “literacy program,” saying it was a positive outcome from the violent Cuban Revolution that literacy rates quickly rose.

Hey, #NeverTrumpers, this is what you pushed for with your Trump Derangement Syndrome. What will you do now?

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis Could Be Catastrophic National Security Threat

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 4:47 pm

Because wars and stuff never happened before fossil fueled vehicles, coal heating, and you eating a delicious burger

Climate change could be a ‘catastrophic’ national security threat, report warns

Climate change could turn into a “catastrophic” threat to national and global security in the coming decades, warns a new report released Monday.

“Even at scenarios of low warming, each region of the world will face severe risks to national and global security in the next three decades,” the report states. “Higher levels of warming will pose catastrophic, and likely irreversible, global security risks over the course of the 21st century.”

The report, titled “A Security Threat Assessment of Global Climate Change: How Likely Warming Scenarios Indicate a Catastrophic Security Future” was released Monday by the Center for Climate and Security, a non-partisan security policy institute.

Non-partisan. Right.

The report identifies major threats, including heightened social and political instability and risks to U.S. military missions and infrastructure, as well as security institutions across all regions of the world.

Remember all the world wars when CO2 was below the safe level of 350ppm?

So far, the globe has warmed about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since pre-industrial times, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

In North America, under a low-warming scenario (1.8 to 3.6 degrees by 2050), the region “will experience more intense, extreme events like storms and wildfires, with significant impacts on life, property, security infrastructure and democratic institutions,” the report said.

So, “about 2F” since 1850 (actually closer to 1.5), and they’re prognosticating double that in 30 years, as a low-warming scenario? Wouldn’t it be fun to have a time machine to jump ahead and see how badly the Warmist prognostications failed?

“Our panel’s analysis shows that no region of the world will be left unaffected, and climate impacts will interact in dangerous ways in even near-term, lower levels of warming,” Goodman said.

Climatic changes have always created issues and benefits. No reason to assign witchcraft, ie, fossil fuels, to it.

In addition to phasing out fossil fuels, the report said “the world must also ‘climate-proof’ environments, infrastructure, institutions and systems on which human security depends.” And in the U.S., “we call for renewed efforts to prioritize, communicate and respond to climate security threats.”

Perhaps all the retired military folks, who primarily vote Democrat, on the board of this organization can explain exactly how our military is supposed to operate without fossil fuels. Same with the Coast Guard, police, fire, ambulances, hospitals, rescue personnel, etc. And have the people on the board given up their own use of fossil fuels?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing a cloudy sky, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Extinction Rebellion nutters arrested for vandalism.

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St. Greta Affect Driving Kids Into Careers Telling Other People What To Do

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 10:30 am

These careers are just another form of spreading awareness/nagging the hell out of people, ones which quite often are low paying so they can’t repay the massive college loans they took out and now want wiped out

‘Greta effect’ boosting demand for climate change careers, RSC claims

Greta Thunberg may not be a scientist herself, but her passionate calls for world leaders to “listen to the science” on climate change may be rubbing off on young people keen to pursue careers in the subject, the Royal Society for Chemistry (RSC) has claimed.

In a YouGov poll commissioned by the RSC, almost a quarter – 23 per cent – of people aged 15 to 18 said they were likely to consider pursuing a career related to combatting climate change, while 26 per cent said scientists had the biggest role to play in addressing the problem.

The survey, which took in responses from more than 1,000 young people, saw 58 per cent rate climate change as the biggest problem facing the world, while 77 per cent of respondents said Thunberg had influenced their thinking.

In addition, 78 per cent of respondents said they believed chemistry had a key role to play in tackling declining natural resources, 53 per cent said the subject was important for combatting hunger, and 88 per cent said chemistry could help improve health and tackle disease, the poll results released late last week show.

Despite saying how important science is, how many of them will go into a STEM discipline, as opposed to the silly crap they tend to major in lately? Again, let’s make all these kids live the life they want for Everyone Else, and see how much they want to Do Something about this scam.

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Washington Post: Trump And Comrade Sanders Are Ignoring Reality Of Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 8:16 am

According to Wikipedia, “Frederick Samuel “Fred” Hiatt (born April 30, 1955) is the editorial page editor of The Washington Post. He also writes fake news for the page, as well as a biweekly column that appears on Mondays.” Huh, someone stealth edited the Wiki. Anyhow, Fred is rather vexed

How Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both reject the reality of climate change

The survival of our planet as we know it is in danger.

We have at hand a bipartisan, rigorous plan to address that danger.

And now it is more than possible that we will end up with two presidential candidates who reject that plan in favor of two varieties of utter unseriousness.

The first is the denialism of President Trump. He either believes or cynically pretends to believe that climate change is not a threat. His administration has gravely aggravated the threat, for example by recklessly relaxing regulation of the super-warming gas methane.

The second version is the fantasy extremism of Sen. Bernie Sanders. He would prosecute oil executives “for the destruction they have knowingly caused” (he “welcomes their hatred”) and phase out carbon-neutral nuclear power. The Vermont independent would ban the fracking of natural gas, which is — if you control the methane emissions — a useful transitional fuel from dirty coal to clean wind and solar.

As though by magic, Sanders’s proposals will “dramatically decrease the cost of energy storage” and (why not?) make electricity “virtually free” after 2035 (though, sadly, we would still have to pay for “operations and maintenance costs”). All fossil fuels will be gone by 2030, the renewable energy that takes its place will be “publicly owned,” and — not to worry — the plan “will pay for itself over 15 years.”

Fred’s not impressed by Sanders waving his magic wand, therefore, Comrade Bernie is ignoring reality. What is reality according to Fred, who, remember, is the guy in charge of the opinion page at the Washington Post

Which brings us back to the plan, put forward this month by the Climate Leadership Council, that would actually work. Supported by energy companies (including Total) and environmental groups alike, it would impose a steadily rising tax on carbon. That would lead to reduced consumption and increased innovation in alternatives, including battery storage for solar and wind power. To get buy-in from industry, the plan would do away with a lot of regulation — but only so long as emissions were, in fact, going down.

The plan itself would also place a carbon tax on imports. Magically, the cost of living due to increased cost on all these goods and fuels is not mentioned.

Fossil fuels companies wouldn’t be pimping a carbon tax unless they thought something was in it for them. They won’t be paying it: the cost would be passed on. I suggest that every company and rich person/politician that pushes a carbon tax should have it apply directly to them. Let’s make the whole news sector part of this. Would Fred and the rest of the people in the opinion pages (as well as straight news) at the Washington Post be so glib about introducing a carbon tax if it was going to be placed directly on the operations of the WP?

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Surprise: National Security Wiretap System Is A Mess

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 7:57 am

The NY Times notices a big problem

National Security Wiretap System Was Long Plagued by Risk of Errors and Omissions

In the 1990s, F.B.I. agents hunting for a Russian mole zeroed in on a C.I.A. official as their main suspect as they tried to determine who had sold secrets that had led to the deaths of American spies. When they sought court permission to wiretap him, they kept quiet about facts that cast doubts on their theory.

But the mole turned out to instead be one of the F.B.I.’s own, Robert P. Hanssen, and the agents were later exposed for cherry-picking evidence against the innocent C.I.A. official in their surveillance applications.

That little-known aspect of the notorious Hanssen case illustrates the risk of dysfunction in national security wiretapping, one of counterintelligence agents’ most powerful tools in fighting terrorism and espionage. Now, that defect has surfaced again. The F.B.I.’s flawed applications to monitor a former Trump adviser in the Russia investigation, Carter Page, has prompted a new cycle of scandal revealed in a damning report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

The problems may be part of a broader pattern in other applications that never receive the same intense scrutiny, according to interviews with more than two dozen current and former F.B.I. agents and Justice Department officials who have worked with national security wiretaps. The system is vulnerable, they said, to lower-level agents suppressing or overlooking evidence that weakens their case when they seek permission to conduct surveillance.

Hmm, lower level agents

President Trump and his supporters have long embraced a theory that Mr. Page was a victim of a high-level political conspiracy. The inspector general report did not confirm that narrative, instead finding different — yet still serious — problems. (snip)

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee, led by Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, will mark up a bill that is expected to become a vehicle for Congress to weigh in on broader surveillance issues. He has been negotiating with Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, who leads the Intelligence Committee, and with Republicans on his own panel. (snip)

But the bill, according to people familiar with negotiations over the draft, would make other adjustments that dovetail with the inspector general report — like expanding when FISA judges should appoint outsiders to critique the government’s arguments. Lawmakers could also legally require the F.B.I. to be candid with the FISA court and to correct errors.

Um, it’s already rather against the law to lie to any court, including the FISA court. If anything, the bill should make sure that government employees who lie to the court are actually punished. Who has been punished for lying to the FISA court over Carter Page or any of the other Trump associates, as well as Mr. Trump himself?

Notice what this is really all about: blaming low level agents and a flawed process, which is why they mentioned Robert Hanssen, rather than high ranking government employees who took advantage of the system and lied, hid information, and made up information. There’s zero chance that it was low level agents involved in obtaining warrants to spy on a presidential candidate and people working for and associated with his campaign. Sure, there are issues with the court and the process, as the Times lays out ad nauseum in a long article, but, a junior agent isn’t going to be getting a warrant to surveille a presidential candidate.

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Bummer: You Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Deny The Climate Crisis (scam) Anymore

By William Teach February 23, 2020 – 4:07 pm

Remember, you aren’t supposed to refer to those who believe in anthropogenic climate change as authoritarians and Fascists

Denying climate change can no longer be a choice

First and foremost, denial is about comfort. Doing as little as you have to so as not to face the consequences of change. Avoiding Conflict. Staying the course makes life easier. Continuing to burn fossil fuels because change is complicated. Neglecting to acknowledge nearly every choice you make inflicts damage on someone/something, because you can’t feel good about it.

You know, that’s very interesting, considering most Warmists do as little as possible to uphold their own beliefs. They mostly refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels. Don’t go vegan/vegetarian. Don’t turn the heat way down and the AC way up. Etc.

Climate change, our newest Great Depression, is so bad that it offers us a once-in-an-epoch opportunity. A united and spectacularly creative and productive climate revolution offers the chance to lay down divisions and stand in our unique, richly diverse, interwoven, old, and new wisdom. Together we can become the family of humanity.

The journey is as clear as the one Lewis and Clark embarked on. We have our coal. We have tools, strong bodies, indomitable will, brave hearts, and one another. We remember how to work together. We have billions of stories and rousing songs.

Rousing songs! That should solve this scam.

Denial is a choice. I give up.

Change is a choice. I’ll never give up!

You get to choose.

The letter to the editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle doesn’t quite match the headline, and one has to wonder who wrote said headline. Regardless, this is the opinion of Warmists, that people are not allowed to have Wrongthink, that they aren’t allowed to have their own beliefs and thoughts. They must conform with Approved Warmist doctrine.

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