New Scary Prognostication: Seas Will Soon!!!!!!! Rise Faster From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach September 25, 2019 – 7:50 am

It’s hard to keep the Cult of Climastrology going without constant prognostications of doom. Plus, don’t forget, much of the U.N. released doom starts coming around this time of the year, as the next Conference On The Parties is getting ready to go (in the far flung city of Santiago, Chile), along with other pre-COP events, where tons of Warmists will take long fossil fueled trips

Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100

Cities from New York to Shanghai could see regular flooding, as sea levels rise faster than previously thought.

Glaciers and ice sheets from the Himalayas to Antarctica are rapidly melting.

And the fisheries that feed millions of people are shrinking.

These are just some of the impacts that emissions of greenhouse gases have already triggered across the planet’s oceans and frozen regions, according to a new landmark report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

More than 100 scientists from 36 countries worked on the report — titled the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. It is the last of three special reports from the IPCC following last October’s urgent report that showed the world may only have until 2030 to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees, and August’s report on climate impacts to the planet’s lands.

First, none of those are proof of anthropogenic causation involving “carbon pollution.” Second, they always have these doomy reports, and they never really come to pass, but, that’s never really the point. Rather, they just want to scare people into giving up their money and their freedom. Third, the Earth’s reported temperature has only risen just under 1C since 1850. Even if it makes it to 1.5C, nothing unusual during a Holocene warm period.

This new report paints a full and alarming picture of the rapid thawing happening in frozen regions all across the globe — and how the changes will dramatically alter human civilization in the coming decades.

The findings show that the planet’s warming is accelerating melting in glaciers and ice sheets from Greenland to Antarctica, and that sea levels will likely rise more than previously projected by the end of this century.

Of the major ice sheets, Greenland’s – which has the potential to raise sea levels around 20 feet — is melting the fastest, and lost more than 275 gigatons on average per year between 2006 and 2015. But the even larger Antarctic ice sheet is also shrinking, and its mass loss tripled between 2007 and 2016 compared to the previous ten years.

Because of the growing contributions from Antarctic melting, the authors say sea level rise is now likely to exceed three feet by 2100 if carbon emissions continue to increase.

They’ve been making these prognostications for decades. Remember when they said that NY City would be under water? Neither prediction panned out. Actual data shows that sea level rise is average and not accelerating, and that most of the small area melting in Antarctica is from volcanic activity.

Even if collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet is not imminent, the report says that many of the 680 million people around the world living in low-lying coastal areas will experience annual flooding events by 2050 that used to occur only once a century.

Whoops, they’re trying to weasel out of the scaremongering.

The choices made now are critical to limit the future impacts, and avoid the escalating costs and risks that come with delayed action, the report says.

By choices, they mean lots of taxes and fees, as well as government taking away your liberty, freedom, and choice.

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So-Called Whistle Blower Has Political Bias Against Trump, Per IG

By William Teach September 25, 2019 – 7:30 am

This would be the whistle blower who had no first-hand knowledge of what they are claiming

(Fox News) A senior Trump administration official told Fox News late Tuesday that the administration will release a document showing the intelligence community inspector general found the whistleblower who leveled an explosive accusation against President Trump concerning his talks with Ukraine had “political bias” in favor of “a rival candidate” of the president.

The official did not identify the name of the rival candidate. Separately, a senior administration official told Fox News the White House has been working as quickly as it can to release to Congress the whistleblower complaint involving President Trump’s conversations with the leader of Ukraine, as long as it’s legally possible.

The news came just hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated a formal impeachment inquiry by alleging that the administration was hiding the complaint. Other top Democrats had previously said such an inquiry was already underway.

The senior administration official told Fox News that the White House had nothing to hide, that there has been no wrongdoing, and that the White House’s general position has been that it will make everything possible available to Congress or the public regarding Trump’s conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint to the intelligence community’s inspector general.

A senior administration official told Fox News there are a “few words” in the transcript that will raise eyebrows, but it is nowhere near as inflammatory as Democrats have suggested.

But, hey, you go ahead with your unhinged impeachment inquiry, Democrats. It’s going to backfire spectacularly as it simply highlights your Trump Derangement Syndrome. As much as Obama did that really could have deserved impeachment, Republicans were never stupid enough to give it a whirl, or deranged enough to talk about. Most of the reasons Democrats want to impeach Trump are because they have policy differences and despise him. Trump will be happy for the fight, and it will really drive up the turnout for Trump voters, and get others to, if not vote for Trump, to not vote for Democrats.

Then there’s this

(Breitbart) Democrats wrote to the Ukrainian government in May 2018 urging it to continue investigations into President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign — collusion later found not to exist.

The demand, which came from U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), resurfaced Wednesday in an opinion piece written by conservative Marc Thiessen in the Washington Post.

Ironically, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared Tuesday that the mere possibility that President Trump had asked Ukraine to continue an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden — even without a quid pro quo — was enough to trigger an impeachment inquiry. (Biden boasted in 2018 that he had forced Ukraine to remove its prosecutor by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid; he did not tell his audience at the Council on Foreign Relations that the prosecutor was looking into a firm on whose board his son, Hunter Biden, was serving.)

The Democrats’ letter is available online here. In it, Menendez, Durbin, and Leahy demanded that the Ukrainian government answer their questions about the Mueller probe, and issued an implied threat: “This reported refusal to cooperate with the Mueller probe also sends a worrying signal — to the Ukrainian people as well as the international community — about your government’s commitment more broadly to support justice and the rule of law.”

Huh, that sounds like they were threatening Ukraine, and colluding.

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Comrade Bernie Excited To Create A “National Wealth Registry”

By William Teach September 24, 2019 – 4:01 pm

Obviously, he wants a big wealth tax, one which would be above his own income level, but, he also has another idea

Sanders targets highest-income Americans with ‘extreme wealth tax’ and ‘national wealth registry’

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday proposed an “extreme wealth tax” on the highest-income Americans, along with a “national wealth registry” that he said would help prevent them from avoiding the tax.

The tax rate would start at 1 percent on net worth of more than $32 million and rise with income above that, topping out at 8 percent on wealth over $10 billion.

Sanders’ Democratic presidential campaign said the tax would raise $4.35 trillion over a decade and would be used to fund “Medicare for All”, along with his plans for affordable housing and universal childcare.

Right, because wealthy wouldn’t just find creative ways to avoid the tax, like keeping it outside of the U.S.

“At a time when millions of people are working two or three jobs to feed their families, the three wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of the American people,” Sanders said in a statement. “Enough is enough. We are going to take on the billionaire class, substantially reduce wealth inequality in America and stop our democracy from turning into a corrupt oligarchy.”

On one hand, he does have a point: rich individuals and private entities and some money happy public unions do have an oversized influence on politics at the expense of other citizens and small groups. On the other hand, let’s put some blame on politicians who allow those rich to have that influence on them. Do you think Alphabet Inc (parent company of Google), Microsoft, SEIU and Kaiser Permanente, among others, do not have influence on Bernie? How many Democrats are in the pocket of Hollywood folks, among others?

Sanders’ plan includes enforcement measures that he said would block evasion of his proposed tax. In addition to the wealth registry, the IRS would be required to audit all billionaires and 30 percent of wealth tax returns for others paying the highest tax rates.

If you’re trying to find information on what exactly he means by a wealth registry, good luck. I’ve been through around 15 articles so far and not one explains it, nor does Comrade Bernie’s website, which should be very concerning. Democrats love their registries.

(NY Times) “Let me be very clear: As president of the United States, I will reduce the outrageous and grotesque and immoral level of income and wealth inequality,” Mr. Sanders said in an interview. “What we are trying to do is demand and implement a policy which significantly reduces income and wealth inequality in America by telling the wealthiest families in this country they cannot have so much wealth.”

I won’t say that these uber-crazy wealthy folks are perfect, but, this is about demonizing success, about class warfare, and it never ends the way Democrats want.

Both of their plans would need to be passed by Congress in order to take effect — a virtual impossibility unless Democrats win control of the Senate in the 2020 elections, and far from a sure thing even then. Ms. Warren’s plan touched off a number of questions about the feasibility of creating a wealth tax, including whether such a tax would be constitutional, how it would be enforced and whether it would generate as much money as has been projected.

Pfft, Constitution schmonstitution.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 24, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post saying to stop indulging the spoiled brat.

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Eco-Anxiety Is Causing Chipped Teeth Or Something

By William Teach September 24, 2019 – 10:28 am

Apparently, no one ever had anxiety or stress or stuff beforehand

Why your dentist is worried about the world

On a recent visit to my dentist, our conversation turned serious. “People are so tense these days,” David told me as he tested the drill as though just back from Guantanamo Bay.

Unable to speak, and feeling a little tense myself, I motioned he should continue with his pop psychology lecture, as it was better than listening to years of caffeine and nicotine being removed. Don’t judge – in China, smoking was the healthy option.

While complimenting me on my oral health, if not my life choices, he said plaque was not really a problem these days. It seems we’ve finally accepted the science on teeth brushing.

The real problem, according to David, is chipped teeth caused by anxious Wage Slaves grinding away at their work stations while pretending to “crush it” with “zero drag”.

“I used to only see one or two cases of chipped teeth a year,” he said. “Now it’s three or four every month, and often it’s younger people.”

After mentioning he was off to Berlin for a month, David concluded that “work stress” or “job anxiety” was one cause of this newest of first-world problems.

I mean, sure, you can kind of see it happening, though, surely, this can’t be anything new. Unless it has something to do with people being entirely too fragile these days because their lives are much, much better than in the past, so minor things turn into mountains. But, wait, here it comes

David’s other thought on the rising incidence of chipped teeth was patients “worried about the climate”.

That sounded absurd, but again my dentist appears to have his drill on exactly what’s stressing out well-remunerated Wage Slaves who care about their teeth – I’m an outlier in both areas.

It’s being called “eco-anxiety”, and apparently ScoMo taking a lump of coal into parliament has not lowered stress levels.

This latest anxiety even featured as a sub-plot in the second series of Big Little Lies, where some parents hire a child psychologist dressed as Little Bo Peep and discover that climate change is stressing out their daughter.

That mention of the Big Little Lies episode is important, because as soon as the was broadcast this whole eco anxiety idiocy grew in the media tremendously. You barely heard about it before. Now it’s all over the climate cult ecosphere.

A quick glance at Psychology Today (not recommended) reveals no shortage of shrinks cashing in on those “feeling on edge or weighed down by despair” due to climate change.

There’s even a new field of “eco-psychologists” who, along with dentists and those providing inter-planetary travel, who are well positioned for our new age of anxiety.

That’s because these people are nuts.

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Hot Take: Republicans Love Of Guns Driven By Insecurities, Reactionary Fantasies, And, Of Course, Raaaaacism

By William Teach September 24, 2019 – 7:09 am

Gun grabbers always have some sort of hot take when it comes to firearms, and always miss the mark, but Excitable Noah Berlatsky at NBC News does get this partially right

Trump and Republicans don’t hate gun control because of the NRA. They just love guns.
American gun culture is driven by a complex mix of reactionary fantasies, racism and insecurity — not campaign donations.

“Democrats say we have guns in America because of ‘corruption,'” former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared on Twitter on Sept. 12. “No, we have guns because it’s our God-given right enshrined in the Constitution.”

The second part of that tweet is silly; God didn’t give people the right to own AR-15s any more than a divine entity gave Americans the right to own automobiles without seat belts. The first part of Sanders’ tweet, though, is mostly accurate. The National Rifle Association’s money doesn’t corrupt Republican legislators. Instead, Republicans oppose gun control because conservative political identity is today inseparable from guns. Identity is a deeper motivator than money, and, for those who want to end gun violence, a more intransigent one. (snip through all sorts of money talk)

So if money isn’t leading Republicans to stonewall gun control legislation, what is? The answer is straightforward: Gun ownership and Republican identity have become inseparable. The most passionate Republican voters see guns as a central part of who they are.

And Noah goes on to blame raaaaacism, anti-illegal alien fervor, and even having a religious meaning. But, he is right, the NRA is not driving the “gun culture”, they’re just protecting our Rights. Most of us have a firearm because we want to, because we can, and because we want protection. Because they’re fun to fire. Did I mention “because we are Constitutionally allowed and the government needs to mind their own business for the law abiding”?

This distinction is important, because it suggests what gun control solutions won’t work, and which ones might. Tightening campaign finance regulations or getting big money out of politics, as Elizabeth Warren has promised, is not likely to reduce pro-gun sentiment among Republicans. The NRA’s ongoing financial difficulties aren’t likely to affect Republican votes much either. On the other hand, fighting voter suppression and enfranchising poor and minority voters who lean Democratic, and don’t base their identities on guns, could change the playing field significantly.

Most of all, we need to recognize that on guns, the two parties are diametrically opposed. Many Republican politicians (and voters) see any kind of gun control — whether background checks or a ban on assault rifles — as an existential threat. If Democrats want gun control, they need to win elections. Republicans aren’t going to compromise

Strange, that almost seems like Excitable Gun Grabber Noah is saying that if Democrats are elected that they’ll come for our guns in violation of the U.S. Constitution. And then Gun Grabbers wonder why we won’t compromise on anything.

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Climate Kids File U.N. Complaint Against Five Countries

By William Teach September 24, 2019 – 6:55 am

It’s a good thing they all took fossil fueled trips to the United Nations

Greta Thunberg & Allies File Climate Complaint Against 5 Countries (Not China)

Swedish teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg and 15 other children filed a complaint with the United Nations on Monday, accusing five countries of inaction on combatting so-called climate change.

The complaint, filed with the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, accuses Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey of failing to fulfill their obligations to act against climate change, placing them in violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a three-decade-old human rights treaty which sets out the “civil, political, social, and cultural rights of children.

“Change needs to happen now if we are to avoid the worst consequences. The climate crisis is not just the weather. It means also, lack of food and lack of water, places that are unlivable and refugees because of it. It is scary,” Thunberg said in a statement upon announcing the complaint.

The 16 petitioning children range from 8 to 17 years old and hail from Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Marshall Islands, Nigeria, Palau, South Africa, Sweden, Tunisia, and the United States.

The complaint was filed through the Third Optional Protocol, a mechanism which allows children to formally request the U.N. take action regarding the petitioner’s cause of choice.

The complaint does not name China, which accounts for 30 percent of global emissions, because it has not signed the part of the Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty allowing children to seek justice for breaching the agreement. The establishment media over the weekend remained silent on Beijing’s ban of Climate Strike events throughout the country, despite the participation of over 150 counties raising awareness for purported “global warming.”

I think it would be fun to make the kids live the Cult of Climastrology life they are advocating. Take away their smartphones. Limit their use of the Internet because energy would be very, very expensive, as well as unreliable. Hand wash and line dry their clothes. Put a two minute timer on their showers. All those energy drinks go bye bye. If they want to go somewhere they can take the bus if their parents cannot afford a Tesla. They have to live in a tiny home. No burgers, fries, or pizza with meat toppings. Cheese would be very expensive, since cow populations get wiped out. Etc and so on. Oh, wait, right, 50% of their allowance is taken for The Government in taxes/fees.

And here’s one of the other kiddos

Months After Paradise Fire Triggered Her Asthma, Teen Activist Goes to UN Climate Summit

As fires ravaged the town of Paradise last year, killing 86 people and destroying 15,000 homes in Northern California, smoke seeped south into Davis. Face masks were distributed, but they were not impenetrable, and smoke inhalation began to overwhelm many, including Alexandria Villaseñor whose asthma was triggered.

“I remember being so scared thinking about how if I stood outside for too long, I could collapse and it would be over,” the 14-year-old climate activist said.

Villaseñor had recently moved to New York City from Davis, and was in her home state visiting family when the deadliest fire in California history ignited. She was soon sent back to New York, where she wound up in the emergency room after her asthma continued. There, she began to research wildfires and their connection to climate change.

Less than a month later, she sat outside the United Nations, joining 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in a solidarity protest of global governmental inaction in addressing the climate crisis. Villaseñor said she’s been out there every Friday since for the past 41 weeks — through snow, sleet, rain and the polar vortex — while working to mobilize students throughout the country to join the fight.

So, see, because a fire that was caused by downed transmission lines, which many are blaming on incompetence of the power company, supposedly triggered her asthma, the rest of us are supposed to give in and allow Government to control our lives. Riiiiiiiight.

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The Green New Deal Can Help Us Fight White Supremacy Or Something

By William Teach September 23, 2019 – 4:37 pm

I’m starting to get the idea that the Green New Deal has absolutely nothing to do with man-caused climate change

The Green New Deal Can Help Us Fight White Supremacy

“We had a direct existential threat with…Nazi Germany,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said at a 2018 event. “We chose to mobilize our entire economy…. We have to do the same thing in order to get us to 100 percent renewable energy.” She was promoting a Green New Deal, but her war analogy eerily fit our current political situation.

The left is facing a two-front struggle: On one side is capitalism wrecking the planet; on the other, a rising fascism stoking people into a fever of racism and xenophobia. How do we face this?

The Green New Deal can help us fight both crises — global warming and white supremacy. The mass mobilization that democratic socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders call for demands a deep transformation that is cultural and economic. It can help end the cycle of violence in poor communities of color and help end “deaths of despair” in poor white ones. It might even ease white anxiety about a multicultural future. The Green New Deal, or a similar project, has the potential to bring society together in order to face humanity’s greatest enemy — a catastrophe of our own making.

There’s quite a bit of Crazy and racial grievance in the following paragraphs, but, let’s skip ahead

The 21st-century Green New Deal would need a similar — in fact, a much deeper — commitment to a new labor integration. It has to follow through on the promise that the future has a place for everyone, especially including the country’s most marginalized people. One route to such a transformation was mapped by social psychologist Henri Tajfel in his social identity theory. The theory argues that we must decenter materialism, white supremacy and patriarchy; meanwhile we must center labor, specifically working in green energy to save the planet. We must encourage the sense of a collective mission, as people accomplish the Herculean task of healing a damaged Earth.

But, see, this is all about ‘climate change’, not far left Modern Socialism (which is technically on the far right in the Fascism model)

Calling people from the small towns, the trailer parks and public housing, the suburbs and the cities into a collective Earth front would give us a chance to win breathing space for our species. We could work to save what’s left of the planet. We could save ourselves from our own history.

You will comply, Comrades.

Humorously, most of the leaders of this cult are lilly white

https://twitter.com/ScooterSchaefer/status/1176136518966173697

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 23, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is what appears to be smoke from climate fires, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on school officials being afraid of MAGA hats and American flags.

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In Forced Buy-Back Scheme, How Do You Round Up All Those Guns?

By William Teach September 23, 2019 – 10:30 am

The Associated Press’ Lisa Marie Pane asks an important question

In gun buyback talk, how do you round up so many weapons?

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States?

The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out of circulation. Many gun owners are also unwilling to turn over the weapons, and if the government offered to buy them all back at face value, the price tag could easily run into the billions of dollars.

O’Rourke’s pointed declaration during a recent debate — “Hell yes, we’re gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47” — stoked longstanding fears among gun owners that Democrats are less interested in safety or finding a middle ground, and just want to confiscate guns. Even some gun-control advocates aren’t so sure that confiscating firearms will work.

(discussion of Democrat confiscation policies)

Democratic candidates pushing gun buybacks have also pointed to similar moves in Australia and New Zealand. However, the number of AR-style long guns in those countries pales in comparison to the United States, and neither has gun rights enshrined in their constitutions.

In those two countries they banned most privately owned firearms, not just those scary “assault weapons”.

Chipman believes an assault weapon ban should be handled similar to the machine gun rules, requiring they be registered and heavily regulated but not confiscated.

“I think it would be far more likely that we would find more of the weapons under comprehensive regulation by the government than sort of a forced buyback ban scenario,” he said.

There’s also the optics of the government taking away guns, presenting another challenge for the Democratic proposals.

The idea of outlawing and then rounding up firearms alarmed many gun owners who believe it will not solve the problem of gun violence and would only serve to take firearms away from law-abiding Americans. They point out that while AR-style guns have been used in some high-profile mass shootings, most gun deaths involve handguns.

“Once you start talking about taking guns away, especially legally owned firearms by responsible gun owners, you’re just going to alienate a whole huge portion of American citizens. They’re just not going to stand for that,” said Chris Waltz, the president and CEO of AR-15 Gun Owners of America. “This is what they feared.”

So, one proposal is simply to make them highly regulated to attempt to get them registered, which would make it easier to confiscate later. See, again, that registration part is what was missing from Australia and New Zealand banning weapons. It’s been reported that only 20% of firearms were turned in when Australia banned them in the late 1990’s, and the number of weapons turned in in New Zealand has been rather low.

Even some self-identified liberals who own firearms question the legality of gun confiscation and even the practicality.

“Constitutional rights aren’t based on what you like. What’s the slippery slope of this?” said Lara C. Smith, the national spokeswoman for the Liberal Gun Club, a nonprofit group of liberal gun owners. “If they’re going to take away these rights, what other rights are they going to take away?”

And this hardcore push will drive liberals away from voting in 2020. They may not vote for Trump and Republicans, but, they won’t be giving their vote to Democrats. And it is a slippery slope. And, Democrats keep moving the goal posts. But, they’ve said it when they started talking about the Australian solution even before the 2016 election.

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