If All You See…

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

…is a sea that will swamp all the land by 2020, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on the 2020 Census potentially wiping out AOC’s district.

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Democrats Decide That “Dear Iran” Is A Good Idea

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

This is the kind of thing that gets President Trump re-elected. All those middle ground voters, the #NeverTrumpers, etc, they should take note of stuff like this, and realize that Democrats really do hate America. Do they want to vote for them? They don’t have to vote Trump, but, they’ll just avoid voting D

https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1212976832544460801

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Australia Is Committing Hotcoldwetdry Suicide Or Something

By William Teach January 3, 2020 – 7:11 am

It can’t be a day ending in a “y” without some sort of unhinged level 10 screed from the Cult of Climastrology, eh? Here’s Australian Richard Flanagan in the NY Times, who is not a climate scientists, and I thought we were only supposed to listen to climate scientists

Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide

Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen.

The images of the fires are a cross between “Mad Max” and “On the Beach”: thousands driven onto beaches in a dull orange haze, crowded tableaux of people and animals almost medieval in their strange muteness — half-Bruegel, half-Bosch, ringed by fire, survivors’ faces hidden behind masks and swimming goggles. Day turns to night as smoke extinguishes all light in the horrifying minutes before the red glow announces the imminence of the inferno. Flames leaping 200 feet into the air. Fire tornadoes. Terrified children at the helm of dinghies, piloting away from the flames, refugees in their own country. (snip)

As I write, a state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales and a state of disaster in Victoria, mass evacuations are taking place, a humanitarian catastrophe is feared, and towns up and down the east coast are surrounded by fires, all transport and most communication links cut, their fate unknown.

But, rather than helping people, Warmists are whining about ‘climate change’

And yet, incredibly, the response of Australia’s leaders to this unprecedented national crisis has been not to defend their country but to defend the coal industry, a big donor to both major parties — as if they were willing the country to its doom. While the fires were exploding in mid-December, the leader of the opposition Labor Party went on a tour of coal mines expressing his unequivocal support for coal exports. The prime minister, the conservative Scott Morrison, went on vacation to Hawaii.

Since 1996 successive conservative Australian governments have successfully fought to subvert international agreements on climate change in defense of the country’s fossil fuel industries. Today, Australia is the world’s largest exporter of both coal and gas. It recently was ranked 57th out of 57 countries on climate-change action.

OK, tell Aussies to give up their fossil fueled vehicles, their electricity, and stop tourism, which is pretty big for the Aussie economy.

This posture seems to be a chilling political calculation: With no effective opposition from a Labor Party reeling from its election loss and with media dominated by Rupert Murdoch — 58 percent of daily newspaper circulation — firmly behind his climate denialism, Mr. Morrison appears to hope that he will prevail as long as he doesn’t acknowledge the magnitude of the disaster engulfing Australia.

You know why Labor has been decimated? Their support of ‘climate change’ policies, going back to the 2012 Queensland elections, where Labor lost so many seats that they were no longer an officially recognized party.

Such are those who would open the gates of hell and lead a nation to commit climate suicide.

Do you know what’s missing? Any sort of recommendations to “solve” the “climate crisis.” Could that be due to Aussies being for Doing Something in theory, but voting against it in practice? Yes.

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Democrats Attack Trump For Airstrike On Iranian General

By William Teach January 3, 2020 – 6:53 am

The Iranian general was in Iraq to help foment violence against Americans. He’s the man behind the woundings and deaths of hundreds of American soldiers. A real bad guy from a very bad Islamist regime. Trump put Americans first.

2020 Democrats condemn Soleimani before attacking Trump for ordering the airstrike

Several Democrats vying for the White House in 2020 condemned Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani before taking aim at President Trump for ordering the deadly airstrike that will escalate tensions in the region and was done so without Congress’ approval.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that by ordering the airstrike Trump “just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.”

In a lengthy statement, Biden said Trump “owes the American people an explanation of the strategy and plan to keep our troops and embassy personnel, our people and our interests, both here at home and abroad, and our partners throughout the region and beyond.

“No American will mourn Qassem Soleimani’s passing. He deserved to be brought to justice for his crimes against American troops and thousands of innocents throughout the region. He supported terror and sowed chaos,” the statement read.

“None of that negates the fact that this is a hugely escalatory move in an already dangerous region. The Administration’s statement says that its goal is to deter future attack by Iran, but this action almost certainly will have the opposite effect.”

Biden also questioned whether the Trump administration considered the “second- and third-order consequences” of Soleimani’s death that now puts the U.S. “on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East.”

Hmm, I seem to remember Joe’s old boss starting a conflict in Libya without Congressional approval and without forethought as to the future of the country while he was flying to South America. Did Joe complain? But, see, this is all part of the “measured responses” from Democrats, who are so Trump Deranged that they have to find fault with taking out a killer of Americans because Trump ordered it.

And here’s more excitable reaction from them

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All Weather Now Bears The Fingerprints Of You Eating A Burger For Lunch Or Something

By William Teach January 2, 2020 – 4:45 pm

See, if only you had decided to eat some lettuce and broccoli you grew yourself at the tiny apartment with no electricity, this wouldn’t be a problem

The signal of human-caused climate change has emerged in everyday weather, study finds

For the first time, scientists have detected the “fingerprint” of human-induced climate change on daily weather patterns at the global scale. If verified by subsequent work, the findings, published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, would upend the long-established narrative that daily weather is distinct from long-term climate change.

The study’s results also imply that research aimed at assessing the human role in contributing to extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods may be underestimating the contribution.

The new study, which was in part motivated by President Trump’s tweets about how a cold day in one particular location disproves global warming, uses statistical techniques and climate model simulations to evaluate how daily temperatures and humidity vary around the world. Scientists compared the spatial patterns of these variables with what physical science shows is expected because of climate change.

OK, so, this was utterly political in nature. Just like the rest of the climate change scam.

The study concludes that the spatial patterns of global temperature and humidity are, in fact, distinguishable from natural variability, and have a human component to them. Going further, the study concludes that the long-term climate trend in global average temperature can be predicted if you know a single day’s weather information worldwide.

According to study co-author Reto Knutti of ETH Zurich, the research alters what we can say about how weather and climate change are connected. “We’ve always said when you look at weather that’s not the same as climate,” he said. “That’s still true locally, if you are in one particular place and you only know the weather right now, right here, there isn’t much you can say.”

However, on a global scale, that is no longer true, Knutti said. “Global mean temperature on a single day is already quite a bit shifted. You can see this human fingerprint in any single moment.

So, when it’s hot, it’s your fault. Cold? Your fault. Snow, ice, rain, no rain, a beautiful day to have a picnic, all your fault.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 2, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a field drying out from people eating meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a victim selection process failure.

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The 2010’s Were A Lost Decade For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 2, 2020 – 10:30 am

Can someone remind me who was President for most of the 2010’s?

The 2010s were a lost decade for climate. We can’t afford a repeat, scientists warn.

At the start of the last decade, Kallan Benson was 5 years old, her favorite story was “The Secret Garden,” and Earth was in the midst of its warmest year on record. Benson had heard about climate change (her mother is an environmental scientist), but she didn’t know world leaders had just signed an agreement calling it “one of the greatest challenges of our time.” She cared about Earth, but she trusted adults to protect it.

She doesn’t feel that way anymore.

By the final year of the decade, the planet had surpassed its 2010 temperature record five times. Hurricanes devastated New Jersey and Puerto Rico, and floods damaged the Midwest and Bangladesh. Southern Africa was gripped by a deadly drought. Australia and the Amazon are ablaze. Global emissions are expected to hit an all-time high this year, and humanity is on track to cross the threshold for tolerable warming within a generation.

The 2010s were a “decade of disappointment,” said Benson, now 15 and a national coordinator for the youth climate organization Fridays for Future. If the world is to stave off further disasters, the next decade must be one of unprecedented climate action, she said.

“This decade that we’re going into now will be the most important of our lives,” Benson said. “We’re kind of running out of options. And we’re running out of time.”

Ten years ago, the United Nations released its first “emissions gap” report detailing the disparity between commitments made by nations to reduce greenhouse gases and what is needed to meet global temperature targets. It estimated that countries should be curbing emissions about 3 percent per year.

So, what, exactly, did members of the Cult of Climastrology do? How many changed their own lives to match their beliefs? Oh, but there’s this

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Cult Of Climastrology Wants To Know How Hotcoldwetdry Changed Your Life In 2019

By William Teach January 2, 2020 – 8:13 am

The answers are hilarious

Here we go

A year has passed since the publication of “We broke down what climate change will do, region by region,” the best-performing Grist story of recent times. In the piece, the Grist team laid out what the 4th National Climate Assessment warned was coming for each region of the country. The main takeaway? No matter where you live, climate change will find you.

The Pacific Northwest is looking at a rainy future, while the Southwest will experience blistering temperatures and drought unlike anything seen before. As we said last year, your backyard might suffer different climate consequences from my backyard.

Wait, it’s going to rain in the Pacific NW? That would be unusual, right? Right? Anyhow, here are some of the responses

I work on climate change, and it has taken a toll on me mentally this year: I’ve felt both filled to the brim with hope and depleted with despair.

LOL

-Furnace couldn’t keep up during February polar vortex, and we had 11” of snow before leaves finished falling in November.

-Seasonal changes have been “off.” Very cold and wet in May, slowing planting in our short season. Then October brought early snow, forcing apple harvest before ripening. November, so far, has been our October. November is usually wet, but no precipitation in rain or snow to speak of.

-I live in Jersey City, New Jersey. We got hit hard by Sandy in 2012, which was my BIG climate story. Lately it’s just been extreme temperatures. In the winter, we have the polar vortex. I usually walk to work, but when it’s that cold, I have to take a cab/Lyft for health reasons. My apartment building is very old, was retrofitted over 10 years ago, and simply doesn’t have the energy efficiency to keep in the heat. I have electric baseboards and my energy bill can be north of $300 in cold months.

So, see, the cold is your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle and having a burger a couple times a week.

I have started taking the climate emergency more seriously. My wife and I sold a car and have decided to share one car. I have decided to bike to work every day. I linked up my employer with a local nonprofit that helps companies incentivize their employees to not commute alone in a car to work. I have started voting in every election I can, researching alternatives to flying, and embracing slow travel. I am considering changing jobs or even a career shift to work for a company that is either not participating in global warming or making efforts to limit their carbon footprint. I am also driving my wife insane. :)

LOL.

The planet is dying and no one with a lot of power is doing anything adequate to stop it. I am not having children as a result. The world, it seems, will only get worse and worse with each passing year as climate change destroys civilization as we know it. When I said that in middle-school some 30 years ago, I was accused of hyperbole. When I saw it now, we all know it’s true. Who wants to live in the world that’s coming? Not me.

Our summer was kind of cool and we had three good rains here in Southern Oregon. We had one or two 100 degree days this year. Normally, we have five to 10. Our rains normally stop in May and resume in October — rain during summer is quite uncommon up here.

So, wait, fewer 100 degree days is proof of an over-heating planet? Huh? Typically here in Raleigh we average six 100 degree days a year. We only had one this past summer, one the previous, and none 3 summers ago. We haven’t had 6 in almost a decade. That’s a good thing, right? Not in Climate Cult World, of course.

We lost our home and nearly everything we possessed in the Camp Fire due to environmental changes that contributed to massive wildfire.

While I’m sorry to hear that, climate change had nothing to do with the fire. It was man-caused, though, namely irresponsible actions by California’s PG&E power company.

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Surprise: Washington Post Rails Against Firearms After Texas Church Shooting

By William Teach January 2, 2020 – 7:43 am

They have absolutely no idea how Keith Kinnunen obtained his shotgun, a weapon that Gun Grabbers usually approve of because they are for hunting, but, they are still going to go hardcore

The Texas church shooter should never have had access to a firearm

Lives were saved when a member of the volunteer security team at a Texas church fatally shot a gunman who had opened fire on the congregation during a Sunday morning church service. Thanks and praise for his skilled actions are due Jack Wilson. But what must not be forgotten or forgiven is that two innocent people were shot to death in a house of prayer by a man who — despite a troubled and violent past — had access to a gun because of this country’s lax gun laws.

“Keith is a violent, paranoid person with a long line of assault and batteries with and without firearms. He is a religious fanatic, says he’s battling a demon . . . He is not nice to anyone.” That is how one of his ex-wives described the gunman in 2012 as she sought a protective order against him. Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43, who killed church deacon Anton Wallace, 64, and church security volunteer Richard White, 67, at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Tex., had an extensive rap sheet in numerous places across the United States. Included in his troubled history was the 2012 determination by an Oklahoma judge that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges he attacked the owner of a doughnut shop; he was committed to a psychiatric facility. In 2016, he was arrested after being spotted acting suspiciously near an oil refinery in New Jersey while armed with a shotgun; he ended up pleading guilty to criminal trespass.

None of that prevented him from getting a firearm. Exactly how is unclear, but Texas has one of the nation’s least restrictive gun laws with no requirements for background checks when the seller is not a licensed dealer. That irrational permissiveness needs to be addressed, but gun advocates — cheered on by President Trump — instead seized on the terrible events to promote their agenda that the answer to gun violence is more guns. So much for not politicizing tragedy. And never mind the rates of suicides and homicides in Texas, or that the state has been home to some of the country’s deadliest mass shootings.

See, we should blame Trump. Of course. And Texas. And unlicensed gun dealers. Despite not knowing how he obtained the weapon. Despite there being lots and lots of shootings in states with every bit of gun control (excepting pure bannings and confiscation like they really want).

No licensed dealer would sell him a gun, because he was already banned from owning one. That 2016 arrest? One of the charges was unlawful possession of a weapon. Because he’s a felon. But, hey, criminals always obey the law, right?

The hero in Sunday’s shooting was not, as gun advocates would want us to believe, an ordinary churchgoer — the proverbial “good guy with a gun” — but rather a firearms instructor and gun range owner who has been a reserve deputy with a local sheriff’s department. It’s not hard to imagine an even greater tragedy if there had been someone less skilled than Mr. Wilson or if the shooter had been armed with a weapon that didn’t require it to be reloaded. Indeed, the next madman intent on killing as many people as possible, rather than being deterred by Sunday’s events, might conclude that he needs a more lethal weapon. Those who see more armed guards as the only answer are driving down a road of ever-intensifying escalation.

Of course they have to downplay this, but, really, it doesn’t matter what Jack Wilson’s pedigree is, he’s a private citizen engaging in his right to carry and plugged Kinnunen.

Instead of turning churches and schools into armed camps, we should do a better job of keeping guns away from people who shouldn’t have them. Gun control that includes strong background checks makes sense, as a majority of Americans understand.

Again, Kinnunen wouldn’t pass any background check. Further, how do you take away an illegally owned, and probably illegally obtained, firearm away from someone if you don’t know they have it? Well, with gun registration, of course. Which is where the Dem Gun Grabbers policies are going.

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For New Year’s, Climahypocrite Doesn’t Want To Be A Climahypocrite Anymore

By William Teach January 1, 2020 – 5:28 pm

And Warmist Conal Hanna has ideas

I’m a climate change hypocrite — but I’m making a New Year’s resolution to do things differently

….. (snip through a bunch of paragraphs)

If we are to neutralise the threat of climate change, we must first neutralise the power of self-interest. But doing so requires a hard look at ourselves.

Earlier last year I found myself becoming riled up by the same circular discussion we’ve been having for decades now: that Australia alone can’t make a difference to global emissions, and we need to await some magical consensus that includes big emitters like China and the US.

“But we should be setting an example!” I cried.

Then I applied the same logic to my own life. And my hypocrisy was laid bare.

Shocking, eh? Imagine a Warmist being a hypocrite. But, hey, what’s Conal going to do?

That’s why our family — who have done a bit, but are by no means model citizens — is planning to make one new life-long, carbon-reducing resolution every month in 2020.

We’re going to re-examine all aspects of our lives: from diet and purchasing habits, to leisure activities and super investments. There will be no gimmicky “my year without …” abstinence. Each commitment will be something we’re willing to do forever from that point on.

So, obviously, giving up fossil fuels, downsize to a tiny home, live only on wind and solar, grow own food, etc?

First up is a war on ignorance: I’m going to commit at least one hour a week to reading about the impact I’m having on the planet. It’s not the most dramatic first step, but it will ensure each subsequent resolution is well informed.

We’re also aiming to eliminate (as much as possible) our standby power use. Simple things: switching the TV off at the wall, turning the wi-fi off overnight, etc. Using electricity more mindfully.

We are not seeking immediate perfection, simply to each month become better than we were before. Not only does this stepped approach make it more likely our new habits will stick but, if more people were to follow suit, it would give the economy time to adjust to the effects of large-scale change.

So, pretty much nothing of consequence. Surprise?

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