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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If All You See…

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

…is horrible heat snow which will disappear in the future, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on St. Greta being the living example of the Left’s beliefs.

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Happy 2020! Here’s The Annual Climate Challenge And Pinup!

By William Teach January 1, 2020 – 10:30 am

Happy New Year’s! Welcome to 2020! And one year closer to End Of Life As We Know it. 2150 and 2200 are fast approaching, the primary dates that the climate alarmists always want to use to denote when Earth is going to burn, baby, burn in fire, dan dan daaaan, fire, dan dan daaaaan.

New Year’s is usually a time when we make resolutions which we abandon when we realize that chocolate, bacon, and beer are great (and bacon cooked in beer and covered with chocolate!) In the blogosphere, we often make predictions for the New Year. Instead, how about a challenge? I’ve done this every year since 2011: will Warmists take it?

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2020 Will The Last Election Not About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 1, 2020 – 8:07 am

If ‘climate change’ is so darned important, why is 2020 not about ‘climate change’? Oh, right, because most people care only in theory, not practice, and don’t want to even spend $10 a month of their own money on “solving” it. But, the Cult of Climastrology will keep pushing pushing pushing

2020 Will Be the Last Election That’s Not About Climate Change

It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to notice he was not named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2019.

So, of course this piece starts out with some Trump Derangement Syndrome. That goes a couple more paragraphs, let’s skip them

That article was real. “In a world where hundreds of millions of human beings still go hungry and the global recession has left all but the wealthiest fearing for their future, it’s easy to wonder why we should be concerned about the dwindling of the planet’s biodiversity,” Bryan Walsh wrote from Madagascar in 2009. “The answer is that we can’t afford not to.”

The substance of that argument hasn’t changed in the last decade, only its urgency. “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing,” Thunberg told the United Nations in September. “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”

So, what did Obama and the rest of the climate scam believing world leaders do?

Yet, as an election looms in 2020, money and fairy tales about economic growth are still most likely motivating voters, not climate change. But things are changing. It’s almost inevitable that this will be the last election where climate change is not the top issue at the ballot box.

Haven’t we heard this for 30 years?

In November, polling firm Engagious hosted a focus group of swing voters in Youngstown, Ohio. A few of them supported Thunberg, but also said she shouldn’t be the face of the global climate movement. “You have to win hearts and minds,” one man said. “It’s as much marketing as it is education… In this kind of argument, where you have people say it’s a hoax and people who say the world is coming to an end, you have to be able to persuade.”

And yet it seems Thunberg has been persuasive. She’s inspired millions of people to march in climate protests across the planet. Her success is no doubt partly due to her being so young, so firm, and so committed to her cause, and she deserves the accolades she has received. At the same time, Thunberg appears to be pushing against an open door, globally and in the United States.

And yet it seems that most of those young people aren’t actually making changes in their own lives, just marching and Demanding stuff that affects Other People. So, pretty much business as usual with members of the Cult of Climastrology.

Despite the ongoing blind fealty Republicans in Washington, D.C. pay to Trump, his decisions to remove the United States from the Paris climate accord, or to roll back offshore drilling regulations, or to allow for more logging on federal lands, may start to play badly within his party — particularly with its youth wing. This year, Pew found that younger Republicans are more likely to support climate-conscious policies. They’re less likely to support expanding coal mining than their older GOP peers, and more likely to support expanding solar farms. Millennial Republicans are also more likely than older Republicans to say that climate change is having “at least some effect” on their community.

And then they enter the Real World and put away childish things.

Climate change, David Wallace-Wells writes in The Uninhabitable Earth, is “not merely one challenge among many facing a planet already struggling with civil strife and war and horrifying inequality and far too many other insoluble hardships to iterate, but the all-encompassing stage on which all those challenges will be met — a whole sphere, in other words, which literally contains within it all of the world’s future problems and all of its possible solutions.”

Climate cultists like to place every issue under the banner of Hotcoldwetdry. But, if they think this and young voters will somehow make it a major force in elections after 2020, well, good luck. People really do not care that much.

You know what this does show, though? That this is all about politics, not science.

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Rep Al Green Admits Impeachment Was Always The Democrat Goal

By William Teach January 1, 2020 – 7:52 am

The impeachment theater of the Democrats was always political, it was always unhinged, and it began even before Trump was elected

Rep. Al Green: The ‘genesis’ of Trump’s impeachment began when he was ‘running for office’

One of the most vocal pro-impeachment Democratic voices on Capitol Hill said the “genesis” of President Trump’s impeachment began long before the Ukraine scandal.

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, one of the first lawmakers to push for Trump’s impeachment, appeared on MSNBC on Monday and was confronted about the president, and how his allies have weaponized Green’s outspokenness against Democrats.

“Political expediency and insincerity — those are two charges that have been leveled against Democrats during this entire affair, particularly since September when the formal impeachment inquiry started, and you play a starring role in those charges,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes said to Green.

“The argument goes like this of House Republicans and Trump and his allies: the Democrats wanted to impeach Donald Trump from day one, they cast about looking for a set of facts that they could plausibly use to do it, and all of it was pretextual and reverse-engineered to get to this point, and Exhibit One: Congressman Al Green, who [has] been calling for the man’s impeachment for two years now,” Hayes said. “What’s your response to that charge?”

Green didn’t deny the charge being made against him.

“Well, the genesis of impeachment, to be very candid with you, was when the president was running for office and he had members of his own party to talk about his unfitness to hold office,” Green told Hayes, later citing rhetoric from Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., from the 2016 election. “So the president didn’t have the luxury of persons from his party having been on his side as it were throughout this entire ordeal.”

OMG, same party people criticizing him? Impeach!

He continued: “With those things in mind and with the president’s behavior before us, firing Mr. [James] Comey who was investigating the intrusion of Russia into his campaign, our election — that was something that was not to be tolerated. And the president has continued to try to thwart the efforts of Congress to investigate with Mr. [Robert] Mueller.”

Impeachment was always the goal, especially after Trump won the GOP nomination. They talked about it, recommended it just in case he won (which they thought would never happen), then ramped it up the minute he actually won. Then codified it when Trump took office, looking for any excuse, no matter how minor, no matter that it would be just business as usual. No matter that they will set a standard that politics as usual would mean impeaching a Democrat president in the future. They are deranged.

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