HotCold Take: Elephants Killing People Because You Ate A Burger

By William Teach December 5, 2019 – 10:35 am

Yup, your fault

Climate change: Elephants killing and injuring people due to drought

Elephants in Zambia are being collared to try to combat the rising conflict between wildlife and humans in the country as both struggle to survive a particularly devasting drought.

The lack of rain has led to animals encroaching on to human territory to seek out food and water.

Elephants have been trampling crops, tearing down fences, terrifying residents and even injuring and killing them.

But they are not the only wildlife problem. Crocodiles are lunging at people as both man and beast fight over the meagre amounts of water found in the bush.

And we spotted a hippo wandering around one of Livingstone’s main roads – for hours. Hippos are among the most dangerous animals in Africa, killing several hundred people per year.

See, droughts never happened prior to the fossil fueled engine. And you eating that delicious burger for lunch.

We could fix this all with a tax, though.

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Baby Formula Is Now Bad For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach December 5, 2019 – 8:13 am

It’s always something with the Cult of Climastrology. They’re always coming up with new things to Blame to prop up their cult, and here’s the newest one (via Watts Up With That?)

Call to curb baby formula emissions

Urgent action must be taken to reduce the carbon footprint of baby formula and toddler milks, a specialised economist says.

Dr Julie Smith, who has studied the economics of infant feeding for over 20 years, says greenhouse gas emissions caused by milk formula production have contributed to global environmental damage.

“The last decade has seen a global boom in formula feeding but this takes the world backwards in the face of contemporary global environmental and population health challenges,” the Australian National University researcher said on Wednesday.

In a paper published in the International Breastfeeding Journal, Dr Smith argued much of the increase in emissions from formula manufacturing can be linked to the expanding toddler milk product market.

“We have got to reduce the manufacture and use of milk formula,” Dr Smith said.

“Australia, together with New Zealand, is a significant player in the region – especially with our exports and marketing of toddler milk to China.”

Of course, Warmists really do not like Other People having children to start. Regardless, these people are just nags who always want to force everyone else to comply with their pet peeves. And, with this, they might make it happen, at least in New Zealand, which would affect China

Climate change to steer all New Zealand government decisions from now on

A climate change “lens” will now be applied to all major decisions made by the government, New Zealand’s climate change minister has said, as floods and bushfires wreck havoc around the country in the first week of summer.

Minister James Shaw said cabinet “routinely” considers the effects of its decisions on human rights, the Treaty of Waitangi, rural communities, the disability community, and gender.

Now climate change will become a standard part of cabinet’s decision-making too, in a week in which the country has being battered by extreme weather events in both the North and South islands.

Will the NZ government Do Something about the baby formula? Time will tell.

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NY Times: Democrat Voters Are Racist For Kicking Kamala Out Of The Race

By William Teach December 5, 2019 – 8:01 am

Many have trotted this out since Kamala Harris dropped out, but, it’s not Official till the NY Times chimes in. Interestingly, this race baiting screed, which also blames black people, by Melanye Price, who is, unsurprisingly, a political scientist who specializes in contemporary black politics, public opinion and political rhetoric, fails to mention just who were not voting for Kamala

Why There Won’t Be a Black Woman Running for President

When Senator Kamala Harris of California entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in January, many believed she would be hard to beat. Telegenic, highly educated and from a multiethnic background, she would have been an ideal candidate in the pre-Obama era. We expected her to create an All-American narrative that is relatable to a wide cross-section of the country. After all, that’s how President Barack Obama ascended in 2004. But Ms. Harris failed to do that.

As we write eulogies of this once promising campaign, which ended on Tuesday, it is important that we talk about more than just personal failings by Ms. Harris and her staff members. We need to talk also about what campaigning looks like for black women and what challenges and hurdles the Harris campaign laid bare. There are biases and structural disadvantages that can be found in the subtle ways the media and the public responded to her candidacy. (snip)

So many times, I wanted her to talk about the experience of growing up with immigrant parents, attending a historically black college, her connection to her Indian heritage and ascending in politics, a predominantly white and male profession, in ways that offered us a glimpse into the world that formed her. As I write this, I am not even sure whether or not it is sexist to ask that she emote upon request.

Well, since blacks only make up less than 13% of the population, that’s not surprising, is it? There are certain professions, such as teaching and HR, which tend to be dominated by women, right? Meh, doesn’t matter, y’all are raaaaacists

In the end, however, she and other candidates were hamstrung by the same thing that has sheltered Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg — the structural discrimination that comes from how we define electability. The left’s hyper-focus on beating President Donald J. Trump in 2020 has also resulted in a re-narrowing of who is electable in ways that many assumed had forever changed after 2008.

Thrown about as an identity-neutral term, there is no doubt that, in 2019, electability means white male centrist. In the shadow of America’s first black president, it seems that only white men who take positions that are more conservative than the party’s base can overcome the misogyny and racism of the current president, not women or racial minorities and certainly not a black woman. (snip)

To be clear, this is not just a story of white voters rejecting her candidacy, though they did. It’s also about black voters doing the same. Any time a black politician has to demonstrate her blackness or prove her connections to the black community, she is already in serious trouble. But why were blacks so suspicious?….

So, whites rejected her because of raaacism, and blacks because she’s…. a terrible candidate.

In black circles, the “she’s a cop” refrain was heard most often. Her role as California’s attorney general — its “top cop” — was a major source of criticism during her presidential run. Police officers of any gender or race are wildly unpopular among blacks.

Is Ms. Price saying that all blacks hate cops because they want to commit crime? Huh. That’s a pretty harsh generality. Excitable Charles Blow is also pushing the raaaaacism meme today, as well. But, who, exactly, is racist? That would be Democrats. It was Democrats who were the ones picking and choosing their next candidate. Voting in polls. Donating money. Coming to rallies.

So, apparently, Democrats are racists. And sexists. Remember, Corey Booker’s campaign is just barely alive. But, then, quite a few white’s and Latinos have dropped out. It couldn’t be because Kamala, like the others, is a bad candidate, right? Democrats are engaged in Outrage Olympics over an all-white stage for the next Democrat debate.

Got that? Democrats are white supremacists.

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Bummer: World Not Close To Meeting Paris Climate Agreement Goals

By William Teach December 4, 2019 – 3:32 pm

Remember when the Paris climate agreement was called “historic” non-stop? And nations hailed joining in, patting themselves on the back? And they were all going to Do Something Important? Funny how we keep reading this same thing

Paris climate deal: world not on track to meet goal amid continuous emissions

Carbon dioxide emissions rose weakly this year as the use of coal declined but natural gas took up the slack, a comprehensive study of the global “carbon budget” has found.

The rise in emissions was much smaller than in the last two years, but the continued increase means the world is still far from being on track to meet the goals of the Paris agreement on climate change, which would require emissions to peak then fall rapidly to reach net-zero by mid-century.

Emissions for this year will be 4% higher than those in 2015, when the Paris agreement was signed. Governments are meeting this week and next in Madrid to hammer out some of the final details for implementing the Paris deal and start work on new commitments to cut emissions by 2030. But the new report shows the increasing difficulty of that task.

Wait, it’s difficult to get people to cut down on their use of energy, especially those in developing nations who would like to have the same standard of living and modern lifestyles of those in 1st World nations? Huh.

“Current climate and energy policies are too weak to reverse trends in global emissions,” she said. “Policies have been successful to varying degrees in deploying low-carbon technologies, such as solar and wind power and electric vehicles. But these often add to existing demand for energy rather than displacing technologies that emit CO2, particularly in countries where energy demand is growing.”

Because solar and wind are rather unreliable at this time, so, still need reliable energy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 4, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful low carbon bikes which everyone else should have to use, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Trump taking Macron to task over NATO funding.

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Sweet: Syrian Jihad Leader Potentially Killed By “Ninja” Missile

By William Teach December 4, 2019 – 10:33 am

By ninja, they don’t mean like one that sneaks up on you as such, oh, no

US forces kill jihadist leader in Syria with precision ‘ninja’ missile that chops up targets with blades

US forces are thought to have killed a senior jihadist leader in northern Syria using a rarely deployed “Ninja” missile which attacks targets with precision sword-like blades.

The Hellfire missile, or AGM-114R9X, which has a set of six folding blades instead of a warhead for minimum collateral damage, is believed to have been used to take out a commander in the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) in the province of Idlib.

The leader, named locally by his nom-de-guerre Abu Ahmad al-Muhajir, was reported to have been killed on Tuesday night when the car he was travelling in was hit by missiles in the town of Atmeh near the Turkish border, 10 miles from the US raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last month. (snip)

Images of the scene shared on social media show a hole in the driver’s seat of the Mutsubishi Delica, which is otherwise largely intact. Inside the car, flesh and blood can be seen and a number of large identical cut marks.

Experts point to the windows, which have not been blown out, as evidence the “Ninja” or so-called “flying Ginsu” was used.

If you buy one, get one free! And the shipping and handling is paid for by the U.S. government, most likely the CIA.

It slices! It dices! It makes Julienne fries!

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St. Greta The Offended Finally Arrives In Portugal For Climate (scam) Talks

By William Teach December 4, 2019 – 7:41 am

I wonder how long it took?

Greta Thunberg Says 3-Week Voyage Across the Atlantic ‘Energized’ Her Climate Change Fight

Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Portugal on Tuesday after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, telling cheering supporters that the journey had “energized” her for the fight against climate change.

The Swedish teen, whose one-woman protests outside the Swedish parliament helped inspired a global youth movement, sailed into the port of Lisbon after making a last-minute dash back from the United States to attend this year’s U.N. climate conference.

Thunberg has been steadfast in her refusal to fly because of the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by planes, a stance that put her planned appearance at the meeting in doubt when the venue was moved from Chile to Spain a month ago.

“We’ve all been on quite an adventure,” Thunberg told reporters shortly after stepping off the catamaran La Vagabonde, on which she’d hitched a ride back home to Europe. “It feels good to be back.”

Three weeks? Let me ask, do most people have the time to take three weeks to cross the ocean? Will your work give you that much time off? Not too mention the 3 weeks to get back after a vacation? Do you even want to take 3 weeks? Maybe a languid week long voyage on a cruise ship, but, not a tiny sailboat crossing an ocean.

The white 48-foot (15-meter) yacht carrying Thunberg, her father Svante, an Australian family and professional sailor Nikki Henderson sailed into Lisbon amid blue skies, with a small flotilla of boats escorting it to harbor.

Her trip contrasted with the many air miles flown by most of the U.N. meeting’s 25,000 attendees.

Thunberg wanted a low-carbon form of transport to get to the climate meeting, which was switched at short notice to Spain from Chile due to unrest there.

The yacht leaves little or no carbon footprint when its sails are up, using solar panels and hydro-generators for electricity.

It’s funny, Time writers Barry Hatton and Frank Jordans forget to mention the boat’s captain taking a fossil fueled flight across the Atlantic, which wiped out any “carbon pollution” savings.

The article says she plans to stay in Lisbon for a few days before heading to Madrid for the conference. Will she be walking to Madrid, or riding a bike? What’s the carbon footprint of the hotel rooms and all the media following her around? Will she slam the 25,000 in attendance in Madrid, a goodly chunk of whom took fossil fueled trips?

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Say, Whatever Happened To The Bribery Narrative In Democrats Impeachment Document?

By William Teach December 4, 2019 – 7:26 am

The document itself is pretty darned pathetic, and worth the read for some laughs

Adam Schiff’s Report Cites No ‘Bribery’ or ‘High Crimes’; Only Tweets

The House Intelligence Committee report released by chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Tuesday cites no constitutionally permissible grounds for impeachment against President Donald Trump — other than tweets.

Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution provides that impeachment shall be for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Notably, the Framers of the Constitution ruled out “maladministration” as a reason.

In Schiff’s 300-page report, Democrats failed to cite any specific grounds for impeaching the president.

Notably, though Schiff and others attempted to argue that the president had possibly committed “bribery” by allegedly asking the president of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden in exchange for U.S. aid, there is no discussion of bribery whatsoever in the report — other than references to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s claims that Biden might be guilty of bribery because his son was on the payroll of Ukrainian gas giant Burisma.

The only references to any “crimes” allegedly committed by the president is a discussion of “witness intimidation.”

Schiff and his Democrat majority attempt to argue that President Trump committed that crime by tweeting criticism of several witnesses against him, including calling them “Never Trumpers” and drawing attention to their testimony.

The word “bribery” appears just 4 times, and never as an accusation. “Quid pro quo” appears 52 times, and mostly as witness’s words, as stated by people who mostly never heard the call.

Shiffs report never explicitly accuses Trump of “abuse of power.” But even that is not impeachable — firstly because Republicans have argued that Trump was not seeking a political favor from Ukraine, but exercising a constitutional duty to fight corruption and election interference; and secondly because it is not an impeachable offense.

As Sunstein wrote: “Almost every American president has, on more than one occasion, passed the bounds of his power, in the sense that his administration has done something that it is not lawfully entitled to do.”

Seriously, this is what we get in the document

  • The President Forced Out the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (something which every president can do at any time. Obama sure did it)
  • The President Put Giuliani and the Three Amigos in Charge of Ukraine Issues (well, that seems like a mature thing, right? The 3 Amigos?)
  • The President Froze Military Assistance to Ukraine (Obama froze most aid to Ukraine during his entire administration)
  • The President Asked the Ukrainian President to Interfere in the 2020 U.S. Election by Investigating the Bidens and 2016 Election Interference (so, wait, investigating the 2016 election interference, which really made no difference, is now bad? Or is it just because Trump was looking for evidence that Dems did not want found?)
  • The President’s Categorical Refusal to Comply (Our Constitution makes clear that people do not have to be willing participants in witch-hunts against them, that they have certain Rights)
  • The President’s Refusal to Produce Any and All Subpoenaed Documents and The President’s Refusal to Allow Top Aides to Testify (under this standard, Obama should have been impeached multiple times)

The whole document is cute, with lots of pithy quotes and stuff, but, rather weak on actual evidence of anything beyond Politics As Usual. And, if he wants to try this whole “using office for personal political interests above those of the nation,” expect Team Trump to trot out evidence of Schiff making money off of his own office. Like most elected politicians.

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Good News: Madrid Climate Meeting Is The Point Of No Return

By William Teach December 3, 2019 – 3:00 pm

I was wondering who would trot this kind of stuff out, because it seems like every year’s UN IPCC COP is the last one to Save The World from getting a fever

COP25 really is the ‘point of no return’ in the climate emergency. Here’s why

BTW, once you throw “here’s why” into the headline, you’ve gone all Vox and this is no longer news, it’s activism

It’s a summit that could make or break the world’s climate commitments.

Would those be the commitments that most nations have failed to even get close to?

Around 25,000 people from 200 countries are descending on Madrid this week to attend the COP25 climate change conference. They include dozens of heads of state and government, business leaders, scientists and, of course, activists — including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.

So, around 25,000 will take fossil fueled travel? Huh.

That will require most countries to up their commitments ahead of the next COP meeting in Glasgow next November. According to the UN, if we rely only on the current climate plans, temperatures can be expected to rise by 3.2 degrees this century.

Yet, most nations aren’t even close to achieving their much lower commitments, so, good luck!

That sounds scary. Can we do anything to stop this?

Only to an unhinged climate cultist is that scary

Experts say that if the delegates reach a deal on emissions trading, we might just about be able to reach the targets. If they fail, we will definitely trail behind the plan.

That doesn’t mean all is lost — but it does make dealing with the consequences of climate change even more expensive. The later we wait, the more drastic (and pricey) measures will be needed to save the planet.

Basically, this is a redistribution scheme, where 3rd world shitholes, er, developing nations (that never develop) can trade their lack of greenhouse gas emissions to nations that are productive. For cash.

Anyhow, I’m sure there will be plenty of articles about Doom if they don’t Do Something.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 3, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is sea rise encroaching on cities, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on whether it’s possible to blast Iron Maiden too loud (my answer: No. Can never be too loud).

One of my favorites below the fold

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