If All You See…

By William Teach November 29, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Dan Bongino’s alternative to the left leaning Drudge.

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Everyone, Even Skeptics, Have Climate Anxiety Or Something

By William Teach November 29, 2019 – 12:19 pm

That’s right, man-caused climate change skeptics, even you have climate anxiety

In US, climate anxiety churns up psychological storm

In the melting Arctic, communities are racing to maintain their way of life. In the rising Pacific, residents are sounding alarm bells. And in Rhode Island, Kate Schapira and her husband are not having a baby.

Fears about climate change are prompting worldwide action, but one knock-on effect in the United States is mounting anxiety about everything from plastics to class-based environmental disparities.

Schapira, a 40-year-old senior lecturer in the English department at Brown University, is addressing that unease in a number of ways. (snip)

So in 2014, Schapira started setting up a “climate anxiety” booth in public spaces, such as farmers’ markets. It’s a bit like Lucy’s psychiatry stall from the beloved comic “Peanuts.”

“Climate anxiety counseling, 5 cents. The doctor is in,” the booth’s sign reads, welcoming passersby in Providence to talk about their fears.

Yup, they’re all nuts. Or is it “we’re all nuts”?

For Lise Van Susteren, a Washington-based psychiatrist who has been studying the mental health impacts of climate change for 15 years, refusal to recognize the potential hazards is common for “people who are trying to deny that they too are vulnerable.”

“I actually have no hesitation in saying that on some level, I believe that everyone now has some climate anxiety,” Van Susteren said.

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To Meet Climate Targets, Canada Will Need A Much Higher Carbon Tax

By William Teach November 29, 2019 – 6:58 am

Funny how this works, right? Put in a tax to solve something, then raise it more and more

Canada needs much higher carbon tax to meet climate target: study

Canada’s projected carbon tax must be more than quadrupled over the next 10 years to meet its Paris Agreement commitment to slash CO2 pollution, economists said in a report Wednesday.

Carbon pricing is the primary measure undertaken so far by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.

Introduced earlier this year, the fuel levy — one of the few of its scope in the world — was applied to four of Canada’s 10 provinces that have not brought in their own equivalent measures.

It was initially set at Can$20 per ton of emissions, adding four cents to the cost of a liter of gasoline, and is set to rise incrementally to Can$50 per ton.

But the Ecofiscal Commission — an independent group of academic economists and former Canadian political leaders — said in a report this “will not be enough to ensure that the country meets its international commitments.”

“Our analysis indicates that this is possible if the national price of carbon reaches Can$210 (US$160) per ton by 2030,” which represents an increase of about 40 cents per liter of gasoline.

They should remember what happened in Paris and other parts of France when they went to raise the fuel tax even more. The Yellow Vest protests are still going on. You had big protests in the Netherlands over policies and taxes. And a protest in Dublin, Ireland.

On the plus side, the national and province governments of Canada haven’t said they would raise the carbon taxes. Yet. However, it’s always interesting that Warmists always recommend taxes, rather than that Warmists give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral.

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Bummer: Recession (scam) Fears Recede, Which Is A Boon To Trump

By William Teach November 29, 2019 – 6:43 am

Democrats and their pet media who all pushed the “coming recession” doom and gloom hit the hardest (oh, and Glenn Beck, who pushes this for his advertisers like Gold Line and prepper foods)

Recession fears recede in boost to Trump

After a summer dip, consumer spending has roared back to life heading into the holiday shopping season, giving the stock market a boost and fending off recession fears with less than a year until the 2020 elections.

The improving economic picture could be a boon for President Trump, who has made the economy a central argument for his reelection.

Recent economic data stands in contrast to just a few months ago, when economists were worried that consumer spending would be the next shoe to drop after manufacturing hit a slump and as investment was in the midst of contracting.

The tumultuous summer was also marred by a rocky stock market, escalating trade tensions with China and repeated warning signs from the bond market that a recession could be on the 2020 horizon.

By the time fall rolled around, analysts were forecasting flat or even decreasing sales for Halloween, a further sign of declining consumer sentiment.

But sales beat expectations, raising prospects for the all-important holiday shopping season.

“Consumers are in good financial shape and willing to spend a little more on gifts for the special people in their lives this holiday season,” said National Retail Federation President and CEO Matthew Shay.

While there were certainly real concerns, and still are, for some international markets, particularly in Europe (which has killed its economy through Progressive regulations and climate change policies), the U.S. was never really in danger. The media just liked to over-hype dangers to the economy, because Trump is in office, which hurt consumer confidence, which is now rising up

“Consumers are finally acknowledging that consistent — albeit moderate — wage inflation and steady job gains combined with subdued price inflation have made them financially better off than they were 12 months ago,” Morning Consult wrote in an analysis of the polling data. (snip)

The economic news is likely to benefit Trump. Despite the effects of his ongoing trade war with China and criticism over the high cost and uneven benefit of the 2017 tax-cut law, the economy has proven resilient. And Trump has taken notice.

So, expect the media to tout how bad the economy is and that doom is coming next year in an attempt to defeat Trump, in complete defiance of the economic indicators.

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Climate Cultists Refuse To Fly Home For The Holidays Or Something

By William Teach November 28, 2019 – 7:16 pm

Well, that’s good, because less unhinged arguments. I love the way this starts

Choosing Not To Fly Home For The Holidays, For The Climate’s Sake

This year Thom Hawkins is missing his fourth family Thanksgiving back home in Minnesota, by choice.

The 82-year-old lives in Glendale, Calif., and hasn’t visited his extended family of nieces, nephews and cousins since September 2016. That’s when he decided he couldn’t fly anymore because of environmental concerns. Ever since, he has missed weddings, birthdays and graduations, and he expects to miss funerals.

“On the last trip there I felt guilty, if you want to know the truth,” Hawkins says. “I [had] become very aware of climate change … probably hyper-aware, more than most people that I know.”

He’s even told his family to no longer fly to California to visit him, as he doesn’t want them to contribute to climate change on his behalf. Hawkins is part of a small but growing number of people who are choosing not to fly, or to fly less.

So, for 80 years he had the good life, took flights, traveled, but, now he gives it up, and won’t even attend important times in the life of his family? Cult.

A group called Flight Free, which has members in at least 10 countries, and another called NoFlyClimateSci, claim more than 20,000 people around the world have signed different public pledges to not fly in 2020. There is an international push to raise those numbers by the end of the year.

“We’re trying to inspire climate action, and when people choose not to fly that’s one of the most immediate and direct and cheapest ways that people can help solve the climate crisis,” says Ariella Granett, who helped found Flight Free USA.

But, will they give up traveling in fossil fueled vehicles?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 28, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is people eating too much food, causing the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blogs of the day are

These are just the blogs with posts up when I set this in the a.m. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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Massive Winter Storms Hitting U.S., And This Is All Your Fault

By William Teach November 28, 2019 – 8:07 am

You see, big winter storms never happened before 1980/invention of fossil fueled vehicles/1950/Industrial revolution (the starting timepoint depends on what a Warmist is arguing). They are a thing of man-caused climate change, and this is all your fault for taking a fossil fueled trip home for Thanksgiving, where you will bombarded with talking points about ‘climate change’ as crazy old Uncle Pete, even if you are a 16 year old girl

Thanksgiving Weather: Historic ‘Bomb Cyclone’ And Snow Hit Much Of The US

In many American homes Wednesday the Thanksgiving turkey is thawing and the yard is either blanketed with snow or bracing for big winds.

The National Weather Service warned on one of the busiest travel days of the year in the United States that two major storm systems will work their way across the continent this week, including a so-called “bomb cyclone” that could be historic.

People from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes region woke up to snow Wednesday as hurricane-force winds began to lash southwest Oregon and northwest California.

The storm on the west coast has gone through the period of rapid intensification known as bombogenesis to earn the title of “bomb cyclone,” which basically means that this is a super-strong storm!

The storm is predicted to bring plenty of precipitation to the west, with the possibility of one to three feet of snow in mountain ranges from the Sierra Nevada to the Northern Rockies to the San Juans in Colorado.

While no single weather event can be directly attributed to climate change, which merely establishes the background conditions against which weather events form, recent research from UCLA predicts more “climate whiplash” for California, quickly transitioning from extreme dry to extreme wet conditions.

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Trump Signs Two Bills For Hong Kong Democracy, Angering China Or Something

By William Teach November 28, 2019 – 7:49 am

The bills he signed are a good thing. Somehow, the NY Times almost makes it out, it’s very subtle, like this is a bad thing, and that Trump didn’t really want to do it

Trump Signs Hong Kong Democracy Legislation, Angering China

President Trump on Wednesday signed tough legislation that authorizes sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials responsible for human rights abuses in Hong Kong, signaling support for pro-democracy activists and escalating tensions with Beijing as Mr. Trump tries to negotiate a trade deal with Chinese leaders.

China’s Foreign Ministry was furious, saying the bill “seriously interfered with Hong Kong affairs, seriously interfered with China’s internal affairs, and seriously violated international law and basic norms of international relations.” The ministry warned the United States against acting arbitrarily and said that any consequences would “be borne by the United States.”

Whether Mr. Trump would sign the legislation had been a subject of debate. He refused to commit to doing so as late as last Friday, saying that he supported the protesters but that President Xi Jinping of China was “a friend of mine.” But Mr. Trump was left with few options: The bill had passed both the House and the Senate by veto-proof majorities.

So, instead of congratulating Trump for signing in, they go with “China mad!” and subtlety positioning Trump signing the bills as something he didn’t really want to do.

The second bill that Mr. Trump signed bans the sale of crowd-control munitions like tear gas and rubber bullets to the Hong Kong police.

The pro-Beijing government in Hong Kong expressed its strong displeasure, calling the two measures “unnecessary and unwarranted, and would harm the relations and common interests between Hong Kong and the U.S.”

We care what Beijing thinks why? Oh, right, it’s supposed to make it seems as if Trump was doing things without thinking.

The main measure, titled the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, would compel the United States to impose sanctions on officials. It would also require the State Department to annually review the special autonomous status it grants the territory in trade considerations. That status is separate from the relationship with mainland China, and revoking it would mean less favorable trade conditions between the United States and Hong Kong.

That’s a good thing, isn’t it?

Evan S. Medeiros, a Georgetown University professor who was the senior Asia director on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council staff, said Mr. Trump’s action could be his attempt to look tough on China to American voters without entirely upsetting the negotiations.

Um, it was passed almost unanimously. Does this mean Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Booker, Harris, Sanders, and the rest of the Dems were attempting to look tough?

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Narrative Fail: Battleground Voters Who Went Democrat In 2018 Switching Back To Trump

By William Teach November 27, 2019 – 4:53 pm

This had to really, really hurt the NY Times to publish. After all the scaremongering, the negative stories on Trump, the refusal to run any but a handful of stories buried deep on the good things Trump has done (the story on Trump signing the animal cruelty bill was nowhere on the front page on the web nor the paper), all the negative opinion pieces, spinning good news as bad, telling us the economy is cratering and a recession is coming, all the impeachment theater, etc, and we get this

They Voted Democratic. Now They Support Trump.

Midterm victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Democrats hope of retaking the Rust Belt battleground states that handed the presidency to Donald J. Trump in 2016.

Yet success in the midterms might not mean as much for Democratic presidential candidates as the party might think. Nearly two-thirds of voters in six battleground states who voted for President Trump in 2016 — but for Democratic congressional candidates in 2018 — say they intend to back the president against each of his top rivals, according to recent polling by The New York Times Upshot/Siena College.

The results suggest that the party’s winning formula in last year’s midterms may not be so easy to replicate in a presidential election. The Democrats’ relatively moderate House candidates succeeded in large part by flipping a crucial segment of voters who backed the president in 2016. If these voters remain open-minded again in 2020, Democrats will have a ready-made blueprint for winning back the crucial Rust Belt battlegrounds.

Of course, the Times attempts to spin this, denigrating the voters as “overwhelmingly white, 60 percent are male, and two-thirds have no college degree”, because, obviously, they aren’t allowed to have an opinion.

Other voters say they are preparing to take an even greater leap: vote for Mr. Trump after supporting Democratic congressional candidates in 2018 and Mrs. Clinton in 2016.

In the survey, 7 percent of those who supported Mrs. Clinton in 2016 said they now approved of the president’s performance — despite his personality and his Twitter account, many said.

What this really is is a warning for Democrats to get their buts in gear to attempt to find a way to win.

Many of the voters cited economic strength as a major reason to support Mr. Trump in 2020, even if they didn’t support him last time. Also, certain voters who support Trump said they had soured on Democrats because of partisan fighting, culminating in impeachment hearings.

So, he’s doing pretty good and Democrats are unhinged.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 27, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is wonderful low carbon sailboat needed for when the land is swamped by the seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on NOAA blocking access to their temperature data.

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