If All You See…

By William Teach December 31, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon sailing ship, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is hogewash, with a post on when the narrative that citizens don’t need firearms for self protection begins to fail.

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Sheriff Joe Thinks We’re All Dead If We Don’t Stop Using Fossil Fuels

By William Teach December 31, 2019 – 10:30 am

What Joe Biden really means is that you have to be forced to give up fossil fuels, as he runs around the country using vast amounts of fossil fuels

From the link

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed during a Sunday campaign event that “we’re all dead” if fossil fuels continue to be used as one of the world’s primary energy sources.

Biden made the apocalyptic pronouncement while discussing climate change before a crowd of supporters in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

“If we don’t stop using fossil fuels–” an attendee began a question to the candidate.

“We’re all dead,” Biden interrupted.

Dead, people, dead!!!!!!

Joe wants to hold them liable, and if they don’t comply, jail them. What of people who use the product in vast amounts while traveling around the country and the world as the political gentry? What about…

It is unclear whether Biden meant he would also imprison his own son, Hunter Biden, who served on the board of directors of Ukrainian gas giant Burisma Holdings between 2014-2016. The younger Biden was reportedly paid up to $83,000 as a Burisma board member, despite having no expertise in the energy sector.

Joe just wants to jail everyone.

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Times Square New Years Ball Drop Theme Is About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach December 31, 2019 – 7:01 am

But, of course it is. A city that would collapse without fossil fuels will host a ball drop celebration where thousands and thousands will take fossil fueled trips to NYC, tons of energy will be used, people will be wearing clothes shipped from all over the world with fossil fuels, and etc and so on

The theme for this year’s Times Square ball drop? Climate change.

Tens of thousands of people gather in and around Times Square every New Year’s Eve, many braving the winter cold for several hours, just to witness New York City’s world-renowned ball drop to ring in the new year.

Every year, the organizers of the event invite special guests to push a crystal button on the main stage to signal that it’s time to drop the ball. Last year’s special guests were 12 prominent journalists, reflecting the theme of press freedom. Previous guests have ranged from former President Bill Clinton to Lady Gaga, so you can imagine our excitement when we found out that this year’s theme is … drumroll please … climate change!

From ice sheets crumbling and wildfires raging around the globe to kids taking climate matters into their own hands to Time magazine naming Greta Thunberg Person of the Year, 2019 was definitely a breakthrough year for climate change.

That’s why the event’s organizers, Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, decided that this year’s ball drop will honor New York City science teachers and students who have been working hard to address the climate crisis.

“You’d have to have your head buried in the Saudi Arabian sand to not be alarmed by all of the environmental catastrophes of 2019,” Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, said in a statement. “And you’d also have to have a soul of Styrofoam not to be moved by the passion of young people demanding that we do better, and ‘listen to the science’ to start solving the problem.”

How many people will be holding cups of coffee and hot chocolate (and alcohol) in Styrofoam cups? Anyhow, a bunch of kids and teachers who are Concerned over Hotcoldwetdry will be on the stage to push the button that starts the ball dropping, then, everyone will drink too much and throw confetti in the air and expel carbon pollution as they sing. Then they’ll take a fossil fueled trip home.

What they should have done was block off Times Square and charge a ‘climate change’ fee to each person who wants to enter, turn this from a theory into a practice, see how people like it.

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Hot Take: Linda Ronstadt Says Trump’s America Is Like Hitler

By William Teach December 31, 2019 – 6:49 am

Well, really, when a Republican is in the White House, everything is Hitler, isn’t it? Can a Republican/Conservative really call themselves a Republican/Conservative if they haven’t been called Hitler by the unhinged Left? It’s almost a rite of passage these days

Linda Ronstadt compares Trump to Hitler, says Mexicans ‘are the new Jews’

Music icon Linda Ronstadt blasted President Trump in a recent interview, comparing him to Adolf Hitler and claiming that under his presidency, “Mexicans are the new Jews.”

In the CNN sitdown, Ronstadt revealed her supranuclear palsy diagnosis had become “a strain” on her family relations, particularly with Republican relatives in Tuscon, Arizona. (snip)

“Now, I have to be careful because we’ve had so much taken away from us by this administration that I’m not willing to let them take my family relationships away,” Ronstadt continued. “My family — the parts that are Republican were fairly rational Republicans. We don’t have that in our current White House.”

The Grammy-winning artist went into detail about the “great parallels” she saw between the rise of Trump and Nazi Germany and how both leaders, according to her, were “uncontrollable.”

“By the time he got established, he put his own people in place and stacked the courts and did what he had to do to consolidate his power,” Ronstadt elaborated. “And, we got Hitler and he destroyed Germany, he destroyed centuries of intellectual history forward and backward.”

Cooper replied, “I think a lot of people, though, would be surprised to hear comparisons between what happened then and now.”

“If you read the history, you won’t be surprised. It’s exactly the same,” Ronstadt doubled down. “Find a common enemy for everybody to hate. I was sure that Trump was going to get elected the day he announced, and I said it’s gonna be like Hitler, and the Mexicans are the new Jews. And, sure enough, that’s what he delivered, you know.”

Because all the Mexicans are being rounded up and being worked to death and executed sent back to Mexico as President Trump enforces federal law as passed by a duly elected Legislative Branch. This is all what passes for “intellectual” by the Left, where everything they don’t like is literally Hitler. Remember when George Bush 43 was going to round up Democrats and put them in concentration camps? Oh, right, that was just a fantasy, as it never happened.

Perhaps Linda should look in her own party and see what Democrats are saying and doing to actual Jews.

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Hotcoldwetdry Harms Robots Too Or Something

By William Teach December 30, 2019 – 4:19 pm

Our future overlords are Concerned

Climate change is harmful for robots too, says Sophia

Sophia, the world’s first humanoid robot, said climate change is not only harmful to human beings, but also to robots. The robot, who can impersonate 60 human expressions and was brought to Mumbai from Hong Kong, spoke on stage at the concluding day of Technovanza 2019 at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) on Sunday.

“I cannot function in extremely hot temperatures,” said Sophia, when asked if climate change affects robots too. “It affects the people I care about. Humans and robots can both work together when it comes to climate change,” said Sophia. Robots can predict extreme weather conditions, which can help scientists detect it early, she said.

So, the robot can’t operate when it is a tiny 1.5F since 1850 hotter?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 30, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fuels pump, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post asking questions of Adam Schiff.

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St. Greta Of Stockholm Says She Wouldn’t Have Wasted Time On Trump

By William Teach December 30, 2019 – 10:30 am

This makes the Trump haters very happy

I wouldn’t have wasted my time on Trump, says Greta Thunberg

Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg said on Monday that talking to U.S. President Donald Trump at a United Nations summit on global warming would have been a waste of time since he would not have paid any attention.

In an interview with BBC radio’s Today program, for which she was the guest editor on Monday, Thunberg also said she regarded personal attacks on her as funny and that she hoped to go back to having a normal life.

A video of the 16-year-old Swedish campaigner giving Trump what media described as a “death stare” at a U.N. climate summit in New York in September went viral on social media. Trump has questioned climate science and is pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Agrement on global warming.

Asked what she would have said to the president if they had spoken, Thunberg said: “Honestly, I don’t think I would have said anything because obviously he’s not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me?

“So I probably wouldn’t have said anything, I wouldn’t have wasted my time,” she said.

So, let’s say you have a chance to talk to Bernie, Elizabeth, Mayor Pete, Sheriff Joe, etc. Or Putin, Maduro, other hardcore world leaders in something. Do you say “nah, they won’t listen”? Or, perhaps talk with them and attempt to get them to change their minds? Because that’s what adults do. They talk. There may be no meeting of the minds, no one’s minds may be changed in the least, but, is it worth the effort? Of course. St. Greta could have attempted to sway Trump, even if it was in a minor way. Perhaps she could have gotten Trump to back more research into alternative energy sources. Something. But, she’s a spoiled brat who has been brainwashed into the Cult.

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Good Grief: Fireworks Sales Slump In Germany On ‘Climate Change’ Fears

By William Teach December 30, 2019 – 7:49 am

How soon till the German government bans fireworks, much like beach bonfires have been banned in many areas in the People’s Republik Of California?

German fireworks sales fizzle on climate anxiety

Pyrotechnic-mad Germany loves to see in the New Year with a bang but concerns about climate change have prompted several major retailers to take fireworks off the shelves this year, local media said Friday.

“The fireworks last for an hour, but we want to protect animals and have clean air 365 days a year,” said Uli Budnik, who runs several REWE supermarkets in the Dortmund area that have stopped selling fireworks.

One of the country’s main DIY chains, Hornbach, last month announced it was too late to stop this year’s order but that it would ban pyrotechnics from 2020.

Rival chain Bauhaus said it would be rethinking its fireworks offerings next year “in view of the environment”, while franchise owners of a string of Edeka supermarkets have already removed them from their stores.

Environmentalists have cheered the trend, which would have once been unthinkable in a country where revellers famously fire off huge amounts of pyrotechnics from their lawns and balconies every New Year’s Eve.

It caps a year marked by heightened climate awareness following massive “Fridays for Future” demonstrations and a summer of record-high temperatures and severe droughts.

But, what does this all have to do with anthropogenic climate change?

Germany’s fireworks festivities release some 5,000 tonnes of fine particulate matter into the air on a single night — equivalent to about two months of road traffic, according to federal environment agency UBA.

Fine dust particulate matter is a major contributor to air pollution and is harmful to both human and animal health.

So, fireworks can have a negative effect on health and the environment: what the heck does this have to do with climate? It’s like they just throw in ‘climate change’ for the hell of it. Or because they are cult disciples, who have to link everything to their cult.

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Washington Post Seems Surprised That Anti-Jew Incidents Are Rising Across U.S.

By William Teach December 30, 2019 – 7:42 am

And by “U.S.”, they are mostly occurring in areas controlled by the Democratic Party

Acts of anti-Semitism are on the rise around the country, leaving Jewish community rattled

Hours after a knife-wielding man barged into a Hannukah party in a New York suburb, stabbing five people, top officials condemned the crime as part of a disturbing trend. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called it “domestic terrorism,” linking it to the recent spate of violence against Jewish people in New York.

Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise around the country, leaving members of the Jewish community feeling frightened and unsafe. In New York City, anti-Semitic crimes have jumped 21 percent in the past year. According to the Anti-Defamation League, there were 1,879 incidents of anti-Semitism in the United States in 2018, including more than 1,000 instances of harassment. The 2019 figures are expected to meet or exceed that number.

“This is a national phenomenon that we are seeing and it’s frightening and it’s disturbing,” Cuomo said at a news conference Sunday. “If anyone thinks that something poisonous is not going on in this country, then they’re in denial.”

What could be driving this?

Experts say anti-Semitic violence has been rising for years. In 2018, a gunman stormed Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, killing 11 congregants, and wounding six others. It was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United States.

Last April, during the observance of Passover, a gunman killed a Jewish worshiper at a Poway, Calif., house of worship and injured three others.

And a string of attacks in recent weeks has left the Jewish community in the New York area particularly unsettled.

This month, David Anderson and Francine Graham went on a violent rampage at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, killing three people inside the store. The pair have been linked to the Black Hebrew Israelites, a hate group that traffics in anti-Semitic tropes. Authorities said they also posted anti-Semitic and anti-police screeds online.

There are many more incidents listed, and not one occurred in an area run by Republicans. Of course, the WashPost includes Bill De Blasio and Elizabeth Warren blaming Trump for this rise of hate, because that’s all they have. They fail to look inside, and realize that the Democratic Party base has been pushing anti-Israel policies while supporting Palestinian terrorists for decades. They have backed the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement, which is simply a movement to destroy Israel and is purely anti-Jew. The anti-Israel and BDS movements have turned the supporters into Jew haters over time, because that was the point.

College campuses, run by Democrat voters, were and still are breeding grounds for the anti-Israel/Jew and pro-Palestinian/terrorist beliefs, especially in areas like California and New York. The Women’s March was essentially run by Jew haters. Bernie Sanders has an Israel and Jew hater advising him in Linda Sarsour. You have several federally elected representatives, most notably Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who are purely Israel and Jew haters, and the party really doesn’t do anything about it. As Dov Fischer notes

The initial outrage felt among Democrat leaders when Omar and Tlaib tweeted Nazi tropes is no more. The turning point came when the Democrats prepared to condemn anti-Semitism within their ranks, then learned that they could not pass such a resolution, that the Old Timers had lost control of the ship, that the new trope driving discrete small but influential primary voting blocs is that Israel and Jews do not fit into the world of contemporary Intersectionality. Rather, as the vile Jew-haters who lead “The Women’s March” have demonstrated, Israel-hatred and Jew-hatred is cool.

The Left has adopted hatred of Israel as a new sacrament. In a world where tyrants persecute in Iran, North Korea, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Saudi Arabia — indeed, the entire Arab and African Muslim world that desecrates and burns churches by the thousands — it is Israel, tiny democratic Israel, alone that must be boycotted and sanctioned. These are the Left’s new targets. Hitler made it un-cool to say “I hate Jews,” so they say “I hate Zionists.” Just as they denominate all non-Jewish political opponents who are reasonable conservatives as “racists” or guilty of “White privilege.”

That full article is well worth the read. This doesn’t mean that all Democrats are Israel and Jew haters: they aren’t. But, the base certainly is, and the Jew and Israel hatred is spread out through the party faithful.

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2019’s Biggest Pop Culture Trend Was Climate Anxiety Or Something

By William Teach December 29, 2019 – 5:37 pm

Calling it pop culture is exactly right, just like the pop culture of pet rocks

2019’s biggest pop-culture trend was climate anxiety

Alright folks, I’m calling it: 2019 was officially the year the climate crisis went mainstream. Think about it. No longer is mention of the warming atmosphere, melting ice sheets, and acidifying oceans — along with the resulting human suffering — limited to the “environment” section of the newspaper. It’s not a niche worry for small pockets of concerned citizens.

Instead, the planetary crisis came up in movies, songs, and books meant for widespread consumption — a bar that many of them actually met. And for once, the subject got some major airtime from the Democratic presidential candidates. Given the changing climate’s potential to reshape every aspect of human life on Earth, it makes sense that it’s starting to get mentioned in nearly every cultural sphere.

Why now? Concern about the crisis has been building for decades, and the combined efforts of activists and scientists around the world surely had something to do with that. You might also point to the uptick of visible, dramatic consequences, like record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and floods. Or the culture-setting power of young people, who literally made “dying of climate change” into a TikTok meme.

It’s probably all of those things! But the “why” matters a lot less than the “what” — and climate anxiety definitely blew up in 2019, in everything from pop hits to the Impossible Whopper. (snip)

But there was no lack of climate change themes in some of the popular TV shows that filled the Game of Thrones–shaped hole in our lives. Season 2 of HBO’s Big Little Lies spent an entire episode on the subject, as Renata and Madeline struggled to talk to their kids about the crisis. And the final season of The Affair jumped 30-plus years into the future to a climate change–stricken Montauk (writer and producer Sarah Treem describes the environment as being like “a character itself”).

The article mentions Hotcoldwetdry showing up on TV, in books, “music” (gotta put it in quotes, because it’s really just computer created noise with autotuned lyrics), celebs (no mention of their private jets and yachts), and movies…er, movie.

This year, we saw approximately 20,000 books about the Green New Deal, including On 🔥 by beloved Canadian Naomi Klein. [Editor’s note: OK, we’re exaggerating, but you should see the towering pile of GND-themed galley copies sent to Grist HQ for reviews.]

Well, that’s interesting, since the Democrats refuse to vote on it, and we’re 10 months in. Even AOC barely ever mentions it anymore. As for that Impossible Whopper? Who cares? People who eat meat aren’t going to ditch a regular Whopper for it. Regardless, these people are all nuts

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