If All You See…

By William Teach December 6, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are glaciers that only melt because Other People drove fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the Four Professors Of The Impeachment Apocalypse.

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Reverse Progress On Gender Equality Or Something

By William Teach December 6, 2019 – 10:44 am

You’re to blame, because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle, use lots of energy, and refuse to go vegetarian

Climate crisis could reverse progress in achieving gender equality

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Researchers are in a race against time to predict how climate change will affect these communities and help them adapt, with drought and flood resistant crops and cattle breeds for example. But it’s often overlooked that climate change will affect one half of humanity significantly more than the other. Longstanding gender inequality means that within regions of the world that are particularly vulnerable to climate change, women are likely to suffer more than men.

In a recent study, we found that extreme weather and unpredictable seasons disproportionately weaken the agency of women to find well paid work and rise above rigid gender roles, even when these appear to be bending after decades of reform and activism. Without support in the form of assured drinking water, energy, childcare or credit, women end up working harder and in poorer conditions for lower wages. (snip)

To ensure that the health of people in these places doesn’t irreversibly decline, women need to be supported with child and healthcare services, but also drinking water and cooking fuel. The role of community support is crucial during crises, but there’s little that women can do to help themselves without resources and skills.

See? The only way to help women, because the Cult of Climastrology thinks they are weak and unable to do things themselves, is with more Government.

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Climate Cult Pope Calls The Crisis (scam) The “Challenge Of Civilization”

By William Teach December 6, 2019 – 7:03 am

Pope Francis seems to spend more time on social justice warrior stuff like ‘climate change’ than Catholic doctrine. Since he is a climate cultist does he now think that abortion on demand and population control are great?

Climate crisis is ‘challenge of civilisation’, says pope

The climate emergency is a “challenge of civilisation” requiring sweeping changes to economic systems, but political leaders have not done enough, the pope has said in a message to governments meeting at the annual climate summit in Madrid.

“We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources [to the climate crisis],” he said, in the pontifical message, which was welcomed by activists.

“Numerous studies tell us it is still possible to limit global warming. To do this we need a clear, far-sighted and strong political will, set on pursuing a new course that aims at refocusing financial and economic investments toward those areas that truly safeguard the conditions of a life worthy of humanity on a healthy planet for today and tomorrow.”

He put particular emphasis on the role of young people, who “show a heightened sensitivity to the complex problems that arise from this emergency. We must not place the burden on the next generations to take on the problems caused by the previous ones.”

Hmm, he sounds like the same Modern Socialists in the Cult of Climastrology who want to blow up capitalism and replace it with a government driven and controlled economy.

Neil Thorns, the director of advocacy at the Catholic aid agency Cafod, said: “Pope Francis is clear you can’t tackle the climate crisis on its own: it has to be considered alongside wider issues of environmental degradation, poverty and inequality.

“His message to COP25 highlights the need to reform our model of development alongside refocusing our economic systems, emphasising the ‘challenge of civilisation’ is for us to act for the common good and with the most vulnerable people at the heart of decisions.”

So, it’s not about the actual climate, but, every left wing bit of advocacy, which is really way to the right, being authoritarian.

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Joe Biden Blows Gasket At Iowa Event, Calls Voter Fat

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

Joe Biden’s press office and the Dem supporting media have their job cut out in spinning this. Of course, they can all just not carry the story, but, too many can see it on social media

Biden Calls Voter ‘a Damn Liar,’ ‘Fat’ After a Question About Hunter Biden

On Thursday, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports played a clip of 2020 Democrat presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden being questioned by a voter in Iowa about his son Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian business.

At a New Hampton, Iowa, town hall, a voter asked, “We all know Trump has been messing around in Ukraine over there holding there foreign aid for them to come up saying they are going to investigate you. We all know about that … But you, on the other hand, sent your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no experience with gas or nothing in order to get access for the president. So you are selling access to the president just like he was.”

Biden said, “You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true. And no one has ever said that.”

The voter added, “I see it on the TV.”

Biden said, “You see it on the TV. No, I know you do. And by the way, I’m not sedentary. I get up … Let him go. Let him go. Look, the reason I’m running is because I’ve been around a long time, and I know more than most people know, and I can get things done. That’s why I’m running. You want to check my shape on let’s do push-ups together, let’s run, let’s do whatever you want to do number one. Number two no one has said my son did anything wrong, and I did not on any occasion—”

The voter said, “I didn’t say you were doing anything wrong.”

Biden said, “You said I set my son up to work at an oil company. Isn’t that want you said? Get your words straight jack.”

The voter said, “That’s what I hear on MSNBC.”

Biden said, “You don’t hear that on MSNBC.”

The voter said, “The hell I do.”

Biden said, “Look, I’m not going to get in an argument with you.”

The voter said, “I don’t want to either.”

Biden said, “Well yeah you do but look, fat, here’s the deal—”

The voter added, “It looks like you don’t have anymore backbone than Trump does.”

The voter had introduced himself as a Democratic Party and Elizabeth Warren voter and was concerned about Joe’s age. Joe has a long history of making gaffes by speaking the random thoughts in his head that should have been stopped by the mental filter. His press office is trying to say that Joe said “facts”, not “fat”, but, listen to it yourself. Sure sounds like “fat.”

It will be great when the media is forced to ask the tough questions as to what was Joe’s role in Hunter getting that job with Burisma, and with forcing Ukraine to fire the prosecutor looking into Burisma’s shaky business dealings. Why Joe threatened to withhold aid if they didn’t.

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US Tax Burden Falls To 4th Lowest Among Advanced Economies

By William Teach December 5, 2019 – 2:23 pm

You’ll never guess why

US taxes drop to 4th lowest following GOP tax cuts: study

The U.S. tax burden fell to the fourth lowest among advanced economies following passage of the GOP tax law, according to data released Thursday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

The report found that the share of the economy devoted to paying taxes in the U.S. in 2018 fell by a whopping 2.5 percentage points, by far the largest of any of the 36 countries in the group.

Only Ireland, Chile and Mexico had a lower tax burden than the United States, which came in at 24.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), well below the 34.3 percent average.

France had the highest tax burden, amounting to 46.1 percent of GDP.

The trend in the U.S. differed from most of the countries on the list, most of which saw taxes go up in the past decade.

Of course, The Hill writer Niv Elis attempts to shoot down this good news later in the article, par for the course.  I bet if politicians were talking about raising taxes on the news industry they’d be all for lower taxes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 5, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible salon sink which wastes lots of water which contributes to climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Rep. Matt Gaetz’s takedown of Crazy Pamela Karlen.

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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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