Honolulu, Which Couldn’t Survive Without Fossil Fuels, Announces Plan To Sue Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach November 6, 2019 – 3:50 pm

Honolulu, which is in Hawaii, of course, couldn’t survive as it is without fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are required to being most of the goods to the island and the city, including food and building supplies, clothes, TVs, washers, etc. FFs are necessary to bring tourists to the city and county, because, it’s located on an island thousands of miles from anywhere, and the state, county, and city, depend on them. 21% of Hawaii’s economy is tourism. The only sector that is really growing is tourism. Tourists fly in on planes, they take car, boat, and helicopter trips. Honolulu is further dependent on the U.S. military, which uses lots of FFs. Without FFs, the city and state would revert back to a 3rd world nation. They don’t grown much food and couldn’t really feed themselves. So…

City Announces Plans To Sue Oil Companies For Climate Change Damage

The City and County of Honolulu is the second county to announce plans to sue fossil fuel companies for what officials say is damage caused by climate change and rising sea levels traced back to corporate action or inaction.

“The evidence is piling up that just as big tobacco misled the public and policymakers about the danger of smoking, big oil waged a decades-long deception campaign and covered up the origins of today’s climate crisis,” said Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Tuesday.

The mayor pointed to the estimated 3,880 Oahu structures said to be in harm’s way if the sea level rises by 3.2 feet as predicted by 2100. The higher oceans could result $12.9 billion in costs, according to a 2017 study from the HawaiÊ»i Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission.

Last week, Maui Mayor Michael Victorino said his administration plans to sue the companies for climate change-related damage to roads and other infrastructure. (snip)

Among the companies that would be named in the suit are Chevron, Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, the BHP Group, Conoco Phillips, Marathon (formerly known as Tesoro) and Aloha Petroleum.

All those companies should refuse to sell their products to the governments, as well as the airports. See how that goes.

As for sea level?

  • Nawiliwili – 1.67 millimeters/year, sea level data from 1955 to 2018 which is equivalent to a change of 0.55 feet in 100 years
  • Mokuoloe – 1.45 millimeters/year, 1957 to 2018 which is equivalent to a change of 0.48 feet in 100 years
  • Kahului – 2.18 millimeters/year, 1947 to 2018 which is equivalent to a change of 0.72 feet in 100 years
  • Hilo – 3.08 millimeters/year, 1927 to 2018 which is equivalent to a change of 1.01 feet in 100 years
  • Honolulu – 1.49 millimeters/year, 1905 to 2018 which is equivalent to a change of 0.49 feet in 100 years

Three of 5 stations are exactly in the “normal range” for a Holocene century (6-8 inches per century), and two are still lower than would be expected during a Holocene warm period. Hilo and Kahalui are also on the two newest islands, and can has some part of it being land changes.

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If All You See…

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

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Frakking Consensus, with a post on fake polar bear shortage, fake Indigenous solidarity.

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Montgomery County, Maryland, Reverses Anti-ICE Policy In Wake Of Rapes By Illegals

By William Teach November 6, 2019 – 10:30 am

Who would have thought that Bad Things could happen when Open Borders advocates release illegal alien criminals in order to thwart ICE?

Montgomery County Reverses Sanctuary Policy After String of Illegal Immigrants Charged With Rape

A county in Maryland has partially reversed a sanctuary policy just three months after it was passed. The move comes after a string of illegal immigrants have been charged with rape in Montgomery County.

The policy banned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from accessing secure portions of Montgomery County jail. It’s reversal, which was effectively immediately, means ICE can now access “identified areas” of the jail to “ensure that transfers are conducted in a safe environment.”

The policy says ICE must submit an immigration detainer and arrive at the jail an hour before the inmate is set to be released, reported WJLA. If ICE fails to comply for whatever reason, the county will release the illegal immigrant into the community, just as the county was doing before, regardless of the crime the person has been charged with.

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich’s rolled back jail ban still prohibits ICE officials from accessing secure parts of the jail unless there is a pre-authorized custody transfer that meet the stated requirements. The ban also prohibits ICE agents from entering “non-public areas of all county-owned facilities” including libraries, police stations, and recreation centers.

So, what they’re trying to do is partially have it both ways. They still want to release the illegals, but, they want to blame ICE if they don’t arrive under those conditions and insulate themselves from condemnation when the illegals do get released and go on to commit crimes. Like continuous rape of an 11 year old girl over a month by illegals ordered deported by a federal judge after already being deported once and were then released by Montgomery County. And many other rapes

In late August, amid the string of rapes allegedly committed by illegal immigrants and many of the victims children, Elrich said in a statement that the county cannot honor ICE detainers unless ICE agents present a warrant signed by judge. However, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, ICE officials do not need such a signature, reported the Daily Caller.

“The public has been misled to believe that certain judges have the authority to sign a warrant for civil immigration violations—but no such judicial authority exists. This idea is a myth created by those who either oppose immigration enforcement efforts, are misinformed, or who do not understand how the immigration system works,” an ICE spokesperson told the news outlet.

Meanwhile

Washington ‘robbery’ was hoax to score immigration visas: cops

As many as 10 people faked a violent robbery at a Washington state fast food restaurant in a stunning bid to score special immigration visas for crime victims, authorities revealed Monday.

The whole thing unraveled and it was just a scam to get visas.

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Climate Cultist Scientists See Untold Suffering Or Something

By William Teach November 6, 2019 – 7:57 am

See, the human experience is never evolved as fast as it has during the Modern Warm Period. Just think of all the innovations in science, medicine, technology, agriculture, and so much more just in the last 50 years. Of course, climate cultists only see doom

Scientists foresee ‘untold suffering’, another climate record falls

More than 11,000 scientists warned Tuesday of “untold suffering” due to global warming, even as another team said Paris carbon-cutting pledges are “too little, too late”.

The European Union, meanwhile, confirmed that last month was the warmest October ever registered, fast on heels of a record September and the hottest month ever in July.

Three-quarters of national commitments under the Paris climate accord to curb greenhouse gases will not even slow the accelerating pace of global warming, according to a report from five senior scientists.

The sobering assessment came a day after President Donald Trump formally notified the United Nations of the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate pact, triggering concerns of how other nations might react.

“With few exceptions, the pledges of rich, middle-income and poor nations are insufficient to address climate change,” said Robert Watson, who chaired both the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN’s science body for biodiversity.

“As they stand, the pledges are far too little, too late.”

So, what they’re sayin is that the Paris Climate Agreement was worthless? These people are always fear-mongering, they have nothing else to offer but gloom and doom. Seriously, are people really suffering that much, at least in the 1st World? There’s always suffering somewhere, and humanity has been able to deal with it a lot better, to attempt to resolve a lot of it, thanks to innovation during the Modern Warm Period. Humanity has done much better during the warm periods than the cool ones.

In parallel, more than 11,000 scientists sounded a five-bell alarm in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience, noting that the world had failed to act on global warming despite the accumulation of evidence over 30 years.

“We declare, clearly and unequivocally, that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” the statement said.

Yawn. Then they’ll all jump on fossil fueled airplanes to fly to Spain at the beginning of December for the last installment of the Conference On The Parties, have a good taxpayer funded working vacation, then we’ll hear the same stuff next November.

It’s worth reading Jo Nova on this whole kerfuffle, which, let’s face it, is just the beginning of the Crazy onslaught we get every year at this time pre-climate meeting.

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Rand Paul Invokes Constitution On Revealing “Whistleblower’s” Name

By William Teach November 6, 2019 – 7:35 am

Of course, the whistleblower is not actually a whistleblower, since the person in question who started this whole Ukraine thing never actually heard the call 1st hand, and sure seems like they had quite a bit coaching by Democrats, what with all the discussing this all prior to going public, as well as being a registered Democrat with links to all sorts of Democrats

Rand Paul Uses The Constitution To Argue To Reporter That The Whistleblower Should Be Unmasked

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul brought up the Constitution and the Sixth Amendment when a reporter challenged his efforts to publicly reveal the identity of the whistleblower whose allegations kicked off a renewed interest in impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Paul addressed the question Tuesday after taking the stage at Trump’s Monday rally in his home state and demanding that the press publish the whistleblower’s name.

Question: “Your colleagues, Republicans, say that it’s irresponsible and dangerous for your call to out the whistleblower.”

Sen. Rand Paul: “You’ve heard of the Constitution, right? The Constitution has the Sixth Amendment.”

Paul went on to explain that the Sixth Amendment included the right of the accused to confront any accusers, suggesting that allowing the whistleblower to remain anonymous would then be a de facto denial of Trump’s Sixth Amendment rights.

Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham also argued that the whistleblower was not guaranteed anonymity, telling reporters, “The whistleblower statute was never meant to give you anonymity. It was meant to allow you to come forward without being fired.”

Paul went on to note that if Adam Schiff doesn’t want to bring the so-called whistleblower forward, along with Hunter Biden, then every Republican should walk away from this farce. Joe Biden needs to testify. Let us know exactly why he demanded that the person in Ukraine investigating be fired

Biden has said that in the spring of 2016, during his tenure as vice president, he called on Ukraine to fire the top prosecutor investigating the energy company paying his son. Biden suggested he would withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine if the country did not fire the prosecutor, who was accused by the State Department and U.S. allies in Europe of being soft on corruption.

See, it’s not really about Hunter, but about Joe. And, if Joe is saying that Barack Obama approved this, then it is on Obama. And, is this not a quid pro quo for purely personal gain? There’s video of Joe bragging about it.

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Bummer: Elizabeth Warren’s Meme Team Gets Dysentery

By William Teach November 5, 2019 – 3:40 pm

They tried to counter the Trump Train with the Warren Wagon

Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Meme Team’ Flops Spectacularly on Launch Day

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign tried to launch a “Warren’s Meme Team,” claiming it would “save the nation with selfies and memes.” No, really.

In a tweet that has since been deleted, Warren’s Meme Team wrote:

@WarrensMemeTeam will help us win the primaries, then win on the digital battlefield in the general. Expressive energy channeled through this engine will a) outperform the trolls, b) “organize the memers”, & c) empower all supporters to participate w/ any skill/creativity level.

Those are lofty goals, but I can guarantee you that Elizabeth Warren’s meme team will never “outperform trolls.” If anything, this will just give the trolls the material they need for even better memes. Meming is for the anons on 4chan, and everyone knows not to poke 4chan, except Elizabeth Warren, it seems.

What happened?

Warren’s “Meme Team” was supposed to launch this assault on November 4, but left everyone hanging. Nothing happened. They even got a pre-launch write up in the New York Times.

Misha Leybovich, an M.I.T. engineer and start-up guy, wants to change that. His vision starts with an eight-page emoji-laden Google document titled, “Warren’s Meme Team Plan: Saving the Nation With Selfies and Memes.” “The right understands the importance of memes: They approach it like war,” he writes.

“We can’t let this be an asymmetric battle,” he adds. “We fight back, in a way that’s authentic to our values.”

But on the day when their war was supposed to start, no one showed up.

Oops. And they tried to run Warren Wagons

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If All You See…

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

…is the climate causing different rates of Fall due to Someone Else’s carbon footprint, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Political Hat, with a post on Kentucky unqueering the shirt.

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Climate Change Will Explode Plant Growth In The Future And This Is Bad Or Something

By William Teach November 5, 2019 – 10:44 am

Members of the Cult of Climastrology can always find something to complain about

Here we go

By the end of the century plants could consume substantially more water, leaving less for people across North America, Europe, and Central Asia—even if it rains and snows more, a new study reports today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Plants are the primary regulators of the water cycle, responsible for 60 percent of the flow of water from the land to the atmosphere. Research now shows how climate change is altering this vital cycle in several different ways.

Without massive reductions in carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades, the global average temperature will rise between 4 and 6 degrees Celsius, with a near doubling of atmospheric CO2 by century’s end. Those hotter, CO2-rich future conditions are akin to turning up the heat and pumping CO2 into a greenhouse. The likely result, assuming no other limiting factors such as lack of nutrients, is an explosion of plant life. But that will leave considerably less water for people to use, said Mankin in an interview.

See? More plants are bad. And, yeah, they are actually saying that the global temperature will rise between 7.2 and 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, despite the temp only going up 1.5F since 1850. Nope, no scaremongering.

Researchers have now shown a third effect: As CO2 levels rise, it amps up photosynthesis. Plants in this hotter, CO2-rich environment grow bigger, with more leaves. That means when it rains there will be far more wet leaves creating more surface area for more evaporation to occur. Computer modelling shows that such enhanced leaf evaporation has a large effect on runoff and soil moisture, says Mankin.

Computer models. Snort. It’s all just duckspeak.

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Democrat Party Israel Haters Pushing Party To Rethink Policy On Israel

By William Teach November 5, 2019 – 7:09 am

Elected Democrats are feeling more and more emboldened to show their Israel and Jew hatred, especially those in safe Democrat districts, because so many of their supporters are Israel and Jew haters

Progressives press Democrats to rethink Israel policy

Progressive House Democrats are putting pressure on the party to reconsider the amount and nature of U.S. aid to Israel, something that has long been supported strongly by both parties.

The shift partly reflects the liberal energy running through the Democratic party, which is embracing more progressive positions.

The U.S. provides $3.8 billion annually for Israel to purchase American military hardware, including aircraft, tanks, munitions, missile defense, among other needs with respect to ensuring Israel’s own defense.

Progressives argue President Trump’s unflinching support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli government’s own hard-line stance on Palestinian rights, demands a more robust debate of how Congress can influence U.S. policy to Israel.

“It’s not that anybody is against Israel,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, told The Hill. “But they don’t like the idea that that aid might be used to move forward undemocratic or even racist policies in Israel. So I think they are getting very involved.”

Pramila is part of The Squad, and we’ve already seen the anti-Semitism and Israel hatred from other members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, with AOC giving them support, which is also, shockingly, mentioned in the article. How is Israel racist? Palestinian is not a race, and, really, most Jews and Palestinians are of the same race, anyhow. It’s just a word that nutters throw out.

The party and House caucus remains adamantly pro-Israel, and earlier this year the House — in a 398 to 17 vote — approved a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. Progressives argued the measure violated the free-speech rights of Americans, but 209 Democrats backed it compared to 16 Democrats who opposed it. Four Democrats voted “present.”

Still, lawmakers are becoming more vocal in calling for change in U.S. policies toward Israel.

Most Democrats know it is a Very Bad Idea to vote against Israel, as a goodly chunk of their base would like, especially in the East and West coast enclaves, such as San Francisco. More, though, are willing to expose their anti-Semitism, which is what this is about. It has nothing to do with any sort of high minded principles about holding Israel accountable, “racism”, or anything else. They just hate Israel and Jews. And are feeling emboldened to act on this.

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Trump Starts Process To Formally Pull Out Of Paris Climate Agreement

By William Teach November 5, 2019 – 6:55 am

The Paris Climate Agreement was historic. Historic! We were all told that. It was a Big Deal. Very few nations are actually succeeding in upholding their pledges, but, it was still Historic! It just wasn’t worth bothering submitting to the U.S. Legislative branch. But, rather than just wiping away America’s Barack Obama’s commitment to it with the stroke of a pen, Donald Trump has followed the layout of the deal, and this formally began Monday, which has made most media outlets crazy

Trump begins year-long process to formally exit Paris climate agreement

Donald Trump is moving to formally exit the Paris climate agreement, making the United States the only country in the world that will not participate in the pact, as global temperatures are set to rise 3C and worsening extreme weather will drive millions into poverty.

Nothing in there having anything to do with scaremongering, right?

The paperwork sent by the US government to withdraw begins a one-year process for exiting the deal agreed to at the UN climate change conference in Paris in 2015. The Trump administration will not be able to finalize its exit until a day after the presidential election in November 2020.

The French presidential office said Emmanuel Macron and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would sign a pact in Beijing on Wednesday that makes reference to the “irreversibility” of the Paris climate accord.

The Élysée palace official expressed disappointment at Trump’s move, saying: “We regret this and this only makes the Franco-Chinese partnership on the climate and biodiversity more necessary.”

The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, announced the development on Monday afternoon, saying the agreement would be an “unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses and taxpayers” and that the US has already reduced its heat-trapping emissions.

It’s just like the Kyoto Protocol, which President Bill Clinton refused to sign after the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 against it, as it was bad for the US economy. Why would we intentionally cause problems with our economy for something that wasn’t submitted for ratification and allows nations like China to continue their “polluting” ways?

The former vice-president and climate campaigner Al Gore said in a statement posted on Twitter: “No one person or party can stop our momentum to solve the climate crisis. But those who try will be remembered for their complacency, complicity, and mendacity in attempting to sacrifice the planet for their greed.”

Would this be the same guy with a giant carbon footprint who takes private jets around the world?

The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, called Trump’s move a “disastrous decision that sells out our children’s future”.

Socialism would solve this, along with destroying our economy, right?

In addition, the Trump administration has also pulled US funding commitments to help the developing world cut pollution.

John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, president Barack Obama’s secretaries of state and defense respectively, in a Washington Post op-ed, called it a “dark day for America”.

And that’s what really upsets the Warmists, that the U.S. will not be giving aid money in perpetuity with no strings attached. Paris removed strings and makes giving the money an obligation where we, and the other 1st World nations, the bad guys paying a debt.

At the end of the day, though, this is a minor story, which will mostly disappear, because most U.S. citizens do not care about ‘climate change’ in practice. Most refuse to pay even $10 a month to “solve” it.

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