The New Dark Crystal Show Is All About Climate Change, You Know

By William Teach September 1, 2019 – 3:59 pm

This is what a cult looks like: no matter what happens, no matter what it is, they have to find a way to link it. From the fevered mind of Beth Elderkin at Gizmodo

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is About Climate Change

Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance may be a fantasy show about a magic crystal that controls the fate of a planet, but it’s also surprisingly pertinent about the threat of climate change. Turns out that’s totally on purpose.

The series, a prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal, centers around a race called the Gelfling who are trying to protect their home of Thra from the evil Skeksis, who are stealing power from Thra’s crystal to keep themselves young. This comes at a great cost. A mysterious blight called The Darkening is spreading throughout Thra because of the Skesis’ actions, but they continue to act like the problem doesn’t even exist.

It’s not hard to see the similarities between The Darkening and climate change: A growing environmental threat caused by people throws the world out of balance. On Earth, those in power choose to deny climate change happening so they don’t have to change their behavior, even as the climate crisis worsens. In The Dark Crystal’s case, the Skeksis are the ones doing the same. For awhile, the Gelfling choose to believe the Skeksis’ lies, because it’s easier than confronting the dark truth, until it’s too big a problem to ignore.

Oh, wait, you thought that was the full facepalm?

A lot of that is thanks to a few courageous heroes, who risk isolation and ostracizing to spread the truth about the threat. For example, there’s Deet (Nathalie Emmanuel), a young Gelfling who undergoes a risky journey from her homeland to bring attention to The Darkening, and makes a personal sacrifice to mitigate the problem best she can. All of this may sound sort of like how 16-year-old Greta Thunberg sailed carbon-free from England to New York to bring awareness to climate change activism, a risky but luckily successful venture.

These people.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 1, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a fire truck needed for climate created wildfires, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on the anniversary of the start of WWII.

It’s ladies in uniform week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 1, 2019 – 9:02 am

Mayo Olmstead patriotic pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are signing, and the squirrels are gathering nuts, worried about Hurricane Dorian. This pinup is by Mayo Olmstead, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That notes the UN flying 5,000 people in to Salt Lake to complain about fossil fuels
  2. 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny covers the 7th illegal accused of sex crimes in one Maryland county this month
  3. Weasel Zippers has Beto calling to take guns
  4. Virtual Mirage has social justice warrioring at its finest
  5. This ain’t Hell… discusses a trial date set for men responsible for 9/11
  6. The Lid notes reporter April Ryan saying Trump is racist for … wanting to nuke hurricanes
  7. The Last Tradition has Dems accusing Trump of racism and a poor Hurricane Dorian response before it even hits
  8. The Last Refuge continues to cover the Hong Kong protests
  9. The Hayride discusses why Joe Biden supporters should be worried
  10. The First Street Journal discusses the kind of thing you can expect under Red Flag laws
  11. The Daley Gator notes Jew hater Ilhan Omar wanting to turn out southern border over to the U.N.
  12. The Crawdad Hole covers “Trump Fatigue” for liberals
  13. White House Dossier highlights Lindsay Graham wanting to put Obama under oath over unmasking
  14. The American Conservative discusses how all the Dem gun confiscation plans would go
  15. And last, but not least, Raised On Hoecakes covers language insanity in San Francisco

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Comrade Bernie Is Open To A Meat Tax To Stop Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach September 1, 2019 – 7:49 am

It’s a good thing he didn’t just take a long, fossil fueled trip, right? That would be climabad

Bernie Sanders Signals He’s Open to a ‘Meat Tax’ to Combat Climate Change

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) signaled that he is open to the possibility of a “meat tax” to help combat climate change, according to a video of a Q&A session at his town hall event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Thursday.

A town hall attendee asked the presidential candidate what he would do to address the meat industry’s impact on climate change and floated a “meat tax,” which Sanders did not immediately dismiss:

“As you probably know, animal agriculture is to blame for the majority of climate change and is the leading cause of deforestation water and air pollution and biodiversity loss,” the woman said.

“With that being known, what do you plan on doing to ensure that Americans limit their consumption of animal products?” she asked.

She immediately followed up with a second question, mentioning Germany’s consideration of a “meat tax” designed to halt meat consumption.

“Germany has imposed a meat tax in hopes of limiting this consumption,” she said. “What are your plans to stop these large corporations from further usurping natural resources and polluting the planet?”

Someone should have asked her how she got to the town hall, where her clothes came from, if her shoes have leather, and what’s the carbon footprint of her smartphone usage

While Sanders did not delve into details, he praised the woman’s questions and failed to rule out the consideration of a “meat tax” in the U.S.

“Thank you for the question, and it’s a good question. All I can say is if we believe, as I do and you do, that climate change is real, we’re gonna have to tackle it in every area, including agriculture,” Sanders said.

“In fact, one of the things we want to do with our farmers out there is help them become more aggressive and able to help us combat climate change, rather than contribute to it,” he continued.

“You’re right. We got to look at agriculture. We’ve got to look at every cause of the crisis that we face,” he added.

So, he didn’t explicitly state it, but, he did not shoot it down. His version of a Green New Deal doesn’t call for a meat tax, and, in fairness, does call for protecting meat workers be forced unionization, as well as allowing FDA inspected meat to be sold across state lines. His plan also states

Our current food system accounts for 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. Not only can we drastically reduce on-farm emissions, farmers have the potential to actually sequester 10 percent of all human-caused emissions in the soil. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing are the industries most vulnerable to climate change. We need to incentivize farming systems that help farmers both mitigate climate change and build resilience to its impacts.

The focus is not on taxation. But, it is on breaking up big big farms. But, not shooting down this taxation kind of nuttiness is crazy. He may have not wanted to insult the Climanutter at the town hall, but, it will simply allow this to grow. And lots of climate cultists want this kind of thing.

Remember, according to the New Standard, every crazy question from a supporter and thing a supporter does is now assigned to the candidate, like they’ve been doing with Trump.

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Union Of Hysterical Scientists Uses Hurricane Dorian To Pimp ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 31, 2019 – 4:56 pm

And the Union Of Concerned Scientists want presidential candidates to Know Something

Hurricane Dorian: What the Presidential Candidates—and All of Us—Need to Know

Hurricane Dorian is slowly churning its way toward Florida’s Atlantic coast and is expected to make landfall on Monday or Tuesday as a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm. Even as our hearts hope for the safety of the people of Florida, we scientists are often asked about the connection between hurricanes and climate change. And next Wednesday, presidential candidates will also be on the hook to answer some hard questions about climate change—and how we must respond as a nation.

So for all the presidential candidates—and for everybody in America who cares about our future climate—this post lays out what we know about those connections and explains how Dorian fits into the picture.

So, they’re making this political.

Does climate change affect hurricanes?

YES. Both simple physics and studies of recent hurricanes indicate that our warming climate amplifies the strength of hurricanes in three primary ways:

1. Warmer water provides more fuel for hurricanes (except, the Atlantic basin is actually slightly below average)
2. Rising seas lead to higher, more extensive storm surge (once again, sea rise is below where it should be for a Holocene warm period)
3. Warmer air holds more moisture for rainfall

But, see, that last one is where it breaks down. Even if we believe all the political based science on hurricanes they’re peddling, it doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation. Just that we are in a low level Holocene warm period.

As the climate continues to warm, the strength of tropical cyclones (including hurricanes in the North Atlantic) is projected to rise. The projected increase in intense hurricanes is substantial—a doubling or more in the frequency of category 4 and 5 storms by the end of the century—with the western North Atlantic experiencing the largest increase.

When scientists put the pieces together, they project that in general, hurricanes will become more intense in a warming world, with higher wind speeds and greater levels of precipitation, much like we’ve seen recently with Hurricanes Harvey, Michael, and Florence.

We also know, though, that the destructive potential of hurricanes involves not just the physics of hurricanes and climate change, but also what lies in their paths. Growing population density along our coasts translates to more people, more homes, and more value in the path of any given hurricane.

They’ve been pimping this position since the early 2000’s. It’s always doom saying. While landfalling hurricanes have refused to cooperate

Don’t expect climate cultists to give up, though. Even when the science is against them, they always have their “but, doom in the future!” talking points.

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If All You See…

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

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which is better than Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the UN urging action on “hate propoganda” against Muslims after Muslims murder 250.

Seriously, though, I get a good laugh, and a slight eye roll, when people who aren’t professional models pose for photos like the above.

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Say, Why Doesn’t Support For Gun Grabbing Laws Translate To Gun Grabbing

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

OK, perhaps the headlines is not quite fair in terms of where this Washington Post article goes, but, gun grabbing is always relevant

Why doesn’t support for gun-control laws translate to gun-control laws?

Polls routinely show that a majority of Americans support gun-control legislation, such as background checks, gun licensing, assault-weapons bans and red-flag laws. So why hasn’t public opinion filtered up to Washington, which hasn’t passed a major gun-control law in more than 20 years?

On Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a poll that shows that voters strongly support stricter gun laws, and support for some of these proposals is overwhelming. Jim Sciutto of CNN shared the breakdown and asked the question that spurred this post.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1167137519802232842

Amber Phillips attempts to break down why they don’t get passed

For decades, opponents of this kind of legislation have been better organized.

How dare groups like the NRA use their 1st Amendment Rights to protect the 2nd

People who support gun-control laws also aren’t sure how it affects them. Jim Kessler has studied this issue with the center-left think tank Third Way, and they found that people outside of urban areas who aren’t affected daily by gun violence “would be perfectly fine if [a background check law] passed, but it was more a shrug of the shoulders than a shout to the rafters.”

They also notice that the cities with massive gun grabbing have the worst gun violence.

Anyhow, she offers some other reasons, but, she misses the biggest one: gun owners and gun rights supporters do not trust their opponents in the least. We may agree on doing a few things to attempt to keep firearms out of the hands of bad people, but, we know that those laws will go too far, and, even when they don’t initially, they keep attempting to move the goalpost further and further out. Mission creep. So, there is zero trust. Red Flag laws violate multiple Amendments, especially the 4th, and gun grabbers have made no attempt to protect the rights of citizens. We know they are meant for stealth gun grabbing, and they even tell us this.

Their version of universal background checks do not work without a gun database, which makes confiscation easier. Hey, they’re the ones who have been talking about implementing the “Australian solution”, which is a massive blanket banning of privately owned firearms. Reportedly, only 20% of firearms where turned in in Australia. Because they had no database. Huh.

So, we do not trust the gun grabbers. Pass something, then something else, then more, and keep doing things, just like we see in California, NY, NJ, Chicago, Baltimore, etc.

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AOC Is Super Thrilled To Release Her (Soviet Style) Green New Deal Art Work

By William Teach August 31, 2019 – 7:28 am

Something is missing from her tweet-storm on the subject

She loves having the monorails, eh?

AOC accused of Soviet-style propaganda with Green New Deal ‘art series’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., received another round of Twitter backlash on Friday after debuting a new effort to push her massive environmental and climate change proposal, the “Green New Deal.”

“Surprise! I am thrilled to announce the launch of our #GreenNewDeal art series with custom Bronx & Queens GND posters,” she tweeted. Her tweet included posters for two of New York City’s boroughs but the ambitious congresswoman plans to place “GND” art around the country.

She plans to release the art during a “Nature Day” event on Saturday, although it’s safe to assume many of her critics won’t attend.

She says, though

And, of course, people are defending this

(City Lab) According to a spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez, the posters were designed by the New York firm Tandem, the firm behind the congresswoman’s election campaign.

If the posters seem at first glance to have a retro vibe, you’re not wrong, as the congresswoman confirmed in a follow-up tweet. The chunky all-caps type, the emphasis on places of natural beauty, and even the color palettes are intended to evoke posters produced nearly a century ago by a singular federal program in American history: the Federal Art Project, an office of the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration. (The program survived the termination of the WPA for a few years within a new agency, the Federal Works Administration.)There are two things missing in this issue. No one is asking whether the money for the sale of the art will be used for her re-election campaign.

Second, no on in the media is asking why she won’t demand a vote on her #GreenNewDeal. It’s been over six months since it was introduced, yet, there has been no vote on it in the House. She yammers about it a lot. But, even though it is just a resolution, she won’t demand that vote, and, remember, freaked out when the Senate voted on it. It almost seems like this is just a mule fritters issue meant to patronize the hardcore, unhinged Democratic Party base, and whip them up to get them to vote (and donate money to her).

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In The #MeToo Era, Men Are Avoiding Women At Work, Which Is Punishing Women And Misogynistic

By William Teach August 31, 2019 – 7:14 am

So, let’s see. We have a movement especially led by women from Hollywood who protected sexual predators and misogynists for decades, who ramped the #MeToo movement up to 11. They blame every single man, do not care who they harm and even if a man is blameless, and want them all punished. They make accusations against minor things and even things that don’t exist, so, men who are not Hollywood style predators look to protect themselves and are increasingly more careful in their dealings with women, as they do not want to be accused of something that didn’t happen or was utterly meaningless. Ergo, that’s also bad. You cannot win with these people

Men now avoid women at work – another sign we’re being punished for #MeToo

It looks like Mike Pence is quite the trendsetter. The US vice-president famously refuses to have dinner alone with any woman who isn’t his wife – and now working men across corporate America appear to be following his lead.

A new study, due to be published in the journal Organizational Dynamics, has found that, following the #MeToo movement, men are significantly more reluctant to interact with their female colleagues. A few highlights from the research include:

  • 27% of men avoid one-on-one meetings with female co-workers. Yep, that’s right, almost a third of men are terrified to be alone in a room with a woman.
  • 21% of men said they would be reluctant to hire women for a job that would require close interaction (such as business travel).
  • 19% of men would be reluctant to hire an attractive woman.

The data above was collected in early 2019 from workers across a wide range of industries. Researchers had asked the same questions (albeit to different people and with more of a focus on future expectations) in early 2018, just as #MeToo was in full swing, and depressingly, things appear to have got worse. In 2018, for example, 15% of men said they would be more reluctant to hire women for jobs that require close interpersonal interactions with women, compared to 21% in 2019.

It’s actually very sad. But, it’s just like driving on heavy cold medicine: do you want to put yourself in a bad situation? No. So you don’t drive. There are situations you avoid. There have been too many cases where men have been accused of impropriety, all the way up to rape despite the sex being consensual (or never happened), especially on college campuses. That has moved into mainstream corporate America.

It’s not just men who are afraid of women, by the way. Women also appear to be increasingly wary of hiring women. The 2018 survey results found that more than 10% of men and women said they expected to be less willing than before to hire attractive women. (Note: the 2019 results for women are not yet public.) Internalized misogyny really is a bitch.

So, even women are concerned about other women? Huh. Oh, right, that’s misogyny, rather than practical protection.

There’s been a lot of talk about “grey areas” in #MeToo. All this harassment business is very difficult for men, we’re told, because nobody even knows what sexual harassment is any more! Men are afraid to even shake a woman’s hand in case she thinks it’s harassment! Easier to just avoid contact altogether! What’s really interesting about this study, however, is that it thoroughly debunks the argument that men are confused about what constitutes unacceptable behavior. The very first thing researchers did was look at 19 behaviours (emailing sexual jokes to a subordinate, for example) and get people to classify it as harassment or not. Surprise, surprise, both genders basically agreed on what harassment entails.

Oh, we know what constitutes sexual harassment these days. That doesn’t mean we agree with it. Certainly, people can be offensive at work. Have you ever heard a coworker tell a sexual joke at work? Sure you have. Do you freak out and attempt to ruin their lives? If it’s directed at a particular person, maybe you speak to them. Or report them. But, if not, it’s an annoyance. I tune them out or walk away, just like I do when people are griping about the pay plan (yet again). Essentially, men, and some women, are taking the “better safe than sorry” route.

So there you go: most men are perfectly aware of the difference between a friendly hug and a creepy hug. They are perfectly aware of what constitutes harassment and what doesn’t. Which makes you wonder why so many men are afraid to interact with women at work?

Men are not afraid or terrified to be alone with a woman at work, as the article states. Men just don’t want any problems that might come from a misunderstanding. It’s as simple as that. A simple, innocent gesture or expression can be misinterpreted, and a problem starts, escalates and never really ends. Who needs it. Better just to avoid being alone with someone in the first place. Especially when these days it seems all you have to do is make the accusation and automatically the man is guilty. That friendly hug can be misconstrued and suddenly you’re sitting in HR with a nasty accusation, seeing all those years of hard work going down the tubes. So, men avoid situations.

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Surprise: People Will Be Forced To Change Their Lifestyles For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 30, 2019 – 2:52 pm

Funny how this so often comes down to Government forcing citizens to change their lifestyles, as demanded by people who won’t voluntarily change theirs

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes ‘needed to cut emissions’

People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government’s chief environment scientist has warned.

Prof Sir Ian Boyd said the public had little idea of the scale of the challenge from the so-called Net Zero emissions target.

However, he said technology would help.

The conundrum facing the UK – and elsewhere – was how we shift ourselves away from consuming, he added.

In an interview with BBC News, Sir Ian warned that persuasive political leadership was needed to carry the public through the challenge.

And taxes!

Sir Ian said polluting activities should incur more tax. He believes the Treasury should reform taxation policy to reward people with low-carbon lifestyles and nudge heavy consumers into more frugal patterns of behaviour.

And, while he tries to say this is voluntary, government will force change

“We’ve got to reduce demand to a much greater extent than we have in the past, and if we don’t reduce demand we’re not going to reduce emissions.

“Emissions are a symptom of consumption and unless we reduce consumption we’ll not reduce emissions.

“It will very rarely come down to a direct message like ‘sorry, you can’t buy that but you can buy this’. But there will be stronger messages within the (tax) system that make one thing more attractive than the other.”

So, why are climate cultists not changing their behavior?

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