We’re Saved: S. Korea Cuts Down 2 Million Trees, Replaces Them With Solar Panels

This is some crazy logic

https://twitter.com/csfc67/status/1153236487908909057

Killing Gaia to save Gaia from having a fever (it’s not really a new article, from back in April, but, folks are noticing and it’s a good illustration of just what these Cultists are doing)

More than 2 million trees have been cut down in South Korea over the last three years to make space for solar panels, according to opposition lawmakers who argue that the government’s renewable push should not be a replacement of nuclear energy.

Since the government strongly pushed for solar power business in 2017, 4,407 hectares of forest have been damaged, 15 times the space of the Yeouido area of Seoul, according to Rep. Yoon Sang-jin of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party on Thursday.

The removal of trees, which stood at around 310,000 in 2016, jumped to about 670,000 in 2017 and over 1.3 million in 2018.

So, beautiful, natural trees removed, nice forest areas and wild spaces, to be replaced with ugly solar panels.

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If All You See…

…is a world flooded from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on a good question on bans on plastic straws.

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Jew And Israel Hating Omar And Tlaib To Be Allowed In To Israel

There’s no doubt that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are Jew and Israel haters. It is smart politics of Israel to let them in, though

U.S. Envoy: Israel to Allow Omar, Tlaib Entry ‘Out of Respect for Congress’

Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said Israel would allow BDS-supporting Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to visit “out of respect for Congress.”

“Out of respect for the U.S. Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any member of Congress into Israel,” Dermer told the Haaretz daily on Friday. (snip)

Speaking to the Jewish Insider on Wednesday, Omar said that she and Tlaib were planning to visit Israel and the West Bank in “a few weeks.”

“Everything that I hear points to both sides feeling like there is still an occupation,” Omar told the paper.

Her comments were made after pushing a pro-BDS resolution in Congress, co-sponsored by Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia), that seeks to “oppose unconstitutional legislative efforts” against boycotts. While the text does not mention the BDS movement by name, Omar admitted that the bill’s intention was to allow “an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement.”

Israel should let the pair of anti-Semites visit. Let them wander around. Go where they want. And make sure that someone is there to record every interaction they have with Palestinians and BDS folks, expose them for the pro-Palestinian terrorist supports and Jew haters they really are. To paraphrase, “never interrupt a Jew hater in the midst of exposing their Jew hatred.” You know these two “Congresswomen” will not be able to control themselves, and, probably, they really do not care if they show their Jew hatred. They really haven’t so far.

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Climate Fears Weighing On Some American’s Mental Health Or Something

Do you get worried about the weather? I do. As a homeowner, I’m a bit more concerned when serious thunderstorms are around, on the few occasions of the potential for a tropical system or ice storm coming this way. Or, when it is the depth of summer, and the AC runs a lot, have to worry about it kicking the bucket in a way you don’t when you are renting. It doesn’t harm my mental health, though, unlike Warmists who are losing their minds, especially when you have articles like this which tell them that all American’s are losing their minds over the fake climate crisis

Fears About the Planet’s Future Weigh on Americans’ Mental Health

Therapist Andrew Bryant says the landmark United Nations climate report last October brought a new mental health concern to his patients.

“I remember being in sessions with folks the next day. They had never mentioned climate change before, and they were like, ‘I keep hearing about this report,’” Bryant said. “Some of them expressed anxious feelings, and we kept talking about it over our next sessions.”

The study, conducted by the world’s leading climate scientists, said that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, by 2040 the Earth will warm by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius). Predictions say that increase in temperature will cause extreme weather events, rising sea levels, species extinction and reduced capacity to produce food.

Bryant works at North Seattle Therapy & Counseling in Washington state. Recently, he said, he has been seeing patients with anxiety or depression related to climate change and the Earth’s future.

Often these patients want to do something to reduce global warming but are overwhelmed and depressed by the scope of the problem and difficulty in finding solutions. And they’re anxious about how the Earth will change over the rest of their or their children’s lifetimes.

They could completely change their lives, giving up fossil fuels, only eating locally sourced foods, make their own clothes, give up their smartphones and computers, unplug every appliance when not in use, and so much more. Also, they could be subscribed medication that makes them less nuts, and be shown the real information on what they climate is doing, in a way similar to A Clockwork Orange.

Where are all these articles coming from as of late, though?

Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.”

The concept also is gradually making its way into the public consciousness.

In a June 23 episode of the HBO series “Big Little Lies,” one of the main character’s young daughters has a panic attack after hearing about climate change in school.

Seriously, if you look at all the posts I’ve done on people freaking about climate grief in the past few weeks, and search out more, they all share in common mentioning that episode. Which is perfect. A fake TV show brings up a fake issue which has Warmists writing about fake climate anxiety.

Bryant, the Seattle therapist, said the No. 1 action he recommends is sharing these concerns with others, whether a counselor, psychiatrist, family, friends or an activist group.

In other words, nag your friends and family.

In that vein, Dr. Janet Lewis, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester in New York, recommends building relationships within a like-minded group. That could involve group therapy, environmental activist groups or online communities.

That sounds like reinforcement of their bad mental ideas, rather than becoming educated.

For Laura, becoming involved with the international activist group Extinction Rebellion has helped her build a network of people who share her values and made her feel as if she’s making a positive contribution to society. With the group, she has participated in nonviolent protests and is organizing the Atlanta chapter’s first grief circle, where people can share their anxiety and grief about the destruction of the Earth.

“Activism is also therapy for me,” said Laura.

So, becoming an eco-terrorist is therapy? Good grief. It’s also negative reinforcement, in which those fears play on each other from the other nutters.

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Latest Hit On Trump: He’s Not Capable Of Handling Ebola Outbreak Due To Old Tweets

Unhinged #NeverTrumper Gabriel Schoenfeld has a big bee up her bum over the latest (and constant) outbreak of Ebola, because Trump tweeted in 2014. So, he might do badly now! Considering how well he advised his bro Mitt Romney in 2012…..but, hey, Orange Man Bad!

Trump tweeted heartlessly about Ebola in 2014. He’s ill-equipped to handle 2019 outbreak.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola crisis in Congo a “public health emergency of international concern.” Nearly 1,700 deaths have been reported since last year, likely an underestimate. For its potential medical consequences, the epidemic is a major worry across the globe, including for the United States. But in the age of Donald Trump, the political consequences could be the more alarming menace.

Ebola is a highly virulent virus transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids, primarily through direct contact with blood of an infected individual, although recovered patients can still transmit the virus. Symptoms typically express themselves between two and 21 days after infection. They begin with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, decreased liver and kidney function and massive bleeding. Mortality rates are approximately 50%. There are no specific treatments, although a fast-tracked experimental vaccine appears effective in preventing spread of the virus.

So, Ebola is pretty bad, eh? But, Trump’s tweets from 2014, which Schoenfeld offers up a sampling

Many of Trump’s tweets advocated shutting down entry into the United States: “A single Ebola carrier infects 2 others at a minimum. STOP THE FLIGHTS! NO VISAS FROM EBOLA STRICKEN COUNTRIES!

Some sought to undercut President Barack Obama’s decision to send U.S. forces to West Africa: “Can you believe that the U.S. will be sending 3,000 troops to Africa to help with Ebola. They will come home infected? We have enough problems.”

Thank goodness the Romney campaign always took Obama’s side, eh?

Some were directed at the American medical personnel who volunteered to travel to Africa to help contain the outbreak: “The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great — but must suffer the consequences!”

Funny, that’s what most citizens were thinking, too. So much that it was considered a campaign issue in 2014, with Republicans and some Democrats concerned about letting people in who had traveled to the effected areas. The public was worried.

Most aimed to denigrate Obama:

“President Obama strongly considering a plan to bring non-U.S. citizens with Ebola to the United States for treatment. Now I know he’s nuts!

How dumb is our president to send thousands of poorly trained and ill-equipped soldiers over to West Africa to fight Ebola.”

“Tremendous pressure on President Obama to institute a travel ban on Ebola stricken West Africa. At some point this stubborn dope will fold!

It’s hard to understand how Romney lost 2012 with advisors like this, eh?

The heartless panic-monger who launched this fusillade of tweets was a private citizen. Today, he is the president of the United States with responsibility for managing a public health crisis that could arrive on our shores. Unsurprisingly, evidence of competence at this task is not easy to find.

Most citizens seemed to be saying “don’t let them in, don’t take the chance” back in 2014. But Orange Man Bad!

A single case of the disease in the United States might be sufficient for Trump to declare an unjustified national emergency, exploiting the crisis for his own political ends. With issues touching on race, immigration and germs, the outbreak of Ebola in Congo could play seamlessly into his repertoire of xenophobic demagoguery. The only silver lining, if that is what it is, is that Donald Trump’s nutter tweets from the 2014 outbreak leave us amply forewarned about how our commander in chief is likely to behave.

This is what you get in Trump Derangement Syndrome #NeverTrump World. You can bet if there is one case in the U.S., citizens will agree with Trump. Regardless, yet another case of moonbats freaking out on Trump, even before action has occurred.

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Bummer: Illegal Aliens Still On Edge Over Potential ICE Raids

If you’re breaking the law, you should be on edge over the potential that law enforcement is coming after you

Immigrants on edge over prospect of ICE raids

Immigrant communities across the country are on edge after mass deportation operations promised by President Trump failed to materialize in recent days.

Trump has claimed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids were “very successful” and took place out of the public eye. But immigration advocates said they’ve seen no evidence of a widespread sweep, and experts question whether the president may have hindered the efforts by speaking publicly about them.

Advocacy organizations are urging those who may be targeted by ICE to remain vigilant, cautioning that the larger raids could take place in the coming days, weeks or months.

“I think this threat is still out there, and there’s no trust in this administration,” said Sergio Gonzales, deputy director of the Immigration Hub. “People are still very much living as if this could happen at any moment.”

Good.

Those are just a few examples of the illegals that Democrats are defending.

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If All You See…

…are flowers which will die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Feral Irishman, with a post on …. I’m not even sure how to describe this one.

It’s ladies in hats week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Patriotic Pinup Peter Dribben

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, summer is definitely here. This pinup is by Peter Dribben, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Outside The Beltway notes Democrats getting crushed in fundraising
  2. Climate Scepticism covers Warmists hijacking the Apollo moon landing
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That discusses voters not wanting what green politicians are selling
  4. 357 Magnum is shocked to learn that a politician is lying
  5. America’s Watchtower covers a judge handing Trump a win on Obamacare
  6. American Power notes women’s sports being doomed
  7. Blazing Cat Fur covers the money sent from Ilhan Omar’s district to support Boko Haram
  8. Brass Pills notes that letting children dictate gender is abuse
  9. Chicks On The Right discusses Bernie’s staffers wanting the same pay he promises for everyone else
  10. Creeping Sharia covers The Squad backing Sharia law
  11. DC Clothesline highlights a report claiming Ilhan Omar received asylum using a false name
  12. Geller Report covers what happened when a journalist traveled to Somalia to prove Ilhan right
  13. Jihad Watch notes Muslims slaughtering a cow in a Home Depot parking lot
  14. Legal Insurrection covers liberals saying that a drop in racial resentment under Trump is Bad
  15. And last, but not least, Living Freedom wonders if a bumper sticker can be profound

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.

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Jesus Would Totally Pass A Green New Deal If He Were Around Or Something

You really have to love it. Modern Socialists usually freak out over the mention of anything to do with the Christian religion, particularly anything associated with Jesus Christ, but, they’ll attempt to co-opt Jesus when it helps them politically. One would think religious leaders would recognize that joining with an anti-religion cult is a Bad Idea

What Would Jesus Do About Climate Change?

The Green New Deal has picked up endorsements from two major Christian groups, signaling a growing base of support among the faithful as climate change projections look increasingly apocalyptic.

The Unitarian Universalist Association passed a resolution at its general assembly in late June endorsing the Green New Deal resolution that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced in Congress five months ago. The main national organization for the egalitarian spiritual movement, which has over 1,000 churches in the U.S., vowed to “actively support the development of federal legislation to implement” the deal.

Days later, the national deliberative body of the United Church of Christ, a mainline Protestant sect with nearly 825,000 adherents and close to 4,900 congregations across the United States, also voted to endorse the Green New Deal. It called the policy framework “what is needed to preserve and restore God’s great gift of creation.”

Last week, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, a youth organization within one of Protestantism’s most traditionally conservative denominations, praisedwhat it called the Green New Deal’s “biblical principles” and pledged to work “toward translating these…into viable, bipartisan bills.”

Interestingly, none of those groups have advocated that their own membership gives up their personal use of fossil fuels, stop taking long showers, use not-soft toilet paper, hand wash their clothes, and just make their lives carbon neutral. Nor have they recommended sending all sorts of money to the IRS as taxes/fees for ‘climate change’.

Providing “a better life for our children and grandchildren” came out as the top motivation among Christians and non-Christians to reduce planet-warming emissions, according to the study published in the journal Science Communication. But Christian respondents said they were also inspired by a need to “protect God’s creation.”

“[T]his research suggests that moral, religious, and social normative frames can be effective ways to engage Christians in the issue of climate change,” Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a co-author of the study, wrote in an email newsletter last week.

I wonder what Jesus would think about pushing a piece of legislation, well, a resolution, really, that puts the central government in charge of everyone’s lives? What would he think of using religion to bond with the authoritarian government?

Climate change, said evangelical Rev. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, is “first a biblical, moral and gospel issue, rather than first a political issue.” As such, Young Evangelicals for Social Action decided not to endorse the Green New Deal resolution outright, lest the group alienate the conservative co-religionists it aims to influence.

He’s obviously not read it, nor read about Alexandria O’Casio-Cortez’s chief of staff who said the GND is not about climate, but reshaping America’s economy, so, by extension, the lives of citizens.

Surprisingly, the article includes this paragraph as the last

“There’s no doubt that certain elements of Christianity have been hijacked by forces that are really antithetical to justice and the gospel,” said Berndt, who serves as an environmental justice minister in the United Church of Christ. “There’s a long history of Christianity, back to the Roman Empire, where there’s faith that gets co-opted by empire and faith that forms resistance to empire.”

This is what the Cult of Climastrology does: hijack everything for its nefarious, big government purposes.

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New York Passes Own Green New Deal Into Law, Announces Massive Wind Farm Push

I’ve mentioned that the NY general assembly passed its own GND, and now it has been finally signed by the governor

New York passes its Green New Deal, announces massive offshore wind push

Yesterday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that’s been described as the state’s Green New Deal. Unlike the one that’s been floated in Congress, this one isn’t a grab-bag collection of social and energy programs. Instead, there’s a strong focus on energy, with assurances that changes will be made in a way that benefits underprivileged communities.

The bill was passed by both houses of the New York legislature last month, but Cuomo held off on signing it so he could pair it with an announcement that suggests the new plan’s goals are realistic. The state has now signed contracts for two wind farms that will have a combined capacity of 1.7 GW. If they open as planned in under five years, they will turn New York into the US’s leading producer of offshore wind power.

The national Green New Deal did include some energy-focused plans, but it mixed them in with aspirational ideas like a guaranteed basic income. It’s hard to understand how New York’s plan has picked up the same name given that it’s nothing like the national one. While there is some nod to New-Deal-like programs (the law will create a Climate Justice Working Group for instance), those aspects are limited in scope to issues brought up by transitions in the energy economy. Instead, the majority of the law is focused on changing the state’s energy landscape.

That is true, the NY one spends much less time on social justice mule fritters, but, it is still prevalent in the NY one. But, let’s focus on the wind turbines

New York gives green light for two huge offshore wind projects in waters off Long Island

New York State has awarded two offshore wind contracts with a combined capacity of almost 1,700 megawatts (MW) in waters off Long Island.

The contracts were awarded to Norwegian firm Equinor and a joint venture between Danish company Orsted and U.S. business Eversource.

The Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind developments were announced as the winners of New York’s first “comprehensive offshore wind solicitation” on Thursday.

The companies will now commence negotiations for long-term contracts with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for offshore wind renewable energy certificates. Both projects are expected to commence operations in 2024.

Good luck with that. You know that the extreme enviroweenies will be suing in short order, jamming it up for a long time

Equinor’s 816 MW Empire Wind facility will be made up of between 60 to 80 wind turbines, according to the business. It will cover an area of 80,000 acres and be located southeast of Long Island. Total investments in the facility will amount to around $3 billion, and it will be able to power more than 500,000 homes.

80,000 acres is equivalent to 125 square miles. A typical natural gas facility can take up under half a square mile and provide between 3,500 and 4,000 megawatts. A nuclear plant is typically between 2 and 3 square miles and can easily provide over 2,000 MW. The wind turbines can usually only operate when the wind is between 5 and 30 miles an hour. And have a life span of 30 years. Think all the fancy pants rich folks on Long Island want their view ruined? Think that people in Rhode Island and Connecticut won’t sue?

Cuomo wants 9,000 MW by 2035. He could put up 2-3 natural gas facilities and be done with it.

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