If All You See…

By William Teach May 19, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean rising up dozens of feet sooooon, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on yet another reason Trump was elected.

It’s sundress week!

BTW, since tonight will be the final Game Of Thrones episode, who wins the throne? Not that it isn’t now destroyed or buried. Does someone whack Daenarys? My bet is that there will be no ruler of the 7 Kingdoms, but that they will be broken up, with Sansa ruling the north, Jon Snow just going about his business, and Arya just being Arya. Further, Sam Tarley will stab Dany through the back. Hey, he’s already a lover of ladies and killer of White Walkers. Why not Mad Queen-slayer?

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 19, 2019 – 8:41 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I’m loving my new water heater after the last one kicked the bucket (had cold showers for 4 days). This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova discusses the big ‘climate change’ loss in Australia
  2. Ice Age Now covers windmill feasibility
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That notes the lie of the coming mass extinction
  4. 357 Magnum offers up another failure of the victim selection process
  5. American Elephants discusses free speech vs preferred pronouns
  6. Blazing Cat Fur notes Trump’s golf scores being hacked
  7. Brass Pills isn’t impressed by the new SJW Batwoman film trailer
  8. Chicks On The Right shows AOC trying to quote the Bible
  9. DaTechGuy’s Blog wonders if he’s the only one who likes the SI burkini message
  10. DC Clothesline has a list of Islamists on the 2020 ballot
  11. Flopping Aces highlights proof of Hillary and the DNC’s collusion with Russia
  12. Geller Report shows what the world’s most influential Imam has to say about conquering Europe and the West
  13. Jihad Watch notes what happens in places with no 1st Amendment
  14. Legal Insurrection covers Democrats looking to purge pro-lifers
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery highlights what Comrade de Blasio is blaming for black attacks on Jews

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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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Loses Yet Again In Australia’s Elections

By William Teach May 19, 2019 – 7:36 am

Almost every time that ‘climate change’ is on the ballot it loses, whether it be initiatives to implement a carbon tax/fee scheme or politicians who made it all about ‘climate change’. Go back to 2012, and we see that the Queensland elections saw the ruling Labor party losing so badly that they did not have enough seats (7) to be considered an official party (10). This was primarily due to ‘climate change’ policies implemented by Labor. And now

THEY CALLED IT A GLOBAL WARMING ELECTION. IT WAS. THEY LOST

This election is huge. Consider.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale:

This is a climate change election.

Labor leader Bill Shorten:

This election is all about climate change.

Guardian Australia editor Katherine Murphy:

2019 is the climate change election.

It was indeed, and they lost.

The Liberals look like being returned in a miracle come-from-behind performance, although they will have to form a minority government.

Yes, the did, and the NY Times seems a bit shocked over the whole thing, like so many Warmists

It Was Supposed to Be Australia’s Climate Change Election. What Happened?

The polls said this would be Australia’s climate change election, when voters confronted harsh reality and elected leaders who would tackle the problem.

And in some districts, it was true: Tony Abbott, the former prime minister who stymied climate policy for years, lost to an independent who campaigned on the issue. A few other new candidates prioritizing climate change also won.

But over all, Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers. On Saturday, in a result that stunned most analysts, they re-elected the conservative coalition that has long resisted plans to sharply cut down on carbon emissions and coal.

What it could mean is that the world’s climate wars — already raging for years — are likely to intensify. Left-leaning candidates elsewhere, like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, may learn to avoid making climate a campaign issue, while here in Australia, conservatives face more enraged opponents and a more divided public.

Are Democratic politicians running for President listening? Because most of them have made ‘climate change’ a big campaign theme. A few, like Excitable Jay Inslee and Comrade Bill de Blasio, have made it their primary issue. Jay should remember that his carbon tax schemes have lost multiple times on ballots in Washington state.

Even for skeptics, the effects of climate change are becoming harder to deny. Australia just experienced its hottest summer on record. The country’s tropics are spreading south, bringing storms and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever to places unprepared for such problems, while water shortages have led to major fish die-offs in drying rivers.

The problem there, like in the previous excerpt, is warming doesn’t mean that it is mostly/solely anthropogenic. Just warming like has happened many times in the Holocene.

https://twitter.com/akm29727083000/status/1129780546488418304

In the real world the issue rarely comes up. And, while I enjoy a good debate in real life, if I trot out “what are you doing in your own life” it tends to shut it down and makes the person very upset and tongue tied looking for the Talking Point to rebut, ending with them being mad at me and walking away. If you approach the debate in a manner of “what are you willing to pay and do” the answer tends to be “very little and not much” in their own lives.

Remember, most Americans are unwilling to pay $10 a month for ‘climate change’. So, every Democrat should push the political issue of ‘climate change’ hard. I’ve failed to get around to discussing Jay Inslee releasing part two of his climate plan (mostly because Jay has zero chance of winning the primaries), but, if you read it (here and here), you’ll see that it is less about ‘climate change’ and more about government controlling people and raising their cost of living. Citizens get this. Just like the did in Australia, no matter how many excuses Warmists make.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 18, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrendous spring heat snow caused by people not demanding taxes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is neo-neocon, with a post on a lawsuit over teaching Islam.

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House Democrats Pass “Equality Act” Or Something

By William Teach May 18, 2019 – 11:22 am

This has the lunatic SJW Democrat base and #NeverTrumpers excited

House passes bill to extend civil rights to LGBTQ community

The Equality Act passed the U.S. House on Friday, with eight Republicans breaking rank to vote with Democratic colleagues for legislation supporters say will add needed federal protections in housing, employment and health care to millions of LGBTQ Americans.

However, the legislation is not expected to be brought up for a vote in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, has referred to the upper chamber as a graveyard for progressive measures.

No Democrats voted against the measure, though three Democratic presidential candidates — Reps. Eric Swalwell, Tim Ryan and Seth Moulton — did not cast votes for or against the bill.

The bill bolsters the list of protected classes under the seminal 1964 Civil Rights Act and Fair Housing Act, as well as other civil rights laws, to include for “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” It’s the last class, however, that has drawn the most ire for what critics call its open-endedness.

It’s no surprise Democrats are enthused, as it is a wet dream of their social justice warrioring, but, the Never Trumpers should be ashamed of themselves. They say they support civil protections, but, really, it’s just their Trump Derangement Syndrome that leads to their support of this, just like so many are coming out against many of the anti-abortion laws being passed by Republican legislatures. Their talking points look and sound just like you’d get from Media Matters, Vox, NY Times, and the lunatic elected Democrats. And they haven’t considered what they Equality Act would do for their so-called “libertarian” beliefs (a lot of NT’s are now claiming to be libertarians now instead of Conservatives because TDS). Monica Burke wrote this back in March

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Next On The Warmist List To Be Banned: Short Haul Flights

By William Teach May 18, 2019 – 7:55 am

Funny, because Warmists won’t give up their own flights voluntarily. Perhaps we should ban long haul flights, which would stop them from attending taxpayer funded climate conferences in far flung exotic vacation spots

Should short-haul flights be banned? Climate change is a major issue in elections in Europe and Australia

Not long ago, Europe’s young urban residents used to brag about their latest adventures on the other side of the planet, in Asia, Australia or the Pacific.

These days, you better be quiet about that, or at least make it clear that you feel a bit conflicted about how you got there.

The phenomenon has a name: “flight shame,” or “flygskam,” in Sweden, “flugscham” in German, and “vliegschaamte” in the Netherlands. Amid mass youth protests for more decisive climate action in Europe and around the world, younger people especially have started to examine their own lives — and their roles in driving up emissions. Globally, about 2 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions are connected to aviation. Planes’ efficiency has increased over the last few decades, meaning that a trip from Berlin to New York City, for instance, emits far less CO2 than two or three decades ago. But international air travel has also increased, eclipsing those gains.

Earlier this year, European travel agencies first started to notice a drop in flight bookings, a development they quickly named the “Greta impact” — in a reference to 16-year old Greta Thunberg, whose climate protest, including a refusal to fly, has inspired thousands around the world.

The debate over whether to abandon air travel or not — which regularly features on top of European news sites — has now also reached global politics. Ahead of European elections next week, in which 400 million people will be eligible to vote, the issue is quickly becoming a key topic.

Here’s an idea: if these Warmists buffoons do not want to fly, then don’t fly. Instead we get this from two jerks running for European Commission president

On Thursday, during a televised debate, the election’s top candidates, the Social Democrat Frans Timmermans, and his conservative contender Manfred Weber both advocated for finding ways to reduce short-haul aviation. Timmermans even said he would support a total ban on such flights, which took viewers across the continent by surprise and significantly upped the stakes, even though it remained unclear how short-haul flights would be defined.

The question both candidates responded to appeared to primarily relate to domestic flights, but there is no official definition for what constitutes a short-haul flight.

When will they give up their own use of short haul flights? There may be no definition, but, I’d think hopping from EU nation to EU nation would fit the bill. Perhaps they can take the trains, which take a lot longer, and, yes, they are mentioned in the article. We can travel like it’s the 1800’s.

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UK Guardian Changes Style Guide On ‘Climate Change’ To Be Even More Unhinged And Alarmist

By William Teach May 18, 2019 – 6:34 am

Good news, my style guide won’t be changing. They’ll still be “warmists” and the “Cult of Climastrology”, with the more general terms moonbat and unhinged tools thrown in here and there, and perhaps “alarmist”

Delingpole: Guardian Invents Scary New Name for ‘Global Warming’ — ‘Global Heating’

The Guardian newspaper has decided to change the name ‘global warming’ because it doesn’t sound scary enough.

From now on, the Guardian‘s editor-in-chief Kath Viner has ordered, ‘global warming’ is to be called ‘global heating.’

This, apparently, will more closely reflect the “scale of the climate and wildlife crises” now afflicting Mother Gaia.

The use of the names ‘climate science denier’ or ‘climate denier’ for ‘climate sceptic’ makes a nonsense of Ms Viner’s claim that the Guardian is trying to be more ‘scientifically precise and rooted in facts’.

For a start, it presupposes that ‘climate science’ is a field with a fixed view of how climate works – which simply isn’t true. There are lots of competing theories on what it is that drives climate. While climate alarmists insist that recent warming is primarily man-made and driven by anthropogenic CO2, many other respected scientists believe it is due to a combination of factors, ranging from solar activity to cycles in the deep ocean.

There is, in essence, no such thing is a ‘climate science denier’ because not even the most ardent sceptic denies the existence of ‘climate science’.

There are a few who do deny that there has been any climatic changes since 1850 (end of Little Ice Age), but, they are a tiny minority. The rest of us will say there have been changes, it’s just that we’re skeptical of the Warmist position that the slight increase in global temperatures (1.5F since 1850) is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, particularly its use of fossil fuels causing “carbon pollution.”

That said, would not those who claim to Believe but fail to act in their own lives be denying their own beliefs?

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1129330642720829441

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1129372213411483654

From the UK Guardian

“We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue,” said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. “The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity.”

“Increasingly, climate scientists and organisations from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation we’re in,” she said.

In other words, even more unhinged. You be you, Guardian.

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Mnuchin Tells Democrats To Pound Sand On Trump’s Taxes

By William Teach May 18, 2019 – 6:19 am

Democrats just won’t give up on their Quixotic adventure to obtain Trump’s taxes for partisan personal purposes, but, so far, this bit of moonbattery is going nowhere

Mnuchin rejects Democrats’ subpoena for Trump’s tax returns

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday rejected a subpoena from House Democrats demanding President Trump’s tax returns, setting the stage for a court battle over the documents.

Mnuchin said the House Ways and Means Committee’s request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose,” citing the legal advice of the Justice Department in denying the demand.

“We are unable to provide the requested information in response to the Committee’s subpoena,” Mnuchin wrote.

Last week, Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the committee, issued subpoenas that gave Mnuchin and Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig until Friday at 5 p.m. to turn over Trump’s financial records. House Democrats have expressed confidence the law requires the IRS to permit them to access the tax returns, a position supported by numerous legal experts.

The relevant statute that authorizes Congress to see tax returns of U.S. citizens and businesses requires said “legitimate legislative purpose”, and wanting to see them because Democrats are mad Hillary lost and Trump won is not a legitimate reason. If it ever goes to court, Democrats will eventually lose (after finding a friendly judge at first), because they have no legitimate reason other than Orange Man Bad. This leads to another Washington Post article

No Mueller, no McGahn and stalled investigations leave House Democrats frustrated 

An increasing number of House Democrats are frustrated by their stalled investigations into President Trump, with an uncooperative chief executive, their own leader’s reluctance about impeachment and courts that could be slow to resolve the standoff.

Democrats have yet to hear from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who led the nearly two-year investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election and possible involvement with the Trump campaign. Even with negotiations, the earliest Mueller could testify would be next month.

And any hopes of former White house counsel Donald McGahn facing a congressional panel on Tuesday are slim, as the White House moves to block all current and former aides from cooperating with congressional inquiries.

Weighing all options, Democrats have raised the specter of imposing fines or jailing people who ignore subpoenas, extreme measures that have prompted some legal experts to wonder whether Democrats have a strategy for this constitutional conflict.

Mueller did speak: it was in a 400+ page report that most Democrats failed to read, because it didn’t give them what they want. And most of their investigations are simply of the butthurt variety from losing in 2016. Keep tilting at windmills, Dems, you’ll guarantee Trump’s re-election.

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The Mental Health Community Is Bracing For Eco-Anxiety Or Something

By William Teach May 17, 2019 – 3:00 pm

So, let’s see: people start yammering about an issue, which may or may not be a concern. Then it is hijacked by elements of the far left, especially once the Soviet Union falls and all the supporters have to find something new to focus on to create Giant Centralized Government. The all run with stories of coming doom, they get the media to follow along, then the schools. Others continue to trot out Coming Doom, then they wonder why some people are losing their minds. BTW, this is from Rolling Stone. Remember when they used to be counter culture, rather than toeing the government line?

How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change
“Eco-anxiety” and trauma from natural disasters will be on the rise along with sea levels

….

The mental health impact of climate change is a one-two punch: There will be increasing anxiety about the future, as well as an increasing number of people undergoing the trauma of climate catastrophes like flooding and hurricanes. As predictions become more dire — in October, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change set a 12-year deadline for us to avoid warming the planet a disastrous 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and just last week the UN reported a million species are now at risk of extinction — more and more people are facing existential distress. In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells notes that climate anxiety has also been called “climate grief” and “climate depression.” “While it may seem intuitive that those contemplating the end of the world find themselves despairing, especially when their calls of alarm have gone almost entirely unheeded, it is also a harrowing forecast of what is in store for the rest of the world, as the devastation of climate change slowly reveals itself,” he writes.

Climate anxiety is a relatively recent phenomenon, but the concern is spreading. A Yale survey in December found nearly 70 percent of Americans are “worried” about climate change, 29 percent are “very worried” — up eight percentage points from just six months earlier — and 51 percent said they felt “helpless.” “Historians will say that groups of people have faced very difficult, tumultuous times,” says CPA’s Janet Lewis, who has a private practice near Ithaca, New York. “But human beings have never faced this before.”

The Good Grief Network, a nonprofit for collective mourning, in 2016 launched a 10-step programfocused on eco-anxiety and climate grief. In March, a group of “birthstrikers” in the UK announced they wouldn’t have children out of concern for the livability of the planet where they’d be raising them. Cooper’s patients are fearing for the safety of children they’ve already had. “One person wanted to flee and go somewhere, but the reality is, there really is no place that’s a respite from what is happening,” she says.

Organizations like CPA are also focused on stopping the threat at the source. The group recently led the APA to divest completely from fossil fuels, and they’d like to see the rest of the country follow. “This is a health issue, and whether or not it’s been politicized we have a responsibility to advocate for the health of our patients and the population, and certainly not collude with the denial of science,” Lewis says, talking about her willingness to discuss global warming in her practice. She believes humanity’s better traits will lead us, in the end. “We care about other people, we care about our surroundings, our future and our family’s future,” she says. “Everybody, except for the extreme minority of people who are actual psychopaths, cares.”

Good news: if you aren’t a raging idiot who believes in future doom from ‘climate change’, you’re a psychopath.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 17, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are glaciers that will totally melt away because Other People refuse to move to cities and ride buses, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post noting that the death penalty is a just punishment for some.

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