TDS: Grumpy Cat Has Passed

By William Teach May 17, 2019 – 10:20 am

Sad News

From NBC News

Grumpy Cat — real name Tardar Sauce — shot to fame as a figurehead of online culture thanks to her permanent frown apparently signaling displeasure at anything and everything.

The official Grumpy Cat Twitter account announced that she died on Tuesday due to complications from a recent urinary tract infection.

“Grumpy Cat has helped millions of people smile around the world — even when times were tough,” the statement said.

https://twitter.com/CantersDylan/status/1129351218315386882

But, wait, what’s this?

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The Green New Deal Doesn’t Go Far Enough Or Something

By William Teach May 17, 2019 – 7:06 am

Peter Fiekowsky, Founder and President of Healthy Climate Alliance, has Ideas, and provides a really big goal post shift

The Green New Deal Doesn’t Go Far Enough. Here’s Why (Op-Ed)

In early February, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced the Green New Deal (GND), a sweeping resolution that addresses the dual challenges of income inequality and climate change, and the first government policy document aimed at curbing climate change as one of its goals.

This is significant. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in October 2018 stated that there will have to be some removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere — the first and most vital step in restoring the climate — in order to avoid the very worst impacts of climate change (including massive die-offs of coral reefs, flooding, hurricanes, wildfires and widespread droughts).

Climate restoration is the principle of removing CO2 to get back to pre-Industrial Revolution levels, specifically below 300 parts per million (ppm), and restoring the world’s ecosystems, such as increasing ice in the Arctic. In spite of the IPCC warning, governments and mainstream nongovernmental organizations have not targeted climate restoration in any meaningful way to date.

Up till this point, the Cult of Climastrology positioned 350ppm as the save threshold. Hence we have a group named 350.org, one of the biggest of the CoC groups out there, if not the biggest. You have to go all the way back to around 1900 for CO2 to be around 300ppm. Is everyone willing to give up their modern lives to make this happen?

Anyhow, the point of the piece is

In line with the IPCC report, the GND set several 10-year targets that include keeping global temperatures less than 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels, meeting 100% of the country’s energy needs through renewable and zero-emissions energy sources, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. But the proposal also exceeds those goals by specifically calling for the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and restoring natural ecosystems.

It’s promising that the GND includes the removal of some atmospheric CO2, but the resolution stopped short of setting a specific target. That’s a mistake. In order to restore a healthy climate, society should set a goal of reducing CO2 to levels less than 300 ppm by 2050. That means removing roughly a trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere (depending on how quickly emissions of the gas are reduced); a feasible goal, but one that will only be met if governments, scientists and private enterprise join forces.

So, it doesn’t go far enough in setting goals to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and destroy the economy. Has he considered that AOC refuses to demand a vote on the GND, got upset when they voted on it in the Senate, and has even said that it’s more of a roadmap and not meant to be voted on?

Oh, and say good by to sodas and other carbonated drinks

Companies tackling this challenge have developed technologies that can take CO2 directly from the air, and they’re improving in efficiency every year. In order to finance the removal of CO2, they usually convert it into commercial products, although, with one exception, they don’t have markets large enough to finance the removal of significant amounts of CO2. Moreover, when these companies insert captured CO2 into products such as fizzy drinks, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and green fuels, the CO2 is released back into the atmosphere. To make a real impact on the climate, we must permanently sequester the carbon.

Anyhow, as the piece continues to the end, he’s not particularly happy with capitalism and wants more private money used, which would only come from massive taxation schemes, because Warmists sure don’t want to spend their own money, right?

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Ilhan Omar Whines About Being Silenced, Complains About Trump “Droning” Jihadis

By William Teach May 17, 2019 – 6:48 am

See, folks, point out the anti-Israel and anit-Jew sentiments of her and Rashida Tlaib, including the direct quoting of their own words, is “silencing”, for which she has her SJW Victim Card phrases down perfectly

Ilhan Omar Says Attacks On Her And Rashida Tlaib Are ‘Designed To Silence’ Muslim Voices

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said President Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians and pundits’ attacks on her and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are meant to “silence” Muslims.

“I tell my sister Rashida Tlaib that her and I have the strength to endure any of the mischaracterization or efforts to distort and vilify and mischaracterize our message,” Omar said Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

She added that such attacks were “designed to silence, sideline and almost eliminate [the] voice of Muslims from the public discourse.” (snip)

“When someone like the President tweets something like that, it’s not an attack only on myself, but an attack on all Muslims… women of color… on immigrants and refugees,” Omar said Tuesday of Trump’s misleading tweets about her 9/11 comments. “That message was being used to vilify anyone who shared an identity with me… to say you don’t belong.”  (big snip)

“We must be united in our diversity,” Omar said Tuesday about her joint op-ed with Schakowsky. “We can’t allow people to [pit] us against one another.”

While she plays the Victim Card, perhaps Ilhan can point out which Muslim country allows diversity? And those who don’t criminalize being LGBTQ? And don’t criminalize blasphemy and apostasy?

Regardless, no one wants to silence her, because, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she keeps coming up with the crazy

(Breitbart) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), during a House panel hearing on Thursday, complained that U.S. President Donald Trump has dramatically intensified American airstrikes in her native Somalia that have killed hundreds of members of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.

Describing herself as “an African on this committee,” she suggested that the Trump administration should “reassess” the way it deals with al-Shabaab and other jihadis in Somalia.

Her comments came during a hearing by the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Omar told the Trump administration witnesses invited to testify:

I just wanted to really get into this horrific reign of terror and its spread in Africa, and we oftentimes are really dealing with this issue, and it seems that we are attempting to drone it to death. … In Somalia, particularly in dealing with al-Shabaab, since President Trump has gotten elected, the number of drones have increased, but the number of attacks al-Shabaab has been able to carry out has also tripled. We also know the same to be true for Boko Haram.

On the African continent, the United States military only carries out direct airstrikes in Libya and Somalia. The U.S. does not directly target the Nigeria-based Boko Haram group, but it does support local efforts against the jihadis.

Where were her complaints when Mr. Obama was droning jihadis? Why does it seem she’s more upset about Islamist jihadis being killed than anything else? Really, the only people who are trying to silence her would be Democrat leadership, such as Nancy Pelosi, because Queen Nancy knows that when Ilhan speaks it tends to be bad.

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Trump Cancels Almost $1 Billion For California’s Train To Nowhere

By William Teach May 16, 2019 – 7:11 pm

Yeah, this would be that high speed rail boondoggle that is way, way, way overbudget, which almost no one will take (via Twitchy)

At the link, we can see someone stomping their foot

California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately pledged to take the administration to court.

“The Trump Administration’s action is illegal and a direct assault on California,” he said in an emailed statement. “This is California’s money, appropriated by Congress, and we will vigorously defend it in court.”

Yeah, no, it’s the money of the citizens of the United States. Let Gavin use California’s money for this project.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 16, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow caused by Someone Else taking a long fossil fueled trip, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on a bill allowing illegal aliens to work in Congress being passed in committee.

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Washington Post Is Super Excited That Even Companies Are Calling For Action On Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach May 16, 2019 – 10:54 am

And they want Republicans to take note. But, right off the bat, can anyone think of a reason why companies would pimp ‘climate change’? This is from the Editorial Board, which still refuses to demand that the WP stop using fossil fuels to conduct their business

Wake up, Republicans. Even corporations are calling for action on climate change.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY’S global-warming denial is becoming the fringe view it always deserved to be. It is not just environmentalists who want to move on climate change. Big corporations — even oil companies — are increasingly calling for action, too.

Declaring that “climate change is a major threat to the U.S. economy,” a group of chief executives on Wednesday teamed up with several prominent environmental groups to call on President Trump and Congress to “put in place a long-term federal policy as soon as possible to protect against the worst impacts.” The group, called the CEO Climate Dialogue, endorsed cutting the country’s planet-warming greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent or more by 2050. That goal is too modest; the United Nations warns that world governments must get to net-zero emissions by mid-century. But just reaching the 80 percent goal would require a huge transformation in the U.S. economy — and also on the part of some of the big companies calling for it. These include BP, Royal Dutch Shell, DuPont, Dominion Energy and Ford. (snip)

This trend is explainable in part because the science — and therefore the need to act — is increasingly undeniable. But it is also in the long-term interest of major corporations to plan for the inevitable transition to come. Addressing global warming can be an orderly, careful process, or it can be an expensive emergency effort thrown together once the consequences start getting really dire — when time will be short and options few. “Business needs and supports predictable and effective climate policies including an economy-wide price on carbon,” the group said. That is the right policy. These companies can prove their sincerity by throwing their lobbying power behind it — not just issuing statements.

Pretending to be believers in ‘climate change’ and calling for action is all about …… $$$$$. Why would Ford really care? They’re doing away with almost all of their sedan lines, focusing almost exclusively on SUVs and pickup trucks, not exactly known for great gas mileage. Dominion Energy sees a way to get some good press and to make some extra money, especially if they can get some sweet, sweet taxpayer funds from government. Fossil fuels companies are just looking for ways to diversify their portfolios, along with some good will from idiots like on the WP Editorial Board, while continuing to do exactly what they’ve always done.

Seriously, every once in a while I slap a ‘climate change’ theme up on Cafe Press and pimp it, making some extra cash. Why wouldn’t companies, whose job is to make money, patronize Warmists to do just that?

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Bummer: Yet Another Report Shows California Wildfires Were Not Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 16, 2019 – 10:53 am

Hey, remember when the Cult of Climastrology was blaming carbon pollution for the wildfires in California (a state that has long been subjected to wildfires because of the geography, natural climate, and idiotic environmental policies)? Most recently the Camp Fire? Well now

Pacific Gas & Electric power lines caused California’s ‘deadliest and most destructive wildfire’: officials

California authorities said Wednesday that power lines owned and operated by the Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E) caused the state’s most destructive wildfire ever – it killed 85 and nearly destroyed an entire city.

Lines owned by the San Francisco-based utility sparked the deadly, fast-moving Camp Fire on Nov. 8 in the Pulga area of Butte County, the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said in a news release. In total, the blaze burned 153,336 acres and destroyed in excess of 18,000 structures.

“The tinder dry vegetation and Red Flag conditions consisting of strong winds, low humidity and warm temperatures promoted this fire and caused extreme rates of spread, rapidly burning into Pulga to the east and west into Concow, Paradise, Magalia and the outskirts of east Chico,” the agency said.

The city of Paradise – population 27,000 — was nearly wiped out as residents evacuated and their homes and vehicles were engulfed in flames. Investigators also found a second nearby ignition site involving power lines owned by PG&E and vegetation that sparked another fire.

“This fire was consumed by the original fire which started earlier near Pulga,” Cal Fire said.

Much of California is very dry at that time of the year, and you get high winds. This is normal. Add in powerlines coming down, and now you have a big fire. There’s no need to drag carbon pollution into the mix.

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Comrade de Blasio Becomes 24th Democrat To Run For President

By William Teach May 16, 2019 – 7:31 am

Dude can’t even keep the subways running correctly, but, he can ban horse carriages and use 357 pronouns for the gender confused

De Blasio launches presidential campaign

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio (D) launched his presidential campaign on Thursday, joining a crowded field of Democratic contenders.

“I will take on the wealthy. I will take on the big corporations. I will not rest until this government serves working people. As mayor of the largest city in America, I’ve done just that,” he said in a video announcing the launch of his campaign.

“Donald Trump must be stopped,” he added. “I’ve beaten him before and I’ll do it again.”

De Blasio has cast himself as a progressive during his two terms as mayor, railing against income inequality, touting the benefits of the Green New Deal and feuding with New York’s centrist governor Andrew Cuomo (D).

He is expected to emphasize his mayoral accomplishments during the presidential campaign, including the creation of universal pre-kindergarten and raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, according to news reports.

The video is hilarious, if you can take all 3 minutes. His yammering about ‘climate change’ is particularly silly

Here’s the cover of today’s NY Post

The Post editorial board lists a whole bunch of reasons why his candidacy is a complete farce. You also have his failed New York Works program. Many, many, many, have highlighted what a hypocrite he is on ‘climate change’, and wasted lots of NYC taxpayer money on Hotcoldwetdry related lawsuits. And Carol Markowitz notes that “do as I say, not as I do” on climate change and other issues is the norm for Comrade Bill. Welcome to the gladiator pit, Bill.

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White House Tells Democrat Run House Committee To Pound Sand On Document Request

By William Teach May 16, 2019 – 7:11 am

Democrats lost on the Mueller report. No collusion, no conspiracy, no obstruction. It found that not one American was involved in a conspiracy with Russia. But, Democrats just won’t give up

White House refuses House Judiciary’s request for documents

The White House has rejected a sweeping request from the House Judiciary Committee for documents, suggesting the panel is attempting a “do-over” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) hit back at the administration on Wednesday, calling its response “ridiculous” after White House counsel Pat Cipollone sent a letter telling the panel to narrow the scope of its investigation.

“It appears that the Committee’s inquiry is designed, not to further a legitimate legislative purpose, but rather to conduct a pseudo law enforcement investigation on matters that were already the subject of the Special Counsel’s long-running investigation and are outside the constitutional authority of the legislative branch,” Cipollone asserted in a 12-page letter.

The White House lawyer accused the panel of “harassing and seeking to embarrass political opponents after an exhaustive two-year investigation by the Department of Justice did not reach the conclusion that some members of the Committee apparently would have preferred.”

Nadler had requested a trove of documents from the White House in early March as part of his committee’s probe into allegations of obstruction, public corruption and abuses of power by President Trump and members of his inner circle.

Cipollone is 100% correct. Requesting the documents serves no legitimate purpose of Congressional oversight, it is a Trump Derangement Syndrome probe, one that was already done.

“It would greatly advance the first step in that process if the Committee were to narrow the sweeping scope of the requests in the letter and articulate the legislative purpose and legal support for each of the disparate requests it wishes to pursue, including by addressing each of the legal deficiencies that I raise in this letter,” Cipollone added.

Nadler won’t, as he would have to admit the real purpose, which is a witch hunt, nothing more, nothing less. This may play well with the unhinged Democrat base and some other nutter elected Democrats, but, it won’t help in the general election, and could well hurt.

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Your Burger Habit Could Make Trees Live Fast And Die Young Or Something

By William Teach May 15, 2019 – 3:00 pm

Hot take alert, because the Cult of Climastrology always has to have some sort of new doomy prognostication of doom

Climate change may make trees live fast and die young

Everyone from governments to oil companies is looking at tree-planting as a way to counter global warming, but this strategy could be less effective than we thought.

In a warming world with growing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, researchers have hypothesised that trees will grow faster. But this isn’t necessarily a good thing. Faster-growing trees may live shorter lives, reducing the amount of time they lock carbon away for.

Now data is beginning to suggest that this is the case. Ulf Büntgen of the University of Cambridge and his colleagues have looked at tree ring records going back 2,000 years, and found that the longest-lived trees were those with the slowest growth rates.

“We find that if a tree grows fast in its initial stage, there is a high probability that it will die younger,” he says.

The team studied 1800 trees, all of which were mountain pines from the Spanish Pyrenees or Siberian larch from the Russian Altai region, which can live up to about 800 years. In a warmer world with more carbon dioxide, however, these trees might live just 150 years after growing rapidly.

So, um, what kinds of fossil fueled vehicles were they driving back 2,000 years ago? Oh, right, right, that was then, this is now, and why are you asking so many questions? You must hate life on Earth.

I’m sure we can fix this all with a tax, right?

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