Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 26, 2019 – 8:40 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the Dodgers are leading the NL, and it important to remember the men and women in our military who gave their lives to protect this nation. This pinup is by Bill Medcalf, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. 357 Magnum covers a would be robber being shot in the ass
  2. Brass Pills notes the horrible outcome of a fake rape accusation
  3. Chicks On The Right covers Democrats looking to introduce bill that would block all pro-life laws in the States
  4. Common Cents Blog says to fly those American flags
  5. DC Clothesline notes the UK government staging a “Muslim response” to a terror event
  6. Diogenes’ Middle Finger wonders why there are so many lunatics in the Dem party
  7. The Deplorable Climate Science Blog has great photos of a wild-space soon to be destroyed by a wind farm
  8. No Tricks Zone notes the end of the Permanent Drought for the U.S.
  9. Geller Report discusses deplorable anti-Semite Ilhan Omar’s comments on Trump voters
  10. Irons In The Fire covers more fallout from the Rotherham sex scandal
  11. Jihad Watch notes a big protest in NYC against Ilhan Omar by Jews
  12. Legal Insurrection covers the German gov’t warning Jews to not where Kippah’s
  13. Moonbattery notes Britain banning cotton swabs, among others
  14. neo-neocon discusses the potential liberty issues with 5G wireless
  15. And last, but not least, Pacific Pundit notes that Trump did not share a “doctored” video of Queen Nancy

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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Attention Warmists: A Carbon Tax Scheme Doesn’t Really Work To Reduce Fossil Fuels Usage

By William Teach May 26, 2019 – 7:22 am

Canadian Terence Corcoran makes the case that a carbon tax doesn’t really reduce the use of fossil fuels, particularly in discussing the Canadian carbon tax schemes (via Watts Up With That?)

Carbon tax smackdown: Terence Corcoran says higher prices at the pump don’t mean fewer emissions

According to the oracles of carbon economics, a carbon tax must be applauded because it is a “market-based” tax that acts just like a “market price” which, under the infallible economic laws of supply and demand, will automatically produce reductions in carbon dioxide emissions more efficiently than regulations and other big-government measures.

As the current $20-a-tonne federal carbon tax — about 4.4 cents per litre of gasoline at the pump — rises to $50 or $100 or even $200 in years to come, fossil fuel consumption will fall, an outcome allegedly guaranteed by economic theory.

None of this carbon tax dogma stands up well in the real world, as I will demonstrate shortly.

We’ll skip by the types of carbon tax schemes mentioned and dissected, such as the new favorite, the carbon tax and dividend type, which sees the Government causing your cost of living to artificially rise, then they refund some of that money back to you (which means you are now even more reliant on the Government. Strange that, right?), and move on to the impacts (though Corcoran does mention that British Columbia gave up on refunding anything and keeps it all)

Of all the myths surrounding a carbon tax, the greatest is the foundational claim that an increase in the price of fossil fuels will lead to major reductions in carbon emissions, thereby saving the world from the perils of climate change. Yale University’s William Nordhaus, a 2018 Nobel Prize winner, argues in The Climate Casino that a “sharp price rise” is needed to “choke off” growing carbon emissions.

Gasoline price history in North America suggests the choke-off theory is at least debatable and more likely unsupportable.

In the United States, the price of gasoline soared more than 60 per cent to US$3 a gallon during the 1970s and went through another price burst to almost $4 a gallon in the early part of the 21st century. Increases of that magnitude — up to $2 a gallon — are equivalent to imposing a carbon tax of $160 a tonne. But U.S. consumption of gasoline declined only slightly, and for other reasons (see graphic).

In Canada, gasoline consumption has grown steadily over the past 40 years despite bouts of severe price increases that were equivalent to carbon taxes of up to $500 a tonne (see graph).

The reason high prices/taxes don’t produce dramatic cuts in demand is well-known. Studyafter study has concluded that gasoline is dominated by what economists call “price inelasticity.” People do not change their behaviour in the face of rising prices when the product is essential to their economic success. There are some recent counter-studies, but it is clear that the market-price theory is still highly theoretical.

The piece provides lots of graphs and charts to back this all up, worth flipping to the article to see them.

Think about it: when the price of gas has spiked this century, especially when it was way up in the high $3 to $4 range, did you change your behavior that much? Perhaps a little bit. Maybe one less trip to the beach, but, you still went. You still drove to work. People who don’t carpool mostly didn’t start carpooling. They didn’t start taking the bus. And, get this, if you look at places like the United Kingdom, which has placed massive costs on fossil fuels other than carbon tax schemes, making gas way, way more expensive than North America, the only thing that truly caused a dip was the Great Recession this century. People still paid for it.

Which leads us to another delusion. A carbon tax is said to be a beautiful free market substitute for costly and inefficient regulation. Some economists used to say that carbon taxes were preferable because they left “no room for planners.”

On the contrary, carbon control and pricing have become a bureaucratic paradise for central planners and economic control freaks.

In Canada, governments still plan to regulate coal out of existence. Electric vehicle mandates and quotas will be issued; fuel consumption standards will be imposed on non-electric vehicles. Carbon sequestration will be required for major industries. Alternative energy forms must be subsidized. Industrial emission standards will be regulated into existence by state planners, although scores of exemptions will be needed.

The astute reader will by now perceive that the hard-core case for carbon pricing as a “market-based” regime that will let the “market mechanism” of the “carbon price” do the work has been thrown overboard.

Carbon taxes are not free market mechanisms, they are government imposed, government run, government priced market mechanisms. What’s the political system that this is called?

The thing is, the leading members of the Cult of Climastrology surely know this all, but, even if they don’t, they do not care, because the purpose of any carbon tax scheme is to put more money in the hands of government, to grow government, and to give government more power over everything.

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We’ve Created A Civilization Hell Bent On Destroying Itself From Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach May 25, 2019 – 4:16 pm

Remember the day when fringe doomsday nutjobs were pretty much ignored, rather than held up as paragons of virtue?

Climate change: ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I’m terrified’, writes Earth scientist

The coffee tasted bad. Acrid and with a sweet, sickly smell. The sort of coffee that results from overfilling the filter machine and then leaving the brew to stew on the hot plate for several hours. The sort of coffee I would drink continually during the day to keep whatever gears left in my head turning.

Odours are powerfully connected to memories. And so it’s the smell of that bad coffee which has become entwined with the memory of my sudden realisation that we are facing utter ruin.

It was the spring of 2011, and I had managed to corner a very senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during a coffee break at a workshop. The IPCC was established in 1988 as a response to increasing concern that the observed changes in the Earth’s climate are being largely caused by humans.

So, a story of Doom associated with bad coffee because some people don’t know how to make coffee?

“But what about the many millions of people directly threatened,” I went on. “Those living in low-lying nations, the farmers affected by abrupt changes in weather, kids exposed to new diseases?”

He gave a sigh, paused for a few seconds, and a sad, resigned smile crept over his face. He then simply said: “They will die.”

Computer models are scary!

It seems sensible to assume that the reason products and services are made is so that they can be bought and sold and so the makers can turn a profit. So the drive for innovation – for faster, smaller phones, for example – is driven by being able to make more money by selling more phones. In line with this, the environmental writer George Monbiot argued that the root cause of climate change and other environmental calamities is capitalism and consequently any attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will ultimately fail if we allow capitalism to continue.

And an anti-capitalism screed, which is followed by an anti-people screed. Which is followed by all sorts of whining, ending with

To understand you are in a prison, you must first be able to see the bars. That this prison was created by humans over many generations doesn’t change the conclusion that we are currently tightly bound up within a system that could, if we do not act, lead to the impoverishment, and even death of billions of people.

Eight years ago, I woke up to the real possibility that humanity is facing disaster. I can still smell that bad coffee, I can still recall the memory of scrabbling to make sense of the words I was hearing. Embracing the reality of the technosphere doesn’t mean giving up, of meekly returning to our cells. It means grabbing a vital new piece of the map and planning our escape.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 25, 2019 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on the meaning of Memorial Day.

And, a double shot below the fold, so, check out Jihad Watch, with a post on the Ramadan rage count.

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CNN Hot-Take: Trump Arrives In Japan For Flattery

By William Teach May 25, 2019 – 10:29 am

World leaders travel the world, and get pomp and flattery. International diplomacy, right? Nothing unusual, right? Certainly, Obama received that type of treatment. But, hey, we’re in the age of Trump, so

Trump arrives in Japan eager for flattery and pomp

President Donald Trump arrived in Japan on Saturday eager for a visit salted with flattery and pomp — particularly as he escapes a hostile political environment back home.

The President and first lady Melania Trump landed in Tokyo ahead of a largely ceremonial visit to recognize the country’s new emperor. Later they attended a dinner with Japanese business leaders meant to promote investment in the United States — fueled along, Trump hopes, by a new trade agreement that reduces the $68 billion trade deficit with Japan.

The headline and first paragraph have nothing to do with the rest of the story, which is moss with Cght regarding trade talks and the problems with China and North Korea. But, hey, TDS. Which is why CNN mentions a small earthquake in Tokyo right before Trump arrived.

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NY Times Wonders Why Jay Inslee Isn’t Catching On When ‘Climate Change’ Isn’t

By William Teach May 25, 2019 – 7:11 am

There really is a very simply answer for this, which NY Times writer Tripp Gabriel misses

Climate Change Is Catching On With Voters. Why Isn’t Jay Inslee?

For years, climate change was an issue of passionate concern to a few voters, but never enough to ripple presidential politics. The Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debates in 2016 notoriously did not include any questions from moderators about global warming.

But after an alarming onslaught of floods, wildfires and catastrophic weather, dire scientific warnings about the impact of a changing planet and a president who dismisses it all, climate change has moved up drastically in polls of Democratic voters’ priorities. In some surveys, it has equaled or topped health care and jobs.

And that raises a paradox: Why is the only candidate making climate change the center of his campaign, who has rolled out ambitious policies and has a track record of achievements, Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington,stuck in the polling basement?

One answer?

Rather, Mr. Weber said, Mr. Inslee’s singular focus on climate change was, paradoxically, the reason he has yet to attract waves of millennial supporters.

“Young people and Democratic primary voters of course want to see a candidate putting climate change and the urgency of it at the forefront,” said Mr. Weber, the organization’s political director. “But we also want to see a candidate who is addressing the other issues we care about.” He listed affordable college, health care, racial justice and immigration rights.

Nope, that’s not it.

Ed Fallon, a climate activist in Iowa, who runs a group that dresses in penguin suits to confront candidates about climate, said Mr. Inslee’s challenge was not his age or his personality. He just needs to show up more on the campaign trail, he said.

Very stupid person is also wrong, and those are the only two reasons offered by a story that starts with a question.

‘Climate change’ action may be popular in theory among Democrat voters per polling, but, it is not particularly popular in practice. In action. In passing laws that will personally affect those voters. That will increase their cost of living and reduce their personal liberty. They’re fine when it hurts That Guy, Other People, Someone Else, but they see what people like Inslee are pushing and know it will hurt themselves.

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Chicago School To Spend $53k To Reprint Yearbooks With “White Supremacist” Hand Sign Or Something

By William Teach May 25, 2019 – 6:58 am

Has no one explained that they are being punked? That it is not a white supremacist sign? That it was a joke that they fell for? That it is something completely different? If so, they didn’t listen

High school reprints yearbooks after students seen flashing alleged racist signs

A Chicago high school will reprint its 2018-19 yearbooks at a cost of $53,794 after 18 photographs show students making a hand gesture associated with white nationalism, according to reports.

Students of “various races, ethnicities, genders and grades” were seen flashing the upside-down “OK,” schools chief Joylynn Pruitt-Adams told parents, students and staff in an email Monday about the Oak Park and River Forest HS, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“The photos in question, as well as other club/team photos in which students are striking poses and making gestures, will be replaced with straight-forward group shots,” Pruitt-Adams wrote about the 1,750 copies of “Tabula.”

Wait, so students of various races and ethnicities are dropping “white supremacy” hand signs? What are, in the real world, known as an OK sign for who knows how long?

The hand gesture has at times been used in the popular “circle game,” in which pranksters holds the circle below their waists to make others look at it, but it has more recently become associated with the white supremacist movement.

Which is what they were. Does this mean the students get to punch the idiots who made this decision on the schoolbooks in the shoulder? That’s the penalty for noticing.

Members of the online group 4chan first began using the symbol as a means of tricking others into thinking they were seeing “white power” symbols everywhere.

Groups like the Anti-Defamation League have said the gesture has come to signify an authentic hate symbol.

No, it really hasn’t, except in the minds of moonbats.

One of the school board members voted against reprinting the books, because

“One of my biggest concerns: that if we toss out these 1,750 Tabulas, rather than come to the thoughtful conclusion that they should still be distributed, we are playing right into the hands of all the haters whose evil is at the root of this corrosive and divisive angst — and worse — that we are experiencing,” he said on Facebook.

Playing the circle game is hate and evil? Good grief. It’s no wonder kids are becoming lunatics when their elders teach them this.

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Hot Take: Young Warmists Blame ‘Climate Change’ For Small 401k Balances

By William Teach May 24, 2019 – 4:08 pm

It couldn’t have anything to do with them getting degrees that have little market/job value while running up tens of thousands in student loans debt for those bad degree decisions, right? It’s definately your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle and living a modern lifestyle

Young people blame climate change for their small 401(k) balances

Lori Rodriguez, a 27-year-old communications professional in New York City, is not saving for retirement, and it isn’t necessarily because she can’t afford to — it’s because she doesn’t expect it to matter.

Like many people her age, Rodriguez believes climate change will have catastrophic effects on our planet. Some 88% of millennials — a higher percentage than any other age group — accept that climate change is happening, and 69% say it will impact them in their lifetimes. Engulfed in a constant barrage of depressing news stories, many young people are skeptical about saving for an uncertain future.

“I want to hope for the best and plan for a future that is stable and secure, but, when I look at current events and at the world we are predicting, I do not see how things could not be chaotic in 50 years,” Rodriguez says. “The weather systems are already off, and I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to be a little apocalyptic.”

It could be that the older Warmists have made them have more mental issues

Mental-health issues affecting young adults and adolescents in the U.S. have increased significantly in the past decade, a study published in March in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology found. The number of individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 reporting symptoms of major depression increased 52% from 2005 to 2017, while older adults did not experience any increase in psychological stress at this time, and some age groups even saw decreases. Study author Jean Twenge says this may be attributed to the increased use of digital media, which has changed modes of interaction enough to impact social lives and communication. Millennials are also said to suffer from “eco-anxiety,” according to a 2018 report from the American Psychological Association, with 72% saying their emotional well-being is affected by the inevitability of climate change, compared with just 57% of people over the age of 45.

So, a tiny 1.5F increase in temperatures since 1850 is making them loopy? Oh, brother.

Meanwhile, two-thirds of millennials — defined by Pew as the generation born between 1981 and 1996 — have nothing saved for retirement, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security. The millennials who are saving had an average balance of $25,500 and were contributing 7.3% of their paychecks as of the second quarter of 2018, figures from Fidelity showed. While most millennials say they are not saving because they simply can’t afford to, for others it’s about the feeling that they may not have a future to save for, says Matt Fellowes, chief executive officer of United Income, an online retirement investment platform based in Washington, D.C.

My generation (Gen X, born in 1967) and previous ones had to deal with the very real specter of nuclear war, yet, we still saved. I don’t necessarily blame these little idiots, it’s their elders who have made them this way, particularly the news media and education system. They’re just too fragile.

This keeps going and going, ending with something that should be at the beginning before the Millennials tune out and hit a new site

Erin Lowry, author of “Broke Millennial Takes On Investing,” recommends preparing for retirement no matter what you believe will happen, referencing the Y2K phenomenon, when some people sold their belongings and made other rash choices in the belief that the world would end with the dawn of the year 2000.

“Even if you have a defeatist mind-set about the future of the planet, it’s better to prepare as though you, and the planet, will survive into your retirement years because the alternative is also bleak,” she said. “Failing to properly plan for a future means guaranteeing yourself a more difficult life.”

Because the planet will survive. Doom is not coming.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 24, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing cactus’ to grown in areas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, with a post on the Memorial Day weekend global warming devastation.

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AOC Loses Mind Over Tornado Warning, Blames ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 24, 2019 – 10:45 am

I wonder if she realizes that they get tornado watches and warnings even in NYC, which is normal, and what is called “weather”?

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1131676480281427968

Sigh

(Daily Caller) Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the tornado warning that hit the D.C. area Thursday was part of the “climate crisis” she has previously said humanity only has 12 years left to solve.

“The climate crisis is real y’all,” Ocasio said on Instagram Thursday, “guess we’re at casual tornadoes in growing regions of the country?”

However, she was quickly fact-checked by meteorologist Ryan Maue, who pointed out that far from proof of a “climate crisis,” D.C.’s tornado warning was “just the weather.”

The Washington, D.C., area was hit with a tornado warning Thursday afternoon. An intense, but short-lived storm, brought heavy rainfall and high winds. No tornado hit D.C., however, but the whole event was enough to inspire Ocasio-Cortez to post on Instagram.

“Different parts of the country deal with different climate issues,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in her Instagram post. “But ALL of these threats will be increasing in intensity as climate crisis grows and we fail to act appropriately. #GreenNewDeal.

Could someone explain to the idiot woman-child that D.C. happens to sit in a place where severe storms hit all the time? This includes t-storms, tornadic, floods, snow, ice, even tropical systems. It is, quite frankly, one of the dumbest places to have put the nation’s capital, especially with all the swamp-land.

Tornadoes in D.C. are nothing new or unusual

August 25, 1814: A “most tremendous hurricane” struck the city during the Burning of Washington during the War of 1812. There are few historical accounts of this event, and many sources disagree on the details. Some sources question whether this event was a tornado or a hurricane. However, most agree that it was a true tornado, and some maintain that it was a tornado followed closely by a hurricane. Whatever its nature, the storm tore the roofs from many buildings. Several cannons were thrown through the air by the violent winds. Thirty British soldiers and some residents were buried in the rubble, and several died. Damage to trees also occurred “higher in the country.” The British Army left Washington soon after the storm, and heavy rains which accompanied the storm helped extinguish the fires.[4][5][7][8]At least thirty people died.[9]

Tornado warnings are nothing unusual, either, due to where D.C. is located. But, AOC’s reaction is based on how a generation is being educated and scared out of their little minds, how they are brainwashed. They just do not know better, and will freak out over every single weather event. I don’t really blame her as much as other people who made her this way. Though I do blame her and people like her for not taking the time to investigate all the information to get informed.

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