Surprise: ‘Climate Change’ Is Barely An Issue For Midterms

By William Teach October 4, 2018 – 10:30 am

For all the caterwauling about the Doooooooom coming from anthropogenic climate change, it is almost always a tiny issue during actual election seasons. This one isn’t any different

DEMOCRATS SHELVE CLIMATE CHANGE RHETORIC AS ELECTION NEARS

Democratic messaging on climate change has been stunted throughout the midterm election cycle, and most candidates are turning to other issues to connect with voters, The New York Times reports.

Health care and the economy consistently top polls of key issues and social security, immigration and guns usually perform well too. Climate change, energy and the environment are almost always counted among the least important issues to voters deciding who to support.

Of 161 potentially competitive congressional races, just a “handful” of Democrats have released campaign ads, either on television or the internet, that talk prominently of climate change and energy issues, Climate Nexus’s in-house database shows, according to TheNYT.

“Until voters in the U.S. perceive this as a quite imminent threat, it’s liable to remain mired in the middle of all the other issues,” Climate Nexus executive director Jeff Nesbit, whose group is dedicated to communicating climate change threat, told TheNYT.

The article points out that people like Tom Steyer and Al Gore have donated millions and millions on the subject, and, just like in previous elections, that money has been wasted.

Highly publicized environmental activism and data has not translated into widespread concern for broader issues of climate change, energy or the environment as far as elections go. The top issues of registered voters are immigration and health care, according to a June poll by The Pew Research Center. Immigration most interested 19 percent of registered voters and health care is the key issue for 13 percent.

In a survey in which one of seven broad topics voters were most interested in for the 2018 midterms, energy issues never performed better than 5 percent by any metric and was often the least supported key issue, other than issues that fall into the obscure eighth category of “other,” according to an April survey by Morning Consult.

So, pretty much no one cares. Not even Democrats. As Anthony Watts notes

In close races, speaking on climate change might motivate conservative voters to turn out against Democratic candidates rather than encouraging Democratic voters to cast their ballots, according to The New York Times.

About the only election I can think of where ‘climate change’ was bigly on the ballot was the 2012 Queensland, Australia election, where the ruling party who was passing ‘climate change’ laws and rules and such lost so badly that they didn’t have enough seats left to be considered a recognized political party afterwards. Pushing taxes/fees, measures that will raise people’s cost of living, and measures that limit people’s liberty aren’t winning issues.

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Huh: Canadian Party Which Wants To Limit Immigration Wins In Landslide In Quebec

By William Teach October 4, 2018 – 7:53 am

It seems that people in other countries are also tired of government bringing in people who share little to nothing in common with the host country, especially when those people end up on the public dole and refuse to assimilate. Heck, many demand that the host country change to accommodate them

Canadian anti-immigrant party thrives with landslide victory in Québec

The populist movements sweeping across Europe and that led to President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory is cascading through Québec, the mainly French-speaking province in eastern Canada, where a right-leaning candidate and his young party dominated this week’s elections.

François Legault, leader of the right-of-center Coalition Avenir Québec and the province’s new premier-elect, won a landslide victory, taking 74 of the legislature’s 125 seats — even though recent polls had predicted a far narrower win. The CAQ was founded only seven years ago.

Legault had promised during the campaign to cut Québec’s annual immigration quota from 50,000 newcomers per year to 40,000, while also requiring those wishing to settle in Québec to take a test on their proficiency in French and on “Québec values” within three years or face expulsion.

Late in the campaign, Legault was forced to apologize after assuring a supporter he would protect Québec culture from being “erased” by immigrants, but his anti-immigrant message did not deter voters.

Experts predict he may not be able follow through on his most controversial proposals, but his and CAQ’s landslide victory offered strong evidence that the populist, nationalist movement is thriving within one of Canada’s largest provinces. Québec is home to more than 8 million people or about 23 percent of the country’s more than 35 million people.

Got that? It’s anti-immigrant to want to reduce immigration by one-fifth, and require immigrants to learn the language and the culture.

Following Monday’s election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters that he would work with Legault on numerous issues, including immigration. “There’s a lot of conversations to be had, and I’m sure we will have disagreements from time to time, but we will do so in a constructive way that serves the citizens that have entrusted us with responsibilities,” he said.

Trudeau may be seeing some internal data regarding what Canadians are thinking on the unfettered importation of legal immigrants that supports the CAQ position, as well as on allowing all the illegal aliens into Canada. The actual opinions of citizens is often very different than what one reads in the news.

And this should concern Democrats here in the U.S., who have staked their mid-term chances on things like protecting illegal aliens and bringing in immigrants who would go on the public dole, as well restricting citizens’ 2nd Amendment rights, Trump Derangement Syndrome, blocking Judge Kavanaugh, abortion, and other crazy stuff.

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FBI Files Kavanaugh Report, McConnell Says Voting Will Start Friday

By William Teach October 4, 2018 – 7:25 am

After all the years of being rather squishy, Mitch McConnell has stayed beyond strong on Judge Brett Kavanaugh

McConnell sets key Kavanaugh vote for Friday

Senate Republicans filed cloture on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination on Wednesday, paving the way for a weekend showdown over the Supreme Court.

The move by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will allow the chamber to vote on ending debate on Kavanaugh’s nomination Friday under the chamber’s rules.

If Kavanaugh overcomes the procedural hurdle, the Senate could then take a final vote on his nomination as early as Saturday.

McConnell pledged earlier Wednesday that the chamber would vote on Kavanaugh this week, despite what he argued were attempts by Democrats to delay or stall the nomination.

“There will be plenty of time for Members to review and be briefed on this supplemental material before a Friday cloture vote. So I am filing cloture on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination this evening so the process can move forward, as I indicated earlier this week,” McConnell said.

Might as well, as

Now, that’s just the White House making this statement, but, it’s highly, highly doubtful that the Senators will see any issues (other than perhaps Democrats seeing that Brett threw water balloons at classmates, including girls when he was in 7th grade and using a water pistol *gasp* at a pool party) in FBI background investigation number 7. Of course, outlets like the Washington Post are trying to throw shade on the report (before reading it), stating that it was curtailed. The FBI doesn’t care if a nominee drank while in high school and college. Nor did they find it necessary to interview Kavanaugh nor Dr. Ford, as they had both testified under oath.

And, of course, we’ll have these last minute attempts to derail Kavanaugh

And 63 million Americans and 30 states who voted for Trump want Kavanaugh on the court. Where were these law professors before the hearings (and who did they vote for)? Can’t wait to see what kind of whining from Dems we’ll get over the next few days. They got what they wanted: a separate hearing and then an FBI background check. Time to vote and confirm.

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Surprise: “Conservative” Groups Which Profess Belief In ‘Climate Change’ Receive Lots Of Liberal Money

By William Teach October 3, 2018 – 3:24 pm

The majority of the individuals and groups that claim they are conservatives/Republicans tend to be of the Big Government type variety, so this should be no surprise

WEALTHY FOUNDATIONS PAID ‘ONE OF THE LARGEST CONSERVATIVE GRASSROOTS’ GROUPS TO PROMOTE LIBERAL CLIMATE POLICIES

Wealthy charitable foundations spent $10 million on an effort that included handing money to conservative and libertarian think tanks and grassroots organizations to promote “a stable climate” and “a clean energy future” among other environmental issues, The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.

For example, two foundations that promote liberal energy policies handed nearly $4.2 million to the Christian Coalition to sway its conservative, religious membership of policies typically associated with liberals and environmentalists, according to grant information from tax filings from 2008 to 2016.

The Christian Coalition describes itself as “one of the largest conservative grassroots political organizations in America.”

However, the group received funding from charitable foundations since 2008 to “identify and educate supporters of renewable energy within the conservative community,” “advance policy solutions for a stable climate” and other related efforts, according to two grant descriptions.

“Environmental foundations have funded faux-conservative groups for many years to make it seem like their radical climate ideology has a broader consensus than it really does,” Institute for Energy Research (IER) President Tom Pyle told TheDCNF.

“If you see so-called conservative or free market groups pushing for policies that are anti-free market, follow the money, odds are left-leaning environmental foundations are supporting it,” Pyle said.

You may have read about “Republican Bob Inglis”, former Congressman for South Carolina, pushing for carbon taxes/fees many times, claiming this is a “free market solution”. Well, “his group, the Energy & Enterprise Institute (EEI), got more than $101,000 in 2012 from the Energy Foundation.” The Energy Foundation is a far left eco-wacko group. Surprise?

The article is long, worth the read, and, just remember, whenever you hear or read about a Conservative/Republican yapping about free market solutions and think that they’re exactly the same as the members of the Cult of Climastrology push, wonder where the money came from.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 3, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a lawn dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on a report that Dr. Ford had no fear of flying and was coached for the polygraph.

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Don’t Forget The Test Of The Emergency Alert System Today

By William Teach October 3, 2018 – 11:11 am

I really just wanted to post this tweet

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Surprise: Californians To Pay Even More To Fight ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach October 3, 2018 – 10:30 am

One has to wonder why all the Warmists in California aren’t giving up their own use of fossil fuels and buying fully electric vehicles

How fighting climate change will raise California gas prices even higher

Last year the California Legislature raised gasoline taxes by 12 cents a gallon, and conservatives were so outraged they launched an effort to repeal it at the ballot box. Proposition 6 comes up for a vote in November.

Now, with considerably less fanfare, the state’s air-pollution agency has enacted a regulation that will raise gas prices as much as 36 cents a gallon by 2030 – and diesel by 44 cents. Californians already pay an average $3.73 a gallon for gas, or 85 cents above the national average.

The projected increases are part of the latest effort by the California Air Resources Board to fight climate change. The board last week voted to strengthen the state’s “low carbon fuel standard,” a fairly obscure regulation that requires oil refiners and makers of other fuels to reduce the “carbon intensity” of their products, including the greenhouse gases generated during production and distribution of the fuels.

As it is, the seven-year-old regulation costs California motorists an estimated 12 cents a gallon at the pump, according to Irvine energy consultant Stillwater Associates. The oil industry, which has been fighting the Air Resources Board over the rule for years, said the latest decision makes a bad regulation even worse.

It might not seem a lot, but, consumers won’t just be paying this directly, but, also through businesses passing on those extra costs via increase prices of goods and services. Then you combine this with all the other things and the middle and lower classes get hosed by the moneyed class which runs the government and the rich folks pushing this nonsense. I wonder when these governments and rich Warmists will practice what they preach?

The lone comment at the article notes

One of the greatest sources for carbon is Humans, spewing out carbon dioxide, by breathing, 24 hours a day. 365 days a year! Multiply that by 40 million people, all breathing at the same time!

California is wasting a great taxing opportunity here, but I’m sure they’ll rectify that in the future, calling for a breathing tax to mitigate the damage you’re causing by just being alive….Welcome to California!

Don’t give them ideas.

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NY Times Is Super Concerned About Kavanaugh’s Party Planning

By William Teach October 3, 2018 – 8:36 am

Remember, this is the same paper that couldn’t be bothered with anything in Obama’s background, such as his years at college. Nor could they really be bothered about Operation Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, Obama’s buddy domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and so much more. Nor could they really be bothered about Hillary Clinton’s background. Her lies, her smears, her potential illegal activity. They didn’t care much about her illegal use of an outside, unsecured server for her email and all the classified documents and content. Nor about things like the allegations of rape and sexual assault against her husband, with her as a participant who worked to destroy the women. Nor shady land deals. We were told that was “old news”. Now, here’s Molly Hemingway of The Federalist

The New York Times Preparing Hit Piece On Brett Kavanaugh For Party Planning

Having failed to corroborate any allegations of rape against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, The New York Times is now preparing to smear him for organizing party planning and logistics more than 30 years ago. This comes on the heels of a blockbuster Times report alleging that Kavanaugh might have thrown ice at someone at some point in the 1980s.

The Times is calling around to classmates asking them about a letter Kavanaugh allegedly wrote to a classmate to organize a week at the beach during the 1980s, according to multiple sources. The letter notes the location on the Maryland shore where the classmates planned to stay, the estimated costs for each organizer, and items they should bring with them, such as “sheets, pillowcases, blankets, etc.”

The letter noted that a total of eight friends, including Kavanaugh, were “in charge” and that they would each get to have beds to sleep in at the designated rental property and a say in who else was invited. The tongue-in-cheek note, infused with inside jokes, said they should talk to neighbors of the property ahead of time and give them a heads up that a party would be hosted there and that alcohol and obnoxious students would be involved.

“P.S. It would probably be a good idea on Sat. the 18th to warn the neighbors that we’re loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us,” the letter said. The note also joked that “the danger of eviction is great and that would suck because of the money and because this week has big potential.”

The Times wouldn’t actually run with this, right? A piece on party planning with boys bragging, right?

The web front page headline is “We’re loud, obnoxious drunks,” Judge Kavanaugh wrote of his high school clique in 1983

The beachfront property was rented, the guests were invited and an ever-organized Brett M. Kavanaugh had some advice for the seven Georgetown Preparatory School classmates who would be joining him for the weeklong escapade.

In a 1983 letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times, the young Judge Kavanaugh warned his friends of the danger of eviction from an Ocean City, Md., condo. In a neatly written postscript, he added: Whoever arrived first at the condo should “warn the neighbors that we’re loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us. Advise them to go about 30 miles…” (snip)

Recent interviews with more than a dozen classmates and friends from that time depict Judge Kavanaugh as a member of a small clique of football players who dominated Georgetown Prep’s work-hard, play-hard culture. His circle celebrated a culture of heavy drinking, even by the standards of that era.

Seriously, this is what the NY Times has come to, trying to embarrass the judge over a beach trip in 1983

And that’s what the White House notes. Heck, a lot of private school kids, especially if it was a boarding school, didn’t drink that much, they smoked a lot of marijuana. And sometimes other drugs like microdots (lower grade LSD mixed with other stuff, often called mescaline or mesc. It wasn’t. Looks like a small piece of cut up large spaghetti), blotters (paper with higher power LSD on it), psychedelic mushrooms, and hash. It’s a lot harder to hide the smell of alcohol. And a lot harder to purchase for weekends. During the summers, it was still harder to get a hold of.

But, none of that matters, because this is what it has come to. The NY Times is invested in stopping Judge Kavanaugh, and there is no proof that the Judge committed any of the sexual assaults he’s accused of.

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Uh Oh: US Drops To 27th On Healthcare

By William Teach October 3, 2018 – 8:16 am

This is horrible, and must be the fault of President Donald Trump, right? Well, there’s several very important things missing from this article

The US was once a leader for healthcare and education — now it ranks 27th in the world

US investments in healthcare and education haven’t changed much in the last three decades — and it’s putting the country far behind its peers, according to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

After ranking countries based on their levels of education and health, the study found that the US ranked 27th in the world on these metrics as of 2016, behind a host of top-ranking Nordic countries, including Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

This comes as little surprise, given that healthcare services in these countries are universal and publicly funded. The US, by contrast, is one of the few developed nations that lacks universal healthcare, according to The Atlantic.

When it comes to education, the nation fares even worse. The latest findings from the Pew Research Center have the US in 38th place out of 71 countries when it comes to math scores and 24th place when it comes to science.

Now, the one on math and science isn’t exactly new, the survey came out in 2017, but, it’s no surprise when schools from the bottom to the top are focusing more on social justice warrioring and Victimhoodology than real subjects. But the healthcare ranking was just released by the Lancet. Though, that survey is, to put it in math terms, 5 beers short of a six pack. There are tons of assumptions using a limited amount of people. The statistical extrapolation is made with an entirely too small sample. And, of course, they’re looking at it from a very Leftist point of view.

Regardless, the article fails to mention who was in the Executive Office in 2016. Nor that the Democrats had passed their big healthcare bill in 2009, and that the healthcare ranking went down. Nor that Democrats run the educational system pretty much lock, stock, and barrel. The ranking is based on educational spending going down 3% from 2010-2014, but that’s is per pupil. The U.S. still spends way more per pupil than most countries around the world. Perhaps if the Democrats who run the school systems would use it wisely.

Funny thing is, when people around the world want the best medical care, they come to the U.S.

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Your Fault: Baseball Fans Are Dodging More ‘Climate Change’ Cold Snaps And Rain

By William Teach October 2, 2018 – 4:27 pm

If only you had given up your fossil fueled family vacations and agreed to pay carbon taxes

Baseball fans dodging more cold snaps, heavy rainfall as climate patterns change

The seats were sparse at last week’s rain-delayed match against the Pittsburgh Pirates, rain ponchos were the attire of the day and the tarp over the infield was peppered by driving rain. It’s been a common sight at Wrigley Field and ballparks across the country this year.

In the 2018 season, 53 games have been postponed because of weather, tied for the second most since Major League Baseball began keeping track in 1986. It wasn’t just rain-outs that disrupted the schedule but a lingering April cold snap in the Midwest and Northeast that resulted in 28 games postponed that month — an all-time high.

Of course, no one can control the weather. But some fans wonder how much these postponements could be mitigated by increased attention to forecasts and scheduling around regional weather. The climate is changing, and as the atmosphere warms, scientists say extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and, in some cases, more pronounced. (snip)

In a sport that spans three seasons, fans like Al Yellon say MLB needs to address the weather.

Heat waves and heavy rainfall events are on the rise, scientists say. Hurricane season is more active and storms more intense. Rising temperatures in the Arctic may also be causing the polar jet stream — a current of air that acts as a barrier between the south and cold air masses to the north — to slow and allow cold air to ooze farther south as it did this past spring.

Scientists have pointed to climate change as a contributing factor to the warming of the atmosphere, carrying the chance for more rain in some areas since warmer air can hold more moisture. According to state climatologist Jim Angel, northern and central Illinois are experiencing warmer, wetter springs. But some scientists believe the rapid warming of the Arctic is causing fluctuations in the polar jet stream that can bring unusual bouts of cold like the region saw in April, Angel said.

No one really kept track of the weather and temperature prior to 1980, so there’s no real note of comparison, but, here’s 1982

April 9, 1982, Cubs 5, Mets 0, game time temperature 34

This was the home opener after the Cubs had split a pair in Cincinnati, the very first home opener for the team under Tribune Co. ownership after decades of Wrigley family ownership.

And just four days before this game, a huge snowstorm clobbered Chicago:

On April 5, 1982, the Chicago area was hit by a major late-season storm that officially delivered 9.4 inches of snow.

Doesn’t matter, still your fault.

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