Good News: ‘Climate Change’ Will Cause Mosquitoes To Rule The Earth

By William Teach September 28, 2018 – 3:23 pm

I look forward to serving out new overlords

Mosquitoes Will Rule the Earth as Climate Change Expands Disease Vectors

Although many U.S. politicians insist on denying climate change, most scientists worldwide are believers. And the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) even has a pagedescribing concerns over climate change and the likelihood it will increase the risk of vector-borne diseases. Those include Lyme disease (increasing), West Nile virus (increasing), Zika virus (increasing), and malaria (increasing).

And, in fact, given the flooding and destruction caused in the Carolinas by Hurricane Florence, the CDC notes that mosquitoes and as a result, mosquito-borne illnesses, often increase after a hurricane. Although mosquitoes don’t typically survive the high winds of a hurricane, “Immediately following a hurricane, flooding occurs. Mosquito eggs laid in the soil by floodwater mosquitoes during previous floods hatch. This results in very large populations of floodwater mosquitoes.”

Generally, these are “nuisance mosquitoes” that don’t spread illness-causing viruses. The disease-carrying types, however, usually increase two weeks to two months after a hurricane

But this never happened before fossil fueled vehicles, you guys.

Yee summarized a 2015 study published in 2015 in Global Change Biology, writing, “They showed that the continuing trends of rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns will foster further spread of WNB such as leading to WNV being established as far north as southern Canada and even northern British Columbia by 2080.”

Bottom line? Politicians might deny climate change, but disease-carrying insects and their pathogens aren’t—they’re exploiting it. There might be a joke there about the difference between politicians and disease-carrying parasites, but let’s not go there.

The forgot to prove the anthropogenic part. But, then, they never prove it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 28, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow created by horrible fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The H2, with a post on liars abounding.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Possibly Require More Robot Farmers

By William Teach September 28, 2018 – 10:30 am

You refused to handwash your clothes, take the bus to work, and use two pieces of toilet paper, hence (the … in the excerpt is theirs, as they are excerpting another article which is here)

Climate change could accelerate demand for robot farmers

It’s harvest season in the Northern hemisphere, so farmers head into the fields to gather the fruit of their hard labor ….

A few days ago, a boxy yellow robot rolled through the rows of yellow pepper patches in a Belgian greenhouse, spotting and picking the ripened fruit …. Named SWEEPER, the robot is a result of a collaboration between Israeli, Dutch, Swedish, and Belgian scientists—a complex piece of equipment aimed to help farmers and agricultural workers in the harvesting process ….

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As the climate changes, heat waves intensify, and humidity increases, working long hours in the field is becoming more unhealthy, and in some cases dangerous, for humans. Even greenhouse conditions, tailored to the plants’ needs, may in some cases be too hot or humid for people. According to reported data, from 1992 to 2006, 68 crop workers in the United States died from exposure to environmental heat.

It’s reported that 7,000 died from dust pneumonia during the dust bowl event of the 1930’s. The numbers of those who died from the heat are too all over the place to even know. That was during the safe time when CO2 was under 350ppm, and before fossil fueled vehicles were truly a factor. Regardless, this is just another attempt to Scare people from people who themselves refuse to make more than minor changes in their own lives to match their professed beliefs.

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Peak 2018? Distracted Boyfriend Meme Ruled Sexist In Sweden

By William Teach September 28, 2018 – 7:19 am

Things that may cause you to get Eli Face

Distracted Boyfriend meme is sexist, rules Swedish ad watchdog

The popular Distracted Boyfriend meme, based on a photo of a man turning away from his outraged girlfriend to stare admiringly at another woman, has been ruled sexist by Sweden’s advertising ombudsman.

The stock image, also known as Man Looking at Other Woman, by Antonio Guillem, a photographer from Barcelona, was named meme of the year in April and was one of the most widely shared memes in 2017, providing comment on anything from music to politics to hit TV shows.

The ombudsman said recruitment advertisements posted on Facebook by the internet services provider Bahnhof, which labelled the boyfriend “You”, the girlfriend “Your current workplace”, and the second woman “Bahnhof”, were gender-discriminatory, the Local reported.

“The advertisement objectifies women,” the ombudsman, RO, said. “It presents women as interchangeable items and suggests only their appearance is interesting … It also shows degrading stereotypical gender roles of both men and women and gives the impression men can change female partners as they change jobs.”

The ombudsman said the image objectified the two women by presenting them as workplaces, but the man as an individual, and added that the “other woman” was clearly a “sex object … unrelated to the advertisement, which is for recruiting salespeople, operating engineers and a web designer”.

At the Breitbart article on this, Jam Hoe notes in the comments

I think it’s great that Sweden will be a grand feminist experiment. After their country becomes an Islamic caliphate, hopeful that will put this nonsense to bed.

Good point in a sarcastic manner. Because the way the nation is going, they’re going to have to choose which they want, and sooner rather than later.

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Surprise: NY Times Attacks Judge Kavanaugh For Being Upset That He’s Accused Of Crimes He Didn’t Commit

By William Teach September 28, 2018 – 7:02 am

It’s a case of damned if you do damned if you don’t. First they were saying he was too dispassionate during the normal Senate Judiciary Committee hearings and during his interview with Martha McCallum, now he’s too emotional. Here’s the NY Times Editorial Board, featuring their resident racist, Sarah Jeong

Why Brett Kavanaugh Wasn’t Believable

What a study in contrasts: Where Christine Blasey Ford was calm and dignified, Brett Kavanaugh was volatile and belligerent; where she was eager to respond fully to every questioner, and kept worrying whether she was being “helpful” enough, he was openly contemptuous of several senators; most important, where she was credible and unshakable at every point in her testimony, he was at some points evasive, and some of his answers strained credulity.

Indeed, Dr. Blasey’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday was devastating.

With the eyes of the nation on her, Dr. Blasey recounted an appalling trauma. When she was 15 years old, she said, she was sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh, then a 17-year-old student at a nearby high school and now President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court.

She forgot to supply any actual evidence and corroboration, no witnesses, nothing but her suspect memory from 36 years ago of a day and at a place that she cannot remember.

Judge Kavanaugh, when it was his turn, was not laughing. He was yelling. He spent more than half an hour raging against Senate Democrats and the “Left” for “totally and permanently” destroying his name, his career, his family, his life. He called his confirmation process a “national disgrace.”

“You may defeat me in the final vote, but you will never get me to quit,” Judge Kavanaugh said, sounding like someone who suddenly doubted his confirmation to the Supreme Court — an outcome that seemed preordained only a couple of weeks ago.

Judge Kavanaugh’s defiant fury might be understandable coming from someone who believes himself innocent of the grotesque charges he’s facing. Yet it was also evidence of an unsettling temperament in a man trying to persuade the nation of his judicial demeanor.

You can’t win with these people. This will be the new line of attack on Judge Kavanaugh. Ruth Marcus gives it a shot. So do others. But, you have to wonder what the normal American thought. We know most hardcore Democrat are against him to start with because they’re worried about abortion on demand. What of most who aren’t particularly involved? Did they see someone who was upset that he and his family have been put through this because Democrats are unhinged, reprehensible, loathsome people? Kavanaugh’s attacks were aimed at elected Democrats, not Dr. Ford. Democrats have promised to continue the attacks, which harm his wife and kids, if he is confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Anecdotally, I wonder how many watched. I was at the gym from 530-7, and there was no one there but me. Highly unusual. A few started showing up at 7.

Lindsay Graham utterly exploded when it was his time

“What you want to do is destroy this guy’s life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020,” Graham said to Senate Judiciary Democrats. “You’ve said that. Not me. You’ve got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said ‘hello’ because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you’ve done to this guy.”

“This is the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” Graham asserted, fuming with anger.

“Boy, you all want power,” Graham continued. “God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham — that you knew about it and you held it. You had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford. None. She’s as much of a victim as you are.”

And in the hall

Again, if these are the roads Democrats want to travel, they shouldn’t act surprised when the GOP goes after their nominees.

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Bummer: Patriotism Can’t Solve Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 4:22 pm

Do you know what can solve it? An nice big tax, causing your cost of living to skyrocket. You’ll take one for the team, right? Because the people who are pushing this damned sure won’t

Yuval Noah Harari warns Trump that patriotism cannot solve global threats
Sapiens author has criticised the US president’s rejection of international cooperation, as well as admonishing Brexiters’ ‘fantasy’ of independence

Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari has warned Donald Trump that global cooperation is crucial if humanity is to face its “existential crisis”, after the US president publicly rejected the approach at the UN this week.

The Israeli academic, whose books about the past and future of humanity, Sapiens and Homo Deus, have sold in their millions, said Trump’s speech embracing “the doctrine of patriotism” was very disturbing.

Speaking on Thursday, Harari said that humankind faced an existential crisis due to three overlapping problems: nuclear war, climate change and technological disruption.

“All these problems are global problems in essence, and it should be clear to everybody – especially to politicians – that there is no national solution to nuclear war, climate change or technological disruption,” Harari said. “You can’t build a wall against nuclear winter or against global warming and you can’t regulate artificial intelligence or biotechnology on a national basis. Because nobody would like to be behind, nobody would like to limit their own research and development if other countries are not adopting similar regulations. Global cooperation is the first and necessary step to successfully facing our challenges as a species.”

Harari also took a dim view of Brexit, which he described as “basically a distraction. I don’t think inherently it’s a bad idea … but the timing is terrible… If the EU breaks up into 28 different countries, it’s going to be much more difficult to negotiate climate agreements, to have a common front against the hi-tech giants. Every minute the UK and EU institutes are spending on Brexit is a minute they don’t spend on climate change. And they spend a lot of minutes on it.

“Also it’s all just a fantasy about being independent. But there are no longer any independent countries in the world. It doesn’t matter what’s written on some document.”

See, on one hand, the Cult of Climastrology pushes for globalism, no borders, etc. On the other, they complain about road miles from shipping food, clothes, and other products from around the world. Don’t ask for consistency.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a glass of orange juice which will be super expensive due to climate change in the future, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post noting 4 day long gas lines in oil rich Socialist Venezuela.

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Blocking Poor Immigrants Could Be Costly Or Something

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 10:59 am

One has to wonder why Democrats are so hot to trot to allow legal immigrants who are poor and will need massive public assistance into the U.S., causing them to make these types of illogical arguments

Why Blocking Poor Immigrants Could Be Very Costly

Worse health outcomes, especially among pregnant women. A jump in emergency room usage. More communicable diseases. Higher poverty and housing instability, including among U.S. citizen children. Lower productivity. Reduced educational attainment. And “downstream and upstream impacts on state and local economies, large and small businesses, and individuals.”

What are all these terrible things? They’re all potential consequences of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule—according to DHS itself.

The rule seeks to bar noncitizens from obtaining green cards if the government determines that they’re likely to become “public charges”—individuals likely to use public benefits, such as food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, some parts of Medicare, and Section 8 and other housing subsidies. Its long-term effect, should it be implemented in its current form, would be to strengthen barriers to entry for low-income people who are immigrating through family.

Got that? Barring people who would essentially be drains on society would cause all the stuff in the first paragraph. Why, in their loony feelings based opinion

DHS says that this will save billions for local governments and “promote immigrant self-sufficiency and protect finite resources by ensuring that they are not likely to become burdens on American taxpayers.” But critics of the rule fear that the Trump administration’s latest effort to strangle immigration could have another, more immediate effect: spooking existing immigrant populations enough to encourage millions to withdraw from public benefits programs. And that could have all sorts of expensive repercussions—especially for cities with large immigrant populations.

Except, the rule would not apply to those already lawfully present in the country. It does beg the question “why are we allowing people in who cannot survive without being a public charge in the first place?” For those who go through the usual process to become a citizen part of the requirements is that they must be able to support themselves. No SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, Section 8 housing, etc. Most of those who are on all the public benefits are those who are brought in as refugees and such.

Oh, and by spooking, they mean spooking illegal aliens, as well. Why do we want to bring in people who will be drains? To answer the question of why, well, Democrats want people who are beholden to the government who will be Democrat voters.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Is Making The Earth Wobble

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 9:20 am

If only you had forgone your use of a fossil fueled vehicle, had given up meat, started taking 2 minute showers, moved into an off-the-grid shack, and, really, just killed yourself because Warmists complain about too many people on Earth

Climate Change Causing the Earth to Wobble? NASA Says, Yes!

Climate change is impacting how Earth spins on its axis, NASA says.

Over the past century, Earth’s axis – the imaginary line that passes through the North and South Poles – has drifted about 4 inches, and a decrease in Greenland’s ice mass is the main contributor to the wobble, the space agency has announced.

As temperatures increased throughout the 20th century because of humans, Greenland’s ice mass decreased.

“A total of about 7,500 gigatons — the weight of more than 20 million Empire State Buildings — of Greenland’s ice melted into the ocean during this time period,” NASA said in a press release. “This makes Greenland one of the top contributors of mass being transferred to the oceans, causing sea level to rise and, consequently, a drift in Earth’s spin axis.”

The agency notes that while melting has occurred at other locations, including Antarctica, Greenland’s location has had a greater influence on Earth’s wobble.

“There is a geometrical effect that if you have a mass that is 45 degrees from the North Pole — which Greenland is — or from the South Pole (like Patagonian glaciers), it will have a bigger impact on shifting Earth’s spin axis than a mass that is right near the Pole,” said coauthor Eric Ivins.

See? Your fault. They forgot to supply evidence that this is all the fault of humanity (that’s the way they position it above), they just assume it. Can they explain what the wobble was during the Little Ice Age? How about the Medieval Warm Period? And the previous warm and cool periods during the Holocene? Certainly with science one needs a control group for this, do they not?

Nah. That’s not the MO of the Cult of Climastrology. And we can’t fix this without taxes/fees and you giving up your liberty.

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EJ Dionne Is Giving Up The Game: The Kavanaugh Smears Are Just Politics For The Long Term

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 9:06 am

Democrats tell us the real game again and again. The New York Times editorial board, featuring racist Sarah Jeong, wants to hit pause on the process, a blatant attempt to push for holding off till after the election. It mentions “evidence” in the subhead, then provides none in the screed. For them, preferably after the new Congress is seated with Democrats controlling the Senate. The Washington Post EB wants the FBI to investigate to run out the clock, despite knowing that the FBI doesn’t investigate local crimes. Also at the WP, E.J. Dionne

The Kavanaugh vote is bigger than politics

Who says politicians think only about the next election? In the battle over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the outcome each party respectively wants may hurt them in November’s elections.

But the stakes are so high that neither side can afford to focus on politics alone.

They got higher still on Wednesday when a new accuser, Julie Swetnick, said Kavanaugh was abusive to girls in high school and alleged he was present at a party where she was gang-raped. Kavanaugh vigorously denied the new charges, calling them “ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone.” But all ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said President Trump should either withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination or reopen his FBI background investigation.

More holes in that accusation than swiss cheese cheese cloth. Skipping to the end after all of the talk about turning this into politics for the mid-terms

Both parties have made electoral politics secondary because they know that history will weigh heavily in the coming days. In “Republican Ascendancy,” his classic book about the 1920s and early 1930s, the historian John D. Hicks noted that President Warren Harding got to make four Supreme Court appointments in his two and a half years in office. He named conservative former President William Howard Taft, as Chief Justice, while Harding’s other three appointments “fell also to men of ability, albeit in each case to an extreme conservative.”

Two of the four were still on the court when conservative justices created a judicial crisis in the 1930s by rejecting one New Deal program after another; the other two were replaced by conservatives named by President Herbert Hoover and were also broadly part of the anti-New Deal block. FDR’s court-packing fight ensued.

Conservatives now see a comparable opportunity to affect jurisprudence for decades, even as liberals are aghast at the damage an activist right-wing Court could do.

But with so many questions raised about Kavanaugh’s veracity, we can’t even get to ideology now. The best course would be to delay hearings and votes and take the time to reexamine Kavanaugh’s fitness for the court.

This is about denying Trump a pick for the Supreme Court, and doing it in the sleaziest of manners. This is what is meant by “bigger than Kavanaugh.” Daniel Hanninger calls this the Kavanaugh Standard

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to replace Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court is a watershed event that will define America’s politics for years. If the Kavanaugh nomination fails because of the accusations made against him by Christine Blasey Ford and others, America’s system of politics, indeed its everyday social relations, will be conducted in the future on the Kavanaugh Standard. It will deepen the country’s divisions for a generation.

The Kavanaugh Standard will hold that any decision requiring a deliberative consideration of contested positions can and should be decided on just one thing: belief. Belief is sufficient. Nothing else matters. (snip)

Then something new happened. Half of the Senate Judiciary Committee created this standard: “I believe Christine.”

It is an inescapable irony that the Kavanaugh Standard—“I believe”—is being established inside the context of a nomination to the highest U.S. court. This new standard for court nominees (and surely others in and outside politics) would be that judgment can be rendered in the absence of substantive argument or any legal standard relating to corroboration, cross-examination or presumption of innocence.

Democrats are setting political precedents that will come back to bite them where the sun don’t shine, much like it has with things like invoking the nuclear option when Harry Reid was in charge of the Democrat controlled Senate.

This will go nowhere, but, is it wise for Jeff to do this? Democrats should just remember their games when Democrats are accused with zero proof, zero evidence, and zero corroboration the “I Believe” meme and the other things they did.

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