Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Isn’t Causing The End Of Coffee

By William Teach September 19, 2018 – 11:22 am

Everyone can breath a deep sigh of relief and get back to slurping up vast amounts of delicious, delicious coffee (via Watts Up With That?)

Remember When Climate Change Meant The End Of Coffee? Never Mind

For roughly the last two years, the media has been warning us that climate change is threatening the world’s supply of coffee beans.

According to the hypothesis, growing conditions for coffee will no longer be suitable in many places, and plagues and pestilences will destroy the crops. If that doesn’t kill off coffee, then the lack of pollinators will.

As usual, the media wasn’t shy in its headlines. The New York Times bluntly stated “Climate Change Threatens World’s Coffee Supply, Report Says.” TIME magazine took it a step further: “Your Morning Cup of Coffee Is in Danger. Can the Industry Adapt in Time?” Newsweek, in its typical “dial-it-up-to-11” editorial style, wrote, “Climate Change Effects Could Mean the End of Coffee Beans.”

That’s right. The end of coffee beans. We’ll have to drink tea. I shudder to think of it. Even Popular Science got in on the action: “Climate change will make your coffee cost more and taste worse.”

Thankfully, these are all testable hypotheses. The world has been getting warmer over at least the past few decades, so coffee production should be decreasing, and coffee prices should be going up. Are they?

Nope. According to a new report by the Financial Times, prices for coffee beans have hit a 12-year low. But that’s only taking into account recent data. If we look all the way back to the beginning of time (which, in this case, is the 1970’s), we see that the highest coffee prices, just under $3.40 per pound, occurred in April 1977. Today, the coffee price is about 93 cents per pound.

In fact, many coffee farmers are turning to production of cocaine because the low prices. And, notice that no one is complaining about the lack of coffee beans, nor the taste, despite even more use of coffee. In fact, you’re seeing record crops.

But, do not think reality will make a difference to Cult of Climastrology talking points, because they will keep trotting out the doomy talking points ad nauseum.

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Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2018 (sticky for the day)

By William Teach September 19, 2018 – 11:06 am

Talk Like A Pirate Day
Illustration by Ghergich & Co.

That’s right, mateys, it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Aaaaaar!

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Elizabeth Warren Wants Corporations To Be Forced To Disclose Their ‘Climate Change’ Risks

By William Teach September 19, 2018 – 8:10 am

She won’t actually disclose her genetic percentage of Native American DNA, but, he, remember, she totally believes she’s a capitalist

(Grist) Right now, public companies don’t have to say what kind of threat climate change poses to their business or whether they are contributing to the problem. We simply don’t know how much major corporations are to blame for the pickle we’re in. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has a plan to change that.

On Friday, the possible 2020 presidential hopeful proposed the Climate Risk Disclosure Act. The legislation would compel companies to disclose a wide variety of climate-related information, such as greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuel investments, and how things like rising sea levels and increased temperatures might affect their operations. If a publicly traded company is going to get hit hard by climate change and knows it, Warren thinks the public has a right to know. Kinda makes sense!

“Climate change is a real and present danger — and it will have an enormous effect on the value of company assets,” Warren said in a statement.

The act is co-sponsored by a slew of Democratic senators, including two other rumored presidential hopefuls, Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey. Climate hawk Al Gore and a coalition of green groups have backed the legislation.

Yet more Big Government regulations on private entities, increasing their costs (which get passed on to consumers) and putting them more under the thumb of government, which would then force Big Government restrictions on those companies. And fines for non-compliance. And would open them up to nuisance lawsuits from Cult of Climastrology groups.

It is very much, actually, a backdoor method to force fossil fuels companies to publish something that complies in a specific manner of the Warmist’s choosing that would be used to go after those same companies through lawsuits and government intervention.

The legislation would require noting the impacts of both direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as indirect GHG emissions. It would also require calculating the “social cost of carbon.” And this, that, and the other. It would take an enormous amount of time and resources to comply with this bill.

Yet, the same people who are pushing this are refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral. Yes, that is a very repetitive line. But, I won’t stop using it as long as the people who are pushing this aren’t walking the talk.

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NY Times: Sexual Abuse Is Totally Not Partisan Or Something

By William Teach September 19, 2018 – 7:44 am

They’re totally not trying to find a way to convict Judge Brett Kavanaugh with zero actual evidence, just pointing stuff out, Keith Ellison was unavailable for comment

Sexual Abuse Isn’t Partisan
Yet the response usually is. Republican leaders can’t seem to take the problem seriously.

Republicans seem determined to brand themselves the party of sexual harassment and abuse.

This is not to pass judgment on whether the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when they were in high school, as she has said. That has yet to be investigated.

The FBI refused to investigate. For one thing, no federal crime has been committed. Second, they’ve done a background check on Kavanaugh six times for various federal positions. Third, this was 36 years ago, the accuser has kind of squishy on details, and it would be the local police who would investigate. They need details. And might decline because it was 36 years ago and she failed to say anything in all this time. And, is a complete Democrat partisan supporter.

But, yes, it is meant to pass judgement on Kavanaugh.

In July, when Representative Jim Jordan faced multiple accusations of having overlooked the sexual abuse of college wrestlers while he was an assistant coach at Ohio State University, Republican lawmakers rushed not merely to defend their colleague but to tear down his accusers. Mr. Trump’s by now predictable response: “I don’t believe them at all.”

And no one has been able to offer credible proof that Jordan overlooked the abuse. Many wrestlers came out in his defense.

Except that, if Dr. Blasey’s account is true, then Judge Kavanaugh is not “a really good man” because he would have been lying to Congress, the president and the American people.

Mr. Hatch isn’t the only Republican peddling a boys-will-be-boys defense. One anonymous lawyer “close to the White House” went so far as to warn of the dire repercussions of treating Dr. Blasey’s complaint seriously. “If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried,” he told Politico. “We can all be accused of something.”

How many have had their lives ruined, especially males in colleges, from accusations that were unsubstantiated and lacking proof beyond feelings? This, in fact, is the problem with the “all women should be believed” movement, which morphed into #MeToo when tons of Hollywood Democrats were caught out: it avoids Due Process. Sexual assault is a horrible crime. So are most crimes. That’s why they’re called “crimes.” Our system of justice relies on the notion of innocent till proven guilty, and evidence is required. Not just a person’s say so.

Anyhow, lots of Typical Whining from the Editorial Board which features a confirmed racist in Sarah Jeong at Republicans and Trump. What you’d expect.

And while the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked for Dr. Blasey and Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony on the accusations, it has not committed to hold full hearings, with witnesses, or to ask for an F.B.I. investigation, something Dr. Blasey on Tuesday insisted should occur before she appeared.

Remember, this isn’t partisan, guys and gals. Except for pushing the Talking Point about an FBI investigation, which is a complete canard and distraction. Or that Diane Feinstein sat on the letter since July, bringing it out at the 11th hour. And that the NYTEB, and all the Democrats, are strangely all on the same page about holding off till all the above happens. About finding Excuses to hold off, to attempt to run the clock out.

They don’t want this answered: they want to destroy a good man for their political purposes because they are Sore Losers.

Meanwhile, the Democrats sure don’t care about Keith Ellison and the accusations against him.

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Bottom Up Is The Way To Go On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach September 18, 2018 – 2:08 pm

You may be thinking “bottom up? So, Warmists will finally start making their own lives carbon neutral voluntarily?”

No

The world has decided bottom-up is the way it’s going to stop climate change

At the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco this week, the crisp Pacific air was filled with promises of less carbon. No one making those promises mentioned national governments. (snip)

With the US government all but out of the game (for now), the action is going local. The world seems to have decided that bottom-up is the way to stop climate change. “It’s remarkable seeing what is actually happening on the ground,” says David Waskow of the World Resources Institute. “It’s a network model for taking climate action.”

But is it enough? Governor Brown and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg argue it’s close. The two lead America’s Pledge, a local climate action group with more than 3,000 U.S. cities, states, businesses and other groups attempting to deliver on America’s goal of a 26% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2025 under the Paris Agreement. (Despite president Donald Trump’s pledge to withdraw the US from the agreement, he can’t legally do so until November 2020). America’s Pledge now claims it’s within “striking distance” of fulfilling the US climate commitment. The group hopes enough momentum at every level of society may stymie federal efforts to stop progress on slowing climate change.

What they mean by bottom up is cities, counties, and states forcing the citizens and private entities to Do Something, usually in the form of taxes/fees, reduction of liberty, and job killing mandates. All why the governments and the people who push all this stuff refuse to mitigate their own carbon footprints.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 18, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post noting that there’s actually San Francisco poop map.

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Hurricane Florence Is The New Normal Or Something

By William Teach September 18, 2018 – 10:48 am

The U.S. had no major landfalling hurricanes from the 2006 season through to late in the 2017 season. There were very few landfalling hurricanes during that time period, as well, nor many tropical storms. But, now, of course, after a few hurricanes during the 2017 and 2018 seasons, something that typically happens, well, we’re back to the new normal thing, which was trotted out after the massive 2005 season, Superstorm Sandy in 2012 (which was not a hurricane at landfall), and now, here’s Excitable Eugene Robinson fear-mongering (yet forgetting to tell us that he’s given up his own use of fossil fuels and gone carbon neutral) and taking advantage of people who just went through a natural disaster

Climate change is real. Welcome to the new normal.

Hurricane Florence has drenched eastern North Carolina with more than 30 inches of rain, an all-time record for the state. Last year, Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston and dumped more than 60 inches of rain, an all-time record for the whole country. Also last year, Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico and caused, according to an independent study, nearly 3,000 deaths.

Welcome to the new normal.

Tropical cyclones are nothing new, of course. But climate scientists saythat global warming should make such storms wetter, slower and more intense — which is exactly what seems to be happening. And if we fail to act, these kinds of devastating weather events will likely become even more frequent and more severe.

Which is exactly what they said right after the big 2005 season, and immediately saw these systems fade away for a decade. But, you know, this isn’t about science, reality, consistency, continuity, etc. It’s about in the moment scare-mongering.

Every human being on the planet has a stake in what governments do to limit and adapt to climate change, including leaders who, like President Trump, prefer to believe global warming is some kind of hoax. I doubt the citizens of Wilmington, N.C. — a lovely resort town that was turned into an island by widespread flooding from Florence — feel there is anything illusory about the hardship they’re going through.

Did they blame hurricanes during the Little Ice Age on mankind? Well, perhaps on illusionary witches.

Climate change is no longer theoretical. It is real, it is all around us, and it is going to get much worse.

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People Complaining About Fossil Fuels At California Summit Increased Jet Traffic By 30%

By William Teach September 18, 2018 – 7:51 am

I suppose all the private jets were going that way anyway, right?

PRIVATE JET TRAFFIC BUMPED UP 30 PERCENT DURING CALIFORNIA CLIMATE CONFERENCE

San Francisco International Airport’s corporate jet traffic rose roughly 30 percent during an international climate change conference in California, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown hosted the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco from Wednesday to Friday. Brown traveled to the conference by car with his security detail, but the governor is known for his lavish travel on other occasions, such as a 2016 trip to Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine with real-estate tycoon and Democrat Party donor George Marcus.

More than 4,000 elected officials, executives and environmentalists converged in San Francisco for the climate conference where participants discussed the threat of climate change and looked for solutions.

Corporate jet traffic increased 30 percent over normal at San Francisco’s airport during the three-day conference, with much of the congestion due to attendees, airport spokesman Doug Yakel told The San Francisco Chronicle.

What, you expected all those government big-wigs and rich climate change leaders to fly commercial? How gauche. They have to have their champagne, caviar, and fly in utter comfort. They’ll drop a few bucks on (supposedly) planting a tree somewhere to offset their Bad Climate Behavior.

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Trump Orders Release Of Unredacted FISA Documents

By William Teach September 18, 2018 – 7:36 am

This has caused many, many Liberal’s heads to explode

https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1041800893379870723

This will include all text messages of Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr.

Trump orders Justice Dept. to declassify Russia-related material

President Trump on Monday ordered the Justice Department to declassify significant materials from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, threatening to spur a showdown with federal law enforcement officials resistant to publicizing information from an ongoing probe.

In a statement, the White House said Trump was ordering the department to immediately declassify portions of the secret court order to monitor former campaign adviser Carter Page, along with all interviews conducted as officials applied for that authority.

Trump also instructed the department to publicly release the unredacted text messages of several former high-level Justice Department and FBI officials, including former FBI director James B. Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe.

For months, conservative lawmakers have been calling on the department to release Russia-related and other materials, many of them accusing law enforcement of hiding information that might discredit the investigation now led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

And it looks like Trump finally had enough. Will this release have any big revelations? Well, we’ve seen plenty so far on the material that has been released, much with redactions.

Of course, this has made many Democrats unhappy

Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called the order a “clear abuse of power” and said that based on his conversations with federal law enforcement officials, the FBI and Justice Department would consider the release of these materials “a red line that must not be crossed as they may compromise sources and methods.”

Of course he does. He only wants certain information released, namely, that which makes Trump and company look bad. He’s not particularly happy with full transparency

“Transparency wins,” Rep Mark Meadows said in a tweet. “This is absolutely the right call from @POTUS. It’s time to get the full truth on the table so the American people can decide for themselves on what happened at the highest levels of their FBI and Justice Department.” (snip)

“These documents will reveal to the American people some of the systemic corruption and bias that took place at the highest levels of the DOJ and FBI, including using the tools of our intelligence community for par­tisan political ends,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

Declassify and release so that the citizens can see the information and decide.

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Unknown German Teen Arrested For Plotting Attack On Gay Night Club

By William Teach September 17, 2018 – 4:51 pm

Unshockingly, the German police are refusing to release the name and any information of relevance about the person, which should really tell us all we need to know

German Teen Arrested For Allegedly Plotting Gay Club Bomb Attack

BERLIN (AP) — A German teenager has been arrested on suspicion he was planning an Islamic extremist bombing attack in the Frankfurt area, prosecutors said Thursday.

Frankfurt prosecutors’ spokesman Sinan Akdogan told The Associated Press the 17-year-old was arrested by Hesse state police Sept. 1 and ordered held by a judge on suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence.

The information leading to the arrest, provided by the United States, indicated the suspect was planning to attack a gay nightclub in Frankfurt and a Catholic church in the city, according to an official with access to intelligence information, who discussed it on condition of anonymity.

At the time of his arrest, the suspect had instructions on how to make explosives known as TATP and was trying to procure chemicals online, Akdogan said.

It was not clear how advanced the preparations were but Akdogan said small amounts of chemicals were found during a search of the suspect’s home in Florstadt, northeast of Frankfurt.

The suspect’s name was withheld for privacy reasons and Akdogan said he could not give further details on the planned attack.

What’s the over/under on the person being a radical Islamist? Probably pretty good.

This was actually in the Queer Voices section of the HuffPost, linked on the front page. At what point will the LGBTQwhatever community finally realize that radical Islam, which, at least in viewpoint, not necessarily direct violence, is a sizable chunk of Islam, is bad for the “queer” community? That it poses an actual threat?

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