If All You See…

By William Teach September 11, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a lake that is drying up from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post explaining exactly what net neutrality is.

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Warmist Gov Brown Looks For Negative Emissions

By William Teach September 11, 2018 – 10:30 am

Governor Moonbeam uses vast amounts of fossil fuels himself, not too mention the vast amounts used by the state of Climafornia and its counties and cities. And, the huge number of people who flew and drove to San Fran for the big climate conference

Gov. Brown’s new climate goal: less than zero global warming emissions

Gov. Jerry Brown has repeatedly ratcheted up California’s global warming goals, setting ever-higher targets for the use of renewable power and demanding deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

But on Monday, Brown announced a climate goal so ambitious that many experts don’t know how to reach it.

As diplomats descended on San Francisco for a global climate conference, Brown signed an executive order calling for the state to slash its overall emissions to zero by 2045 and then go negative. Starting in 2046, California would pull more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, year-by-year, than it put in.

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Good luck with this, Moonbeam, as California’s economy is destroyed, because the means to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere mostly do not exist. Those few methods that do are beyond expensive, barely work, and are for tiny implementation.

Miller said, however, that setting a goal of going carbon negative could spur a serious discussion of how to get there.

So, more unicorn dust.

(I really wish that WordPress would fix the app so that all the weird formatting gets stripped. It’s a pain having go back in later to fix)

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Drives Storms Just Like Florence

By William Teach September 11, 2018 – 7:10 am

This is what your tax dollars are paying for, and unhinged, anti-science piece at NPR by Rebecca Hersher, which is, quite frankly, the first major media piece linking Florence with Hotcoldwetdry

Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms — Storms Like Florence

Hurricane Florence is moving relentlessly toward the Southeastern U.S. It’s a large, powerful cyclone that will likely bring storm surge and high winds to coastal communities.

But climate scientists say one of the biggest threats posed by Florence is rain.

“Freshwater flooding poses the greatest risk to life,” explains James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Florence could cause extensive freshwater flooding for two reasons. (snip)

If Florence stalls over the Southeast, it would be reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey, which spent days dumping rain on the Houston region last year. Some areas ended up with more than 60 inches, a catastrophic amount of water that shut down the entire region and resulted in at least 93 deaths.

Slow-moving storms like Harvey are getting more common. A study published earlier this year by Kossin found that tropical cyclones around the world have slowed down 10 percent in the last 70 years.

“We’re seeing that in every ocean basin except the northern Indian Ocean,” says Kossin, possibly because climate change is causing the wind currents that hurricanes ride to slow down. If Florence slows down and stalls when it hits land, it will the latest example of that trend.

Perhaps they could tell us what hurricanes did during the Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, and other cool and warm Holocene periods for comparison, because that’s the way science works. But, this isn’t about science, it’s about fearmongering to get you to pay taxes/fees and give up your liberty to government

Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., says global warming also affects the size and intensity of storms like Florence.

“We have global warming, and so this actually makes these storm bigger and more intense,” he explains. Humans burn fossil fuels in our cars, our power plants and our airplanes, all of which release greenhouse gases which trap heat. Warmer oceans, especially, provide fuel for hurricanes in the form of evaporating moisture.

Blah blah blah, another prognostication. Again, remember that they were first claiming that the big 2005 season was the new normal. When hurricane activity dried up almost immediately, they claimed there would be fewer but more powerful. When that didn’t happen, they blamed ‘climate change’ for atmospheric conditions that killed off landfalling tropical systems. Then, when you had a few major hurricanes last year after a 12 year dearth, they went back to the above conspiracy theory.

Funny how, if the Warmists believe that fossil fuels are to blame, that they aren’t giving up their own use of them.

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Washington Post: George Bush Is To Blame For Not Uniting Us After 9/11

By William Teach September 11, 2018 – 6:59 am

Most of the media is ignoring the 17th anniversary of September 11th, with, at best, some tiny little stories, or yammering on like Charles Lane, which is one of 3 web front page pieces, the 2nd which features iconic pictures, the third which kinda goes after Trump. There are a few unhinged op ed pieces, like Excitable Joe Scarborough using 9/11 to attack Trump. He needs to leave the GOP, he’s as wacko as Bernie Sanders and Corey Booker

We expected the war on terror to unite us. What went wrong?

Seventeen years ago, Osama bin Laden’s terrorist minions, using hijacked passenger planes as weapons, killed 2,977 people in a single awful raid on the United States. The al-Qaeda attack horrified and angered the nation — but also caused Americans to rally together as they had not done since Pearl Harbor.

Eighty-two percent of Americans spontaneously displayed the flag in the days just after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a Gallup poll. Some 150 members of Congress from both parties gathered on the Capitol steps and sang “God Bless America.” Soon thereafter, a huge bipartisan majority voted to give President George W. Bush near carte blanche authority to wage a retaliatory “war on terror.”

In January 2001, 55 percent of the public described themselves as “extremely proud” to be American, according to Gallup; after what were widely understood as murderous attacks on U.S.-style freedom itself, that number surged, reaching 70 percent by June 2003. (snip)

Obviously, it has not worked out that way. Gone, long gone, are the singing, flag-waving and bipartisanship of the 9/11 aftermath. In their place, we have a polarized, hate-filled political climate often, and not inaccurately, described as a “cold civil war.” In July, Gallup found that only 47 percent of the public is still “extremely proud” to be American.

The majority of those are Democrats. Only 32% were extremely proud, versus 74% of Republicans.

Bush deserves blame for the politicized manner in which he and his team pursued the conflict, staking out extreme positions on, say, denying Geneva Convention protections to captive terror suspects, then denouncing critics as insufficiently committed to victory.

Yet divisions over the conduct of prolonged irregular warfare were bound to intensify sooner or later, as they did during the Vietnam War. By its nature, such a conflict breeds difficult policy dilemmas, and democracy, by its nature, processes such controversies through partisan conflict.

Of course, Blame Bush, rather than those, who were mostly Democrats, who quickly turned and started attacking him, who came up with the insane 9/11 Truth conspiracy theories, who claimed that Bush either let 9/11 happen or made it happen. Who decided that any attacks on Islamic radical terrorists was an attack on all Muslims, and started yammering about Islamophobia. Who seemed to care more about protecting those jihadis than Americans. Who cared more about some captured jihadis (who are actually mostly not protected by the Geneva Convention) than Americans having their heads sawed off. How were just unhinged still that Bush won the 2000 election (then the 2004) so had to be against everything he was for.

It’s also not unusual, since these same people hate America, so they take the side of the jihadis.

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9/11 Seventeen Years Later (sticky for the day)

By William Teach September 11, 2018 – 6:41 am

As I have done every year since the 5th anniversary of September 11th, I remember two wonderful individuals, who I’ll never have a possible chance to meet and converse with, due to 19 murderous Islamist terrorists and their superiors, who attacked our country on that fateful day.

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Who’s Ready For ‘Climate Change’ Scallop Wars?

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 3:00 pm

This would be amusing if the intentions of the Cult of Climastrology weren’t so dangerous to our economy, our personal wealth, and our liberty

Climate change conflicts are here – and ‘scallop wars’ are just the beginning

As the planet warms, species are moving further north to climate zones which are closer in temperature to what they originally evolved in. The oceans have absorbed most of this temperature increase, and so many marine species, including commercially fished scallops, are under particular stress to migrate northwards to cooler waters.

In the face of this disruption, legal boundaries for fishing fleets could become increasingly irrelevant. As the fish stocks they once contained move out, conflict is likely to arise between countries exploiting neighbouring fishing grounds.

As a result, the ongoing “scallop war”, which has seen tense physical confrontations between French and British scallop fishers over access to these prized molluscs, may be a taste of worse to come.

These people think the Earth is always supposed to stay exactly the same. Nutters.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are trees that will soon die from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on a month in America by Islamists.

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Thanks, Obama: Al Qaeda Is Stronger Than Ever

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 10:33 am

Over at the LA Times, Nabih Bulos has an interesting expose on al Qaeda

Seventeen years after Sept. 11, Al Qaeda may be stronger than ever

In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, the United States set out to destroy Al Qaeda. President George W. Bush vowed to “starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest.”

Seventeen years later, Al Qaeda may be stronger than ever. Far from vanquishing the extremist group and its associated “franchises,” critics say, U.S. policies in the Mideast appear to have encouraged its spread.

What U.S. officials didn’t grasp, said Rita Katz, director of the SITE intelligence group, in a recent phone interview, is that Al Qaeda is more than a group of individuals. “It’s an idea, and an idea cannot be destroyed using sophisticated weapons and killing leaders and bombing training camps,” she said.

The group has amassed the largest fighting force in its existence. Estimates say it may have more than 20,000 militants in Syria and Yemen alone. It boasts affiliates across north Africa, the Levant and parts of Asia, and it remains strong around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

It has also changed tactics. Instead of the headline-grabbing terrorist attacks, brutal public executions and slick propaganda used by Islamic State (Al Qaeda’s one-time affiliate and now rival), Al Qaeda now practices a softer approach, embedding itself and gaining the support of Sunni Muslims inside war-torn countries.

Look, Obama did a decent job in quietly going after Islamic terrorists while president. He loved him some drone strikes and sending in special forces. Some serious strikes. But, the very fact is that people like Obama and his people refused to acknowledge that radical Islam is an idea, and that it is growing, especially as more and more Muslims are indoctrinated into the hardcore beliefs. Al Shabbab is one of AQ’s largest franchises, then you have the Nusra Front in Syria, which is working with the rebels against Bashar Assad. These types of groups enjoy more support amongst Muslims than ISIS, being less brutal and attempting to be more inclusive.

They’re growing, being in Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen, among others. Until you call out the mindset that creates the hardcore Islamists, you can’t hope to defeat it.

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If We Don’t Address ‘Climate Change’ We’ll All End Up In Caves Hiding From Methane Fireballs Or Something

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 8:02 am

We can fix this all with a tax, you know

The Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet
William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is brilliant, but it offers no comfort to its readers.

Authors like to flatter themselves by imagining for their work an “ideal reader,” a cherubic presence endowed with bottomless generosity, the sympathy of a parent, and the wisdom of, well, the authors themselves. In Carbon Ideologies, William T. Vollmann imagines for himself the opposite: a murderously hostile reader who sneers at his arguments, ridicules his feeblemindedness, scorns his pathetic attempts at ingratiation. Vollmann can’t blame this reader, whom he addresses regularly throughout Carbon Ideologies, because she lives in the future, under radically different circumstances—inhabiting a “hotter, more dangerous and biologically diminished planet.” He envisions her turning the pages of his climate-change opus within the darkened recesses of an underground cave in which she has sought shelter from the unendurable heat; the plagues, droughts, and floods; the methane fireballs racing across boiling oceans. Because the soil is radioactive, she subsists on insects and recycled urine, and regards with implacable contempt her ancestors, who, as Vollmann tells her, “enjoyed the world we possessed, and deserved the world we left you.”

Good grief. Sounds like a fun read. Especially when the two books in question “No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies” and “No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies ” are 624 and 688 pages, respectively. And, as Eric Worrell points out

Author William T. Vollmann seems a bit special even for a climate advocate. Back in April this year, Vollmann called for “regulatory hell” to force everyone to accept a greener lifestyle – an insight Vollman apparently reached by bathing his face in gamma rays, and other risky sounding activities.

I wonder what the carbon footprint is for publishing and shipping his books?

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Annoyingly Woke Burger Employees Sent Home For Wearing Abolish ICE Buttons

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 7:40 am

In Woke World, everything must be made political and this must be shown constantly (hence one of the reasons the NFL is having a problem). We can’t just go get a burger anymore without a side of Wokeness

Oregon burger chain changes policy after employees wear ‘Abolish ICE’ buttons

Employees at a Pacific Northwest burger chain triggered a new policy after employees wore buttons that read “Abolish ICE” and “No one is illegal” with their uniforms.

Ten employees of fast food restaurant Burgerville, located in Portland, Ore., were sent home for a day last month when they refused to remove the buttons while on their shift, The Oregonian reported.

The silent protest came amid national outrage regarding the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy that previously separated thousands of migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.

Calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be dissolved has become a popular pledge for many Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

Well, even in Oregon, there are people who complained, stating that they just wanted food, not personal and political viewpoints

“Guests provided feedback that they didn’t want to see personal and political messages while they ate,” Graham said. “Additionally, some employees expressed that the content of the buttons was drawing unwanted attention that made them uncomfortable.”

Wait, what? They wore the buttons and were upset that they drew “unwanted attention” that “made them uncomfortable”? What did they think was going to happen? Well, one thing that has happened is that the company now has an official written policy about wearing personal buttons, where they had previously just had a word of mouth type policy.

If they were wearing NRA buttons and such, I’d want them to remove them. Leave the politics at home. Have some propriety. And these kids should realize that future employers will see their conduct, their unwillingness to conform to company policy, their bringing of politics into the workplace causing problems with customers, and deep six their resumes.

They should also remember that an illegal alien just killed two Oregon residents while driving drunk. And another raped a girl younger than 14 earlier this year in Oregon. These are just some that made the national news, and who these Abolish ICE nuts are protecting.

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