ClimaScare Today: ‘Climate Change’ Will Make Your Food Less Nutricious

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 3:21 pm

It’s always something with these people

Climate change will make hundreds of millions more people nutrient deficient
Crops grown in a high CO2 atmosphere are less nutritious, containing less protein, zinc and iron

Rising levels of carbon dioxide could make crops less nutritious and damage the health of hundreds of millions of people, research has revealed, with those living in some of the world’s poorest regions likely to be hardest hit.

Previous research has shown that many food crops become less nutritious when grown under the CO2 levels expected by 2050, with reductions of protein, iron and zinc estimated at 3–17%.

Now experts say such changes could mean that by the middle of the century about 175 million more people develop a zinc deficiency, while 122 million people who are not currently protein deficient could become so.

This is essentially a reprint of the previous article (link in the excerpt) with added Doom, which assumes that CO2 levels will hit 545-585 by 2050, and this occurs even if world governments put in all the measures the Warmists have been pushing

However the study had limitations, including that it assumed diets would stay constant over the coming years, while it did not take into account that rising CO2 levels might increase the rate of plant growth. The authors note that even if individuals were able to eat more of the plants to get the same nutrient intake, they might end up with other issues like obesity, while climate effects such as increased temperatures and water stress could actually result in an overall decrease in crop yields.

All about hedging the bets, you know.

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If All You See…

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

…is horrible carbon pollution created snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on having questions on the suicide of a 9 year old gay boy.

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‘Climate Change’ Is World War III Because You Had A Cookout

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 10:31 am

At some point you’d think that the Cult would get the notion that the constant doom and gloom, apocalyptic type stories are not helping their cause. People tune out. It’s no wonder that 25+ years of spreading awareness has failed

Climate change is World War III, and we are leaderless

“World War III is well and truly underway. And we are losing,” writes environmental activist Bill McKibben, so when Malcolm Turnbull implied that the insurgency that demolished his government was based on climate ideology, what lessons are there for Scott Morrison?

As a child in Britain during WWII, I lived in a street of mothers and children. Every father was away fighting. Each house and garden was surrounded by a metal palisade fence. (blah blah blah)

Two of the world’s highest per capita carbon emitters, the United States and Australia, have deserted the trenches of WWIII by trading ideology for human lives and health.

The US response to the climate threat has been withdrawal from the Paris agreement and a full-frontal attack on the US Environmental Protection Authority, a national defence against climate change, pollution and ill-health — as irrational as if the Germans had demolished their “Siegfried Line” of WWII. (snip)

But leadership by an emerging Churchill or Roosevelt is much more difficult than in WWII. Leadership will need to explain the pots and pans needing to be sacrificed today.

Mr Churchill’s stirring “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds”, an easily understood message of WWII, has to become equally inspirational on changes in lifestyle, personal commitment to curbing rampant consumerism, energy transition, efficient recycling, modifying diet and conserving biodiversity and, ultimately, a sharing of finite resources and economic sacrifice.

In other words, they’re looking for some leader to step up to force people to accept even more government rule over their lives. They should be careful what they wish for: they just might get it. And then wonder where all their liberty went.

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Poll: Majority Do Not Want To Abolish ICE

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 8:22 am

This is going to hit the pro-illegal alien, pro-no borders crowd hard, like these nutters

That’s not even getting to the really wacky ones, including from blue checks, some of which are elected officials (and all Democrats)

Abolish ICE? Most Americans Want To Keep U.S. Immigration Agency: Poll

Most Americans do not want to see the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency abolished, despite growing calls for the agency responsible for enforcing federal immigration laws to be dismantled, a new poll shows.

In a poll released on Monday by the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago, only 24 percent of voters said they were in favor of abolishing ICE, while 40 percent of participants disagreed with the proposal and 34 percent said they had no opinion on the matter.

The survey included 1,055 adult participants and was conducted between August 16-20. It found that there was little difference in opinion on calls to abolish ICE across partisan lines, “with similar minorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans favoring abolishing the agency.”

One thing you can take from this is that a lot of people really do not care about the issue. It’s not something they’re concerned about one way or the other. You can also attempt to read in that they really do not care about illegal alien families being separated, which was really the Border Patrol, but, the nutters on the Left attempted to blame ICE.

Despite widespread protests calling for ICE to be abolished, only 37 percent of participants in the August survey said they hold an “unfavorable” view of the immigration agency. Thirty percent said that they had a “favorable” view of ICE, while 33 percent said they had no opinion of the agency at all.

57 percent of Democrats said they viewed ICE unfavorably. The same percentage of Republicans said they did view the agency favorably. Independents were most likely to say they had “no opinion,” with 46 percent of Independents stating that view.

Perhaps if they news media did their job with things like

ICE does more than capture people who are illegally present in the United States. But, yes, they do that as well. Because we have laws.

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Net Neutrality: Government Must Take Control To Make Sure You Get The Content You Want Or Something

By William Teach August 28, 2018 – 8:05 am

The Net Neutrality supporters just won’t give up in their attempt to make the Internet the same type of public utility as the 1940’s phone system. Here’s Andrew Zwicker, an assemblyman and Democrat in New Jersey giving it a shot, and, you just have to wonder what’s in it for people like Andrew

N.J. and Congress must stop internet providers from blocking content you want | Opinion

Last spring in the Statehouse, many of my colleagues and I were working hard to pass net neutrality legislation here in New Jersey. Over 30 states have similar bills pending, and three states have already passed their own version of net neutrality rules.

Under net neutrality, when consumers pay an internet service provider (ISP) a monthly fee for accessing the internet, whether it is to check email, watch a movie, post a photo with friends on social media, or research a topic, they are in control, not the ISP.

Last year, however, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) changed the rules and allowed ISPs to engage in content-based discrimination, specifically, speeding up, slowing down, or blocking access to lawful online content based on the ISPs’ political view or business interests.

There have been claims emerging throughout the country of ISP’s throttling their customer’s internet connection. Whether it was the slowing down of Skype calls, a FaceTime video chat, or even more recently, a slowed internet connection used by emergency responders during the worst fire in California’s history, each of these examples clearly shows the critical demand for the internet to remain free and open.

In fact, most, if not all of these claims involved consumers going over their allotted highspeed bandwith. For instance, the firefighters plan they signed up for gave them unlimited Internet, but only 25gb of highspeed. They went over that. Many people have wireless phone plans that work exactly like this. The Obama era Net Neutrality would not have stopped this.

I wish we didn’t have to take the time to address this common-sense issue, but unfortunately the FCC has taken this anti-consumer position against the wishes of a clear majority of Americans.

Right. Like it’s pro-consumer putting the government in charge of the Internet much like the wired phone system. How much innovation was done? Very little. It wasn’t till regulation was massively eased that things started to really change in the late 1980’s. The wireless phone system sure wouldn’t be were it is with all that regulation.

As a science educator, I’ve seen first-hand how important an open internet is to intellectual growth, discovery, and the free exchange of ideas. If internet service providers are allowed to discriminate against content based on ability to pay, small businesses and community organizations will find it difficult to compete with websites and apps that have the financial power to pay for internet fast lanes.

That’s interesting, considering how often Left-leaning companies are censoring Conservatives. Regardless, Net Neutrality would not stop that, either. Nor will it stop content from being withheld. Look at television. Do you want the NFL package? You have to get DirectTV. No one else has it. Want the NHL package? You won’t get it on AT&T’s Uverse.

None of the arguments matter. None of what the supporters say matters. Because this is all about their typical belief of Government being great and wanting Government in charge.

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Climate Ghouls Seem Pretty Upset That Warmer Weather Isn’t Causing More Deaths

By William Teach August 27, 2018 – 6:48 pm

It doesn’t help their narrative when people are not dying in droves, and they seem pretty bummed out that people are not keeling over in droves

So far, more heat waves do not mean more heat deaths

More Americans die from the effects of heat than of any other form of severe weather, and this summer has seen one heat wave after another. Some places in the U.S. and elsewhere have recorded their highest temperatures ever. In fact, the average temperature around the planet over the past four years has been the highest ever recorded, and nine of the 10 hottest years were all in this century. (The other was 1998.)

All of this would suggest that more people must be experiencing heat-related illness or death. But it’s more complicated than that.

In the U.S., in fact, heat-related illness appears to be declining.

A team of researchers led by Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at Harvard University, studied heat-related deaths in 105 U.S. cities from 1987 to 2005. They found that the risk of death from heat declined significantly even at very high temperatures.

“The population has become more resilient to heat over time,” the authors concluded.

Wait, people adapt? How is that possible?

Anyway, doom may not be here now, but it’s coming!

A particularly warm year doesn’t always bring severe heat waves with it. But climate scientists say that over time, a higher average global temperature means that we’ll see more — and more extreme — heat waves.

In fact, climate scientists have now stated that at least some heat waves from the past several years were likely or very likely the result of climate change.

As the climate continues to warm, scientists warn that the incidence of heat-related illness will rise. A new study projects a big increase in the number of emergency room visits for heat-related illness. Based on two scenarios (moderate warming vs. severe warming), there will be 21,000 to 28,000 more visits every summer by 2050. That increase is not related to a higher population; it’s strictly the result of more intense heat waves.

It’s always some sort of scary prognostication of doom with these people.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible, evil plastic water bottle causing drought and flood, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on Democrats exiting stage left.

Remember to recycle, kiddies.

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Eating Now Needs To Be A Political And Spiritual Act Due To ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach August 27, 2018 – 10:30 am

There’s nothing that these nutadoodles in the Cult of Climastrology, and the wider Progressive movement, won’t attempt to politicize and ruin

Eating as a political, social, spiritual act: The World Peace Diet

We must believe that we are capable of creating “a place of love and mutual assistance and understanding.” This is how visionary Tim Berners-Lee described the utopianist John Perry Barlow at the time of his death, adding: “I don’t think he was naïve.”

Our current climate change crisis calls for this type of bold, inspiring and transformative action. The book Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming, put out by Project Drawdown, explains, maps, measures and models solutions that are already in place.

“Drawing down” occurs when we succeed in reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on a year-to-year basis. This is not a daydream. We are currently achieving this on a small scale. If we scale up these efforts we can reverse global warming. (snip)

Eight of the top 25 actions to achieve this reversal involve food. Each one of us can rethink the food we are producing, eating and wasting. And we can call for more government and industry action to support sustainable food systems.

The World Peace Diet offers one way. This diet encourages mindful eating. Advocates say that many animal-based eaters become so largely because of cultural, social and familial pressures. They argue that it is not necessary to carry on these unexamined and outmoded traditions.

The only thing missing is how they expect this to happen. People won’t do it voluntarily. It would require force of government.

When it comes to food choices, we are encouraged not to examine exploitative relationships with animals or other people. Humans have become ‘rationalizing, ready to disregard science, morals and our well-being, so we can slaughter and consume animals.

These same people are also the ones who support abortion on demand with zero restrictions.

We can choose a non-violent lifestyle. We could choose not to take a life to eat. We could eat an array of nuts, seeds, legumes, fruits and vegetables to meet our nutritional requirements without giving up on taste or satisfaction.

We can ignore tens of millions of years of human evolution, all to “solve” a fake issue.

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Iran Goes To International Court Of Justice Claiming U.S. Is Violating Treaty

By William Teach August 27, 2018 – 8:33 am

This takes a big pair of jihadi cajones to make this claim, and they dug seriously deep to find their reasoning

(The Hill) Iran on Monday asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to compel the U.S. to lift recently imposed sanctions, arguing the penalties violate an obscure treaty between the two countries.

Reuters reported that Iranian lawyers argued to judges with the United Nations-affiliated court that the U.S. is “plainly in violation of the 1955 Treaty of Amity,” which was agreed upon as part of an effort to emphasize “friendly relations” and “mutually beneficial trade and investments” between the two nations.

“The U.S. is publicly propagating a policy intended to damage as severely as possible Iran’s economy and Iranian national companies, and therefore inevitably Iranian nationals,” Mohsen Mohebi, an attorney representing Iran, told the court.

Reuters reported that the U.S. is scheduled to respond on Tuesday, though the State Department argued in an written statement that Iran’s complaint falls outside the bounds of the treaty and outside of the ICJ’s jurisdiction.

A ruling is expected within a month, Reuters reported.

When the leaders of Iran are leading the chants of “death to America”, I’m not sure the Treaty of Amity applies anymore

TREATY OF AMITY, ECONOMIC RELATIONS, AND CONSULAR
RIGHTS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND IRAN

The United States of America and Iran, desirous of emphasizing
the friendly relations which have long prevailed between their
peoples, of reaffirming the high principles in the regulation of
human affairs to which they are committed, of encouraging
mutually beneficial trade and investments and closer economic
intercourse generally between their peoples, and of regulating
consular relations, have resolved to conclude, on the basis of
reciprocal equality of treatment, a Treaty of Amity, Economic
Relations, and Consular Rights, and have appointed as their
Plenipotentiaries: (snip)

Article I

There shall be firm and enduring peace and sincere friendship
between the United States of America and Iran.

I think this rather ended in 1979 when the Shah was deposed, the radical Islamists took over the country, invaded our embassy, and then took our citizens hostage.

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Scorching Take: CNN Notes Struggles Terrorist Family Had Living Off The Grid

By William Teach August 27, 2018 – 8:18 am

This is….bad. Really, really bad

Never go Full CNN. The in article headline isn’t any better, and CNN actually did a video segment on this

In New Mexico, where life off the grid is common, compound suspects struggled

The compound was hiding in plain sight, a white smudge in the dusty green expanse of sagebrush and juniper stretching across the Colorado-New Mexico border.

A few feet past a handwritten “no trespassing” sign on the ground, a box truck sat unlocked. Inside, a wooden bunk bed was propped up against the wall, surrounded by piles of dirty clothing and worn-out books. Identity documents were mixed on the floor with children’s math workbooks, self-help guides and gun manuals. A dusty bulletproof vest lay nearby.

It had been two weeks since law enforcement raided lot 78 in Costilla Meadows, a rural subdivision in Amalia, New Mexico, where homes are off the grid and you can see your nearest neighbor miles over the dry grassland. Police found 11 malnourished children there, shoeless and in tattered clothes, and arrested five adults. Days later, they found the remains of the 3-year-old boy they were searching for. (snip)

Individuals from society’s periphery have long sought refuge in this part of the state, where cheap land far from the nearest power line or shopping center is easy to find. The region’s history of welcoming outsiders has contributed to cross-cultural exchanges and a tolerant attitude that locals consider points of pride. Many are quick to distance the state’s countercultural vibe from the compound and its inhabitants, who are accused of training the children to commit mass shootings. But they also fear that the publicity around a case infused with allegations of terrorism, child abuse and faith healing might contribute to a rise in racism and Islamophobia.

It’s a long, long, long piece, which seems to gloss over the child abuse, training kids to be terrorists, etc. Sure, they’re mentioned. Barely. Let Mo break it down, since I saw it first from her tweet

https://twitter.com/molratty/status/1033887218874630149

And CNN wonders why they’re called fake news. Perhaps idiot news would be more correct.

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