Say, What Does The New Climahysteric Report Expect From You?

By William Teach October 9, 2018 – 10:30 am

And what they mean is forcing you to do something while the big wigs who push this do nothing

What the new report on climate change expects from you

A stark new report from the global scientific authority on climate change calls on individuals, as well as governments, to take action to avoid disastrous levels of global warming.

The report, which maps out four pathways to cap Earth’s average surface temperature at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels indicates that changes in individual behavior can make a difference.

But to do that, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says, would require “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.”

The IPCC’s models emphasize the need for people to change their lifestyle and consumption patterns to more sustainable alternatives, specifically in areas they can control, like modes of transportation, the buildings they inhabit and their dietary preferences.

CNN mentions three things that you could change (among many), which are transportation, buildings, and diets. Let’s really boil it down from uber-Warmist Eric Holthaus

Redistribution of your money by people who already have theirs. And

Funny how they tell us that this is not political, then show that this is all about far left Progressive/Socialist/Marxist/whatever politics.

Quick add on

But all about science.

Read: Say, What Does The New Climahysteric Report Expect From You? »

Posted in Global Warming, Progressive Goals | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

New “Landmark” Climate Report Recommends $240 Per Gallon Carbon Tax

By William Teach October 9, 2018 – 7:17 am

As you know, there was a big climate change (scam) report released Monday that many media outlets are super enthused over

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/1049446866713305088

Not quite sure what she’s talking about, as most newspapers and TV stations that lean left are covering it. But, are they covering this?

A $240 PER GALLON GAS TAX TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING? NEW UN REPORT SUGGESTS CARBON PRICING

A United Nations special climate report suggests a tax on carbon dioxide emissions would need to be as high as $27,000 per ton at the end of the century to effectively limit global warming.

For Americans, that’s the same as a $240 per gallon tax on gasoline in the year 2100, should such a recommendation be adopted. In 2030, the report says a carbon tax would need to be as high as $5,500 — that’s equivalent to a $49 per gallon gas tax.

If you think that’s an unlikely scenario, you’re probably not wrong. However, it’s what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report, released Sunday night, sees as a policy option for reducing emissions enough to keep projected warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The IPCC’s report is meant to galvanize political support for doubling down on the Paris climate accord ahead of a U.N. climate summit scheduled for December. The report calls for societal changes that are “unprecedented in terms of scale” in order to limit future global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the stretch goal of the Paris accord.

Yeah, pretty much would never happen. But, this is what they were recommending. But, the UN IPCC’s numbers are not quite as high as the reports

In order to effectively keep future warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the IPCC says carbon taxes would need to range from $135 to $5,500 per ton in 2030, $245 to $13,000 per ton in 2050, $420 to $17,000 per ton in 2070 and $690 to $27,000 per ton in 2100.

To meet the goals of the Paris accord, which seeks to limit future warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, the IPCC says carbon taxes would have range between $10 and $200 in 2030 and $160 and $2,125 in 2100.

A 2009 report had the average carbon footprint of Americans at 19.78 metric tons per year. That’s certainly gone down a bit (especially if we take all the Warmists and their extra large footprints out), but, let’s say it’s now 16mt: You’d pay between $160 and $3,200 in 2030 alone. And that’s just your own taxes. You’d also pay a lot more for everything as those taxes are passed on.

So, lead the way, Warmists: pay carbon taxes. Better yet, reduce your own footprints.

Read: New “Landmark” Climate Report Recommends $240 Per Gallon Carbon Tax »

Posted in Carbon Credits, Global Warming | 2 Comments | Trackback URL

Republicans Recasting Angry Leftist Mobs As Angry Leftist Mobs Or Something

By William Teach October 9, 2018 – 6:59 am

The Washington Post’s Matt Viser and Robert Costa think they’re on to something

GOP adopts midterm strategy of recasting Democratic protests as ‘an angry mob’

When thousands of furious, screaming protesters marched toward the Capitol over the weekend as Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was confirmed, Republican staffers peered out at the scene from the windows above. They were not alarmed but elated.

Weeks ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans have cast the Trump resistance movement as “an angry mob,” a term used by many of them to describe a faceless amalgamation of forces that they say threaten the country’s order and, they hope, energize their voters.

President Trump and the GOP firmly control Congress and the White House and have massive financial and media infrastructure behind them. But in an effort to flip the midterm elections from a referendum on the unpopular president, they are casting themselves as defenders at the barricades.

In Virginia, Rep. David Brat (R) is running against the “liberal mob,” and GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart has decried the “mob tactics” that “tried to destroy” Kavanaugh.

“When we’re out at grocery stores or at events, we’re finding swing voters are turned off by how Kavanaugh was treated,” Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) said. “Chasing senators down the hall, running up the stairs at the Capitol — we’ve been taken aback by how people have reacted to it. And we’re responding.”

So, as they show, there were angry liberal mobs running around being angry. You had ones chasing elected representatives, like Ted Cruz and his wife, out of restaurants. The mob is threatening Senator Susan Collins to the point she now needs security protection. They get out there and take over streets and causing problems. We’ve seen the angry leftist mobs for years, going back to the Bush years, but, really got going during the Obama years. Seriously, these people are deranged. Remember the whole “screaming at the sky” thing on the one year anniversary of Trump beating Hillary using the method laid out in the Constitution?

As you read on through the article, you read example after example of what is, in fact, an angry leftist mob. But, ZOMG, Republicans are taking advantage of that to campaign!!!! It’s almost like politics are being used. Who would have though Republicans would turn the angry mob mentality of Leftists into a benefit! That never happens in politics!

Just the number of unhinged, angry, wacky things these leftists do shows that they are an angry mob.

Now, just for some whataboutism, imagine if these were angry Conservative mobs: how would they be cast?

Read: Republicans Recasting Angry Leftist Mobs As Angry Leftist Mobs Or Something »

Posted in Unhinged Tools | 5 Comments | Trackback URL

Humorless Scolds Not Amused By The “Drinking A Beer For Brett” Meme

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 4:49 pm

Of course these scolds are on MSNBC

(Daily Caller)  Republicans drank beer to celebrate Kavanaugh’s confirmation because of his proclamation that he “likes beer” and “still likes beer” during his testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A number of news articles during the nomination process attacked Kavanaugh’s credibility because of his apparent love for beer while in high school and college.

“This weekend was a real opportunity for a dignified, respectful response,” cohost Mika Brzezinski said. “Republicans celebrated the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a victory for Republicans. Activists tweeted photos of their alcohol with the hashtag #Beers4Brett.”

“I just don’t know why this is funny,” Brzezinski whined.

“It’s actually not funny,” cohost Joe Scarborough chimed in. “It’s distressing. They’re talking about the United States Supreme Court.”

“This is, again, so unbecoming,” he continued. “I’ve gotta say, classless in this respect that they’re acting like it’s a high school football game.”

If they want to talk about dignified, they should talk to their cohorts. And, at this point, Joe is a Democrat. Can’t remember the last time he took the side of Conservatives/Republicans.

Read: Humorless Scolds Not Amused By The “Drinking A Beer For Brett” Meme »

Posted in Barking Moonbats | 8 Comments | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is the notion of needed hornets disappearing from the planet because of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on massive land temperature data discrepancies.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

Not Helping: Charles Blow Declares That This Is War

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 10:30 am

Earlier, I noted that E.J. Dionne at the Washington Post was doing his part to increase violence from Democratic Party voters. Now we have Charles Blow doing the same at the NY Times. Remember, this is coming from two of the nation’s leading newspapers

Liberals, This Is War

Yes, Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. Rue the day. Rend your garments.

Then, step back, view the entirety of the battle in which you are engaged, and understand that Kavanaugh is just one part of a much larger plan by conservatives to fundamentally change the American political structure so that it enshrines and protects white male power even after America’s changing demographics and mores move away from that power.

This, for them, is not simply a game about political passion and political principles. This is a game of power, pure and simple, and it’s about whether the people who have long held that power will be able to retain it.

For them, Trump is just a useful idiot, a temporary anomaly.

They are thinking generationally, not in terms of the next election cycle but in terms of the next epoch.

Liberals can get so high-minded that they lose sight of the ground war. Yes, next month it is important to prove to the rest of Americans, and indeed the world, that Trump and the Republicans who promote and protect him are at odds with American values and with the American majority.

Chuckles goes on like this for a while, really positioning this as a race thing (he should remember that blacks are less than 13% of the population), softly giving reasons to fight. He allude to voting, but, people take this as permission for violence. He ends with

Folks, Kavanaugh is only one soldier, albeit an important one, in a larger battle. Stop thinking you’re in a skirmish, when you’re at war.

To put it bluntly, Democrat big wigs should be careful pushing this line, and the rank-and-file sheep should be careful thinking they can do this, because it’s Republicans with most of the guns, and we will defend ourselves from your violence. We do not want it to come to this, but, the more violent you become, the more chance that a really bad incident will occur.

And news outlets should be thinking very carefully about pushing this type of line which soft-pedals political violence.

Read: Not Helping: Charles Blow Declares That This Is War »

Posted in Journalistic Malpractice, Unhinged Tools | 16 Comments | Trackback URL

Crisis Delayed: New Hotcoldwetdry Report Says Chance Of Doom As Early As 2040

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 8:22 am

This rather contradicts all the current Warmist fear-mongering about ‘climate change’ being here now and causing every single Bad Weather event, like this

Plenty more where that came from. Anyhow

Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040

A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”

The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.

The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.

The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change.

The new report, however, shows that many of those effects will come much sooner, at the 2.7-degree mark.

So, doom, doom, and doom. And this NY Times article is one of the lesser doom-saying ones out there. Others are completely unhinged. But, anyhow, how can we fix this?

Avoiding the most serious damage requires transforming the world economy within just a few years, said the authors, who estimate that the damage would come at a cost of $54 trillion. But while they conclude that it is technically possible to achieve the rapid changes required to avoid 2.7 degrees of warming, they concede that it may be politically unlikely.

For instance, the report says that heavy taxes or prices on carbon dioxide emissions — perhaps as high as $27,000 per ton by 2100 — would be required. But such a move would be almost politically impossible in the United States, the world’s largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China. Lawmakers around the world, including in China, the European Union and California, have enacted carbon pricing programs.

Huh. So, a radical change to a different type of economy (strange that they don’t want to say it’s about doing away with capitalism in favor of a government controlled economy, eh?) And all sorts of taxes and fees. As positioned by “91 scientists from 40 countries” who took long fossil fueled trips, along with thousands of politicians and bureaucrats to South Korea.

But, from the climascientist community, this is total doom. Unlike the standard low level members and non-sciencey big shots (think Al Gore) of the Cult of Climastrology, the higher end scientists (who should know better) had been sticking with the “doom in 2050 or 2100” meme. But no

Absent aggressive action, many effects once expected only several decades in the future will arrive by 2040, and at the lower temperature, the report shows. “It’s telling us we need to reverse emissions trends and turn the world economy on a dime,” said Myles Allen, an Oxford University climate scientist and an author of the report.

Well, really, every year prior to the UN IPCC Conference On The Parties meetings they come out with some sort of “we’re all doomed!!!!” paper.

The report concludes that the world is already more than halfway to the 2.7-degree mark. Human activities have caused warming of about 1.8 degrees since about the 1850s, the beginning of large-scale industrial coal burning, the report found.

What? No. Where did that extra .3F come from? It’s really between 1.4F and 1.5F. Now they’re just making things up. And it is mostly natural. And the Warmists cannot prove it’s mostly/solely man-caused using science.

Read: Crisis Delayed: New Hotcoldwetdry Report Says Chance Of Doom As Early As 2040 »

Posted in AGW Scaremongering, Global Warming | 5 Comments | Trackback URL

Washington Post: Liberals Need To Stay Angry After Kavanaugh Confirmation

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 7:52 am

Democrat voters are already angry. This seems to be their standard position. But, their anger has been turning violent since around the time of the Seattle WTO riot, especially as Democratic Party politicians rarely ever call them out on it. This piece by E.J. Dionne doesn’t help

We need to stay angry about Kavanaugh

The Supreme Court’s legitimacy is in tatters. Conservative forces in the country, led by the Republican Party, have completed a judicial coup, decades in the making.

Republicans rushed through Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation to avoid the possible consequences of an election. They aborted a full investigation because they feared what it might find. They made themselves complicit in a presidential attack on Christine Blasey Ford, a brave woman who asked only that her case against Kavanaugh be taken seriously.

After all these outrages, there will be calls for a renewal of civility, as if the problem is that people said nasty things about one other. But the answer to this power grab cannot be passive acceptance in the name of being polite. The causes and consequences of what just happened must be acknowledged frankly.

The conservative struggle for the court began in the 1960s, but it hit its stride in the Bush v. Gore decision after the 2000 election. Five conservative justices violated the principles they claimed to uphold on states’ rights and the use of equal-protection doctrine to stop a recount of votes in Florida requested by Al Gore, the Democratic nominee. They thus made George W. Bush president.

Oh deal Lord, he actually went back to the 2000 election. It just goes to show that Democrats just can’t MoveOn.

The undemocratic nature of representation in the Senate is unlikely to be remedied anytime soon, so progressives and Democrats need to organize far more effectively in the low-population red states. Critics of the judicial right need to remind voters that conservative judges regularly serve the interests of the wealthy and the powerful, not those of the heartland.

And there’s the whine about the stupid flyover country states actually having a voice in the Senate (which was the entire point of the Senate, especially when Senators were appointed by the state legislative branches)

If Democrats take control of the House, they should hold hearings on the administration’s manipulation of the FBI investigation. These could also shed light on the extent to which Kavanaugh misled the Senate.

And there should now be no squeamishness about the urgency of enlarging the Supreme Court if Democrats have the power to do so after the 2020 elections. The current majority on the court was created through illegitimate means. Changing that majority would not constitute politicizing the court because conservatives have already done this without apology.

Everything is illegitimate in Democrat eyes when they do not get their way, that’s the norm. But it is dangerous and beyond irresponsible to publish this in one of the nationals leading newspapers, giving Democrat voters reasons to believe that they’ve been cheated and should take reprisal.

“Court-packing” makes people uncomfortable for good reason. Were it thrust upon the country suddenly by fiat, many Americans would be uneasy, as were even many Democrats in the 1930s with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-enlargement plan. That’s why we need a considered two-year debate over changing the number of justices — it was done seven times during the 19th century — as the only plausible response to the conservative court-packing project that reached fruition on Saturday.

Its foes need to stay angry. But even more, they need to vote, organize and think boldly. Democracy itself is at stake.

Got that? A debate over how to give Democrats more votes on the court, because they lost. As Barack Obama said “elections have consequences.” For Democrats, elections mean they should get their way 100% of the time.

The last line, though, is a doozy. That’s Dionne attempting to deflect from the notion of angry people doing angry violent things. He wants to position this as voting, after essentially providing the reasoning for people to get angry and make change in a violent and/or abusive way. It takes little to light the bonfire of liberal rage, as we’ve seen. When bad things start happening more and more, you’ll see that Democrat big wigs not only did little to tamp this tendency down, they emboldened it.

Read: Washington Post: Liberals Need To Stay Angry After Kavanaugh Confirmation »

Posted in Democrats, Journalistic Malpractice, Unhinged Tools | 4 Comments | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach October 7, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous plastic water bottle causing cold waves, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on taking a drink for Justice Kavanaugh.

It’s volleyball shorts week! A lot harder than you’d think. A goodly chunk of the photos out there are from the back, and I like to feature faces. Also, a lot are of high school girls, and I’m not posting them.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 3 Comments | Trackback URL

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 7, 2018 – 9:56 am

Patriotic Pinup Walt Otto Puppies

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The birds are singing, the squirrels as squirreling, the Dodgers are up 2-0 and the NHL is back! This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Zero Hedge notes that crazy porn lawyer who Democrats embraced really didn’t help Democrats
  2. Wizbang says that Democratic Party=mob
  3. Weasel Zippers covers unhinged social justice warriors going crazy during halftime
  4. The Right Scoop features VP Pence trolling anti-Kavanaugh nutters
  5. The Lid notes one thing that all Americans believe right now
  6. The First Street Journal wonders if you’re tired of winning yet
  7. The Crawdad Hole notes that when penises are outlawed, only outlaws will have penises
  8. Raised On Hoecakes covers a true Mickey Mouse lawsuit
  9. Pacific Pundit explains what we learned from the Democrat clown show
  10. neo-neocon notes that “survivors” are the new protected class on campus
  11. MOTUS A.D. says Kabuki theater is out, welcome to the theater of the absurd
  12. Moonbattery is utterly Surprised!!!! over falkse #MeToo allegations at a Pa. school
  13. Legal Insurrection notes that Trump won over some #NeverTrumpers on Kavanaugh
  14. Jihad Watch covers ISIS threatening knife attacks at concerts
  15. And last, but not least, Chicks On The Right notes beer causing liberal meltdowns
  16. And one to grow on: Flopping Aces discusses Harry Reid nuclear option blowback

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »

Posted in Patriotic Pinup | 1 Comment | Trackback URL
Pirate's Cove