Hawaii Enacts Law To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 Or Something

By William Teach June 12, 2018 – 4:02 pm

Good luck with that, Sparkys!

(Daily Caller) Hawaii pushed through some of the most environmentally ambitious bills in the country, becoming the first state to set a carbon neutral goal of 100 percent.

Hawaii Democratic Gov. David Ige signed three bills into law this week that aim to make the island state carbon neutral by 2045 and set other climate change standards. HB 2182 establishes the carbon neutral goal and creates the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force. HB 2106 requires project proposals go through a sea level rise analysis before it can move forward. Additionally, HB 1986 establishes a reforestation program as a means to address carbon sequestration — the planting of more trees will be a major part of reaching their goal.

“Climate change is real and we’re seeing its impacts right now in our island state. Taken together, this suite of bills establishes policies and programs that acknowledge and address this reality,” Ige said in a Facebook post Monday after signing the bills into law. “Sea level rise is already having an impact on beaches, roadways and homes near the shoreline. As a result, we face difficult land-use decisions, and requiring an analysis of sea level rise before beginning construction is just plain common sense.”

It’d take some serious shenanigans to make this happen. They’d have to completely ignore the fact of the island depending heavily on tourism, which comes with tons of fossil fueled flights arriving at the island. Then all the helicopter tours. The fossil fueled vehicles to move vacationers around. The massive amount of power required to run all the hotels and everything that tourists want to do. All the fossil fueled boats needed to catch fish and provide tourists with fishing expeditions. Think tourists will come when so much of that goes away? When the power grid is unreliable?

How about the fact that almost everything that makes Hawaii go comes in on fossil fueled flights and ships? Food, medicine, steel, all sorts of products. The islands can’t survive on fish, sugar, and pineapples.

Will the state simply put carbon offsets in place for everything? Which would massively increase the cost of living for residents, and dramatically increase the cost for vacationers? People already attempt to grow lots of their own food because food prices are two to three times the cost on the mainland. Think tourists will want to pay even more?

If the state really cares, they’ll only allow people to arrive on sailing ships.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 12, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turned super bright all the time from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Crawdad Hole, with a post on America’s new slogan.

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Hot Take: ‘Climate Change’ Might Explain Why There Are No Aliens Out There

By William Teach June 12, 2018 – 10:42 am

If you remember back, a couple of astrologers, er, scientists, modeled what they think happens with alien civilizations and how it leads to ‘climate change.’

This has led to lots and lots of articles on the subject since. Most of which were silly, and ignorable. Then we get this

DOES CLIMATE CHANGE EXPLAIN WHY WE DON’T SEE ANY ALIENS OUT THERE?

In the 1950s, famed physicist Enrico Fermi posed the question that encapsulated one of the toughest questions in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI): “Where the heck is everybody?” What he meant was, given the age of the Universe (13.8 billion years), the sheer number of galaxies (between 1 and 2 trillion), and the overall number of planets, why has humanity still not found evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence?

This question, which has come to be known as the “Fermi Paradox”, is something scientists continue to ponder. In a new study, a team from the University of Rochester considered that perhaps Climate Change is the reason. Using a mathematical model based on the Anthropocene, they considered how civilizations and planet systems co-evolve and whether or not intelligent species are capable of living sustainability with their environment.

See? All the aliens killed themselves off because of carbon pollution! That’s why we don’t see them!

BTW, when it comes to aliens, can we really claim that 100% of all the reported encounters are fake?

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Dems Latest Push: Licensing, Registration Of Semi-Automatic Firearms

By William Teach June 12, 2018 – 7:47 am

What are Democrats running on in 2018?

https://twitter.com/MaryMills32/status/1006296115539529731

Don’t forget about going after the firearms of law abiding citizens

(Breitbart) Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing firearm licensing and registration requirements.

The push is contained in legislation titled, “Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2018.” It is being sponsored by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL).

The text of the legislation says, “To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.” The phrase “certain firearms” refers to “a handgun; or a semiautomatic rifle that is capable of accepting a detachable ammunition feeding device.”

The legislation defines and “ammunition feeding device” as a device “capable of being detached from a semiautomatic rifle; and has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition.”

Law abiding citizens would have to register their firearms with The Government and then get a firearm license from the state government. We already see how hard it is to get a firearm in many states, at least for the law abiding attempting to protect themselves from the criminals. Imagine how much harder the gun grabbers will make the licensing with a national law.

Exemptions to the requirements include “a Federal employee who is required to carry a qualifying firearm in the capacity of that individual as a Federal employee while engaged in the performance of official duties.” In other words, the Capitol Police and other security personnel who protect Congress would not have to submit to the requirement placed upon commoners.

Funny how it’s always The Government, including those who protect government officials, who are excluded from all the Democrat gun grabbers schemes.

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Trump And Kim Meet, Sign Statement On Denuclearizing North Korea

By William Teach June 12, 2018 – 7:31 am

We must still remember that Kim Jong Un is a brutal, torturous, murderous, repressive dictator in a country that has been running the same for over 70 years. There’s no freedom, everyone Must Comply, and so forth. So, there’s a long way to go. Remember, China wasn’t exactly a paragon of virtue and freedom when Nixon went to China, and still aren’t the greatest. You have to start somewhere, and getting rid of North Korea’s nukes is a big first step

(CBS) President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a document that Mr. Trump described as “important” and “comprehensive,” to conclude their meetings in Singapore. The document, which offers few details about how the aims will be accomplished, says North Korea commits to working towards denuclearization.

Mr. Trump said he “absolutely” will invite Kim to the White House. Mr. Trump said he thinks the summit went “better than anybody could have expected.”

As they began the summit, Mr. Trump said he thinks he and Kim will have a “terrific relationship,” and Kim, through a translator, said North Korea had to overcome a number of “obstacles” to get to this moment.

Mr. Trump and Kim participated in a one-on-one meeting, with translators only, followed by an expanded meeting including their top advisers, and a working lunch.

You can read the full text of the document here. The most important part of it reads

  1. The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
  2. The United States and DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.
  3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
  4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

What will happen going forth? Good question. Trump has stated that the war games on the Korean peninsula will end, but sanctions will remain. Will Kim stay honest? We’ve seen the BS that North Korean leaders have provided through the years. Time will tell.

Of course, you do have your typical unhinged liberals having conniption fits, such as this HuffPost headline and loopy story:

Murderous Dictator Meets Dishonest President Behind Closed Doors
How will the American public know what they actually said? They may not.

These people.

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Global Warming Is Changing Horror Movies Or Something

By William Teach June 11, 2018 – 4:03 pm

Is this why so many are pretty bad? (there is video at the link)

How global warming is changing horror
We’re seeing the growth of a new genre

A new genre of horror has begun to emerge over the last decade: eco-horror, stories in which the planet itself is the monster. Prior to the early 2000s, when Nature was the monster in a horror movie, it was either animals run amok, like Jaws or The Birds, or plant-creatures, as in Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Little Shop of Horrors. (snip)

But that’s been changing since 2006, when An Inconvenient Truth was released and raised climate change awareness across the planet. Since then, we’ve seen more and more eco-horror, such as The Happening, The Ruins, The Last of Us, The Girl with All the Gifts, and Annihilation. Each of these movies involves deadly plants that are … just plants. They’re not aliens come to destroy us; they’re just terrestrial species that have evolved to target humans.

Eco-horror represents the new existential dread we feel about the irreversible damage we‘ve done to the planet — and the knowledge that Earth is increasingly less hospitable to us on a basic level. Watch the video above to learn more about the evolution of this new existential dread.

Just more movies that tend to fail in the theaters. Because they’re bad.

I saw Annihilation. Mildly entertaining. Nothing to do with ‘climate change’.

If you want a fun horror movie, check out Happy Death Day. I didn’t have a lot of hope for it, but, turned out to be a fun movie. As they say, a cross between Groundhog Day and old school slasher films. Not a lot of gore and blood, heavy story based, the jump scenes are mostly ignored. Fun, like a lot of the late 70’s into 80’s slasher films.

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If All You See…

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

…are horrible carbon polluters laughing about the world turning to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post wondering about “people of color” being individuals.

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Activists Want Cigarette Style Warning Labels On Coffee Cups

By William Teach June 11, 2018 – 9:42 am

I’m not quite sure how I feel about this: on one hand, the cups are bad for the actual environment. On the other hand, these people are kinda unhinged

(UK Daily Mail) Activists are calling for cigarette packet-style labels on disposable coffee cups to remind people they are harming the environment when they buy them.

Anna Warren, a communications officer for North Sydney Council, has started a petition to make coffee cups ‘uncool.’

She wants drinkers to keep a plastic cup on them at all times and re-use it to save the environment.

This is what I mean about being a bit unhinged

The paper cups are not recyclable due to their waterproof plastic lining and are the second biggest filler of landfill space after plastic bags with 2.6billion thrown away every year.

Ms Warren is encouraging the big coffee brands to introduce labels reminding drinkers that the cups go to landfill, similar to the ‘smoking kills’ reminders on cigarettes.

Again, loopy.

Ms Warren’s petition to the environment minister, which has more than 23,000 signatures, reads: ‘Coffee cups are the second largest source of landfill in Australia and most of the cups that don’t make it into landfill, end up in our environment.

‘Landfill’s greenhouse gases are one of the major factors for climate change and global warming.

Now, that’s an interesting point, as well. And it refers mostly to methane. Furthermore, looking back, landfills and agriculture were blamed the most for global warming from mankind, but, cow farts and dumps weren’t sexy enough for the Cult of Climastrology.

‘Coffee cups which don’t make it to landfill end up in our oceans, killing fragile marine life like turtles, dolphins and even whales – washing up on shore dead with stomachs full of plastic waste.

On this, though, there is a point. Yes, we can try and blame a few rivers in China and Asia, but we ourselves do individually contribute to real pollution. What can we do in our individual lives to reduce our pollution footprint? And can we encourage people to do this without getting naggy and employing Big Government force?

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Obama’s Net Neutrality Officially Ends Today

By William Teach June 11, 2018 – 7:17 am

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/1006124341325639681

Yes, it’s officially dead, and this has given the Washington Post a case of the sads, along with a case of the doom and glooms

So long to net neutrality, hello to bigger telecoms? The Web you know may never be the same.

Two pivotal developments this week could dramatically expand the power and footprint of major telecom companies, altering how Americans access everything from political news to “Game of Thrones” on the Internet.

Monday marks the official end of the U.S. government’s net neutrality rules, which had required broadband providers such as AT&T, Charter, Comcast and Verizon to treat all Web traffic equally. The repeal is part of a campaign by Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to deregulate the telecom industry in a bid to boost its investments — particularly in rural areas.

“I think ultimately it’s going to mean better, faster, cheaper Internet access and more competition,” Pai said in an interview. Others disagree and will challenge Pai in court, while many states are fighting back with their own laws, further muddling the situation.

We did pretty good prior to Obama’s 2015 NN, going from a few people having dial-up and speeds less than 52 kilobytes a second to the vast majority of this country having access to speeds of at least 6 megabytes per second, whether it be at home, at work, or on their phone. Usually, all three. The amount of content is incredible. What you can do on the web is incredible, if you consider what little you could do back in the early days, say, 1994. And this was all done without treating “web traffic equally.” Because it’s not. If you’re streaming hundreds of megabytes of movies and TV shows to your phone every month, well, that’s a bit different from someone who uses a few megabytes a month, is it not? But, no one was really throttling, and, if a provider starts being shady, that’s why we have the Federal Trade Commission.

One day after the net neutrality changes, a federal judge is set to rule on Tuesday on whether AT&T can buy Time Warner. AT&T, already the country’s second-largest wireless network, stands to gain a content trove from Time Warner that includes HBO and CNN — leading the Justice Department, which filed the lawsuit, to argue that the company could harm its rivals.

Put me on the side of not allowing the deal.

The two events in Washington could lead to further consolidation of wireless, cable and content giants, public-interest advocates say. And they fear that behemoths like AT&T might someday prioritize their own TV shows and other content over rivals’. Internet service providers, or ISPs, deny that they would engage in such a practice — yet consumer watchdogs worry that consumers would have little legal recourse if they did.

There’s already priority. I don’t get The Blaze on Time Warner here in Raleigh. You can’t get the NFL package on anything other than Direct TV. Things are never going to be perfect. And it’s called competition. Do you really want Government in control of all your Internet and entertainment content? Well, we know the answer if you’re a Democrats.

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Hey, You Guys Totally Don’t Neeeeeeed An Uzi, You Know

By William Teach June 11, 2018 – 6:58 am

The Times of Trenton editorial board has an anti-gun hissy fit

Hey NRA, people don’t need to own an Uzi, AK-47 or AR-15

“Nobody needs an Uzi. Nobody needs an AK-47.”

With those words to the media nearly 30 years ago, former Gov. James Florio set New Jersey on course to adopt the country’s strongest gun-safety laws, including a ban on a wide range of semi-automatic weapons.

This coming week, a successor, Gov. Phil Murphy, is expected to do his part to keep Garden State residents safe.

The first-term Democrat is poised to sign six bills that passed the state Legislature Thursday, including a measure that authorizes courts to issue restraining orders to persons who pose a significant risk or personal injury to themselves or others by possessing a firearm.

Interestingly, virtually nothing in those bills will do anything about the high crime and shootings by criminals and use of guns by criminals in places like Trenton, the capital city of New Jersey. And just make law abiding citizens easier prey to criminals.

But, let me ask: are Uzi’s still a thing? That just seems so 80’s, when they were used all the time in movies and TV shows. No one seems to use them anymore in those. And, really, they were never really a thing for personal use, because you couldn’t get them in automatic, at least not without ATF approval and paying $6,000+ for the stamp, which the average person would not get. You’re better off with a pistol.

As far as need, well, people do not need lots of things. They don’t really need giant screen TVs. They don’t need to upgrade their phone every 2 years or less. They don’t need high speed Internet. They don’t need cars that go faster than 70. The Times of Trenton doesn’t need a website. They don’t need an electronic printing press. They don’t need to deliver using trucks. But, they want those things.

The NJ General Assembly doesn’t need armed security. Nor does NJ Governor Murphy. They want those things. And what 2nd Amendment supporters want is mostly none of the business of any of these folks. If I want a Bushmaster AR-10, which fires a 7.62 round (vs the smaller .223 from the AR-15) I’ll get one. I don’t want one, but that is my choice, based on the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

But, hey, maybe this will help in reviving Uzi sales.

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