Youth Climate Movement Shockingly Pushing Anti-Capitalism And SJW Insanity

By William Teach July 11, 2018 – 7:54 am

Who’s surprised that the little budding members of the Cult of Climastrology are pushing a whole raft of far left Progressive SJW measures (via Twitchy)

https://twitter.com/WomensMarchY/status/1016718378793234432

Let’s see it

On the frontlines of climate change is the Global South, People Of Color, Indigenous Peoples, Youth, People with Disabilities, Poor People, Women, Queer and Trans People, and People belonging to marginalized faiths.

In our youth movement to combat climate change, we uplift the youth voices of these communities.

Youth leadership is transformational and visionary. Youth must lead because they have always shifted culture towards progress and collective liberation.

Systems of oppression (capitalism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy) have led to climate change, therefore we must shift our culture away from these systems.

Intersectional movement-building is the only way we can achieve collective liberation because working together on intersecting issues will unify communities who wish to join our struggle for a safe and healthy future for all.

The same climaidiots are sending this out using things like capitalist created Internet, WiFi, smartphones, tablets, and computers, wearing clothes made by capitalist companies (the man-bun creation is commie).

Anyhow, this kind of SJW shtick is why so many tune out from ‘climate change’, because they see this type of insane language and say “these people are nuts, and apparently received their language training from the old Soviet Union propagandists.”

The people must take action rather than waiting for elected officials to lead.

Go for it. Give up your own use of fossil fuels and make your lives carbon neutral

The elected officials must comply with the demands of the youth, therefore they must pass and enforce legislation and support policies that protect life and our future on this planet.

This is a revolution.

Oh, right, they want Government to Do Something. I wonder how they’ll feel about their “revolution” when their cost of living skyrockets and a small cup of foo foo coffee at Starbucks costs $10? When the non-GMO range free fair trade uber-sustainable tofu triples in price? When their use of smartphones is limited due to the cost of energy, rationing, and planned brownouts/blackouts?

And people who eat Tide pods are not particularly scary when talking about revolution. Especially not from their parent’s house.

They also claim they will be non-violent, peaceful, humble, and extend the hand of friendship. Of course, this only applies if you believe exactly as they do.

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Trump Looks For Deal With Mexico To Reduce Illegal Immigration

By William Teach July 11, 2018 – 7:25 am

This is an interesting idea, and could eventually lead to what I’ve recommended: if people want asylum, they need to apply to the US embassy in their home country

U.S. and Mexico discuss deal that could slash migration at the border

While President Trump regularly berates Mexico for “doing nothing” to stop illegal migration, behind the scenes the two governments are considering a deal that could drastically curtail the cross-border migration flow.

The proposal, known as a “safe third country agreement,” would potentially require asylum seekers transiting through Mexico to apply for protection in that nation rather than in the United States. It would allow U.S. border guards to turn back such asylum seekers at border crossings and quickly return to Mexico anyone who has already entered illegally seeking refuge, regardless of their nationality.

U.S. officials believe this type of deal would discourage many Central American families from trying to reach the United States. Their soaring numbers have strained U.S. immigration courts and overwhelmed the U.S. government’s ability to detain them. The Trump administration says the majority are looking for jobs — rather than fleeing persecution — and are taking advantage of American generosity to gain entry and avoid deportation.

“We believe the flows would drop dramatically and fairly immediately” if the agreement took effect, said a senior Department of Homeland Security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss negotiations with the Mexican government, which the official said had gathered momentum in recent weeks.

The number of illegal aliens claiming asylum from Central America have jumped since Obama took office (there was a quick uptick during the early Bush years, which went down), while the number who are actually approved has not. Overall, it’s about 7.4%. It was not just the welcoming attitudes of Obama and his Democrats, but illegals gaming the system with false claims.

This would be a good start in requiring all the potential illegals to work through a system, rather than just showing up.

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Surprise: California Blackouts Blamed On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 10, 2018 – 5:55 pm

It couldn’t have anything to do with California making it difficult for reliable energy to operate and instead be dependent on so much alternative energy which is unreliable, could it?

Record heat put thousands of Californians in the dark Friday. Scientists predicted this from climate change.

Temperatures shot up over 110 degrees in Southern California on Friday, obliterating all kinds of long-standing heat records, and the lights went out for tens of thousands of customers. Californians were powerless, without air conditioning, in the hottest weather many had ever experienced.

Climate scientists have known this was coming, and it may only be the beginning.

“We studied this a long time ago . . . now our projections are becoming reality,” tweeted Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University.

In 2006, Hayhoe and colleagues published the study “Climate, Extreme Heat, and Electricity Demand in California” in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

“Over the twenty-first century, the frequency of extreme-heat events for major cities in heavily air-conditioned California is projected to increase rapidly,” the study said. It warned that as temperatures soared, electricity demand would exceed supply.

In reality, this is nothing unusual. When weather events occur, people can use more energy, and this can cause brownouts and blackouts. In this case, I guess we’re supposed to blame the vast numbers of fossil fueled vehicles that drive around California.

If projections are correct, heat waves will become worse in the coming decades, further taxing California’s energy supply. Hayhoe’s 2006 study concluded a “potential for electricity deficits as high as 17 percent” later this century.

Of course, the Catch-22 is that if cities increase electricity capacity to adapt to a changing climate using fossil-fuel-based energy sources, greenhouse-gas emissions increase, which warm the climate even more.

Well, if every Warmist would give up their air conditioning, fossil fueled vehicles, and pay taxes, we could definitely solve this, right?

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If All You See…

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

…is a sea rising up and swamping the land which can be fixed with a tax, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on the invasion of Spain.

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Thanks To Trump’s ‘Climate Change’ Policies, Heat Waves Will Be 12F Warmer Or Something

By William Teach July 10, 2018 – 11:59 am

It’s all in the future, of course. But, we can fix this with a tax. Excitable Joe Romm is being excitable

Heat waves bother you? Under Trump climate policies, add another add 12°F

Extreme heat has smashed temperature records around the country and around the world in the past week alone.

Many of those “records” cited are based on poorly cited stations, such as in Scotland, Ouargla, Africa, and Los Angeles. No matter, with a Climanarrative to push

But if we fail to significantly curb emissions of carbon pollution — the path set forth by President Trump’s climate policies — then these severe and deadly heatwaves will become the normal summer weather over the next few decades.

Typical five-day heat waves in the U.S. will be 12°F warmer by mid-century alone, according to the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA), which the White House itself reviewed and approved last November.

Other studies also show the devastating heat-related impacts the nation and the world face from Trump’s policies of abandoning the Paris climate deal, undoing Obama-era climate rules, and boosting carbon pollution.

For instance, America (and much of the world) will start seeing monster “humid heat waves” — where the heat index hits a fatal 131°F — every other year by century’s end.

All because Trump pulled the U.S. out of a pact that was not sent to the Senate to make it official. Funny part is, most of the 1st World nation that signed on to Paris have failed to even get close to their pledges, and the 2nd and 3rd world nations just want their money so they can build more airports and such.

But, this is not science, because there’s no way to truly prove this. When it doesn’t happen, Warmists will simply claim that their policies stopped their prognostications from happening.

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Incoming Mexican President Plans Police Force, Fencing At Mexican Border

By William Teach July 10, 2018 – 7:55 am

Will Democrats and Leftists have a problem with this? Will they attack President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as being mean and hateful and fascist and stuff?

(Bloomberg) After months of Donald Trump’s controversial clampdown on immigration, Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is planning his own border police force to stop undocumented immigrants, drugs and guns from crossing into the country from Central America, his future chief of public security said.

Picked by Lopez Obrador, Alfonso Durazo stressed that the new force would be part of a larger regional development effort to ease the poverty and violence that lead so many Central Americans to cross into Mexico. The police corps will be sizable, he said, and will be deployed to Mexico’s northern border as well. He declined to offer more specifics as the details are still being decided.

“We’re going to create a border police force that will be highly specialized,” Durazo said in an interview. “They need to apply the law,” including stopping undocumented migrants and human traffickers from crossing into Mexico, which Durazo says often takes place with the help of corrupt officials.

Lopez Obrador and the left-wing party he formed in 2014 won a landslide victory in last week’s election after voters disgusted with rising crime, corruption and poverty kicked the nation’s established parties out of power. AMLO, as he’s known, also got a boost from pledges to protect Mexicans against an immigrant crackdown by U.S. President Donald Trump. Now he’ll be faced with the unenviable task of securing the nation’s own untamed southern border, while avoiding the hard-line tactics he has criticized Trump for.

He’s like Hitler! Or something.

Durazo stressed that the most important measures to contain immigration under Lopez Obrador will be humanitarian and will include coordination with Central American countries to improve the quality of life of their citizens.

The question is, how? It’s not an easy fix. It would also be helpful for him to start slamming the Democratic Party, which sets the conditions for people to attempt to cross Mexico to go to America illegally.

But, in terms of AMLO fixing corruption within Mexico, particularly in the government, the police forces, and even the military, as well as reducing the power of the cartels, I wish him a sincere good luck, and hope he can accomplish much.

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Trump Picks Brett Kavanaugh For Supreme Court

By William Teach July 10, 2018 – 7:34 am

And liberals explode. There are entirely too many hottest of hot takes to even link. Here’s a fun one

Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Pick, Is Probably the End of Abortion Rights and Same-Sex Marriage

Uh huh. How about

Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s drastic shift to the right, cartoonsplained

There was zero problem from the media when Obama’s picks pushed it way to the Left. And Excitable Bob Casey

Casey: Trump Supreme Court Pick Represents a Corrupt Bargain and I Will Oppose It

Might want to actually interview him, as is your duty, Bob. And Democracy For America (snicker)

DFA says Kavanaugh “represents a generational assault on justice, freedom, core democratic values”

Then Loopy Ezra Klein

The Supreme Court vs. democracy

The Women’s March got a bit ahead of themselves in their press release

https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/1016499063657844736

Twitchy has, of course, lots of Liberals losing their minds (the norm). You have Terry McCauliffe warning of a high body count, Cory Booker having a meltdown, and a whole gaggle of Democrats bloviating. Obviously, the NY Times is in a snit, saying we don’t know enough about Kavanaugh (funny, we knew almost nothing about Obama and they were good with that). The Washington Post is against him, as well. We expected that. And there are plenty of anti-Kavanaugh op-eds there, well, let’s face it, it’s all based on anti-Trump sentiment. The LA Times is suddenly wondering if the Supreme Court nomination process can be repaired. Paul Begala offers CNN’s opinion in stating that Red-state Democrat Senators should oppose Kavanaugh in total. Why? Like the rest, just because. They can couch their opposition in whatever terms they like, but, it’s all based on TDS and Republican Derangement Syndrome. If it was super squishy Jeb Bush in office, they’d do the same thing.

If they do not like it, then, per the paraphrase of Obama “Elections matter. I won; you lost. Deal with it.”

But, who really is Brett Kavanaugh? In reality, he has few vulnerabilities, and was actually the safe pick

Even though Democrats will go to any lengths to stop Kavanaugh, he presents them with few vulnerabilities.

He has written no opinions on their holy-of-holies, abortion or gay marriage. To the extent that he has written on these topics, he has observed that the government might have a compelling interest in providing contraceptives and that an alien might have a due process right to an abortion.

He has written no major opinions on free speech or religion, nor has he displayed any sympathies for the criminal defense bar.

Instead, Kavanaugh’s creates a deeper challenge to liberalism: rolling back the administrative state.

Progressives have evaded the Constitution’s checks and balances on the federal government by unceasingly expanding its regulatory reach, transferring the actual authority to make the rules from Congress to unelected bureaucrats, and then demanding that judges defer to the results virtually without question.

It is through this judicial-agency industrial complex where, as the Obama administration displayed on everything from immigration to education to health care, progressives have imposed their views on the American people and the states with little democratic accountability.

Kavanaugh has repeatedly challenged the foundations of this runaway state. He has written significant opinions overturning two misbegotten examples of this dynamic.

In the first, he found the Consumer Finance Protection Board (CFPB) violated the Constitution because it vested all power over consumer finance in the country in one person, but insulated him from removal by the president.

In the second, he struck down a new federal accounting board, because it too was insulated from presidential control, even though Article II of the Constitution vests the president, and the president alone, with the duty to see that “the Laws be Faithfully Executed.”

Let’s see Democrats argue that limiting power of the federal bureaucracy is a bad thing, as is returning power to the Legislative Branch.

But, what’s going to happen is Democrats and their minions will assail Judge Kavanaugh over what they see as a Constitutional Right to kill the unborn willy-nilly, along with a few other Left-wing commandments. It won’t be pretty, and they might not get the support they think they will from the average America

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Climastrologists Are Upset That Cuts In Govt Funding Not Leading To Funding From Private Sector

By William Teach July 9, 2018 – 3:07 pm

It’s rather shocking. One would think all these deep pocketed Cult of Climastrology members and groups and companies would step up to the plate and offer their own money

Trump’s Cuts In Climate-Change Research Spark a Global Scramble For Funds

… (stuff on Obama giving lots of U.S. taxpayer money for Hotcoldwetdry stuff)

After the 2016 Presidential election, the Trump Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress reduced U.S. support for climate-change-related research, causing the Centre’s program and similar initiatives around the world to scramble for funding. A U.S.A.I.D. official told me that American funding for the Centre’s project will end in 2019, instead of in 2020, because of a change in “the Administration’s foreign-policy and national-security priorities.”

Under Obama, the United States was the world’s largest donor to the Green Climate Fund—a global reserve fund created to, among other things, help developing countries invest in renewable and low-emission technologies. Obama pledged three billion dollars, a third of which was contributed before he left office. Trump, who has dismissed climate change as a hoax spread by China, has pledged no money to the fund. Earlier this week, the fund’s director resigned, and some began to question its viability after no new projects were approved at its most recent board meeting.

So the money from the U.S. government, forcibly taken from the taxpayers to be used for projects based on a scam, and on projects which have zero relation to the U.S., has been significantly cut? Bummer! This kind of thing continues for a few more paragraphs, with Obama pledging money and Trump saying “No”, till we see

“We are already severely strained financially in our governments, so, once we lose funding and support, it makes it difficult for us to move forward,” Diana Ruiz, who runs trainings for the Centre, told me. “All of our assets, our livelihoods, and everything, is at risk, so it puts us at a disadvantage.”

Well, why aren’t all these private entities stepping up? Why are the Warmists not giving their money for the research? It’s almost like they can’t survive without government money.

Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1st, and researchers fear a repeat of last summer: extreme storms with little planning on how to mitigate their impact. “It’s a source of frustration for a lot of people,” a former U.S.A.I.D. adviser told me. “The money flows into the countries for a disaster, and, as soon as the disaster’s over, it will completely disappear with no prep work for the next one.”

This has zero to do with ‘climate change’. Tropical systems have been happening longer than mankind has been around. Perhaps we should take all that Hotcoldwetdry money and use it for relief and planning. And, think how much we’ve pissed away that could have gone into upgrading infrastructure in places like Puerto Rico (of course, Dems would have pissed that away, too).

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 9, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Newsbusters, with a post on Crazy Michelle Wolf and abortion.

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Bummer: Unseasonable Ice Storms Cause ‘Climate Change’ Problems For Gardens

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

The UK Guardian’s Catriona Sandilands can totes look out her back window and see climate change doom

I see my garden as a barometer of climate change
I worry about my beautiful, compromised plants, exposed to unseasonable ice storms and heatwaves

…

On that particular afternoon, I had to wait until the sun had passed over the deck to do this work, or it would have been just too hot. It was nearly 31C that afternoon with high humidity: not quite record-breaking, but unseasonable for Toronto. Summers, here, are getting longer and hotter, and winters warmer and more unpredictable. This year, the thermometer hit 16C in February: that’s in a Canadian city in which the historical average high for the month is -3C. Now, we are in the middle of an extended heatwave.

In a year of large contrasts, there was also an exceptional storm in mid-April that turned roads and sidewalks to glass for days, and with such high winds that insurance companies threw up their hands at the number of claims related to roof damage, including mine. Then in May – May! – there was a heat alert. This is enough drama to make even my least environmentally-conscious friends make noises about global warming.

The garden has suffered this year, especially the lower-growing plants; even some of the hardy, well-established lavenders packed it in. The problem is not that it was too cold (although there was a top-10 longest and coldest polar air event in December/January), or that it was too warm in those double-digit February days, or that there was the ice storm in April, or that it was 31C in May, or even that there are now again record-breaking temperatures. The problem is that all of these things happened in a remarkably short time span, and that longer-term climate changes have already begun to destabilise plant communities, making them more vulnerable to extreme weather events.

Weather isn’t climate except when it’s used to push a Narrative. And shouldn’t roads be banned since they carry fossil fueled vehicles? And, I hope it’s a tiny home, otherwise, big carbon footprint.

To me, more than anything, gardening in these times means two things. First, looking after my little backyard demands that I pay close attention to the present and future: what are the plants telling me about the ways the climate is changing? What do they need that I can give them? What do these needs tell me about the larger scale of the changes in which we are immersed? What can I do, concretely, to mitigate change, to adapt to it, and even to resist it?

Second, and more foundationally, this garden invites me to reflect on the past and present: on gardening itself, and how the particular plants I am tending are part of larger processes of colonial, global transformation in which histories of plant movements are bound up with those of capitalist, fossil-fueled developments. We can, perhaps, more easily think about cotton, wheat, sugar cane, and corn at this level: plants that were central to slavery, to the rise of industrial agriculture, to what some scholars call “ecological imperialism.” But gardens are also part of this picture.

Dealing with these people are like dealing with Flat Earthers or those who totally discount any sort of evolution. The Earth changes. The climate changes.

But, hey, I’m sure we can solve this with a tax, right?

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