Kennedy’s Retirement Could Make It Harder To Fight ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Or Something

By William Teach June 29, 2018 – 10:30 am

I would think it would be pretty easy for Warmists to fight ‘climate change’: simply give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral. Use super expensive coolants for their freezers and fridges, hand wash clothes, two minute showers, grow their own food, etc.

Justice Kennedy’s Replacement Could Make It Harder to Fight Climate Change

The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy could allow the nation’s highest court to change its mind on whether the Environmental Protection Agency has to fight climate change.

As a crucial swing vote, the Reagan appointee joined liberals in a landmark 5-4 decision in 2007 that the EPA is required to address climate change if its own scientists found that it posed a risk to public health. Two years later the agency made exactly that determination, issuing a scientific document known as the endangerment finding.

“We’re not going to get another Kennedy who’s going to play that moderating role,” says Deborah Sivas, a professor of environmental law at Stanford University. “Since it’s a matter of statutory interpretation instead of bedrock constitutional principles I could see folks try to set up a new challenge.”

The decision in Massachusetts v. EPA underpinned a series of Obama-era climate regulations that aimed at boosting vehicle fuel economy standards, cutting carbon dioxide emissions form power plants and reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas sector.

It’s doubtful that the issue will be revisited anytime soon, if ever. But, you know how Warmists love requiring Other People to be forced to practice the cultish beliefs of the Cult of Climastrology. It is interesting to see the concern from the CoC over potentially not being able to force their beliefs on others.

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‘Climate Change’ Hits Production Of British Crumpets

By William Teach June 29, 2018 – 7:11 am

This is horrible, people, horrible!

(CNN) British baking giant Warburton’s has been forced to pause production of crumpets at two of its factories amid the ongoing carbon dioxide (CO2) crisis.

The UK’s largest producer of crumpets had no choice but to halt output after it ran out of the gas, which it uses in its packaging to extend the shelf life of the product.

Similar to English muffins, crumpets are a staple of the British breakfast table or afternoon tea — small savory griddle cakes that are toasted and doused in butter.

“As a result of the ongoing CO2 shortage, we are producing nowhere near the 1.5 million packs of crumpets we usually make each week and have had to suspend production at a number of our bakeries,” said Tearmh Taylor, corporate and consumer affairs manager at Warburtons.

Right now, they’re operating at about 50% of production. There’s also a big problem with production of some beers and soda, along with dry ice to be used as a refrigerant, causing problems with deliveries of things that need to be kept cold, such as ice cream and meats.

The baker is the latest victim of the growing CO2 crisis that has greatly impacted food and drink production in the UK in recent weeks.

The bubbles that make beer and soda fizzy are actually byproducts from ammonia production used in fertilizer industry. Over the summer, several major ammonia plants in Europe have closed for maintenance, which in turn, sparked the shortage.

There are a couple other explanations, such as a big reduction in output due to harvest time being over

(Phys.org) It detailed a combination of scheduled maintenance at plants across northern Europe and market forces undercutting production of ammonia, a key component of fertilizer. Industrial CO2 is an offshoot that is used widely in food and beverages.

What no one seems to be noting is that the EU and individual European nation’s ‘climate change’ laws have hit the production hard, since there are limits on what companies can do if they’re producing greenhouse gases such as ammonia and carbon dioxide. And no one wants to say it, because then citizens might realize that the bad parts of dealing with Hotcoldwetdry will actually him them in their own lives.

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California Supreme Court Upholds Gun Control Law That’s Impossible To Comply With

By William Teach June 29, 2018 – 6:53 am

Remember, gun grabbers are not coming for your guns, they just want to something something mumble mumble and this type of law helps

(Breitbart) The Supreme Court of California upheld a micro-stamping requirement for semiautomatic handguns Thursday — even though the technology does not exist to allow manufacturers to comply.

The Associated Press summed up the court’s ruling: “The California Supreme Court says state laws cannot be invalidated on the grounds that complying with them is impossible.”

The micro-stamping requirement, or “bullet stamping law,” as it is sometimes called, requires that semiautomatic handguns sold in California have a special, one-of-kind marker affixed to their firing pins so a special fingerprint is left on each spent shell casing. The idea is to give law enforcement a means to take shell casings from a crime scene and trace them back to the firearm’s owner.

Many problems exist with this proposed scenario. First, the technology does not exist. No manufacturer who is importing guns into California makes a firearm that puts a special mark on spent shell casings.

Second, if the technology did exist, it would easy to defeat by simply scratching the mark off the firing pin or replacing the factory firing pin.

Third, an even easier way to defeat it would be to use a revolver instead instead of a semi-automatic. (Revolvers do not leave behind spent shell casings).

Fourth, people can clean up their cases, and even use a device, a simple bag, to gather than as they are shot. Fifth, what was that 1st thing? Sixth, how many criminals purchase their handguns through lawful channels? This is about a) finding ways to go after law abiding citizens if their guns are stolen and used in a crime and b) making it almost impossible for law abiding citizens to purchase a handgun for self defense. So, you’ll see more purchase revolvers. And then the state will find a way to make that more difficult.

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Why Trump Won: Liberal Hatred Of Non-City Folks

By William Teach June 28, 2018 – 4:24 pm

A View From The Beach’s Fritz has a long running series on Reasons Why Trump Won, such as this one. Here’s another

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/1012341845081370626

Will Wilkerson at the NY Times tries to sorta be rational, but, you can feel the derision, condescension, and hatred shining through

The great, gradual migration of the human population from the countryside to the city has transformed the world, but we’ve barely begun to reckon with its political implications. Over generations, urbanization has sorted us on the traits — ethnicity, education level, personal temperament — that draw us toward cities or keep us away.

The logic of our electoral institutions has always sorted the bulk of American voters into one of two major parties. What’s new is that the sorting dynamic of urbanization now accounts for partisan sorting, too. Democrats have become the party of the multicultural city, Republicans the party of the monocultural country — the party of urbanization-resistant white people.

The only thing missing is calling them racists, Fascists, Nazis, and KKK members.

Such a clean partisan break along density lines has thrown our democracy into a crisis of legitimacy and dysfunction. Our federal system of democratic representation has drifted dangerously out of sync with the geographic distribution, demographic makeup and outsize economic role of America’s urbanized population.

Our politics is cracking up over the density divide. Big cities and their distinctive interests are suffering a density penalty and need more visibility in our scheme of representation.

This is the old whine about less populated states having *gasp* the same representation in the Senate as populous states (can we repeal the 17th now?). I mean, how dare those yokel hick redneck have representation, amiright?

America’s Constitution was devised in the 1780s to balance power between free and slave regions in a thoroughly agricultural economy. In an urbanized polity in which a handful of dense, multicultural metro areas contain most of the people and produce most of the wealth and tax receipts, our federal scheme of representation, which effectively gives extra votes to dirt in low-population states, defies both moral and prudential common sense.

America’s outdated system of representation allowed Donald Trump and the party of the monocultural country to seize total control of the state with a minority of votes and about 36 percent of the economy. That’s not just a glitch. That’s a disaster.

That type of sneering is why Trump won.

Under Mr. Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has singled out urban Democratic strongholds for terrorizing deportation raids under the pretext that so-called sanctuary policies imperil public safety by attracting and shielding dangerous criminal immigrants.

That’s where most of the illegals go, because the Democrats protect the illegals over US citizens.

A Democratic takeover of at least the House in the midterm elections would blunt Mr. Trump’s ability to inflict this sort of cruelty — unless our system’s density penalty allows Republicans to hold it with a minority of votes. It happened in 2012, and election wonks say it has a nearly one-in-three chance of happening again.

In other words, Dems are pissed off by those votes to dirt people being given the Right to vote and have them count as much as the cool city folks.

Families are being torn apart, thousands are packed into squalid prisons, and millions of city-dwelling Americans have been made to suffer under a regime of “institutionalized cruelty” because country people are anxious and city votes count less. Fixing this is far more important than whose team wins when we fix it, because the basic framework of democratic self-defense is far more important than any ephemeral policy. As Judith Shklar sagely said, “without enough equality of power to protect and assert one’s rights, freedom is but a hope.”

See? They want the hayseeds’ votes to barely count. And this is why Trump won. And will continue to win.

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If All You See…

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

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, helping to stop the world from turning to sand, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on the Dems 2020 platform taking shape.

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Climahypocrite Town To Continue Wasting Taxpayer Money On Climate Change Lawsuit

By William Teach June 28, 2018 – 12:42 pm

Interestingly, the city hasn’t said word one about giving up its own use of fossil fuels, banning the sale of fossil fuels in town, telling its residents to stop using fossil fuels, nor telling tourists to not bring their fossil fueled vehicles to town

(San Diego Tribune) A federal judge earlier this week may have tossed out a lawsuit brought by officials for the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, seeking to hold oil companies such as Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil liable for any costs related to climate change, but the mayor of Imperial Beach says a similar lawsuit his town is taking part in will proceed.

“I will continue to stand up for our residents and businesses by holding these companies accountable for the costs and damages they’ve knowingly inflicted on Imperial Beach,” Serge Dedina said in an email.

But defenders of the energy companies say communities filing such litigation should move on.

“Other municipalities around the country who have filed similar lawsuits should take note as those complaints are likely to end the same way,” Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement.

In other words, this is a shakedown attempt. But, the oil companies are not playing ball.

Coastal flooding, Imperial Beach city officials said, will lead to $38 million in damages to residential and commercial buildings and erosion will affect property valued at more than $106 million.

Imperial Beach is near San Diego, and very close to the US-Mexico border. The San Diego tide gauge shows a minuscule 2.17mm a year increase, equivalent to .71 feet over 100 years, exactly average for the Holocene, meaning well below the sea rise expected during a Holocene warm period. They should be worried more about earthquakes, as well as illegal alien criminals trotting through their city.

Dedina and others supporting the lawsuits said they expect to receive a more favorable ruling in California state court, where their litigation was originally filed.

“Judge Alsup’s ruling has virtually no impact on our lawsuit,” Dedina said. “His order was based solely on federal common law, while our lawsuits are on their way back to state court where they belong, and are still moving forward under a variety of state common law claims.”

Is Dedina saying California courts are biased and shady? Anyhow, the fossil fuels companies like Exxon have deep pockets and lawyers on staff, and, even if Imperial Beach wins in California, it will be appealed to higher courts.

Earlier this year, ExxonMobil responded to the lawsuit filed by Imperial Beach and other communities by submitting a 60-page court petition in its home state of Texas, saying the municipalities may be claiming harm but did not disclose such risks when they made bond offerings to potential investors.

Some see the filing as laying the groundwork for ExxonMobil to counter-sue. Texas laws allow companies headquartered in the Lone Star State to seek protection against lawsuits.

I still say Exxon should refuse to sell its products to cities like Imperial Beach.

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First Thing Democrats Worry About Is Abortion On Demand With Justice Kennedy Retiring

By William Teach June 28, 2018 – 8:06 am

Infanticide is pretty much the 1st Sacrament on the list of things Democrats care about. This was virtually the first thing so many elected Democrats chimed in about after Kennedy announced his retirement

She can couch it in nice terms, but she means abortion.

Kennedy’s retirement could open the door to new attack on legal abortion

President Donald Trump has long vowed to nominate Supreme Court justices who would work to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

He now has his chance.

The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, a swing vote who sometimes sided with his liberal colleagues on contentious social issues, sets up what is likely to be a bitter political fight over abortion heading into the fall midterm elections.

Abortion rights advocates issued dire warnings.

The “right to access abortion in this country is on the line,” the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said. And Trump’s pledge “should set off alarm bells for anyone who cares about women,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a legal advocacy group.

Anything to protect killing the unborn because people have unprotected, irresponsible sex with people they do not want to have children with, eh?

Those are just a small fragment of the overall articles on the subject, not too mention all the tweets, such as

In all fairness, a lot of abortion foes are thrilled by Kennedy retiring, but, then, they are actually against killing unborn children.

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Warmist States Sue EPA Over “Rescinding” Obama Era Rule

By William Teach June 28, 2018 – 7:48 am

The EPA demand that all the lawyers have to take non-fossil fueled means of travel to court hearings

U.S. states sue EPA, Pruitt for rolling back climate change rule

A group of U.S. states led by New York sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, accusing Administrator Scott Pruitt of trying to illegally roll back limits on the use of climate change pollutants known as hydrofluorocarbons.

Eleven states and the District of Columbia said Pruitt violated the federal Clean Air Act on April 27 by issuing “guidance” that they said effectively rescinded regulations adopted in 2015 under the Obama administration.

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood accused the EPA under President Donald Trump of trying “to gut critical climate protection rules through the backdoor,” by revoking the 2015 limits rather than going through a public review process.

The states petitioned the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. to throw out Pruitt’s decision.

Hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, are often used in air conditioning, refrigerants, aerosols and foam-blowing.

The thing is, there really isn’t a viable substitute for HFCs at the moment for mass production, and what little there is tends to be really expensive and/or very inefficient. Who is hurt in this? The middle and lower classes. The fancy pants, highfalutin, 1%ers who are pushing this type of thing do not care.

Other states joining Wednesday’s lawsuit include California, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Washington.

They and New York are among many Democratic-led or -leaning states that have filed lawsuits challenging a long list of Trump administration policies.

One has to wonder if the people behind these suits, particularly the Democratic governors and AGs, have replaced their own AC units, refrigerators, etc, with non-HFC systems in their own homes? Oh, and that elections have consequences, especially in terms of doing away with rules from previous administrations which refused to even bother trying to do things through the duly elected legislative branch

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Justice Kennedy Retiring, Trump Will Get Another Supreme Court Pick

By William Teach June 27, 2018 – 2:58 pm

This is pretty huge

(Fox News) Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring, giving President Trump a critical opportunity to move the Supreme Court more solidly to the right in what promises to be an epic confirmation fight.

The 81-year-old senior associate justice informed the White House in a letter of his intention to step down from the high court after 30 years, effective July 31. Rumors of another vacancy have reverberated across Washington in recent months, and it comes a year after Kennedy’s former law clerk Justice Neil Gorsuch, took over the seat occupied by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Trump, reacting to the news, called Kennedy a “great justice” and said he’d begin the search for a replacement immediately.

Trump will probably have a replacement announced next week, because he already had a big list of qualified candidates, and Mitch McConnell will hold a vote by August.

And, of course, we’re already getting things like

https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1012043689865035777

Oh, and btw

https://twitter.com/BenGoldey/status/1012060790705278977

That was about Democrats using the nuclear option to stop all filibusters on anything but a Supreme Court justice. Think Mitch might end up pulling the trigger if Dems try and stop a qualified candidate for SCOTUS?

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible plastic water bottle cause angry rising seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, with a post on one month remaining on the Arctic melting scam.

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