Surprise: Excitable Bill McKibben Says ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Not An Environmental Issue

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 10:30 am

Ever so slowly, the high mucky mucks in the Cult of Climastrology are revealing what this who thing is about

Catastrophic Climate Change Is Not an ‘Environmental’ Issue: Bill McKibben

It’s the most crucial security question that humans have ever faced: catastrophic climate change. Bill McKibben says it’s too late to halt global warming, but we still have a chance to curb it in ways that ultimately avoid “civilizational destruction.”

What follows at The Nation is a podcast which describes what McKibben seems to be saying in his The Nation article

Climate Change Is Our Most Critical National-Security Challenge

Progressive American politicians must embrace the necessity of dramatic action on climate change as a touchstone. So far, Senator Bernie Sanders has done it the most persuasively, campaigning on addressing climate change, health care, racial justice, and economic inequality as his unvaried quartet of issues, invoked in every speech and backed up with serious legislation that shows a willingness to move with real speed. Other party leaders will back him on one bill or another, and scientists and engineers are now running for office. Seriousness on climate change needs to be a qualification, not an afterthought, for anyone who wants to run for president. Because it’s not an environmental issue; it’s the most crucial security question that humans have ever faced.

And what Bill recommends to solve this is, I know you’ll be surprised, more and more Big Government control and more taxes and fees.

So if and when the United States emerges from the Trump era, and if and when progressive politicians really embrace climate change as a core issue in tandem with race, gender, immigration, and inequality, we will have a chance for something new: an activist government whose task, alongside those of China and Europe, will be to help lead in a very different direction the planet that we’ve done the most to pollute. If there’s any reason for a superpower, it’s got everything to do with… power.

So, ‘climate change’ is pretty much a stand-in for every other far left notion, which always seem to increase the size and power of centralized government. Which is what is being proposed through this very, very long and roundabout The Nation article by Alyssa Battistoni, which seems to be pushing authoritarian, even dictatorial, government in order to solve the “climate crisis.”

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UN Report On Poverty Blasting Trump Has One Big Problem

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 8:07 am

Much like so many reports of kids fenced in at illegal alien detention centers….oh, look, here’s a new one, saying they were handcuffed and beaten….that seem to have occurred during the time of the previous White House occupant, Trump gets blamed for things that he didn’t do. He wasn’t POTUS at the time. Here’s another

(Fox News) A recent United Nations report blasting President Trump and America in general for harboring “contempt” and “hatred for the poor” is based on highly inaccurate data that can’t easily be used to compare the U.S. to other nations.

The U.N. report’s main contentions read like an attack on the Trump administration by the Democratic Party: America has 40 million poor people, including 18.5 million who live in extreme poverty; U.S. policies regarding the poor are “cruel and inhuman;” the Trump tax cuts aren’t working and will worsen inequality; and the U.S. needs to spend less on defense of our nation and more on social programs.

But, wait a minute: the U.N. report’s main contentions are based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s official poverty measure data for 2016 – the last full year of President Obama’s second term. So it would be absurd to say that private citizen Donald Trump had any responsibility for the many shortcomings of the Obama administration or any other administration in power before he became president.

The U.N. might as well blame Trump for causing the Great Depression – before he was born.

An even bigger problem with the report, especially given that the organization attacking American policy is the U.N., is that the Census Bureau data for 2016 isn’t accurate and can’t be used to compare U.S. anti-poverty programs with programs in other developed nations.

Wouldn’t this be what was referred to as an “inherited problem” from the day Obama took office in 2009 to at least his re-election in 2012? The media at the time the report was released at the beginning of June were hot to trot to Blame Trump, with headlines like

The Washington Post had an honest (mostly) article on the report, noting that the safety net programs were failing before Trump was elected. Regardless, so many others were blasting Trump policies for data from the Obama era.

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Trump Signs EO To (Mostly) End Illegal Alien Separation, Democrats Shift Goal Posts

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 7:52 am

Democrats say it’s about the kids. It’s not about the kids

(Daily Caller) Members of the media and Democrats are unsatisfied with President Trump’s executive order temporarily ending family separations at the border and are now urging him to end his zero tolerance policy on prosecuting people who cross the border illegally.

President Trump announced Wednesday that he would allow families to be detained together while they wait to be prosecuted for illegal border crossings. Immigration law currently requires children to be sheltered separately as their parents await trial.

However, despite spending weeks complaining about the separation of families and even comparing the detention centers to concentration camps, the media and the Democrats are still railing against the president.

Because the Trump administration prosecutes illegal border crossers at a 100 percent rate, leftists are now complaining that families will be detained at all — even if they’re detained together. The implicit assertion is that people who cross the border illegally shouldn’t be detained, even though those people often fail to show up for their court hearings.

Well, of course they are. Because this is about open borders. They didn’t care about when it was happening under Obama (nor do they seem to care that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is doing the same)

MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt questioned what would “happen next,” noting, “this executive order does not end the zero tolerance policy — everyone will continue to be prosecuted which puts a serious strain on resources.”

Democratic Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin complained on CNN that “it does not reverse his zero tolerance policy and so we’re still going to have some really critical issues to deal with relating to … families with young children.”

And so many others

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1009531410082824194

And, if you’ve lost pro-amnesty Marco Rubio

According to some data Gabriel Malor has found, 39% of illegals did not appear in court for fiscal year 2016.

And here’s Trump trolling Dems

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If Carbon Taxes Were So Awesome, You’d Think Supporters Would Be For Transparency

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 3:49 pm

Here’s a fun one from the land of maple syrup and Tim Horton’s, from the Toronto Sun editorial board, not exactly paragons of ‘climate change’ skepticism

EDITORIAL: The carbon tax cover up continues

It’s not rocket science. At least it shouldn’t be. Although the way the Liberals are acting you’d think it’s a superhuman feat to disclose how much carbon taxes are going to ding the average Canadian family.

On Thursday evening, the Conservatives used the legislative tools at their disposal to keep MPs around late into the night to vote on a motion that would see the Liberals release a needlessly secret report that gives up the carbon tax goods.

Back in 2015 bureaucrats at the federal finance department calculated how much a federal carbon tax levy was going to cost.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre recently filed an access to information request to receive the document. But when he got it, the pertinent information was blacked out. The data was redacted.

Poilievre is now challenging this, with the Office of the Information Commissioner investigating whether the Liberals in fact broke access to information laws by failing to disclose the data.

You’d think if they’re such proponents of the carbon tax, then they’d be all gung ho to talk about it and all of its details. The truth though is that carbon tax fans never want to discuss the costs. Because they know how high they are and they know this will turn the people off of them.

This is scandalous. The people have a right to know.

But, the Warmists do not want you to know the results of their carbon taxes/fees. They do not want you to know where the money is going. They do not want you to know about the artificial rise in the cost of living. They do not want you to know about how this hurts the economy. They really, really like their slush funds and empowered government control.

There are a number of estimates out there from private and academic sources. The lowest of them suggests families will pay around $600 per year on average. It could be more.

They do not want Canadians to know.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are glaciers that are going to soon melt and raise the seas hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on UK police making the ISIS one-finger salute.

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TV Weathercasters Unite To Push ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Or Something

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 10:58 am

I wonder how much electricity is used to broadcast the weather?

TV Meteorologists Unite For Climate Change On The Summer Solstice

Surprisingly, there are a small percentage of TV meteorologists that express skepticism on climate change. The American Meteorological Society (AMS), George Mason University, and others have studied the reasons why, and I will say more about that later. This is particularly worrisome because TV meteorologists are the only scientists the average public citizen will see on a daily basis. Many people, myself included, recognize that TV colleagues, though only about 8% of the meteorology field according to the AMS, are great sources for climate change news and education. And by the way, the majority of the public thinks that every meteorologist is on TV anyhow (smile). Every meteorologist that I know, irrespective of the sector of the field they work, has gotten this question, “So what channel are you on?”

On the June 21, 2018 Summer Solstice, over 100 meteorologists will wear an item of clothing like the tie below. The effort is called #MetsUnite. Keep reading for what the pattern on the tie indicates.

Why is this effort needed? Isn’t it a “no brainer” that anyone that studies weather would understand that climate change is a challenge? As a former president of the American Meteorological Society and in many discussions with broadcast meteorologists on all sides of the ledger, I have gained some valuable insight on why there is variance in the perspectives of broadcast meteorology community.

And why are they doing it when it’s hot outside? Which happens in the Northern Hemisphere at this time of year?

Specifically for this initiative it was my idea! I saw Ed Hawkins Warming Stripes pattern and the simplicity resonated with me. It is our job as meteorologists and station scientists to explain weather and climate in simple, memorable terms. This pattern could not be more simple… red for warmer than normal, blue for cooler than normal from 1850 to 2017. Plus the pattern looked like it could be a nifty tie… in a weather geek sort of way. So I quickly organized this initiative and Climate Central jumped in to offer support. They are a great organization as you know and we are all working together towards the same goal, climate change awareness. We discussed various aspects of the initiative. This Wednesday they will send out a supplementary email with info/ graphics for “Meteorologists United on Climate Change” which will be this Thursday June 21st, the summer solstice. #MetsUnite

This is what they’re referring to

It’s a manufactured representation meant to scare people into allowing themselves to be taxed out the ying yang, see their cost of living skyrocket, and have the government restrict their freedom. It is beyond disingenuous, as the comparison is for what they consider “average”, but misses that most years prior to that average, taken from 1960-1990, will be slightly cooler. The Little Ice Age ended in 1850, and there were several periods where the temperatures spiked throughout the Modern Warm Period, and a few pauses. But, always, the trend has been slightly up. But, an increase of 1.5F since 1850 is minor. No big deal. But, they have to keep push push pushing to keep their cult going.

And it’s still not proof that this is mostly/solely caused by Mankind’s output of CO2.

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Feinstein, Democrats Offer Child Separation Fix That Has Unintended(?) Consequences

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 7:56 am

Obviously, the Democrats are using the separation of illegal alien kids as a wedge issue going into the 2018 mid-terms. They sure didn’t care when the same was being done quietly under Obama, such as when the media took a tour of a facility back in 2014

The media doesn’t want you to see things like that. But, now, Dems and their pet media are Concerned. Because it also helps deflect from the potential denuclearizing of North Korea and the Inspector General report on FBI misconduct. And now we get

Report: Diane Feinstein’s Immigration Bill Would Prevent Almost Every Federal Arrest

Every single Senate Democrat has backed a bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that would effectively prevent authorities from arresting illegal aliens within 100 miles of the U.S. border.

In the words of moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Feinstein’s “Keep Families Together Act” would “essentially prevent arrest within 100 miles of the border, even if the person has committed a serious crime or is suspected of terrorist activities.”

For that reason, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has called Feinstein’s bill the “Child Trafficking Encouragement Act,” since it would create incentives for illegal aliens to cross the border with children to evade arrest by authorities.

If you’ve lost super-squish Collins, you’ve lost all Republicans.

A new analysis by Gabriel Malor of The Federalist points out an additional problem: thanks, he says, to sloppy drafting, the bill would effectively prevent federal law enforcement from arresting anyone in most of the U.S.

Every Senate Democrat has now signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between migrant children at the border and U.S. citizen children already within the United States. The bill further does not distinguish between federal officers handling the border crisis and federal law enforcement pursuing the ordinary course of their duties.

With the GOP in control of the Senate, there’s no way this passes, and will most likely never make it out of committee (Mitch McConnell would actually be wise in bringing it to the floor quickly, putting Democrats on record as supporting this abomination).

But, really, Democrats do not want it passed. Sure, there’s a possibility that this was just a poorly crafted piece of legislation put together in a hurry. Most likely, they know exactly what’s in it, and will grandstand on it. They know the finer nuances of the legislation will not be explained in the media, and that most people will only see that it stops the separation.

Schumer doesn’t want the duly elected legislative branch to debate and pass law. Weird, eh?

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Mom’s Demand Blames Guns And NRA For Shooting At Trenton Art Show

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 7:38 am

Let’s see: we have a bunch of gang-bangers, who weren’t legally allowed to own any firearms, one of whom had a history of violence and should have still been in jail for his felonies. You have an art showing going on at 3am in one of the really bad neighborhoods of Trenton, NJ (I compared the location to the Neighborhood Scout map). So, guess who this Mom’s Demand member, who surely doesn’t actually live in the neighborhood, blames?

Thoughts from a survivor – and gun control advocate – of Art All Night shooting

The irony of the night was not lost on Fran Carroll. Having spent four hours asking Art All Night attendees to “imagine a world without gun violence,” Carroll — a volunteer for Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense — no longer can. Carroll was present early Sunday morning when gunmen started shooting at the state’s largest arts festival.

“I have now experienced firsthand the terror of an active shooting situation,” said Carroll, in between bouts of tears. “Of running with a stampede of people, pushing and shoving. Of taking shelter behind a thin wood wall that I knew wouldn’t stop a bullet, wondering where else I could hide, should we crouch behind that stack of tables? Not knowing if it was safe to run outside with most of the crowd because we had no idea where the gunman – gunmen? – was.”

Prior to 2:45 a.m. and her shift which started at 11 p.m., Carroll, who lives in Hamilton, spent several hours at the arts festival with a fellow Moms Demand Action volunteer admiring the art festival’s offerings.

Hamilton Township abuts Trenton, and is actually pretty safe. They also do not seem to like black people, being 67% white.

Having joined in February — just days before the Parkland, Florida shooting — Carroll is new to Moms Demand Action. But, the mom of three teens is not new to the issue of gun violence. She has been a proponent of stricter gun control for many years.

“It has pissed me off quite frankly that we as a country, as a whole, don’t seem to be willing to face this issue head-on, don’t seem to be able to do anything about it,” Carroll said. “Other countries have. It kills me that people say, ‘Oh, there’s nothing we can do,’ or ‘The gun culture is so pervasive and we have the Second Amendment.’ There are things that can be done. Look at Australia — that is the model. They had this horrible mass shooting and they collectively decided that this is not who we want to be and they we are better than this. And here, nobody wants to do anything — and it’s because of the money. Because of the NRA and their lobbying. In my opinion, they are not about the second amendment and gun rights. They are lobbyists for gun manufacturers who are making lots of money selling these weapons and the ammunition. They have bought and sold Congress. It’s maddening to me that not enough people, including our elected officials, won’t stand up and say, ‘No, enough.’ It’s an uphill battle for sure, but we have got to do something. We need an army of people — not with guns —but with voices and their pens and their vote.”

New Jersey is one of the strictest states on limiting the 2nd Amendment Rights of law abiding citizens, and literally just enacted six more laws that mostly effect law abiding citizens. Virtually everything the gun grabbers in groups like Mom’s Demand has been passed. Other than straight up banning and confiscation, what more does Carroll want?

Notice that she doesn’t blame criminals, gangs, letting violent criminals out of jail early, a bad criminal justice system, etc. No, she blames the NRA and the law abiding citizens who are members. She spouts talking points from Mom’s Demand about them being lobbyists for gun manufacturers, which is a lie. And, again, none of the gang members shooters were legally eligible to own/possess firearms.

What laws, exactly, are being pushed by Mom’s Demand that would stop gang members from shooting each other, with other citizens being collateral damage? It’s interesting that gang shootings tend to happen the most in areas run by Democrats.

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Never Bring A Contractor’s Level To A Sword Fight

By William Teach June 19, 2018 – 2:00 pm

This must have been surprising to the guy with the contractor’s level

Parking dispute gets medieval as men battle with sword, 4-foot level, cops say

A neighborhood parking dispute in Somerset County turned bloody after a man pulled a sword from his car and began slashing at another man who was swinging a 4-foot contractor’s level, authorities said.

The battle unfolded around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the area of Knopf Street and North 9th Avenue in Manville, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

Jared Razzano, 35, the alleged swordsman, faces multiple charges including second-degree aggravated assault and was taken to the Somerset County jail. (snip)

The 40-year-old was carrying a four-foot contractor’s level when the verbal dispute over the parking space near Razzano’s home turned physical, authorities said.

Razzano was struck multiple times with the level, “resulting in several bruises and abrasions to his back, face, arm and leg,” Robertson said.

Razzano then removed a sword from his car and “retaliated by slashing the victim several times with the sword. The slashing caused the victim serious bodily injuries to his head and arm,” Robertson said.

Someone in the NJ.com comments wonder what the 40 year old, who has not been named, and, weirdly, not been charged with anything, was thinking when Razzano pulled out the sword. I’m figuring it was like this

And, this being NJ

In addition to aggravated assault, Razzano faces charges of third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon.

Interesting. The gun-grabbers tell us we should have weapons like when the Bill of Rights was passed, yet, they ban those same weapons.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 19, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution created snow messing with someone who’s appropriating culture, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on lies told by Dems and NeverTrumpers on border crossings.

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