Doom: The 100th Meridian May Possibly Maybe We’re Not Sure Be Moving Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 10:30 am

Everybody panic! Something might be happening

The 100th Meridian May Be Shifting Because of Climate Change

The 100th meridian, which bisects the Great Plains and separates the arid western states from the moister eastern states, may be shifting as a result of climate change, new studies say.

The imaginary line, metaphorically “drawn in the dirt” by American geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell in 1878, transects Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas in the United States, and continues up into Canada’s Manitoba.

Powell used the line to try to convince Congress to plan water and land-management districts that crossed state lines based on environmental constraints. His suggestions were met with backlash because legislators feared interstate districts would limit growth. Considering the water issues facing western states today, perhaps legislators should have taken Powell’s theories under consideration.

So he used it to advocate for increased governmental power over land, which means power over people. Huh.

In a second study published in March in the AMS journal, the researchers concluded that the line appears to be moving east, which could have big impacts on farming and other pursuits.

“Adjustment to changing environmental conditions would cause farm size and rangeland area to increase across the plains and percent of cropland under corn to decrease in the northern Plains as the century advances,” the study says.

Appears. May. Is it moving or is it not?

Regardless, it’s always amusing how people who treat Darwin and his hypothesis as a holy figure and holy script, respectively, seem shocked that nature shifts. That things do not stay the same.

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Gun Grabber Groups Mailing Voting Registration Forms To 18 Year Olds

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 7:11 am

Let me ask, did a certain thought just pop in your head, especially after the previous post? Anyway, let’s let people who eat Tide pods and escape to their safe spaces over Words decide the Second Amendment

Gun Control Groups Mailing Birthday Voting Forms to 18-Year-Olds

A coalition of gun control and progressive millennial outreach groups will be mailing teenagers a present for their 18th birthday: a voter registration form.

The coalition is targeting vulnerable pro-gun Republicans in 10 states with the Our Lives, Our Vote drive and hopes to register 50,000 18- and 19-year-olds through the initiative ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

States where teens can expect a birthday voting package include Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

“America’s children took to the streets and led marches with a unified message that rang out across the country: we need a Congress that will protect us,” former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said in a statement Thursday.

Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, co-founded a lobbying group and PAC in Giffords’ name that supports candidates and policies promoting more gun control. Giffords was shot and nearly killed in 2011 at a constituent event in Arizona.

She is joined in the effort by Everytown for Gun Safety, a partnership of more than 1,000 current and former mayors in the U.S., and NextGen America, a liberal group funded by billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer that is focused on turning out millennials in 2018.

Here’s the first thought that went through my mind: where’d they get all the data on all these kids who are turning 18? People want to freak out over Facebook, Google, and so forth snagging our data, most of which is simply for advertising, but, here are anti-gun groups who essentially obtained data on minors, citizens who are legally children, in order to mail them a voter registration card for their birthday. If we want to discuss invasion of privacy, this is it. Someone in the government should be asking these groups where they obtained the data.

Anyhow, when will Giffords, Steyer, and Mike Bloomberg (who runs Everytown) give up their own firearms/armed security? The very thing they want to deny to other law abiding citizens.

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LA Times: The Internet Has Become A Monster And Needs Restrictions Or Something

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 6:56 am

Opinion writer George Skelton misses the irony in slamming the very platform that allows you to read his screeds

The internet is no longer an infant that needs freedom to innovate — it’s grown into a monster and needs to be restricted

Real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart became alarmed about the internet’s threat to personal privacy while chatting with a Google engineer at a cocktail party.

“I asked, ‘What’s this deal with all the privacy stuff? Is it anything to be worried about?'” Mactaggart recalls. “I expected him to say, ‘No, it’s not a big deal.’

“Instead he said, ‘If people only knew how much we know about them, they’d really freak out.'”

“I was taken aback,” the developer says. “That got me interested.”

Now the big internet companies are freaking out over what Mactaggart is doing. He’s threatening to jeopardize the operations of Google, Facebook and the like with a ballot initiative that regulates profiteering off their users’ private data. (snip)

It’s not just the marketing of political candidates that personal data is used for, of course. It’s also employed to market shoes, TV sets, cars, you name it. Companies glean information about your hobbies, age, children, residence, religion, gender and sexual orientation. And they use it to target ads at specific groups.

Quite frankly, I’m not sure what the big deal is. I’ve read article after article, and ads mean nothing. This happens in real life all the time. When you buy a car, companies are snagging your registration data, and call to say you need a warranty. It has to be explained to customers all the time that their vehicle warranty is just fine, ignore the calls.

The internet is no longer the infant that needed freedom to innovate and grow unregulated, if it ever was. It has grown into a monster and now needs to be restricted — like the railroads at the turn of the last century and financial institutions during the Great Depression.

And the actual recommendation?

Mactaggart’s initiative would affect companies that earn at least $50 million a year and derive half their annual revenue by peddling personal information.

Consumers would have the right to learn what info is collected. They’d need to be told whether it was disseminated and to whom. They could tell the companies to stop selling or sharing it. They couldn’t be charged more for internet service if they opted out. And they could sue if they were ignored.

OK. I guess. What, exactly, is this going to do? Here’s the real concerning part, the last line

Some regulation is needed. The Wild West days of an uncontrolled internet should be history.

The problem here is that if you give Progressives (nice Fascists) and inch, they’re going to want more and more inches immediately, working hard to get that proverbial mile. It’s a never ending cycle of more and more government involvement, interference, and control.

Oh, and it’s interesting that Liberals are suddenly Very Concerned over tech companies that tend to be very big donors to the Democratic Party collecting lots of data on citizens who use their product for advertising, yet are unconcerned that illegal aliens steal the identities of American citizens and essentially ruin their lives.

If someone wants to explain why this data collection is bad enough to require government, please.

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Increased Snowfall In Antarctica Is Caused By ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach April 12, 2018 – 3:09 pm

With the Cult of Climastrology, everything is caused by global warming/climate change/abrupt climate destruction. Here’s CNN going wonkadoodle. And, they have changed the headline since I popped this on Twitter and now

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/984442289979383810

Story did not change that I can see

Increasing snowfall in Antarctica could reduce sea level rise, but only a bit

Snowfall across the great white continent of Antarctica is increasing, according to a study released this week by an international team led by the British Antarctic Survey.

The team analyzed 79 ice cores from across Antarctica that provide detailed information on how much snow has fallen over hundreds of years, and it found a 10% increase in snowfall over the past two centuries.

This contradicts studies that found that Antarctic snowfall has remained largely constant over the past several decades to centuries. But those studies analyzed only a few ice cores, whereas this comprehensive look at the continent gives a much more thorough view of how weather patterns have changed the polar weather.

Wait for it

“The snowfall increase is driven by changing circulation patterns, drawing warm moist air from the mid-latitudes,” said lead study author Liz Thomas, an ice scientist with the British Antarctic Survey.

As you probably guessed, global warming is behind those changing circulation patterns, heating the air and water and reducing sea ice.

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If All You See…

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

…is horrible sea rise from Other People eating burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on yet another fake hate crime.

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New Zealand Warmist Signals By Banning All New Oil Exploration Permits

By William Teach April 12, 2018 – 10:30 am

This is like virtue signaling, but for Warmists

Government aims to strike balance ending offshore oil exploration: PM

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says “transitions have to start somewhere”, after announcing an end to offshore oil exploration.

There are 27 fields in New Zealand currently producing oil and gas. The last of the permits ends in 2030, but if a discovery is made, production could continue for decades. All existing permits will be protected under the Government’s plans.

The industry has warned ending oil exploration will do little to cut emissions in New Zealand or overseas, as the move will not affect demand or supply.

“This is about striking a balance,” Ardern said at a press conference, alongside Energy Minister Megan Woods (Labour), Climate Change Minister James Shaw (Greens), and Economic Development Minister Shane Jones (NZ First).

So, it’s just new permits. They’ll be able to continue to produce lots and lots of fossil fuels from oil for a long, long time. But, hey, if those wells run dry, it just means that New Zealand will have to, get this, import fossil fuels on large fossil fuels powered tanker ships. Huh.

Overall, this does nothing. New Zealand is dependent on fossil fuels for jobs, for all the vehicles, and for all the flights coming in for tourism. If these virtue signalers want to really do something, they’d give up their own fossil fuels usage. They won’t.

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Senate Democrats Proclaim Love Of 1st Amendment While Actually Threatening It

By William Teach April 12, 2018 – 8:13 am

So, just a little reminder of what’s going on

(Baltimore Sun) Facing a firestorm of criticism, Sinclair Broadcast Group spent last week defending a controversial on-air promotion in which its TV anchors across the country read identical scripts decrying “fake” news.

A video montage produced by website Deadspin, which shows anchors at local news stations warning of biased and false news on social media and in traditional outlets, went viral and sparked a backlash.

Critics say the TV station owner’s centralized message, required to be read on air, further reinforces the notion that right-leaning Sinclair wants to consolidate the local news industry and spread politicized “propaganda” through control and ownership of more stations than any other broadcaster.

Opponents of Sinclair’s proposed $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media, which would give it control of 233 television stations that reach 72 percent of U.S. households, see the anchor announcements as ominous signs of more to come from the company. They worry about conservative messaging being fed to local communities, especially when the latest echoes phrasing used by President Donald Trump when criticizing mainstream news organizations.

In a nutshell, this drove Leftists, especially those in the media, bat guano insane. How dare Sinclair have their own viewpoint which is different from the Leftist media viewpoint! That’s verboten, Comrades. So, of course, Senate Democrats have to get involved

And this is a lot closer to the letter of violating the 1st Amendment, whereby it says “Congress shall pass no law…” Usually, we’re just talking about violating the spirit of the 1st. Here, 12 Democratic Senators want the FCC to Do Something

So, they totally love the 1st so much that they want to use the power of the federal government to go after a TV network engaged in using their 1st Amendment Rights of Free Speech and Freedom of the Press. I don’t remember the 1st mentioning anything about any sort of “public interest test.” I do remember the Framers essentially saying Free Speech was about protecting speech that people, and government, do not like from Government, and the same with the press.

These 12 Democrat senators are Maria Cantwell, Tom Udall, Patty Murray, Elizabeth “Not Really And Indian” Warren, Ron Wyden, Edward Markey, Richard “Big Carbon Footprint” Blumenthal, Tina Smith, Bernard “lots of homes for a Socialist” Sanders, Jeffrey Merkley, Tammy Baldwin, and Cory Booker.

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NY Times Should Probably Ask Obama And Holder About Guns Going To Mexico

By William Teach April 12, 2018 – 7:55 am

Opinion writer Nicolas Ortega is rather upset about guns purchased in America ending up in Mexico, and he has a point. But, he very much forgot something

The Other Border Problem: American Guns Going To Mexico

On a sun-scorched prison patio in this sprawling border town, a 23-year-old inmate calmly explained to me how he trafficked hundreds of guns a year from the United States to Mexico. He never bothered paying American citizen straw buyers to purchase the weapons for him, he said. Instead, he would go to one of the many weekend gun shows around Dallas and take advantage of the so-called gun show loophole to buy firearms from private sellers without a background check or proof of citizenship.

He would drive back to Mexico with about a dozen guns hidden in refrigerators and stoves in the back of his truck, and sell the weapons in his hometown, a few hours south of the Rio Grande. His most requested weapon, he told me, was the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which he could buy for as little as $500 and sell for five times that. He became richer than he had dreamed, buying a house and new trucks and motorbikes.

“At the beginning I felt bad, but you get used to it,” he said. “It’s the way you can have a good time. You sell weapons, you earn money and you have fun.” He got caught only because his cousin informed on him after an argument, he said, and he is now serving a nine-year sentence.

Guns from America inundate Mexico, arming the brutal cartels that have drowned this country in blood, destroyed families and driven people from their homes. Over a six-year period, the Justice Department traced more than 74,500 firearms seized from criminals here to the United States, where they were either manufactured or sold on after being imported from other countries.

When I see something like this, I have to wonder if the person is manufactured out of thin air. Once again, an anonymous source, who just happens to perfectly encapsulate the gun grabbers talking points on the “gun show loophole”.

As President Trump rages about the dangers of drugs and criminals seeping north from Mexico, he should consider how America exports its own deadly products and the devastation they cause. He announced last week that he would send the military to the Mexican border, and states have begun deploying National Guard troops. If there is going to be a buildup of forces, more resources should be used to stop gun smuggling — operations against the firearms traffickers and searching of southbound vehicles.

In states such as Texas, an undocumented migrant is not allowed to get a driver’s license. But anyone — even a member of the MS-13 gang without papers — can potentially walk into a gun show and buy a semiautomatic rifle. Organized crime groups are taking advantage of this every day.

And, if that is happening, it is illegal. Regardless, Ortega does have a point that Trump should work to stop the trafficking going south with illegal firearms. Unintentionally, he makes that point that the National Guard should be used to stop these criminals coming across the border illegally in the first place, along with building a border wall.

Funny how that works, eh?

But, if you want to talk gun trafficking, you have to mention Barack Obama and Eric Holder, who allowed over 2,000 rifles to disappear into Mexico through Operation Fast and Furious. Guns which injured and killed hundreds of Mexicans (that we know about), including children, and killed two U.S. Border Patrol agents. Law enforcement stated that guns used in the Paris Islamist attack came from this gunwalking program.

Why are these two not mentioned?

The problems of gun violence, drug trafficking and immigration are international in our interconnected world — and we need to work across borders to solve them. Just as Mexico needs to fight the brutal cartels that drive people to flee north, the United States needs to slow the southward flow of this devastating iron river.

OK, let’s build the wall and have lots and lots of government agents on the border, who do not detain and release while awaiting a hearing. Let’s detain and immediately deport.

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Surprise: Now They Claim It Is A 99.94% Consensus

By William Teach April 11, 2018 – 4:30 pm

Having had the 97% consensus meme shown to be a 100% farce, Warmists refuse to give up on their anti-science drumbeat of consensus on the current warm period being mostly/solely caused by Mankind. And away we go

97% consensus on climate change? More like 99.94%, study finds

The general trend in the media seems to suggest that there’s a 97% agreement between scientists regarding the validity of climate change. However, that might not be accurate. Recent studies indicate an even stronger agreement. (snip)

There are thousands and thousands of studies documenting climate change and its effects and among scientists, there’s essentially a consensus regarding climate change. While the details and the exact specifics of how it is happening are still very much an area of active research, there’s not much denying that it is happening and that we are causing it.

To portray this, the media often uses the phrase “97% consensus” — likely originating from a 2014 study by Cook et al. entitled “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature“. In the study, Cook analyzed 11,944 peer-reviewed papers published between 1991-2011. Out of them, about a third (4,013) expressed a position on man-made climate change, and 3,894 (or 97%) supported the position that humans are causing climate change. The authors also found that more recent papers were increasingly attributing climate change to mankind, indicating an increasing acceptance level.

But in 2017, James Powell published an even larger meta-analysis of 54,195 peer-reviewed papers, finding a 99.94% consensus about human-caused climate change. Again, more recent papers seem to back the idea up even more overwhelmingly.

Belief is not science. And, like the Cook et al “study”, this one will surely be found lacking, and that the vast majority of papers will portray the current warming period as not mostly/solely caused by Mankind. In fact, even Skeptical Science, a hardcore Warmist site, had issues with his previous paper proclaiming a 99.99% consensus.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrifying wood banner made from killing carbon pollution reducing trees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on what to do when there are no good options.

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