LA Is Painting Streets White To Combat Global Warming Or Something

By William Teach April 11, 2018 – 10:46 am

The City of Los Angeles, and CBS LA, unintentionally expose what a huge component of what the reality of global warming is: namely, that so much of the recorded temperatures are artificially inflated from the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, as well as land use. Yes, these are anthropogenic, but, they are not causing future doom, and the reliance on blamestorming a tiny increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide content is a bunch of mule fritters

(CBS LA) In the race to combat climate change, the city of Los Angeles is employing a surprising new tactic — covering its streets in a grayish-white coating known as CoolSeal.

It’s sprayed onto the roadway with trucks, then spread across the surface with squeegees. However, its impact extends far beyond the edge of the pavement.

Los Angeles, like so many other modern cities, is encased in thousands of miles of asphalt. And dark-colored asphalt absorbs between 80 and 95 percent of the sun’s rays, heating up not just the streets themselves but the entire surrounding area. So when temperatures in Southern California rise above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, surface temperatures on its asphalt roads can climb to 150. It exacerbates a phenomenon known as the “urban heat island effect,” which the EPA says can add up to 22 degrees Fahrenheit to the average air temperature in a city, compared to the surrounding area.

CoolSeal, which is made by a company called GuardTop, helps to reflect solar rays off asphalt so that less heat is actually absorbed. And according to the Bureau of Street Services, the L.A. streets that have been rendered lighter in color with CoolSeal are 10 to 15 degrees cooler on average than the L.A. streets that have not. That, in turn, keeps the neighborhood from heating up quite as much. Buildings in the area don’t need to use quite as much air conditioning, which can curb costs, benefiting residents’ wallets and the environment.

This is actually not a bad idea, despite the high cost of $40,000 per mile (a concern of read about previously is how long will it last with vehicular and pedestrian traffic constantly using it). There’s no doubt that urbanized areas, and even suburban, are artificially inflating the actual temperature. And this gets reflected (no pun intended) in the Warmist data, where they really do not adjust this out, because, hey, they need to keep the Cult of Climastrology going.

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Vox Notices That A Certain Type Of Shooting Happens Every Day In America

By William Teach April 11, 2018 – 8:04 am

I wonder if Leftists will run out and call Vox, and article writer German Lopez, racists?

This kind of shooting happens every day in America — and we usually ignore it

Kimson Green, 17, was a month away from being inducted into the National Honor Society. But on Sunday afternoon, he and three others were caught in a shooting in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City. Green, a sophomore at Northwestern High School, and former student Rickey Dixon, 18, were killed. Two others were wounded, including a senior from Northwestern High.

Police still have not caught the shooter or shooters, and they have not publicly identified a motive, according to the Miami Herald. An investigation is underway.

Under some definitions (including the one used by the Gun Violence Archive and Vox), the event would actually qualify as a mass shooting — since four or more people were shot, even if they weren’t killed. But the event, despite tweets by survivors from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, hasn’t gotten much attention — certainly not the kind of national media focus that Parkland drew.

That’s because this shooting appears to represent a more typical kind of gun violence in America. It wasn’t a lone shooter targeting a public space seemingly at random. It was yet another example of gun violence at Liberty Square, an apartment complex that the Miami Herald described as “crime-plagued.” Several other students at Northwestern High have also been killed in shootings over the past few years, according to the Herald.

What was this kind of shooting?

In 2016 (the latest year for which data is available), there were nearly 39,000 gun deaths. More than 14,000 of those were homicides, and almost 23,000 were suicides. Using Mother Jones’s definition of a mass shooting — which uses a narrow framework to try to identify the shootings people usually picture when they hear “mass shooting” — 71 deaths in 2016 were due to mass shootings. That represents less than 1 percent of all gun deaths that year.

Based on what we know so far, the Liberty City shooting represents the 99-plus percent.

The two teenagers who died in the Miami shooting were also black. This, too, is common: In 2016, for example, more than 52 percent of murder victims (73 percent of whom were killed by guns) were black, even though black people only make up about 13 percent of the general population.

So, what we see here is a crime that was a) not a mass shooting and b) involved African Americans in Democratic Party run cities, which never seem to want to do anything to deal with this criminal activity, and, on the few occasions they try, the Leftists will do all they can to shut the programs down as raaaaacist. Leftists prefer Blacks shooting each other rather than have some feelings hurt.

The racial breakdown may help explain the lack of national attention to more typical gun violence. We know that racial biases make white Americans more likely to perceive black people as less innocent and even as criminals, which may, in some people’s minds, make these victims more deserving of the gun violence in their communities.

So, that’s what Democrats think of Blacks? Who knew!

There are also some evidence-based policies that could help reduce everyday gun violence outside the realm of gun control, including more stringent regulations and taxes on alcohol, changes in policing, and behavioral intervention programs. These, too, rarely get national attention after a shooting like Liberty City’s.

Liberals. Good grief. Better yet, they could work to elevate the living standards of Blacks, instead of keeping them down on the Dem plantation.

Oh, and the handgun in the first excerpt? That’s the picture that accompanies the article. Anyone think that Dems are considering going after semi-automatic handguns?

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Bummer: DOJ To Temporarily End Program Giving Illegal Aliens Taxpayer Funded Lawyers

By William Teach April 11, 2018 – 7:46 am

And the lawyers they had had worked super hard to keep all the illegals in this country in contradiction to the law

Justice Dept. to halt legal-advice program for immigrants in detention

The U.S. immigration courts will temporarily halt a program that offers legal assistance to detained foreign nationals facing deportation while it audits the program’s cost-effectiveness, a federal official said Tuesday.

Officials informed the Vera Institute of Justice that starting this month it will pause the nonprofit’s Legal Orientation Program, which last year held information sessions for 53,000 immigrants in more than a dozen states, including California and Texas.

The federal government will also evaluate Vera’s “help desk,” which offers tips to non-detained immigrants facing deportation proceedings in the Chicago, Miami, New York, Los Angeles and San Antonio courts.

Why, exactly, would the U.S. government be funding a program that does this? U.S. code is clear: these people are here illegally, and the primary penalty is to be removed from the U.S.

But advocates said the programs administered by Vera and a network of 18 other nonprofits are a legal lifeline for undocumented immigrants.

“This is a blatant attempt by the administration to strip detained immigrants of even the pretense of due-process rights,” said Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center, one of the organizations that offers the legal services with Vera.

Well, great, these non-profits can pay for the legal services themselves.

Here’s an important part buried down the article, which Mary Meg forgot to mention when talking about due process

Immigration courts are separate from U.S. criminal courts, where defendants are entitled to a government-appointed lawyer if they cannot pay for their own legal counsel.

The Vera Institute said approximately 8 in 10 detainees in immigration court face a government prosecutor without a lawyer.

So, basically, illegal aliens are not entitled to a government appointed attorney if they cannot afford one. Why? Because illegal immigration is a civil penalty, in the vast majority of cases, which the illegal alien supporters love to point out. Even a lot of absconders, those who have been previously deported and came back illegally, which is a criminal offense, are treated as a civil offense. And, in civil cases, no lawyer is necessary. If you get a normal speeding ticket, you are not going to be offered a lawyer. You can get one if you like. But, government will not give you one. The 6th Amendment is about criminal cases.

A lot of the pro-illegal folks whine about this meaning little to no representation when someone is, say, an asylum seeker. Well, the illegal in question should have gone through legal channels to start with, rather than coming to the U.S. illegally or overstaying their visa. And, if these groups love illegals so much, they can certainly fundraise from all the rich leftists, right? Or, hey, work for free.

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College Campuses Full Of Warmists Need To Change Their Hypocritical Behavior

By William Teach April 10, 2018 – 3:20 pm

Who’s surprised that all these Concerned Kids, raised on a diet of Spreading Awareness from their Leftist teachers, are failing to live the Warmists life?

College campuses need change concerning climate change

Did you know that globally, humans buy a million plastic water bottles per minute, according to Ford?

College campuses can often be filled with people who either care about the environment and who are aware of climate change, and others who could not care less and liter on a daily basis.

How can you prevent damaging the Earth for our generation and the future?

The article actually does a good job in offering ideas that are about kids taking action in their own lives, which they should have been doing already. My big issue, as you’ve read before, is conflating real environmental concerns, such as plastic pollution, with Hotcoldwetdry. The former is real, the latter is a bunch of moonbat droppingd.

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If All You See…

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

…is a field drying out from too much global warming atmosphere cancer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post noting that the Life Of Julia has ended.

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Bummer: Fossil Fuels Might Possibly Melt The Planet Or Something

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

Insane Warmist alert

As Fossil Fuels Melt the Planet, Could Climate Change Cause a Nuclear Meltdown?

Nearly three dozen nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding guaranteed to occur after an upstream dam failure – flooding that could easily lead to an accident or meltdown on the scale of the 2011 nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

Yet, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) – the federal agency responsible for protecting public health and safety from nuclear power mishaps – has been downplaying the risk and failing to ensure that the measures needed to avert disaster are implemented.

The article goes on to note a big problem with secrecy, most of which occurred under Obama, and this is real, and a real problem is happening (who would have thought govt would be secretive, especially under PBO? )

But, of course, the lunatics make it about their cult

What troubles CSPW – and should trouble us all – over the irresponsible and inappropriately secretive manner in which the NRC is mishandling the vulnerability of nuclear plants to flooding – is that the actual likelihood of a major nuclear incident caused by flooding is even greater than the probability determined by NRC’s risk analysis engineers. This is because their risk assessment calculations rely on past precipitation data that is not representative of the harsher weather and climate conditions we see today, such as severe storms and increased precipitation levels in certain regions of the US, caused by climate change. In fact, we see no evidence that the NRC is considering climate change impacts at all, as it evaluates overall risk of a nuclear power accident.

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Unsurprisingly, the screed goes on to mostly come out against nuclear power. Half of Warmists are ok with nuclear, the other half, who are extreme enviroweenies, are against it.

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Ron Paul: You Know, The Left’s Push For Gun Control Is Pretty Racist

By William Teach April 10, 2018 – 7:18 am

I’ll admit, I’m not a big fan of Ron Paul. On a lot of things, he’s a Libertarian crank, and hanging with 9/11 Truthers certainly doesn’t help. Though, really, it was the hardcore Ron Paul supporters in all their wackiness that turned a lot of people, including myself, off from Ron. Regardless, he makes a lot of sense here

Progressives Should Defend Gun Rights

Last week’s shooting at YouTube’s California headquarters is certain to add momentum to the push for more gun control. Even before the shooting, YouTube was working to undermine gun rights by banning videos promoting firearms, including videos teaching safe gun usage. (snip)

The Mulford Act is hardly the only example of a gun control law motivated at least in part by racial animus. As Tiffany Ware of the Brown Girls Project, an initiative that teaches African-American women responsible firearms ownership and usage, says, “Throughout much of American history gun control was a method for keeping blacks and Hispanics, ‘in their place.’” One of the earliest examples of gun control was laws prohibiting slaves from owning guns. After slavery was ended, Jim Crow laws denied African-Americans respect for their Second Amendment rights.

While the modern gun control movement is not explicitly racist, it is still likely that new gun control laws will disproportionately harm African-Americans and other minorities. Concerns about this are increased by cases like that of 32-year-old Philando Castile. A police officer who had stopped Castile’s car shot Castile after Castile told the officer he had a firearm in his car.

Those behind the new gun control push ignore how gun control has been used against African-Americans in the past and how new gun control laws will disproportionately harm racial minorities. This may seem ironic since many gun control supporters are progressives or cultural Marxists who specialize in finding racism in every aspect of American politics and culture. However, considering that may other policies favored by progressives — such as minimum wage laws that limit job opportunities and occupational licensing that makes it impossible for many to start their own businesses — negatively impact minorities and lower-income Americans, perhaps progressive support for gun control is not so ironic.

Blacks are a voting block to the Democrats, nothing more, nothing less, who will simply offer them free stuff to vote D again. It hasn’t seemed to matter that Democrat policies tend to hurt Blacks more than help, and continuously make Blacks more dependent on Government. Sadly, too many Blacks just don’t get it, and will blindly continue to vote against their best interests.

And they are the ones who need more access to firearms, at least the law abiding ones. You’ve seen the stats: roughly 50% of all murders are committed by African Americans, and well over 90% of all Blacks shot were shot by another Black. Now, imagine that the non-criminal elements stuck in Democratic Party created slums and urban areas, we’ll just call the Dem Plantations, were easily able to legally purchase a firearm, receive training, and be allowed to carry it both openly and concealed: what would happen to the crime rate when the criminal elements realized they could no longer take advantage? What you might see is a brief uptick of shootings, as armed law abiding citizens who just want to be safe defend themselves. Then, this would go down, as the criminals started keeping more to themselves.

History, including American history, shows that the right to keep and bear arms can be especially valuable to racial and other minorities. Therefore, progressives who are sincerely concerned about protecting minorities from oppressive government should join libertarians and constitutional conservatives in defending the Second Amendment.

They won’t. Because Progressives/Marxists/etc think Government Is Good (for Other People). And they do not seem to actually like Black people that much. Their only value seems to be as a voting block and a means to accuse others of racism.

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Surprise: Washington Post, NY Times Editorial Boards Decide To Slam Trump On Syria

By William Teach April 10, 2018 – 6:58 am

In all fairness, some of their complaints are warranted, but, neither condemned nor slammed Obama’s fecklessness when it came to Syria and establishing red lines at the time, and it’s a little late to offer criticism now. Both were super excited to proclaim the diplomacy of Obama and Sec of State John Kerry awesome when they negotiated to have all of Syria’s chemical weapons taken from the country. How’d that work out? Looks like they were punked.

Regardless, both are simply complaining, with the WP being the worst

A few cruise missiles from Trump won’t stop Syria’s war crimes

HAVING DECLARED that Syria will pay a “big price” for its latest use of chemical weapons, President Trump will deal another blow to U.S. global leadership if he does not follow through. But a few cruise missiles won’t change anything in Syria. What’s really needed is a concerted strategy for protecting the vital American interests wrapped up in the multi-sided Syrian war — something Mr. Trump, despite the urging of many of his advisers, has failed to develop.

At the least, Mr. Trump should learn a lesson from this latest Syrian war crime. He declined to respond to seven previous, smaller chemical attacks this year. Then he loudly announced he intended to pull out U.S. forces and “let the other people take care of” Syria. He should not have been surprised that the ever-opportunistic regime of Bashar al-Assad responded by dumping toxic chemicals on the Damascus suburb of Douma. More than 500 people, most of them women and children, were treated for symptoms, and at least 48 died. Mr. Trump, who criticized President Barack Obama for allowing red lines in Syria to be crossed with impunity and for telegraphing military plans in advance, ought to recognize that the Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies are as happy to take advantage of his fecklessness as they were of Mr. Obama’s.

Remember when all the media folks, like the WPEB, were in the bag for Obama announcing his withdrawal from Iraq? Regardless, the WPEB ends the screed in the same manner

If Mr. Trump really intends to abandon Syria, he should be prepared not to flinch at chemical attacks and other war crimes. There’s little point in one-off punitive raids if there are to be no U.S. military or diplomatic initiatives behind them. Wars cannot be fought by impulse. They require something Mr. Trump has yet to embrace: a plan.

Where are the WP’s ideas? They were non-present. But, it does look like they are proposing putting boots on the ground in Syria, or at least more of them and an actual fighting force, rather than advisors and special operations units. And, then, if Trump did, then the WPEB would slam Trump for that.

Then you have the NY Times

In Syria, Trump Faces The Limits Of Bluster

But the president should know by now that tough talk without a coherent strategy or follow-through is dangerous.

What to do next in Syria is a crucial test for Mr. Trump, who has shirked America’s traditional leadership role. He has tried to seem like a macho leader who would aggressively use American power where President Barack Obama wouldn’t, while talking about pulling out of the Middle East and walking away from international commitments.

With such inconstancy, he will not be able to stop the violence in Syria, and with no clear, unified plan with the Western allies, he will only empower Mr. Assad.

Would this be the violence that has been going on since before Obama began his second term? The violence he did little to stop, and generally gave the directions over to Russia and Iran? None of the Western allies really wanted to Do Something then, and they really do not seem to want to Do Something now

Mr. Trump needs to work with the other major powers on a broad plan that could force Mr. Assad, Russia and Iran to end the carnage and be held accountable. The United Nations Security Council needs to recommit to the Chemical Weapons Convention’s ban on such weapons, authorize experts to verify who was responsible in Douma and create an independent investigation that could lead to prosecution in a tribunal like the International Criminal Court.

OK, what kind of broad plan, NYTEB? It didn’t work under Obama, you know, that guy with a Nobel Peace Prize and who was supposedly super awesome and loved on the world stage. Russia can block pretty much anything in the Security Council.

If the Syrian regime’s guilt is determined, the United States should impose tough new sanctions, like a freeze on financial assets, as well. If military action is considered, Congress — which has long avoided its constitutional war-making responsibilities — needs to approve it. If a Russian veto prevents Security Council action, then Mr. Trump needs to work with our allies, through NATO or otherwise.

And, again, the minute military action is taken, the NYTEB will slam Trump as a war mongerer. The danger here is coming into direct conflict with Russian and Iranian forces. This is the kind of problem that created nightmares during the 70’s and 80’s over starting World War III by accident.

Just to reiterate: To have any chance of success, any international retaliatory action must be part of a coherent diplomatic strategy for stabilizing Syria and putting a political settlement in place. Since 2011, more than 500,000 Syrians have been killed and millions of refugees have fled to neighboring countries and Europe. The conflict has allowed Russia, Iran, Turkey and the Islamic State, now degraded by an American-led coalition, to gain a foothold in Syria.

Huh. And even now, not one negative word for that guy who was president at the time. Nor did they have any at the time. This is what the NYTEB would have called an “inherited problem” in 2009 and 2010.

Mr. Obama forswore military action after that attack in favor of working with Russia to get Syria to destroy its chemical weapons. The resulting agreement deprived Mr. Assad of much of his arsenal, though not all, despite Moscow’s promises.

Even here, no real blaming of Obama. The Times was also telling us how super awesome Obama and Kerry were for taking away all the chemical weapons.

He further reinforced a sense of impunity every time he exempted Mr. Putin from direct criticism for Russia’s reprehensible behavior. So it was significant that Mr. Trump finally drew a line, saying in a tweet, “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad.”

The question is what comes next.

Whatever comes next, you know the New York Times and Washington Post, both on the opinion pages and in the “straight news” sections, will be there to criticize, the opposite of what they did with Obama.

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Warmists Are Very Upset That BBC Would Dare Allow A Skeptic To Talk

By William Teach April 9, 2018 – 3:59 pm

This is amazing. The BBC, and other British networks, constantly have Warmists on who are virtually never challenged, and rarely ever are they paired with a Skeptic. Warmists do not like to have their Beliefs challenged, and, being good Progressives (nice Fascists), are against Free Speech

From the link

The BBC breached broadcasting regulation by failing to challenge comments made by the former chancellor and prominent climate change sceptic Lord Nigel Lawson during an interview on the Today programme, Ofcom has ruled.

An Ofcom spokeswoman said: “We found that statements made about the science of climate change were not challenged sufficiently during this interview, which meant the programme was not duly accurate.

“We’ve told the BBC we are concerned that this was the second incident of this nature, and on the same programme.”

There were supposedly two specific comments he made that were not challenged, and this has Outraged Warmists. If they’re so upset, prove Lawson wrong. Show us the data. Oh, right, they do not want to show us the raw data and methods used.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible plastic water bottle causing Global Climate Disruption, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, with a post on when they told us that Bad Weather was caused by global cooling.

As always, don’t forget to recycle, folks. Regardless of your political leaning, it’s the right thing to do.

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