Your Internet Addiction Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach April 9, 2018 – 12:20 pm

It’s probably your fault that it got really cold and snowy over the weekend during Springtime, as you cruised the web and looked at pictures of cats and stuff

How Your iPhone is Heating Up the Planet

When we think about climate change, the main sources of carbon emissions that come to mind for most of us are heavy industries like petroleum, mining and transportation.

Rarely do we point the finger at computer technologies.

In fact, many experts view the cyber-world of information and computer technologies (ICT) as our potential savior, replacing many of our physical activities with a lower-carbon virtual alternative.

That is not what our study, recently published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, suggests.

Having conducted a meticulous and fairly exhaustive inventory of the contribution of ICT —including devices like PCs, laptops, monitors, smartphones and tablets — and infrastructure like data centers and communication networks, we found that the relative contribution of ICT to the total global footprint is expected to grow from about one per cent in 2007 to 3.5 per cent by 2020 and reaching 14 per cent by 2040.

That’s more than half the relative contribution of the entire transportation sector worldwide.

It’s amusing that a website that uses lots of energy so that people can view it with Evil products is telling us that this is bad. Regardless, there are virtually no ideas offered to fix this. Are they expecting people to revert to pre-Internet life? However, they sorta kinda hit on a real issue

Another guilty participant in this excessive carbon footprint are the phone plans that encourage users to get a new smartphone every two years. That accelerates the rate at which older models become obsolete and leads to an extraordinary and unnecessary amount of waste.

Forget the carbon footprint nonsense: the production and ownership of the devices, and the notion of getting a new one every 2 years or so creates a lot of waste. These ‘climate change’ ninnies would be best served by pushing for people to recycle them. To get manufacturers and providers to up their game on offering rebates and such for turning them in. Look at this

These are all the phones I found sitting around the house, which doesn’t include the one I’m using now nor others I’ve thrown out, given away, and had to turn back in to AT&T for use of another device. Other than the Android smartphones, I’ve dumped them all in a recycle bin at Best Buy. They have zero use. Sadly, manufacturers also make sure that devices are obsolete in under 2 years, and make batteries that won’t last that long.

Oh, and let me drop this bit of fun

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/983155851002343424

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Even In GOP Country, Democrats Are Going Gun Grabber Extremist

By William Teach April 9, 2018 – 8:05 am

Of course, none of them are really pushing any sort of solutions to punish actual criminals who use guns. This is about punishing the law abiding citizens, and even turning them into criminals, as pushed by people who often have armed security protecting themselves, including taxpayer funded security

Democrats even in GOP country shift toward gun restrictions

Just 18 months after declaring his opposition to banning assault weapons, Nebraska Democrat Brad Ashford has changed his mind.

The former one-term congressman, now trying to win back an Omaha-area seat he lost in 2016, used to consider it futile to push for a ban while Republicans held power on Capitol Hill. But the student activism that has followed the rampage at a school in Parkland, Florida, has changed his thinking in a way that other high-profile shootings, including two in his hometown since 2007, had not.

Ashford’s conversion mirrors the one underway in his party. Not long ago, a moderate record on guns would have been considered a plus for a Democratic candidate in the GOP-leaning suburbs and conservative outskirts of Nebraska’s largest city. Today, even with Ashford’s reversal, it’s a vulnerability that his opponent in the May 15 Democratic primary has been quick to exploit.

That contest, along with races in Virginia, rural Pennsylvania and other places where gun control has been taboo, shows how far the Democratic Party has traveled on this issue. The November elections will test whether Democrats will make room for candidates who don’t back all gun control measures.

In other words, this highlights how extremist Democrats have become on the issue, in that they’ll even push this in areas they have a tough time winning. You have to know that Democrats won’t be receiving oodles and oodles of cash from all the leftist groups without going gun grabber (they aren’t worried about money from the national party, because they’re pretty much out of cash).

“He should have been stronger on this,” said Kara Eastman, the 46-year-old political newcomer running against Ashford, a 68-year-old former Republican, for the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional District. “We need leaders who are going to stand up and fight for the kids.”

Eastman, director of a children’s nonprofit group and a community college board member, has focused her message on suburban women and young people. She and other progressives, energized by rallies across the country, say they the best way to turn out voters is to offer a contrast to pro-gun Republicans.

People who support murdering the unborn willy nilly simply because a baby is inconvenient should not be talking about fighting for the kids. But, hey, if Democrats want to push gun control for law abiding citizens, go for it. It’ll help you about as much as pushing impeachment. This will just expose your true agenda of disarming all law abiding citizens while doing nothing about the criminals.

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Washington Post Starts The Blame Game Against Trump For Syria’s Use Of Chemical Weapons

By William Teach April 9, 2018 – 7:48 am

You had to know that the Leftist media would start attacking Trump over this. We won’t blame this as full on TDS, but it is close

The latest Syria chemical attack reveals the bankruptcy of Trump’s policies toward Assad

On April 7, 2017, the U.S. armed forces fired 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase to punish Bashar al-Assad for his use of chemical weapons against his own citizens. The Syrian president reportedly celebrated the one-year anniversary of the strike on Saturday by ordering another attack with chemical weapons that opposition activists said killed dozens of people in the city of Douma. This appears to be at least the eighthsuch attack by Assad this year — and the most brazen. Having seen that the United States would not react to his repeated violations of international laws, Assad has intensified his use of weapons of mass destruction.

The latest atrocity reveals as hollow much of the praise for President Trump’s 2017 strike. That applause came not only from his sycophants (“We’re proud of you,” radio host Mark Levin told the president) but also from critics bending over backward to appear fair. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), for example, said in a joint statement: “Unlike the previous administration, President Trump confronted a pivotal moment in Syria and took action. For that, he deserves the support of the American people.”

I, too, supported the strike, but I doubted it would amount to much. As I wrote at the time: “If Trump is interested in truly ‘decisive’ action in Syria, he will need to go a whole lot further. What is required is a comprehensive diplomatic-military plan to end a six-year civil war that has inflicted so much human suffering and empowered so many extremist groups.”

Needless to say, no such plan was ever forthcoming from the Trump administration. The administration is, in fact, a black hole for all plans. In lieu of strategy, it is governed entirely by presidential spasms and screeds.

Since taking a victory lap for his cruise-missile strike, Trump has left Assad, along with his Russian and Iranian backers, undisturbed to continue their meticulous work of mass murder. Trump evendiscontinued support for rebel groups fighting Assad and instead focused narrowly on the goal of eradicating the Islamic State. Now, with the finish line in sight, Trump appears to have set a deadline of October for the Defense Department to pull our troops out — even though the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, Israel and the Arab states are all telling him that this would be a monumental mistake. A premature departure will risk the success of the anti-Islamic State campaign and hand eastern Syria to Assad and his patrons.

Sorry for the long, long excerpt, but this was important in context. This is the liberal viewpoint, that they have to find some way to blame Trump. It is fair to note that opinion writer Max Boot does briefly hit Obama over his fecklessness, but not too much, just enough to note that Trump’s is the second regime to fail to truly respond to the conflict in Syria.

But, let’s consider: Obama set the standard for not responding to chemical weapons attacks in Syria by the Assad regime. He then figured out a way to get Russia and Iran overtly involved and leading the way in attempting to “stop” the civil war which also involves ISIS and other Islamic jihadi groups. What is Trump to do now? Airstrikes are dangerous, because they can hit Russian and Iranian military assets, sparking a wider war. He can’t go after Assad, who is protected by both the Russians and the Iranians.

If President Trump puts more boots on the ground, as Boot suggests, the “anti-war Left” will suddenly materialize again, haven taken a break from their criticism during Obama’s years, much like the media, which will also suddenly rail against getting involved in foreign adventures and stuff. Trump’s in a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation regarding an issue that was a carryover from the previous administration.

He is furthered damned if he does damned if he doesn’t regarding working with Russia to end the conflict. On one hand they say “you must work with Russia, especially diplomatically. In the next, they will be freaking out over any cooperation with Russia Russia Russia, linking this all to their so-called collusion conspiracy theories. They’ll call Trump a Putin puppet if he attempts to reach out to get something done.

Meanwhile, it appears as if someone has struck Syria overnight, and Russia and Iran are saying it was Israel. And, then there’s this

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Good News: A Cold, Snowy Spring Totally Doesn’t Disprove ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 8, 2018 – 5:50 pm

Hey, remember when the leaders in the Cult of Climastrology said it wouldn’t be getting as cold?

https://twitter.com/cbfool/status/982992430122254338

https://twitter.com/cbfool/status/949171555275128833

Meh. Never mind

Four Reasons Snowy Springs Don’t Disprove Global Warming
It’s going to be very cold this weekend in the Northeast. That doesn’t mean the climate isn’t changing.

See, if they just stopped after the subhead, fine. The climate has changed. It has gotten warmer. Just like it has many times during the Holocene (among other epochs). The debate is on causation. But, in Warmist World, it’s all caused by mankind’s carbon pollution

A record-cold “Arctic Blast” is set to hit the East Coast this weekend.

And undoubtedly, some people will point to it and say that it proves global warming isn’t for real.

That’s totally false: categorically, definitely, unequivocally, scientifically false. And yet it’s made over and over and over again by climate denialists and their paid-for politicians in Washington. (snip)

Here, then, is the definitive list of four reasons that cold winters do not disprove global warming.

1. Climate Is Personality, Weather Is a Mood

But, Warmists will still blame every weather event, even nice, pleasant days where you can go have a picnic, on carbon pollution.

2. There Is No ‘Global Warming.’ There’s Global Climate Disruption.

“Global warming” is a nice sounding term, but it’s never been quite accurate.

3. Yes, in Fact, Climate Change Sometimes Makes Winter Worse

Yeah, except when they told us that snow would be a thing of the past and winters would be warmer. Oh, and when winters are warmer, they’ll also blame that on global warming Global Climate Disruption.

4. The Northeastern United States Is Not the World

We’ve seen this talking point, too. Yet, they’ll also make a big deal out of one part of the U.S. being warmer. This is all as far from science as you can get. No matter what it is, they’ll use it to say global warming climate change Global Climate Disruption is happening. Everything is proof of it. A new ice age would be blamed on it. Cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 8, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible evil gun used in climate change created wars, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on an illegal who should have been deported.

Still cleaning out the IAYS folder.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 8, 2018 – 9:44 am

Patriotic Pinup Baron Von Lind

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in America, after a bit of spring snow, with a shining sun, birds birding, and squirrels making tracks on the pollen that’s already on my car. This pinup is by Baron Von Lind, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That notes that The Pause has returned
  2. A View From The Beach notes Millennial beliefs on the Earth’s structure
  3. Blazing Cat Fur wonders why the Left gets a pass on anti-Semitism
  4. Chicks On The Right covers “white privilege” performance art on college campuses
  5. Creeping Sharia notes what the Islamists in Belgium are telling us
  6. DaTechGuy discusses the wacko YouTube bomber
  7. Geller Report covers UK authorities still failing to investigate Muslim gang rapes
  8. Legal Insurrection wonders if it will be a big blue wave or big blue bust
  9. Moonbattery covers nutting media people not knowing the sound of a can of soda
  10. MOTUS AD discusses trampling the Constitution one amendment at a time
  11. neo-neocon covers people learning life lessons the wrong way
  12. Pacific Pundit discusses Facebook deeming Diamond and Silk “unsafe”
  13. Powerline wonders what the FBI is hiding
  14. Raised On Hoecakes notes that we are the majority
  15. And last, but not least, The Daley Gator covers the Left declaring war on biology, science, gender…..

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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Hot Take: We Haven’t Solved “Gun Violence” 50 Years After MLK Jr’s Death

By William Teach April 8, 2018 – 8:29 am

Well, I guess it’s at least good that The Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark and co-convenor of Bishops United Against Gun Violence, didn’t rush to use an event to push his agenda, but it does show that the gun grabbers will latch on to anything to push their agenda

50 years after MLK was gunned down, we still haven’t solved gun violence | Opinion

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was murderedwith a high-powered rifle. The gun was purchased under a false name at a Birmingham, Alabama gun shop by a petty criminal who was known for his racist rants, and who had been stalking King for weeks.

In other words, the gun was purchased illegally. A criminal act. The rifle used, a Remington Gamemaster 760 .30-06, is not on any of the lists that the gun banners trot out to ban, and is actually the exact type they say are there for our “hunting rights.” James Earl Ray was a virulent anti-black racist, which is what Democrats mostly were at the time, too.

King was no stranger to violence. And for a short while, he had some relationship with guns. After his Montgomery, Alabama home was firebombed in February 1956, King applied for a gun permit, which was denied by the sheriff’s office. He eventually secured a gun, but after his pilgrimage to India in 1959, he renounced guns and embraced non-violence as a way of life and as a strategy for the Civil Rights movement.

Huh. So the government had denied him his 2nd Amendment Rights?

King said that he was much more afraid in Montgomery when he had a gun in his house, so when he decided that he could no longer keep a gun he felt that he could walk into the crucible of violence with more faith and courage. “Our oppressors have used rifles and guns,” he preached. “I’m not going to stoop down to their level.”

And we’re into strawman territory

While we can only speculate what King might say today as the epidemic of gun violence continues to sweep across our country, his 9-year-old granddaughter, Yolanda Renee King, echoed her grandfather’s passion and commitment at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington D.C., when she said, “I have a dream — that enough is enough.”

Gun rights supporters have challenged the rhetoric from the nearly 800 marches held across the country on March 24 (including nearly a dozen in New Jersey), but the data is hard to ignore. There are more than 300 million guns in America today, which nearly matches the population — and which is double the number of guns Americans owned in 1968. In 1968, gun violence resulted in about 23,000 deaths per year; in 2016 that number had mushroomed to more than 35,000 (each year includes homicides and suicides by guns). The math is clear — more guns produce more deaths.

If our guns were the problem, you’d know it. If we were the ones committing the gun violence, you’d know it. It is primarily those with illegal firearms, and the math is clear that, per capita, the rate of shootings has gone down. And occurs primarily in Democratic Party run cities, especially those populated by Blacks, kept down on the plantation by the Democrats. Also, since the Rev is discussing the legally owned firearms, seems as if he is coming after those.

Guns rights supporters, egged on by the NRA, continue to bark about how this is a Second Amendment issue. It isn’t. This is a public health crisis, and until we re-frame the conversation and enact stricter gun laws, which our young people are insisting upon, these senseless tragedies will no doubt continue.

Huh. So he is coming after those legally owned firearms by law abiding citizens. And this is why 2nd Amendment supporters are unwilling to give an inch even on smart solutions, because we know they are just first steps towards more and more restrictions on us, while the gun banners offer virtually nothing to go after the criminals who use firearms.

Fifty years after his death King continues to be a prophet for our time. He gave his life trying to bring people together, and to rally them to the cause of justice. He was cut down by a gun. Guns are machines designed for separation — life from death. We can honor King’s legacy by continuing to challenge the availability and capacity of guns — which in some quarters have become the golden calf of our day. We can do better. Our kids demand it.

The kids are kids. And 50% also believe that protecting Free Speech isn’t important. And they eat Tide pods and get unhinged over words. Regardless, let’s also consider that 50 years after MLK Jr’s murder we haven’t solved murder, even though it is illegal. It’s also illegal to stab people. To steal. To commit arson. Carjack people. Run red lights and stop signs. Speed. Commit fraud. Rape has been against the law in Western societies since the time of the Roman Empire. It (sadly) still occurs. Perhaps the good Rev should worry more about the violence, theft, rape, assault, and murder in his town of Newark, NJ. Which, interestingly, has seen its crime rate go down thanks to gentrification over the past 10 years. And, despite the high level of gun control laws on the books in NJ (it’s actually worse than California for law abiding gun owners), NJ still has a high level of shootings.

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Bummer II: Fuel Economy Rollback Could Mean Bigger Cars And Less Progress On Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach April 7, 2018 – 4:44 pm

Say, I’m wondering when the LA Times will stop using fossil fuels to gather and distribute the news

Rolling back fuel economy standards could mean bigger cars — and less progress on climate change

Gas prices have been so low in recent years that more Americans are choosing to buy bigger vehicles, a trend that has stymied efforts to cut auto emissions.

One thing reining in consumer appetite for trucks and SUVs has been tough fuel economy standards adopted several years ago by California and the Obama administration. Those rules are forcing automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and put cleaner, more efficient gas, hybrid and electric vehicles in showrooms, whether customers want them or not.

Whoops. There’s an unintentional slip of the Progressive (nice fascist) tongue.

But this week, the Trump administration declared that those standards are too onerous for the auto industry and should be weakened — a move that would undermine the single biggest action the federal government has taken to slow climate change while threatening California’s ability to adopt its own, stricter rules for tailpipe emissions.

Negotiations between the federal and California officials are ongoing. But if nationwide gas-mileage standards are indeed rolled back, the country could lose an important bulwark in keeping the popularity of gas-guzzling vehicles from driving emissions up again.

In other words, the Progressives are upset that Other People might be given a choice. Seriously, is a newspaper residing in an area that uses an incredible amount of fossil fuels, what with all the regular cars, limos, air flights, heck, how much does Hollywood use, the best platform for complaining about Other People using fossil fuels?

Rules to force emissions reductions are crucial for the transportation sector because it’s the biggest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The industry is also more reliant on technology-forcing regulations to spur pollution reductions, according to experts. Unlike the energy sector, where economics are shifting power plants away from coal to lower-polluting natural gas, when it comes to cars and trucks, gas prices and consumer preferences are pushing in the opposite direction, toward higher-polluting vehicles.

“That means a strong regulatory effort is necessary to really push us, ultimately, toward zero-emission vehicles,” Carlson said.

In other words part II, screw your choice as a consumer. You will Comply with your political masters. Who, yes, here it comes, refuse to voluntarily make changes in their own lives. On minute they’re saying you have to be forced to drive a tiny electric car which doesn’t go very far, in the next they’re jumping in a gas guzzling limo for a trip to an airport to snag a trip on a fossil fueled private jet.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 7, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on Islamist groups using lawfare against companies.

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Bummer: More Than Half Of Americans Don’t Think Hotcoldwetdry Will Affect Them

By William Teach April 7, 2018 – 10:54 am

And the less than half think that the more than half should be forced to give up their fossil fueled cars, pay carbon taxes and fees, and give up their freedom, you know

(WFTV) The majority of Americans do not believe global warming will pose a serious threat within their lifetime, a new opinion poll has revealed.

Gallup’s annual poll analyzing American views on climate change showed that overall concern is not much different from last year. Approximately 54 percent of Americans do not believe global warming will cause major problems within their lifetimes.

Still, 43 percent of Americans said they worry about global warming a “great deal” and 20 percent said they worry a “fair amount.”

When looking at political divides, the difference in the level of concern is striking. Among Democrats, 73 percent believe the effects of global warming have already begun and 87 percent believe global warming is caused by human activities. Republicans are far more skeptical, with only 41 percent believing the effects have started and 40 percent saying humans have caused global warming.

In other words, the Hillary voters are nutso, but still aren’t willing to sacrifice their own 1st World lifestyle for their Beliefs.

While Americans’ concern for climate change may be divided along political lines, the vast majority of scientists are concerned about the threat. A major 2013 peer-reviewed study showed that more than 97 percent of climate scientists agree on global warming. Additionally, the study showed that more than 97 percent of scientific articles find that global warming is real and largely caused by humans.

And now we’ve gone further into politics, leaving actual science way behind. The minute this garbage comes up you know they have a bridge to sell you.

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