If All You See…

By William Teach January 30, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from Other People using ice makers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Newsbusters, with a post on the perverted show “The Alienist.”

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Doom: ‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Possibly Bring More Venomous Sea Snakes To California

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

Everybody Panic!!1!!!!

Could Climate Change Bring More Venomous Sea Snakes to California?

When an extreme El Niño weather pattern raised Pacific Ocean temperatures off the coast of Southern California three years ago, extremely venomous yellow-bellied sea snakes — a creature that had only been seen once before, in 1972 — washed up on three Southern California beaches.

The yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus), a descendant from Asian cobras and Australian tiger snakes, is the most widespread snake species in the world. These snakes spend their entire lives in the water – but normally in warm, tropical habitats.

There have been no additional sea snake sightings on California beaches until this year, and there’s no El Niño weather pattern this time around. On Jan. 11, someone walking along the sands of Newport Beach nearly tripped over a 2-foot-long female sea snake.

Due to climate change and rising ocean temperatures, “the species that respond to that change will be those that are the most mobile,” Greg Pauly, associate curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA), told the Los Angeles Times. “So the big question now is this: Are sea snakes swimming off the coast of Southern California the new normal?”

Since this all about Science, well

It could very well be. On its website, the NHMLA says “the phrase ‘sea snake on a California beach’ may be the new ‘canary in a coal mine’ for climate change.”

This is how science works in Warmist World: something happens, and they immediately trot out Doomsaying without facts.

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Illegal Alien Tells Congress It Must Reject Trump’s Immigration Plan

By William Teach January 30, 2018 – 7:09 am

Newsweek gives Cristina Jiménez a platform to rail against Trump’s immigration plan. Who is she? Well, she’s an illegal alien, one who was brought by her parents from Ecuador when she was 13. She’s the co-founder of United We Dream, an advocacy group for other illegal aliens. She was given DACA status by Obama, an executive order that even Obama said was un-Constitutional. Now, she thinks she can demand that the U.S. government do things her way

CONGRESS MUST REJECT TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION PLAN —IT IS A CRUEL SOPHIE’S CHOICE

Every minute that has passed since Trump’s decision to kill Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, back in September, more immigrants living in this country have become vulnerable to deportation.

More than 16,000 young people have already lost their DACA status.

The Trump administration created the current crisis that Congress must now address.

Really? I’d say it’s the parents of the kids that created the crisis. According to Cristina’s bio, she knew she was illegal back when her parents brought her.

From day one, Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda has ripped families apart and his latest proposal, crafted by political advisor Stephen Miller, pits immigrant youth against our parents and our family members who want to reunite with us and build lives here.

In other words, they know they’re illegal, but they are demanding not only legalization, but the ability to bring all their family members to the U.S., as well as legalization for the parents who brought them illegally. People breaking the law usually only have demands in the movies, not real life.

It’s the definition of divisive. It’s a white supremacist ransom note, and we are ripping it up.

Let me be very clear on what I mean by that: Immigrant youth and our families will not be held hostage by Trump’s racist policies in this political moment.

Guess what, toots? It’s not your choice. You’re here, say it with me, illegally. In contradiction of federal law. You do not get to dictate the terms. And if you keep pushing, you might find that Trump and the GOP move on from dealing with DACA. Why should whiny, demanding people throwing around insults be rewarded? Would you reward a recalcitrant child? No.

How can we accept this Sophie’s choice? Trump is telling us that in order to be safe ourselves, we must watch our parents get deported and see our family members lose the opportunity to be reunited with us. It is cruel, it is wrong and all people of conscience must reject it.

This is where they want it both ways. First they say that they shouldn’t be punished for the sins of the parents, then they want their parents left off the hook. Cristina continues on with her inflammatory language for a while, finally getting to the heart of what she wants

Democrats and moderate Republicans of conscience have the power to pass the dream to get a Dream Act done as part of a federal spending package.

But it must be a clean Dream Act that protects immigrant youth and DACA beneficiaries without harming our families through increased immigration enforcement, deportations and exclusion of immigrants of color from the United States.

In other words, citizenship for Dreamers, and no risk of deportation for their parents who brought them illegally, nor for any aunts, uncles, cousins, that person they knew back in 3rd grade in El Salvador.

It really is this type of attitude that makes many immigration hard-liners like myself who are willing to make some accommodations to say “nope. Never mind. You illegals do not get to dictate the terms, and I don’t appreciate your demands at the same time you are insulting me. So, never mind. Let’s just deport you.”

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House Intel Committee Votes To Release Surveillance Memo

By William Teach January 30, 2018 – 6:46 am

This is either going to end with a thud, or it will create a huge issue. Republicans best be right about the memo being “explosive”

(Fox News) The House Intelligence Committee on Monday evening voted to release a classified memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses.

The vote was announced to reporters by California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, who called it a “very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee.” The motion passed on a party-line basis, he said.

President Trump now has five days to decide whether he has any objections before the memo can be publicly released.

Last week, a top Justice Department official urged House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes not to release the memo, saying it would be “extraordinarily reckless” and could harm national security and ongoing investigations.

The four-page memo has being described by GOP lawmakers as “shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming,” with one congressman likening the details to KGB activity in Russia.

Those who have seen the document suggest it reveals what role the unverified anti-Trump “dossier” played in the application for a surveillance warrant on at least one Trump associate.

Democrats, of course, are poo pooing the memo, but, then, they’ve been in Trump Derangement Syndrome since even before Trump won the election, and have just gotten worse since. What will the memo show? I guess we’ll wait and see. There are a lot of questions that need answering.

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Democrats Super New Tax Idea: Charge Higher Taxes For Property Near Subway Stations

By William Teach January 29, 2018 – 4:41 pm

Do Democrats sit around all day thinking “what else can we tax?” Probably so

(NY Times) Ever since August Belmont Jr. arranged the financing for a four-track “underground railroad” more than a century ago, the subway has fueled New York City’s economy, delivering workers from homes in distant neighborhoods to jobs in Manhattan and enriching landlords and real estate developers near stations.

Today, with the subway in precipitous decline and the city enjoying an economic boom, some policymakers think the time has come for the subway to profit from the financial benefits it provides, including its considerable contribution to property values.

Proponents point to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where co-op and condominium prices in a 10-block stretch near the Second Avenue subway have risen 6 percent since it opened in January 2017, according to figures from the Corcoran Group, a large real estate firm. In Manhattan’s main business corridors, from 60th Street south, the benefit of being near a subway adds $3.85 per square foot to the value of commercial property, according to calculations by two New York University economists.

And because the Democratic run government has done a poor job of managing the money to keep the subway in good repair, they feel they need to tax tax tax

The notion that property owners should pay extra for their proximity to the subway is called “value capture” and has long been debated in urban planning circles. Now Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, has made value capture a prominent part of his plan to salvage the subway system by proposing to give the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the power to designate “transit improvement subdistricts” and impose taxes.

Of course, the reality is that those taxes will get passed along, and will, in fact, hit the middle and lower class residents of NYC.

Here’s an idea: use the money already taken from citizens responsibly.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 29, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gay Patriot, with a post on ultra privileged multi-millionaires who live in gated communities….

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Forget ‘Climate Change’, We Can Now Call It “Atmosphere Cancer”

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

Rather serendipitous, we had Excitable Juan Cole calling it carbon farting earlier, now we have this, via Watts Up With That? (graphic from same)

‘Call it atmosphere cancer’ – How the world’s best-known marketer would tackle global warming

Much of Seth Godin’s work – his famous blog; his books and TED talks – convey the following: No product or idea will spread just because of a brilliant technology or rock solid facts. In essence, people will respond to stories that stand out, which creates culture, changes behaviors, and leads to change.

This applies to the big societal changes too, Godin told Business Insider Nordic at the Nordic Business Forum in Oslo, when asked about the role of storytelling in solving societal problems, like climate change: “[Storytelling] is the only thing that’s going to solve it,” he said.

“Just look at what happened with gay marriage in the US in the last 10 years. It went from being safe and respectable to be against, to something that no one speaks up against anymore.”

“Did everybody change their mind? Of course not.”

“What changed was the culture, and the culture was changed because of the story,” Godin says. “People like us do things like this. That’s it, that’s all we got.”

Um, that’s because of the use of force: this was forced upon people by the courts, and many people dare not speak up lest they be charged with hate crimes, get fined and lose their business for not baking a cake, get fired from a job, etc.

The solution to global warming then, in Godin’s playbook, comes down to simple storytelling. Instead of “letting scientists poorly tell a story with lots of qualifiers in it”, Godin says, storytellers should craft a message that resonates on a personal level:

“For starters, global is a good thing and warming is a good thing. If [the scientists] had called it ‘Atmosphere Cancer’, they probably would have started on a better footing: because atmosphere is scientific and cancer is a bad thing. There are no cancer deniers. Everyone knows that cancer is a chronic and degenerative disease, and you need to stop it soon. ”

And Godin would like it to be unacceptable to dare to have the Wrongthink that climatic changes are mostly/solely caused by nature.

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We Have To Stop Farting Carbon To Stop ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 29, 2018 – 8:16 am

This is brought to you by Excitable Juan Cole at the always nutty Truthout

In the Age of Big Climate Change, We Have to Stop Farting Carbon

This past year is what the era of Big Climate Change looks like. We are only at the beginning of the massive changes we are making to our environment by farting 41 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (a heat-trapping gas) into our atmosphere every year, but we can already see the shape of the future and it is alarming. (“Emissions” as a word is bland and means nothing to most people. Inform them that they are annually farting 18 tons of stuff into the atmosphere that you could light a match to, and maybe they will be a little embarrassed).

Despite the urgency of the crisis we have done almost nothing to reduce carbon farting on a global scale. In fact it increased 2% last year.

Got that? Carbon farting! It’s sure to catch on! Or not, because most guys will start snickering when you start talking about farts, and start telling stories about that one time when…..

Of course, Excitable Juan goes on to list all sorts of weather events that he just knows are now caused by Other People farting out carbon, till

US cable television news, which has big positions in fossil fuels stocks, reports on these calamities only episodically and desperately avoids linking them to carbon farting.

Really? MSNBC, CNN, the Weather Channel, etc, all take positions that this is the fault of Mankind.

The coming crisis can be challenging, severe or catastrophic. We have that choice. We can reduce it to only challenging by swinging into action. In a big way. Now. Coal needs to be outlawed ASAP, as French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to do by 2021, in only three years. (And no, the pledge isn’t meaningless and no the market doesn’t dictate everything; public policy is important). China’s industrial Hebei Province next to Beijing has cut coal use by 44 million tons since 2013 and is going to cut out another 5 million tons this year! The Chinese Communist Party is simply setting emissions standards for the factories, which they have to meet. Air quality in Beijing, which is very bad, is nevertheless a little better as a result. (I was there in 2015 and went out to see the Great Wall with my little Nikon camera and all I got were pictures of smog.)

So, um, how much carbon did Climahypocrite Juan Cole fart out on that trip? Because there’s zero possibility that he walked across the U.S. to a port where he then took a sailing ship across the Pacific.

A challenging amount of global heating will be difficult. You will like severe even less. The third level and possibility is catastrophic, which speaks for itself. It all depends on how much we fart.

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Democrats And Squishy Republicans Want To Narrow Focus Of DACA Bill

By William Teach January 29, 2018 – 7:53 am

Of course they do. And once Trump and the non-squishy Republicans agree to narrowing the focus, Democrats will demand that border security be cut and a “clean” bill be passed

(Washington Post) Lawmakers in both parties said Sunday that the immigration debate should focus narrowly on efforts to legalize young immigrants known as “dreamers” and beef up border security, suggesting that President Trump’s demands to slash legal immigration levels are likely to sink a deal.

Democrats have voiced fierce opposition to a White House plan, released late last week, that featured a path to citizenship for 1.8 million dreamers in exchange for $25 billion for his border wall and sharp cuts to family immigration visas.

Though Democratic leaders have grudgingly offered wall funding, they have accused the president of leveraging the dreamers as “ransom” to severely constrict legal immigration, calling it a wish list for “anti-immigration hard-liners” and “white supremacists.”

Congress members, including some Republicans, said Sunday that the negotiations have gone too far afield ahead of a March 5 deadline after which 690,000 dreamers in an Obama-era deferred action program could begin to lose their protections from deportation.

A grand total of three Republicans are mentioned: Squishy Susan Collins, who is all the way up in Maine, where there’s not that much of a concern for illegals coming across the border, along with Reps. Will Hurd (R-Tx.) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.).

“I still believe that a narrow bill is most important; the thing that we can get through our Congress, both houses, in the House and in the Senate,” said Hurd, who represents a district with more than 800 miles of border with Mexico. “Because the more things you add, you start creating coalitions of opposition. And so let’s keep this narrow.”

What they want is quick citizenship for all the Dreamers for essentially a promise to maybe provide a bit of funding for a few miles of border fencing.

White House officials rejected suggestions that the president was asking for too much. In rolling out his plan last week, aides called the citizenship path for dreamers a potential lure for additional illegal immigration and said the proposed border security increases — including more immigration agents and judges — would help prevent it.

They said the curbs to family immigration — which Trump and other conservatives have referred to as “chain migration” — would help offset a surge in legalized immigrants represented by the dreamers, who have been in the country since they were children.

The Washington Post attempts to paint what Trump wants as “comprehensive immigration reform”, which keeps failing, however, the measures in the Trump plan are meant to discourage future illegal aliens. And giving legal status with a chance for citizenship 10-12 years down the road requires a lot in return. Democrats should be careful with their caterwauling, blamestorm, and typical nasty language, lest Trump and the GOP pull any DACA bills off the table and say “we tried. Democrats didn’t. We’re moving on. Perhaps we’ll revisit this next year.”

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Comrade Bernie Is Totally Ready For #FossilFree

By William Teach January 28, 2018 – 3:23 pm

But, has Bernie gone fossil fuels free himself? How many Warmists will take fossil fueled trips to Washington, D.C. attend this bit of climahypocrisy? The speakers include

  • Senator Bernie Sanders
  • Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement
  • Rev. Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus
  • Jessica Lorena Rangel of Houston Eyes of a Dreamer
  • Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org
  • Cherri Foytlin of L’eau Est La Vie Camp and Louisiana Rise
  • Adriana Voss-Andreae from 350PDX
  • Jacqueline Patterson from the NAACP
  • Tara Rodriguez Besosa with the Puerto Rico Resilience Fund
  • Julian Brave NoiseCat, 350.org US Policy Analyst

Sure looks like many will have to take long fossil fueled trips to get to D.C., eh?

If they’re really the “climate resistance” they’d lead the way and go fossil fuels free.

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