Because You Ate A Steak From A Moo Cow, ‘Climate Change’ Moved A 620 Ton Rock In Ireland

By William Teach January 24, 2018 – 8:05 am

According to Cult of Climastrology doctrine, the Earth is always supposed to stay the same. The same temperature, same weather patterns, animals never change, it’s always the same. Well, I’m blaming your for this

A storm moved a 620-tonne rock in Ireland, a stunning new climate change omen

Along the rocky coasts of Ireland’s Aran Islands, scientists have found a new demonstration of the immense power of ocean waves – and a possible hint of what we should fear if climate change makes coastal storms more intense.

A 620-tonne boulder – equivalent in mass to about 90 large African elephants – moved several metres on the island of Inishmore in the winter of 2013-2014 after being slammed by powerful coastal storm waves, according to the research led by Ronadh Cox, a geoscientist at Williams College.

It was just one of over 1000 boulders that moved along Ireland’s coasts during the storms, many of them quite large, Cox said. (snip)

“There were boulders that were created from bedrock that were ripped up and disaggregated and the pieces flung into the boulder ridge at 90 metres inland and 50 metres above sea level.”

The discovery could help reset our assumptions about how to interpret a variety of mysterious rocks littered along shorelines around the world, which scientists have traditionally linked to powerful tsunami waves.

So, these types of things have happened before. And they thought it happened due to tsunamis. But, waves in water are rather powerful. Anyone who’s visited the ocean and gotten nailed by a wave knows this. The team of scientists decided to do some field research, and found that rocks and boulders were being moved by, get this, waves. Strong Atlantic waves. So, of course, we have to jump to ‘climate change’

The real question raised by the work, though, is what it says about the future of climate change.

If seas rise and storms worsen with a changing climate – as some predict – then understanding the damage that can be wrought by battering waves will be important, Cox said.

“The more intense the storms, the higher the wave energies, so the likelihood of these stronger wave energies hitting in other places becomes greater, as well,” she said.

No matter what, Warmists have to make it all about their pet cult and fearmonger.

Meanwhile, there’s this

Guatemalan mother struggles to feed her children amid climate change
Guatemalans struggle to feed kids amid climate change

Because no parent ever had trouble feeding their children prior to the combustion engine, ya know.

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Trump: No Wall Funding? No DACA

By William Teach January 24, 2018 – 7:38 am

Democrats just do not get that Trump is not your typical patsy Republican. When you attack him, he won’t wilt. When you make political threats, he won’t back down. Instead, he comes back harder. Republicans do not need DACA. They don’t have to do it. They don’t have to find some pathway to legalization for illegal aliens.

Chuck Schumer decided that he would rescind an offer on the wall, which was just authorization, not actual funding. The wall was authorized back in 2006, it just needs funding. And the authorization offer was well less than the actual cost of building the wall. So, the offer was a big load of mule fritters to start with. And pulling it was simply a whiny response to losing the shutdown

(Fox News) President Donald Trump fired back Tuesday night at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for offering, then rescinding, a deal to support border wall funding in return for an immigration package that protects illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

“Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA,” the president tweeted around 11 p.m. EST. “We must have safety and security, together with a strong Military, for our great people!”

It’d be interesting if Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan all said “well, we were interested in doing some sort of DACA, but, Democrats poisoned that well, so, we’re moving on to infrastructure. Perhaps we’ll revisit DACA in 2019.” Trump refuses to play the political game the way Republicans used to. He’s not a squish. And he seems to be putting a backbone in the GOP. If Democrats want DACA, they’re going to have to negotiate in good faith. And realize they aren’t going to get everything they want while giving back a pittance.

Meanwhile

During Tuesday’s press briefing at the White House, press secretary Sarah Sanders said the president opposes an immigration proposal brokered by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois.

“In a bipartisan meeting here at the White House two weeks ago we outlined a path forward on four issues: serious border security, an end to chain migration, the cancellation of the outdated and unsafe visa lottery and a permanent solution to DACA,” Sanders said. “Unfortunately, the Flake-Graham-Durbin agreement does not meet these bench marks.”

So, squish plans are a no-go.

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Warmists Now Advocating For Global Carbon Tax

By William Teach January 23, 2018 – 3:30 pm

Funny that they aren’t advocating that Warmists give up their own use of fossil fuels and go carbon neutral, eh?

The climate solution no-one in Davos will be talking about

At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, the world’s economic elite will make much of the climate crisis and their desire to green global capitalism; yet one of the most powerful economic tools available will barely be mentioned.

In an influential 2017 proposal, the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, led by Nobel-laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, put forward a globally coordinated carbon tax as the best policy to address climate change.

The basic idea of carbon taxation is that the costs of carbon emissions would be added onto the cost of a gallon of gas, or a BTU of heating gas, or a kilowatt hour of electricity. Currently fossil fuels receive huge subsidies, especially as their costs don’t include the health impacts, ecological damage, acid rain, and most ominously, the trillions of euros in damage from rising seas, droughts and storms that are expected.

Most economists agree: raising the price of fossil fuels and lowering the relative cost of renewables would efficiently shift consumption and investment towards low carbon of energy more cost-effectively other policies. If carbon taxes are as appealing as these economists say, then why is this so hard?

The article provides a bunch of reasons why it is so hard, but, misses a few.

First, how many nations are willing to give up their sovereignty for this tax? You can link this to one of the stated reasons, “what will the money be spent on?” Do we want the U.N. running, a hotbed of scumbag dictators, Islamists, and other terrible people?

Second, it’s hard because polls show that even Warmists are unwilling to pay more than a few bucks.

What this really shows is the globalist impact of Warmists, under the banner of their Progressive (nice Fascism) beliefs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 23, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on the Democrats caving.

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Big Earthquake In Alaska: Can You Guess What Get’s Blamed?

By William Teach January 23, 2018 – 10:32 am

So

(ABC) A 7.9 magnitude earthquake off the southern coast of Alaska early Tuesday triggered fears of a tsunami along the state’s coast and reaching all the way south to the U.S. mainland’s West Coast.

The earthquake happened just after 1 a.m. local time about 175 miles south of Kodiak, Alaska.

Residents of Kodiak were asked by police to move at least 100 feet above ground as a precaution. Kodiak Police Department said slightly before 2 a.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) they had not seen any increase in waves. By 2:30 a.m., Kodiak police said in the area said waters were receding from the town’s harbor.

And, of course, the Cult of Climastrology showed up

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Bummer: Tariffs On Imported Solar Parts Increased To 30%

By William Teach January 23, 2018 – 8:09 am

It’s the “biggest blow to the renewable energy market yet”

(Bloomberg) President Donald Trump dealt his biggest blow to the renewable energy industry yet.

On Monday, Trump approved duties of as much as 30 percent on solar equipment made outside the U.S., a move that threatens to handicap a $28 billion industry that relies on parts made abroad for 80 percent of its supply.

The tariffs are the latest action by Trump to undermine the economics of renewables. The administration already decided to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, sought to roll back Obama-era regulations on power plant-emissions and signed sweeping tax reforms that constrained financing for solar and wind. The import taxes are the most targeted strike on the industry yet and may have larger consequences for the energy world.

Isn’t it great how a news story jumps to opinion by paragraph 3? The first two have nothing to do with people using “renewables”: they’re welcome to do it. The last, tax reforms, simply mean that the federal government will no longer be pissing away money as did previously on projects that provided few jobs and often failed.

U.S. panel maker First Solar Inc. jumped as much as 9 percent to $75.20 in after-hours trading in New York. The Tempe, Arizona-based manufacturer stands to gain as costs for competing, foreign panels rise.

Just the threat of tariffs shook solar developers in recent months, with some hoarding panels and others stalling projects in anticipation of higher costs. The Solar Energy Industries Association projected 23,000 job losses this year in a sector that employed 260,000.

What’s going on is that China has been and still is dumping solar panels and parts at well below market prices, even taking losses, which harms American business who cannot compete with the artificially low prices. Hence the reason First Solar jumped. Because, as the story explains later, they are one of the last ones left, after all the others moved to China (often after taking money from the Obama administration during his first term)

The duties are lower than the 35 percent rate the U.S. International Trade Commissionrecommended in October after finding that imported panels were harming American manufacturers. The idea behind the tariffs is to raise the costs of cheap imports, particularly from Asia, and level the playing field for those who manufacture the parts domestically.

See? Bloomberg finally got around to explaining the reality.

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LA Times: Trump Can’t Arrest It’s Way Out Of This Immigration Mess

By William Teach January 23, 2018 – 7:52 am

Um, why not? The LA Times Editorial Board is rather vexed

The Trump administration can’t arrest its way out of our immigration problem

State and local governments in California rightly recognize that it’s up to the federal government to determine which people living in the country illegally ought to be tracked down and deported. It’s no more the responsibility of the Los Angeles Police Department to run immigrants to ground than it is for them to sniff out people cheating on their federal income taxes.

It’s a cute argument, but, typically the IRS has other methods other than physical arrest to deal with tax evasion. By the LATEB reasoning, local, county, and state law enforcement shouldn’t assist in capturing kidnappers or killers who fled from other states. Oh, and then there’s this little thing called federal law, which requires cooperation.

There is an important public safety reason for keeping local police and sheriff’s deputies out of the deportation business. If people who are living in the country illegally come to view local law enforcement officers — whose duty is to maintain the peace and enforce criminal codes — as just another set of immigration agents, they will be far less likely to report crimes or cooperate with investigators. In Los Angeles alone, Police Chief Charlie Beck said last year that fewer Latinos in the city were reporting rapes, spousal abuse and other crimes for fear of being deported under the Trump administration’s policy of stepped-up arrests.

Well, they’re here unlawfully: if they’re so afraid, they can……leave! They can pack their stuff up and go. Notice the phrase “enforce criminal codes” above. The LATEB just stated that it is the duty of the police to enforce immigration law. Maintain the peace? Yeah, how about keeping U.S. citizens from have their lives damaged by people who shouldn’t be here.

Nevertheless, the Trump administration has made no secret of its disdain for state and local governments that refuse to use their own resources to help Washington enforce federal immigration law. Twice this month, top officials — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Thomas Homan — said they have asked the Justice Department for an opinion on whether local officials who don’t report residents who are in the country illegally can be charged with violating the federal laws on harboring. Homan also has warned that he will “significantly increase our enforcement presence in California” to ramp up arrests in neighborhoods and on streets as a payback for the California Values Act (the “sanctuary state” law adopted last year), which denied ICE agents access to jails unless they have a warrant. “California better hold on tight,” he said in a Fox News interview. “They’re about to see a lot more special agents, a lot more deportation officers in the state of California.”

Do you know what this does? It scares illegals. It makes them leave. And, it makes them think really hard before coming. And it puts those who protect federal law breakers on notice. The LATEB sees the notion that state and local officials follow all laws differently

That’s not enforcing immigration law. That’s coercion by the federal government to try to compel local officials to, in effect, do their jobs for them. It is also the kind of thuggishness we’d expect from someone like Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not the president of the United States.

It wouldn’t be necessary if state and local officials weren’t supporting lawbreakers. It shouldn’t be necessary for Los Federales to threaten state and local officials to follow the law.

It’s deplorable that the government is pursuing such a heartless and heavy-handed approach to enforcing immigration laws in service of a system that is hopelessly broken. A wise president would pursue truly dangerous immigrants who are here illegally, find ways to keep new arrivals out (and ensure visa holders leave when they are supposed to) and work with Congress for a humane resolution to the fate of more than 11 million people who have lived in the U.S. for, on average, more than a decade. But wisdom and this president are opposing forces.

Team Trump is going after the dangerous ones. They are finding ways to keep new arrivals out, in big part by creating massive fear in those who would come illegally. Interestingly, another method, the border wall, is something Democrats, like the LATEB, are totally against.

Why should we find a “humane resolution” for the 11 million? If someone has been stealing food out of the LA Times breakroom for years and years, and is finally caught, do you think they find a “humane resolution”, or terminate that person? At the end of the day, the American people come first.

And all these illegals who’ve been here for, “on average”, more than a decade? Instead of demanding citizenship, healthcare, education, welfare, jobs, food, etc, while refusing to learn the language, with tons committing crimes and stealing identities, they could have taken the time to apply for citizenship and gone through the lawful manner to become a citizenship.

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Obligatory Dems Utterly Cave On #SchumerShutdown Post

By William Teach January 22, 2018 – 8:42 pm

Is anyone as surprised as me that Republicans held strong and forced Democrats to completely cave?

Oh, and then there’s this bit of fun, just to rub salt in the wound (via Twitchy)

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Your Burger Habit Which Causes ‘Climate Change’ Could Be Made Worse By ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 22, 2018 – 3:00 pm

You know what could solve this? A tax!

Your burger habit could be threatened by weather chaos — but gene editing could help us save cows and avoid ‘mass famine’

Making meat is wasteful work.

An ounce of beef — one-sixth of a standard burger patty — requires over 100 gallons of water. Dairy cattle, chickens, and pigs also belch out methane, a key greenhouse gas, and the factories and farms that house them add carbon dioxide to the mix. Livestock are also prone to disease. An estimated 20% of the world’s animal protein is lost to bacterial infections and illness.

A new technology may help solve these issues. CRISPR, which allows for tiny, precise tweaks to DNA that were previously considered impossible, is being used to make crops that are cheaper, more reliable, and more immune to environmental challenges like drought and pests. Experts say the first CRISPR corn and mushrooms could be on grocery shelves within two-to-eight years.

Of course, the anti-GMO crowd will freak out about this.

Climate change is projected to drive down crop yields by up to a quarter in some parts of the world, with important food sources like corn and wheat seeing dramatic losses. A study published by researchers at Michigan State University suggests that high temperatures not only weaken plants’ natural defenses but strengthen bacterial attacks, a sort of double whammy for crop productivity.

Except for the part where CO2 is plant food and food production has continued to go up up up. But, hey, doom is totally going to come soon!!!!!!

“Agriculture must transform over the next 30 years in order for us to avoid mass famine,” Charlotte Lusty, who helps manage agricultural gene banks for an international nonprofit called the Crop Trust, said at the UN Climate Change Conference in November.

By change, they mean put it under the control of the Central Government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 22, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil mega-matic assault rifle, which fires bullets that make climate change worse, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Powers That Be, with a post on the FBI having a hard time monitoring their own people.

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