Surprise: Heavy Erie Snow Is Totally ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 30, 2017 – 2:59 pm

Here we go again, another Warmist missive which links Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles (like to get through massive snow storms, because a Chevy Volt ain’t going nowhere)

MASSIVE ERIE SNOW DUMP FACILITATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE
Snowpocalypse Brings Wild 2017 Weather to a Fitting End

Record-breaking snowfall in Pennsylvania earlier this week turns out to be another symptom of the earth heating up at record-breaking speeds, according to government scientists, while President Donald Trump thinks global warming could help eradicate the current cold snap.

(that tweet from Trump here)

The city of Erie was pummeled with 34 inches of snow on Christmas Day — an all-time daily snowfall record, beating the previous mark of 20 inches that had stood for over 60 years. Another 24.5 inches had fallen by Tuesday night, bringing the total since December 23 to more than 63 inches.

Why did so much snow fall?

Here it comes

“The Erie snow was driven by a lake-effect event,” said Jake Crouch, scientist at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. “It’s been fairly warm there and the lake was not yet frozen.”

Normally, when air this cold arrives, much of Lake Erie is frozen solid, so the cold air would pass across the lake surface without gathering up much moisture. This year, the air drew up moisture from the warmer water — which then fell as masses of snow.

“If the lake had been frozen” — as it usually is at this time of year — “this weather event wouldn’t have occurred,” said Crouch.

Obviously, before you were born and decided to take up the Evil habit of driving a fossil fueled vehicle to work and taking showers longer than 2 minutes, Erie never ever got lake effect snow.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 30, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a world of rising seas and only rich people being able to afford champagne, made super enormous from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Paul Krugman and pink pussy hats.

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Town Prepares For ‘Climate Change’ By Spending Lots Of Money Doing Nothing

By William Teach December 30, 2017 – 11:20 am

Seventy one Massachusetts communities are taking part in a special state funded Hotcoldwetdry program. Here’s how one taking on this task

(Boston Globe) Weymouth is beginning to plan for climate change, using a state grant to study how the town is vulnerable and what it can do to protect itself.

“Weymouth has a lot to lose from climate change, both environmentally and economically,” Mayor Robert Hedlund said in a press release. “We need new tools and resources to prepare for, and recover from, the extreme weather patterns in our future.”

As a first step, the town will conduct what’s called a “comprehensive vulnerability assessment.”

Notice how the first step is to spend lots of money on studies and stuff, rather than the town giving up its own use of fossil fuels and going carbon neutral.

The next step will be specific proposals both to reduce the town’s risks and to respond to them — a process that will include a public hearing, with a deadline of June 2018.

You know what the outcome will be: the town will declare that it needs more money from the state and Los Federales to begin planning to Do Something. Meanwhile, they’ll all continue to drive around in their fossil fueled vehicles and fossil fueled boats.

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Trump To Dems: There Will Be No Clean DACA Bill

By William Teach December 30, 2017 – 7:26 am

Since Trump ended DACA and threw it over to Congress, which is where it belonged in the first place, rather than a presidential directive, which was extra-Constitutional and temporary, supporters of illegal alien “Dreamers” have been calling for a “clean” bill, meaning they want nothing in the bill other than legalizing, in some fashion, the Dreamers. They do not want border security, interior security, funding for a wall or ICE or the judges necessary to make the determination to deport illegals. Trump put that idea in its grave

(Politico) Democrats seeking a deal to protect so-called Dreamers from deportation must be prepared to agree to a package that includes several White House priorities, including a border wall and reforms to the U.S. immigration system, President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning.

“The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!” Trump tweeted.

So, no “clean” bill. If the Democrats want anything, they’re going to have to compromise

Democrats have said they will not sign on to a bill next month to keep the government funded without a deal to protect Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and in many cases have no relationship to their country of birth.

Are Dems really willing to shut the government down over illegal aliens? If so, Trump should put those Barrycades around things Democrats love.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her Senate counterpart, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), are set to meet next Wednesday with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at the White House, where the congressional leaders are expected to work on a DACA deal as part of negotiations to avert a government shutdown.

Well, we’ll see where this goes. Expect Trump to take a hard line to get many things related to stopping illegal immigration, and reducing the type of legal immigration that brings people who end up on government assistance, chain migration, no assimilation, people who hate the U.S., terrorists, and so forth.

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Anonymous Sources: Trump Being At Mar-A-Lago Creates Headaches For White House Staffers

By William Teach December 30, 2017 – 7:05 am

Here we go yet again: an article making claims that provides zero in the way of credible sources, meant to be a hit job on Trump. And the media wonders why he won, as they show their obvious bia

Trump’s respite at Mar-a-Lago creates headaches for White House staffers

When President Trump sat down with a reporter for a wide-ranging, 30-minute interview at his private golf club here Thursday, not a single aide or adviser was present at the table — and not a single aide or adviser knew about it in advance.

One would think the media was happy that POTUS would speak with reporters in such a manner, something that hearkens back to days of yore, where the president was a person of the people. If the Washington Post keeps this up, they could find news outlets with less press access.

The interview was enabled by Christopher Ruddy — a club member with a level of personal access to the president in Florida that rankles White House staffers. He invited New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt as his personal guest to lunch at Trump International Golf Club, sat near Trump’s regular table and brought the reporter over to meet the president, who was still in his golf clothes.

As word trickled back to the White House, advisers worked to reach the president, with Trump’s personal aide interrupting at one point to hand him a cellphone with White House communications director Hope Hicks on the line; she checked in on the interview from afar.

But others were out of the loop even after the Times story was posted online Thursday evening. One White House official, when asked about the president’s impromptu interview, was perplexed, wondering aloud, “What interview? Today?” Another frustrated aide called it “embarrassing.”

Did they? Who? What’s embarrassing is running yet another piece with zero named sources that readers can evaluate for credibility.

Mar-a-Lago — Trump’s manicured, gilded oceanfront retreat here — is the president’s “Winter White House,” the villa to which he escapes for rounds of golf and family time. But, to the chagrin of many aides, Mar-a-Lago also is the place where Trump is often his most unrestrained and unfettered, making it harder for his West Wing staffers to control his daily media diet and personal contacts as they now try to do in Washington.

What aides? Name them.

White House officials said they appreciate that time at Mar-a-Lago is a respite for Trump; it is a familiar and comfortable haven for him to recharge while surrounded by his family and friends. The president often gets less riled by the sorts of stray comments on cable news that, back in Washington, might prompt an angry tweet or rejoinder, one aide said. Mar-a-Lago is not necessarily a panacea for angry tweets — Trump has fired off a few agitated messages since arriving in Florida.

There’s not one named source in this hit piece. The only people mentioned are those few, like Roger Stone, who say things like

“Nobody tells Donald Trump where he can and cannot go,” Stone said. “The president is able to get a lot of information that is normally blocked from getting to him. . . . You don’t have the minders. There is no doubt that he makes more calls.”

And, like the few other names, they do not say aides are frustrated and stuff. How do we trust pieces like this? We don’t. There’s the old meme “pics or it didn’t happen.” Well, names or it didn’t happen.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Climate Change Is Upon Us Or Something

By William Teach December 29, 2017 – 8:56 pm

Hey, you know the whole “weather isn’t climate” meme that everyone is talking about, especially since Trump’s tweet on the subject (news outlets have been pushing missives all day long)? Yeah, about that

Climate change is upon us, and businesses need to adjust

The record-breaking hurricanes, wildfires and blizzards of 2017 may surprise some, but they were all predicted 25 years ago.

The prophecies were neither secret nor the product of supernatural powers. They were forecast by scientists calculating what would happen if average global temperatures continued to rise. They did, and now here we are.

Included is a handy dandy picture of what global warming, sorry, climate change looks like

No, really. Chris Tomlinson goes on to blame all the hurricanes in 2017 on Hotcoldwetdry

Not every year will produce the kind of storms 2017 witnessed. But with average ocean temperatures setting record highs in 2015, 2016 and 2017, according to NOAA, there is every reason to prepare for more storms like hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Yet, we didn’t get the same in 2015 or 2016. Nor any landfalling major hurricanes for the U.S. since October 2005. Regardless, Chris goes on to blame wildfires on Hotcoldwetdry. And drought. And floods.

The most counterintuitive impact of a warmer climate is more severe cold weather. Higher average temperatures do not mean that extreme winter events will be less likely. In fact, scientists predicted warmer water temperatures in northern latitudes could shift weather patterns and intensify winter storms.

Authorities declared an emergency in Erie, Pa., on Christmas Day after receiving 34 inches of snow, the most ever in a single day. Another 24 inches fell on Tuesday, making the storm reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey’s 51 inches of rain. The previous single-day snowfall record had been 20 inches.

The key factor in the huge snowfall? Warmer-than-average lake temperatures. When Arctic winds blow over Lake Erie’s open water, more water vapor enters the atmosphere and results in a much heavier lake effect snowfall.

These guys aren’t any different from religious folks who always have an answer for everything, like how there are dinosaur bones despite them claiming that the Earth is only a bit over 6,000 years old. Of course, those folks don’t want to tax and fee you to death, nor put the government in control of your life.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 29, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is champagne which will soon be doomed from skyrocketing temperatures, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on CNN having yet another meltdown.

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Bummer: Sanctuary City Worried About Losing Funding For Being A Sanctuary City

By William Teach December 29, 2017 – 11:46 am

There’s a simple solution for this. Can you guess what it is? Exactly. And, even cuter, they are now calling themselves “safe communities”

Amherst officials prep for loss of police grant over ‘sanctuary’ status

Because it has declared itself a safe community for undocumented immigrants, Amherst could be at risk of losing a grant that has paid the salary of the police department’s neighborhood liaison officer.

Town officials and the police department have received no notification about the status of the Edward J. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, but Town Manager Paul Bockelman said he fears Amherst is facing a similar situation to Lawrence, which recently was informed by the U.S. attorney general’s office that its federal grants would be taken away.

“The money hasn’t been released by the federal government and we don’t know if it will be,” Bockelman said.

Last month, Lawrence was the only Massachusetts city to receive one of 29 letters sent by Acting Assistant Attorney General Alan Hanson warning of consequences for declaring itself a sanctuary city for those who have come to the United States illegally. That letter was also sent to cities, including Berkeley and Los Angeles, and states, such as Vermont.

The grant is actually something recent, and seems to be a typical squishy Obama program

Funding for the neighborhood liaison position began in fall 2015 with a one-year, $92,164 Byrne grant, paying for salary and benefits, equipment and other expenses, such as attending professional development conferences. The town received the grant again in 2016, though Amherst has never been assured of receiving it from year to year.

It’s very simple: stop being a sanctuary city, sorry, safe community. Stop protecting people who are in the country illegally. I bet Town Manager Paul Bockelman would be pretty upset if someone broke into his car and took a few things, right?

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Crazy Person Yells At Disney’s Robot Trump

By William Teach December 29, 2017 – 6:56 am

Remember the one where Democrat sore losers screamed at the sky on the anniversary of Trump defeating Hillary fair and square? Then there’s this

(Daily Caller) Meet the saddest person in America – Jay Malsky.

Malsky is a New York-based actor who has played “drag comedy characters,” including Hillary Clinton.

Malsky does not like Donald Trump and made that clear on a recent trip to DisneyWorld, where the actor “protested” the animatronic Trump featured in the Hall of Presidents.  Malsky tweeted that he was planning on either throwing something at the robo-Trump or murdering it.

And he went on to do this

Congratulations. You yelled at a robot. And a really, really bad one, which people think Disney had one made for Hillary, then had to change it to look like Trump.

Ben Shapiro wrote “Not all heroes wear capes”. Many people noted how Malsky basically ruined it for the kids, and certainly scared many kids with his crazy. Obviously, many other #resist nutters were super supportive of scaring kids while yelling at a robot. Yet, these same people are happy to say they’re the smartest people in the world and super mature. Uh huh.

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Trump Sends Out Tweet On Cold Weather And Global Warming, People Lose Their Minds

By William Teach December 29, 2017 – 6:36 am

I wonder, have the Trump haters considered that he’s just doing this to mess with them? That he knows they will lose their collective minds, and that he and the folks around him are getting a good laugh? And that his tweets cause the Credentialed #Resist Media to chase rabbits down holes while Trump and his folks go off and do things that the media misses during that time?

This has causes all sorts of blue check mark folks to try and explain the difference between weather and climate, forgetting that they will themselves blame every weather event on ‘climate change’. Many immediately put up missives at mainstream outlets, such as this front page one at the Washington Post, which includes

But a single cold streak does not prove climate change is fake. Man-made global warming, as the name suggests, refers to the steady rise of average temperature of Earth’s climate system because of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. Indeed, at the moment much of the rest of world is warmer than normal even if a portion of the United States is chilly.

As I noted in response to Trump’s tweet

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/946556511655989248

And the WP article goes on

That added energy to Earth’s climate system alters more than just average temperatures. One active and heavily debated area of climate research concerns the degree to which climate change causes the jet stream encircling the Arctic to wobble southward, and send a surge of cold air across portions of North America — as it is now.

That’s right, blaming anthropogenic climate change for cold, and actually has several more paragraphs on the subject. And there were plenty of other tweets doing the same, such as

The NY Times has a front page article on Trump’s tweet, and in another front page article that explains all the crazy cold and massive snows in apocalyptic ways, we get

While scientists routinely find themselves explaining that day-to-day weather patterns are not the same as long-term climate trends, they also widely agree that human-caused climate change is exacerbating extreme weather.

Got that? The same people who are Warmistsplaining the difference between weather and climate are not only blaming cold weather on ‘climate change’, but also, surprise, confusing weather and climate themselves.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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