…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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…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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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.â€
“Did everybody change their mind? Of course not.â€
“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. â€
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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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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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.â€
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.â€
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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Trump's position on climate change is pathetic and an embarrassment to the world. We must fight back. On Jan. 31, join me and tens of thousands of people across the U.S. as we tune in to chart the path to go #FossilFree. https://t.co/RttJgs7x66
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 26, 2018
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
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.
…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle that Other People should not be allowed to have, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on the meaning of Trump’s amnesty offer.
It’s girls ladies with guns week!
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Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in America. Some people have sun, some have rain, some have snow. Weather is awesome. This pinup is by Jay Scott Pike, with a wee bit of help.
What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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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The Washington Post Editorial Board is no fan of a border wall. Though I’d bet that the majority of that august body have fences/walls around their mansions. However, they’ve seen the writing on the wall, pun intended, that they won’t get a “clean” DACA bill (hey, here’s a recommendation: a clean DACA bill that allows them 3 years to wrap up their affairs and self deport), so, how about legalization for the Wall?
How to get to yes on a deal for the ‘dreamers’
PRESIDENT TRUMP has laid out a framework for immigration reform. It can’t be the final answer, but it contains the elements of an imaginable deal. Legislators who want to get to yes should seize on those elements and start working.
One key to success between now and Feb. 8, the deadline Congress has set for itself, is not to try to solve the entire immigration conundrum. A grand bargain is certainly imaginable at some point. Democrats would get legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country in exchange for stricter limits on, and some changes in the nature of, immigration going forward. But there’s no way that bargain can be achieved in the next couple of weeks.
Whoa! Now they’ve jumped the gun and are looking for a pathway for 11 million other illegals. No one is talking about that. I’m not sure why all the things in Trump’s framework can’t be included.
What is imaginable is a smaller-scale deal: safe harbor for the “dreamers†in exchange for Mr. Trump’s wall. That’s not a deal we love, for two reasons. One is that everyone, including Mr. Trump, claims to support a pathway to citizenship for the dreamers, the undocumented immigrants who were brought here as young children through no fault of their own. Why should they be a bargaining chip at all?
You’re right, let’s not use them as a bargaining chip, let’s just enforce federal law and deport them. For those yammering on about bargaining chips, might want to reconsider that talking point, because things could go the other way. You can’t strongarm Trump. Regardless, despite not liking the wall and thinking it’s value is low, the WPEB is willing to exchange it for the 1.8 million illegals who were in DACA and might possibly have been eligible for DACA but never applied.
In return, Mr. Trump is asking too much and overplaying his hand. In addition to a $25 billion “trust fund†for hundreds of miles of new wall and other border security measures, Mr. Trump wants a sharp contraction in family-based immigration, the mechanism by which most legal immigrants entered the United States for the past half-century; an end to the visa lottery that admits 50,000 immigrants annually from countries underrepresented in U.S. immigration; and a massive enforcement crackdown that would target not only undocumented immigrants who are long-term residents of this country, but also asylum seekers, including children, who are fleeing violence and oppression.
A pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million illegals, one which doesn’t even punish the people who brought the kids illegally, is worth a lot more than Trump is asking for. He’s certainly not overplaying his hand. Democrats should be careful in this line of attack, because Trump and the GOP controlled Congress could simply move on from DACA if Democrats caterwaul too much.
Congress should schedule all those proposals for debate this spring, along with a pathway to legality for 11 million illegal immigrants, plus protections for the more than 200,000 Haitians, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans whose temporary protected status has been revoked by the administration.
But in the next 10 days, it should do something simple and constructive: dreamers for the wall.
No. And double no for legalization for 11 million more illegal aliens.
Read: Washington Post: Let’s Give Trump The Wall For Legal Protection For 1.8 Million Dreamers »
…is horrible warmth snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Proof Positive, with a post on the quote du jour.
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Just when you think the Cult of Climastrology couldn’t possibly provide a wackier linkage to ‘climate change’, they say “here. Hold my beer”
When it comes to menstrual cycles, everyone is different, and having an irregular cycle doesn’t necessarily mean you need medical help. But a new study pinpoints a troubling cause for irregular cycles: you’re more likely to have an irregular period if you breathed in polluted air as a teenager, according to research published in journal Human Reproduction. Air pollution is damaging to the environment and to our health — pollution is one of the leading causes of premature death, according to a study from 2015, and it’s getting worse thanks to climate change. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, climate change affects the quality of our air, and researchers don’t fully know the extent yet. It’s reasonable to assume that as air pollution worsens worldwide, climate change may indeed affect our periods in surprisingly profound ways.
Researchers from Boston University Medical Campus and Harvard School of Public Health analyzed data from 34,832 women and compared menstrual cycle irregularity to exposure to air pollution during their high school years. As pollutants increased, so did the chances of period irregularity. The explanation for this is simple but sobering, according to the study: “The menstrual cycle is responsive to hormonal regulation. Particulate matter air pollution has demonstrated hormonal activity.” Essentially, pollutants can affect our bodies in unexpected ways. A 2017 study found that air pollutants can change our metabolism and increase stress, and this new research provides additional evidence to support the idea that pollutants can interfere with our hormones.
You see what they’re doing: linking real air pollution to their belief that CO2 is the control knob that’s causing temperatures to go up. These are two separate issues, but, Warmists must link everything to their pet cult.
The article continues on, noting things like low income people, especially Blacks and Latinos, tend to be exposed to air pollution more than other classes. And, of course, they have to say that these same poor people are most effected by Hotcoldwetdry. Then we learn “Stress and diet are two other things that can affect your period regularity,” which is true, and they go into “food deserts” and such, ending with
This is the crux of the issue: The factors that can affect your menstrual cycle — diet, stress, air pollution — are things that minorities and low-income families struggle with at disproportionate rates. This new research is troubling regardless of how you look at it — it’s a reminder that climate change is real, and it’s affecting our bodies in worrying ways. But it’s also a reminder that marginalized people face a higher risk when it comes to health and environmental issues, and vulnerable populations will feel the impact of worsening air quality.
How is it a reminder? These are separate issues. But, again, in Warmist World, everything is linked to their insane beliefs. Well, except for giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their own lives carbon neutral.
BTW, it’s rather ironic that the worst air pollution tends to occur in areas run by people (Leftists) who tend to believe in anthropogenic climate change, eh?
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