We’re Going To Need Floating Homes For Our Permanent Drought Flood World

By William Teach January 3, 2018 – 5:57 pm

Yesterday we learned that the Earth could become a drought world (unless you’re willing to be taxed and fee’d under the Paris climate agreement). Today we learn

Interestingly, before I started reading the article, the New Yorker gave me a pop-up ad to get me to subscribe as they’re “fighting fake stories with real ones.” Uh huh

Last June, not long after a catastrophic thunderstorm swept through southern Ontario, bringing a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours, a group of seventy-five architects, engineers, and policymakers from sixteen countries gathered in the city of Waterloo to discuss how humanity will cope with its waterlogged future. The timing of the conference was a fitting meteorological coincidence; in a world increasingly transformed by climate change, heavy rains and major floods are becoming more common, at least in some areas. In the summer of 2017 alone, Hurricane Harvey dumped more than fifty inches of rain over Texas, a monster monsoon season damaged more than eight hundred thousand homes in India, and flash floods and mudslides claimed at least five hundred lives in Sierra Leone. In the past two decades, the world’s ten worst floods have done more than a hundred and sixty-five billion dollars’ worth of damage and driven more than a billion people from their homes.

So, flood drought? Fortunately, the people invovled in this project are doing their part to bring about the permanent droughtflood world by flying all over the world to check out designs for floating homes.

English isn’t giving up. A few months after the conference, she flew to Vietnam, where she is designing two new amphibious houses that are slated to be built in January. She also has a grant from the National Research Council of Canada to begin developing guidelines for amphibious construction that the government can include in its official building code. English and other experts say that opinions about amphibious architecture are beginning to shift, especially as climate change makes innovative building solutions more urgent. “Usually, after a conference presentation, I’ll have people coming up to me and saying, ‘I’ve never heard of this before, this is such a great idea, how can I do this in my community?’ ” English said. “People don’t laugh at me anymore.”

Yes, I bet all the people out in the middle of America and Canada think this is awesome.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 3, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle causing massive winter snow hurricanes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post noting that Germany’s safe zones failed.

BTW, I totally lost the theme this week. From Monday to Tuesday it changed from denim to flannel. Oh, well.

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Climastrologers Can Now Blame Every Weather Event On Your Carbon Footprint

By William Teach January 3, 2018 – 10:50 am

This tweet from one of my favorite Warmists didn’t age well

https://twitter.com/drvox/status/948259635105906688

because we now have this

Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters on Climate Change
Extreme event attribution is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of climate science

….

His hunch held true. Nearly 15 years later, extreme event attribution not only is possible, but is one of the most rapidly expanding subfields of climate science.

“The public stance of the scientific community about individual event attribution in the year 2000 is that it’s not something that science does,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford University climate scientist and attribution expert. “And so to go from that to now, that you’ll find a paper every week … that’s why we say there’s been an explosion of research. It’s gone from zero to 60, basically.”

Over the last few years, dozens of studies have investigated the influence of climate change on events ranging from the Russian heat wave of 2010 to the California drought, evaluating the extent to which global warming has made them more severe or more likely to occur.

Shockingly, these climastrologers find a human-caused greenhouse gas fingerprint in each and every one! No matter what happens, this is their conclusion. Every weather event is linked to or caused by Mankind’s “carbon pollution.”

This is a long, long article, with much to fisk (like how it start out with a discussion of a rising Thames, which hadn’t been that high since 1947! You know, when CO2 was under the “safe” 350ppm), but, the basics here are that the Cult of Climastrology will continue to blamestorm and just pull “science” out of their collective asses.

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Democrats Are Totally Itching For A Fight And Will Hold The Line Or Something

By William Teach January 3, 2018 – 8:02 am

Democrats have been essentially fighting since the day Donald Trump was elected. Usually in their typical cray-cray mode. But they’re going to hold the line now

Itching for a fight, Dems vow to hold the line

The January battle to keep the government open is the fight Democrats have been itching for.

On three occasions in recent months, Democrats punted on some of their top priorities as the GOP passed short-term funding bills — a strategy that outraged liberals eager for confrontation on issues like immigration and health care.

But with yet another spending deadline approaching on Jan. 19, Democrats say the time has come to hold the line.

In a Tuesday letter to her troops, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laid out the party’s top priorities heading into the fight. The Democrats will “insist” on parity between defense and nondefense spending hikes, Pelosi wrote, while pressing “firmly” to protect the young immigrants affected by President Trump’s move to dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

In other words, they’re going to be soft on defense and attempt to protect illegal aliens over U.S. citizens.

Pelosi also promised a tough fight over new funding for veterans, pensions, the opioid crisis, health research, disaster aid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Would this be the CHIP that most Democrats in the House voted against? And isn’t even up for a vote in the Senate because Democrats are against reauthorization?

At the end of the day, though, the only thing that they really care about is DACA

On Wednesday, immigrant rights advocates — joined by celebrities including Alyssa Milano and America Ferrera — will rally at the Los Angeles office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to deliver an unsubtle message to the Democrats: deliver for the “Dreamers,” or pay a heavy price.

“DREAM Act or primaries,” Ady Barkan, a spokesman from the activist group CPD Action, said Tuesday. “We need Democrats to deliver on their promise to pass a DREAM Act now or we will put our full weight behind primary challengers who are ready to protect our communities.”

Veterans, opioids, CHIP, you name it, they’ll all come far behind DACA, because Democrats care more about illegal aliens than American citizens. And don’t think they are sticking just to Dreamers

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), one of Capitol Hill’s most vocal immigrant rights advocates, is sounding a similar alarm.

“With new people becoming deportable every day, House and Senate leaders in both parties should not underestimate the urgency and the passion behind getting the DREAM Act passed right away,” Gutiérrez told The Hill Tuesday. “Our base wants us to fight for what is right — to take a stand against the bigotry and callousness coming from the White House.

They are going to push for protection for most illegal aliens along with the Dreamers.

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The East Coast Is Going To Get Hit With A “Bomb-Cyclone” Of ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 3, 2018 – 7:42 am

The Washington Post plays the story of a big winter storm (something Warmists were saying were a thing of the past) straight

Monster storm to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week

Unforgiving cold has punished the eastern third of the United States for the past 10 days. But the most severe winter weather yet will assault the area late this week.

First, a monster storm will hammer coastal locations from Georgia to Maine with ice and snow. By Thursday, the exploding storm will, in many ways, resemble a winter hurricane, battering easternmost New England with potentially damaging winds in addition to blinding snow.

Forecasters are expecting the storm to become a so-called “bomb cyclone” because its pressure is predicted to fall so fast, an indicator of explosive strengthening. The storm could rank as the most intense over the waters east of New England in decades at this time of year. While blizzard conditions could paste some coastal areas, the most extreme conditions will remain well out over the ocean.

In the storm’s wake, the mother lode of numbing cold will crash south — likely the last but most bitter in brutal blasts since Christmas Eve.

This is what’s called “weather”, just like with a hurricane, tornado, rain storm, or a nice day. It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. But, of course, along comes Excitable Rowan Walrath at Mother Jones, which replicates much of the Washington Post article prior to

In late 2016, Mother Jones reported that climate change may be contributing to such weather events.

The theory—advanced by Rutgers professor Jennifer Francis and other scientists—is that the rapidly warming Arctic is affecting the jet stream in ways that can contribute to bone-chilling weather in other parts of the Northern Hemisphere:

To understand how it works, it first helps to think of the jet stream as a river of air that flows from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere, bringing with it much of our weather. Its motion—sometimes in a relatively straight path, sometimes in a more loopy one—is driven by a difference in temperatures between the equator and the North Pole. Southern temperatures are of course warmer, and because warm air takes up more space than cold air, this leads to taller columns of air in the atmosphere. “If you were sitting on top of a layer of atmosphere and you were in DC, looking northward, it would be like looking down a hill, because it’s warmer where you are,” explains Francis. The jet stream then flows “downhill,” so to speak, in a northward direction. But it’s also bent by the rotation of the Earth, leading to its continual wavy, eastward motion. As the Arctic rapidly heats up, however, there’s less of a temperature difference between the equator and the poles, and the downhill slope in the atmosphere is accordingly less steep.

And there it is. The question they refuse to answer is “did this same thing happen prior to the Modern Warm Period?” Did this kind of thing not happen before during the Little Ice Age? Can they specifically prove, using the Scientific Method, that this is happening mostly due to Mankind’s output of what they unscientifically call “carbon pollution”? Of course not. The people who proclaim the world is only 6,000 years old and the dinosaur bones were planted can’t prove it, either. Of course, the latter group isn’t trying to tax and fee you, nor have the government control your life.

Seasoned experts over at the National Weather Service have tips for avoiding hypothermia. President Donald Trump simply suggests we “bundle up.”

It ended with a bit of Trump Derangement Syndrome. This is what your wife or mother will tell you. To Mother Jones, this is just Horrible.

Related, The Daily Beast’s Tanya Basu is not impressed by all the apocalyptic weather talk regarding this storm, in which a meteorologist calls it “a fairly classic winter storm.”

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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The Earth Could Become A Desert Without The Paris Climate Agreement Or Something

By William Teach January 2, 2018 – 3:33 pm

It’s become a dried out flood world with cold and snow and hot and hurricanes and not hurricanes and stuff

(Washington Examiner)  Climate researchers are warning that a large chunk of the globe could become a desert if the goals of the Paris climate change accord are not met.

The findings published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change show that more than 25 percent of the world’s population will live in a perpetual state of drought and growing desertification if the Earth’s temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius by 2050.

The report says the solution is to prevent global warming from rising above 1.5 degrees C, which the researchers say would significantly reduce the number of regions of the world affected by “aridification,” or the drying of the planet.

We can solve all this with a tax, you know.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 2, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible beer full of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the “right” to serve.

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Poor Finances, Needed Repairs, And Fear Of Immigration Raids Closes Detroit Church, But Mostly Finance And Repairs

By William Teach January 2, 2018 – 10:30 am

Here’s one of the top tier media Narratives that you will see, as CBS News tries to blame-scare on illegal immigration without saying “illegal immigration”

Fear of immigration raids partially to blame for 100-year-old church’s closure

After more than 100 years, a Roman Catholic church in Detroit is closing, partly because Hispanics who worship there fear immigration agents. The final Mass at All Saints Church will be celebrated Sunday on Detroit’s southwest side.

The congregation of 300 families will be encouraged to attend St. Gabriel, a nearby church.

If they are legally present, why would they be fearful?

The pastor at St. Gabriel, the Rev. Marc Gawronski, said there are many reasons for the closing of All Saints. The church has weak finances, needs repairs and has been losing members. A construction project on Interstate 75 has hurt attendance.

Gawronski said there has been an increase in raids and enforcement by federal immigration agents in the community.

Immigration agents wouldn’t be coming for legally authorized immigrants, except for a few issues like criminal behavior.

Immigration agents have an “informal agreement that they have affirmed that they will not go into churches and not hassle people going to church,” he said. Nonetheless, “people are even nervous about being able to get up in the morning and go to church.”

Why would they be nervous if they are just immigrants, rather than illegal aliens? We can see that the closure has more to do with the weak finances, needed repairs, and the construction project.

Illegal alien related, adding this tweet on

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‘Climate Change’ Could Mean 50 Feet Of Snow Or Something

By William Teach January 2, 2018 – 7:11 am

From the department of

comes this bit of unhinged climate (scam) alarmism

50 feet of snow? POSSIBLE! Thank Climate Change

(starts out blabbering about weather events, linking them to Hotcoldwetdry)

Generally speaking, Illinois is warmer than it was a century ago by a yearly average of more than 1 degree. (Early projections indicate 2017’s average will be 2 degrees above normal for the year.) And, more importantly, Illinois is wetter than it used to be a century ago, by a yearly average of 4 inches of precipitation.

That happens during a typical Holocene warm period.

Worse is water. Compared to 100 years ago, Illinois now gets roughly an extra month’s precipitation annually, 40 inches vs. 36 inches. But rain doesn’t fall evenly.

“It’s extreme,” Angel said. “It’s not that every rain event is 10 to 15 percent more. We’re getting more of the heavy rain events.”

Wait, I thought the world was turning to desert? No?

So the state is now preparing to chart “once-in-a-hundred year” storms, those with 7 to 8 inches of precipitation. Such storms are coming to Illinois a lot more than once a century. Still, we are indeed a little bit lucky. (snip)

What if a monster storm hit during winter? Angel is more about preparing for bad weather than prognosticating it. But an inch of rain can be 10-12 inches of snow. Fifty feet of snow is not a pretty picture. The average temperature here may be warming, but there’s no guarantee for any given January.

“We can still have things that go against the grain. We can still have cold winters with lots of snow. They will just be fewer. That doesn’t mean there’s no climate change,” Angel said. “You kind of take the long view with climate change.”

The article seriously considered what would happen if a storm like Hurricane Harvey hit Illinois. Right. OK. Sure thing, cupcake.

Remember, these are the same people who were proclaiming the end of snow, but, when that didn’t happen, they decided to find ways to link their cult to the heavy snow and cold.

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Washington Post Decides Supporting Trump On Iran Protests Is A Good Idea

By William Teach January 2, 2018 – 6:51 am

The NY Times’ Philip Gordon argued the other day that Trump should stay out of the Iran protests. Obama luminaries such as John Kerry, Ben Rhodes, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power have taken shots at Trump and/or said to stay out. The Washington Post’s Michael Singh recommends support for the protesters from Washington. And then there’s the Editorial Board: can you guess why they support Trump and what they want him to do? Let’s check in

The West should support the protesters in Iran

FIVE DAYS of street protests in cities across Iran have underlined the fundamental weakness of a regime sometimes portrayed in Washington as a regional juggernaut. Despite the lifting of most Western economic sanctions after 2015, the Islamic republic has been unable to satisfy the expectations of everyday Iranians, who see the country’s resources squandered on corruption and foreign military adventures by clerics who deny basic freedoms. Protests that began in one city over rising food prices quickly mushroomed into a nationwide uprising directed squarely at the rule of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Wait, so the regime isn’t using all that cash they got from Obama and from the ending of many sanctions, especially those from European countries? I wonder what they could be using the money for.

The popular demand for change is justified and deserves international support. President Trump has been right to tweet his backing for the demonstrators; European leaders, who have been far more cautious, should speak up. At the same time, it’s important to mind the lessons of history, which suggest that the odds that the protesters will trigger a revolution are long. The Khamenei regime has proved ruthlessly adept at putting down previous opposition movements, most recently in 2009, and still has abundant repressive resources at its disposal.

Previously, the Iranian dictators knew that support wasn’t coming from the U.S., and Europe followed Obama’s hands-off policy. But, it’s good to see the WP taking a cue from Trump, and wanting to push Europe to support the protesters. And here we go

At the same time, Mr. Trump should avoid acts that would undercut the protests and empower the regime’s hard-liners. Foremost among these would be a renunciation of the 2015 nuclear accord. That would divide the United States from European governments when they should be coordinating their response to the uprising, and it would give the regime an external threat against which to rally. Reform of the nuclear accord can wait. Now is the time for Mr. Trump to focus on supporting the people of Iran.

Anything to support Obama’s terrible no-good Iran deal, eh? One which will allow Iran to restart their nuclear weapons program in less than 10 years.

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