If All You See…

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible war machine made more likely to be used due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on a revealing word.

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Totally New Idea: Sell ‘Climate Change’ To Skeptics By Changing The Wording

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 10:30 am

By new idea, they mean trying the same old same old. This is Salon being Salon, and uber-nutty Amanda Marcotte being uber-nutty

Conservatives are willing to combat climate change — when it’s not called “climate change”
Conservatives have a kneejerk reactions to the phrase, so environmentalists are finding ways to reframe the issue

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The grim fact of the matter is that we cannot count on the federal government to step up efforts to deal with climate change, for the next four years at least. So some scientists are turning hopefully towards leaders in local governments, hoping they can use what power they have to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the damage already being created by global warming.

The problem is that many communities have conservative populations that, for ideological reasons, refuse to accept that climate change is real, and as such will resist local leaders who attempt interventions that appear to be rooted in an acceptance of the scientific facts. But there may be a way to get conservative constituents to agree to actions to address climate change: Package the policies using other terms.

As Rebecca J. Romsdahl, an environmental science and policy professor at the University of North Dakota, and her team of researchers have discovered, that’s what a number of local leaders are already doing. In 2013 and 2014, Romsdahl and her colleagues published findings from a survey of local leaders in the Great Plains states in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences and Review of Policy Research that found that many local leaders are framing their climate change policies under banners like “sustainability” or “energy savings,” instead of invoking a concept that rings too many alarm bells.

Personally, I have no problem with energy savings and sustainability, as long as they are not forced on me by government decree. As long as they are not artificially increasing my cost of living. As long as they are not creating problems, like, say, catching my yard on fire

Energy-efficient windows blamed for starting fires

Investigators told Nancy Monda that the first fire at her Davie County home appeared to be arson.

Monda’s security cameras filmed the yard smoking at first, then the flames appeared. The fire raced across her yard and surrounded a propane tank.

Two days later, another fire started in the same spot.

Investigators came back and poked around the property. This time, though, one of them felt a clue: sunlight reflecting off a neighbor’s brand new, energy-efficient window.

The firefighter’s report describes the reflection as so intense that a person couldn’t hold his hand in the light for more than 30 seconds before it felt like it was burning.

This happened four times in a week. The same thing has happened in many other places. The windows, called Low E windows, were required by law in North Carolina, until the NC Building Code Council approved a temporary ruling to no longer require their usage until the fire issue could be resolved. So far, no solution has been found, other than not using these types of windows, which are mandate in many, many cities and states across the nation. Which can cause fires, melt siding and plastic parts on cars. Government requirements at their best.

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Illegal Alien Demands Pathway To Citizenship, ICE Arrests Her Shortly After

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 8:46 am

This has made a good many liberal outlets unhinged, as you can imagine

(Clarion Ledger) Moments after an immigrant spoke out about her fears of deportation, she was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Daniela Vargas, 22, was detained by ICE agents Wednesday morning, shortly after speaking at a news conference in downtown Jackson, according to her attorney, Abby Peterson. (snip)

Vargas was 7 years old when her family came to America from Argentina, placing her under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, immigration policy. Under the policy, DACA recipients have to reapply every two years. Vargas’ DACA is expired but her renewal application is pending.

Peterson said she told agents via telephone Vargas had a pending DACA case. However, agents reportedly told Peterson that Vargas was a “visa overstay” and will be detained.

Vargas has no bond and is in ICE detention.

Her father and brother were detained in mid-February, but, she was not. There was a report of a handgun present in the home, which, surprise surprise, is a felony, since those unlawfully present in the U.S. are forbidden to have any guns.

Essentially, she was out there giving a speech demanding that she and the other Dreamers be given legal status. After failing to reapply for DACA status on time. ICE has stated that this was a targeted detainment, so, all those leftist media outlets freaking out might end up with egg on their face when the information on “why” comes out. Funny, ICE isn’t given credit by the media for things like this

And, a bit to the east of Raleigh, ICE targeted another illegal alien, for which “ICE officials stressed that this action was “not a standard immigration action” and was part of a larger federal investigation.”

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Suddenly, Trump Reading From A Teleprompter Is A Bad Thing

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 8:15 am

For eight years, we were treated to the Greatest Orator Ever!!!!! speaking from a teleprompter. Conservatives even came up with a name for Obama’s teleprompter: TOTUS. Teleprompter Of The United States. And discussed TOTUS as if it were alive. There were lots of jokes about this, most in jest, some nasty. Because, when it came down to it, Obama was barely able to speak in Adult without TOTUS.

Now, let’s be honest: for all the jokes about Obama speaking with TOTUS, the man gave great speeches using TOTUS. No one on the right really thinks poorly of Obama for using teleprompters to give speeches, because so many politicians do, at least on longer ones. But, get this

From the screed by Andrew Rosenthal (via Twitchy)

First as a candidate, and now as president, Donald Trump has drawn fire for promising the moon and stars without giving the slightest hint of how he intended to obtain them. In fact, as Tuesday night’s speech to Congress demonstrated so clearly, the president is actually a master of the art of diminished expectations.

On Tuesday night, we are told, he looked sober and presidential, when all he actually did was read a speech from a Teleprompter without veering off into one of his incoherent rants. It’s hard to believe that even the ill-disciplined and narcissistic Trump would have stood in the well of the House of Representatives and tried to lead a chant of “lock her up” or slapped journalists with the “enemy of the people” label that has been a favorite of dictators for more than a century.

That’s right, Trump is being slammed for just reading a speech from a Teleprompter. If you want incoherence, how about Obama unable to make his remarks because the teleprompter wasn’t programed? He was handed the speech, and still didn’t give it.

We’ve already had the media whining about Trump playing golf, something they never bothered with when Obama was in office. Now, the teleprompter. I can’t wait to see what other hypocrisy they drop on us.

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Christians Urged To Pray On Climate Change (Using Shoddy “Science”)

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 3:30 pm

Instead of praying, they should try practicing what they preach and make their own lives carbon neutral by giving up the use of fossil fuels, air conditioners, ice makers, hair dryers, washing machines, etc and so on

Christians urged to pray about climate change during Lent

Christians in seven countries are being urged to pray during Lent for families at risk from climate change.

It’s hoped tens of thousands of believers will also call on governments to uphold their pledges on carbon emissions, to help prevent devastating consequences such as rising sea levels and food shortages.

Tearfund is supporting the Renew our World initiative.

Its Advocacy director Paul Cook told Premier he’s seen first hand the damage it can do.

Here’s the handy dandy photo used

This is a photo, taken by John Giles. It has appeared numerous times, such as this Guardian article. You can find it all over the Internet as a sign of ‘climate change’ doom.

But, see, there’s a wee bit of a problem: the photo is doctored. It’s of the Eggborough power plant in England. Every photo of the plant that is not doctored shows white, or mostly white, steam coming from all the stacks. If it was coming out like in the photo, you can bet authorities would be all over it in a heartbeat.

Anyway, these Warmists can pray all they want over an issue that is about as fake as that photo.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…are trees dying from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the nutty claim of Ashley Judd.

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Shell Totally Knew About Climate Change In 1991 Or Something

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 10:39 am

The UK Guardian, and all the leftist media outlets which have followed on with unhinged screeds, thinks it has found the smoking gun

‘Shell knew’: oil giant’s 1991 film warned of climate change danger
Public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has not acted accordingly since, say critics

The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered.

However, since then the company has invested heavily in highly polluting oil reserves and helped lobby against climate action, leading to accusations that Shell knew the grave risks of global warming but did not act accordingly.

Shell’s 28-minute film, called Climate of Concern, was made for public viewing, particularly in schools and universities. It warned of extreme weather, floods, famines and climate refugees as fossil fuel burning warmed the world. The serious warning was “endorsed by a uniquely broad consensus of scientists in their report to the United Nations at the end of 1990”, the film noted.

“If the weather machine were to be wound up to such new levels of energy, no country would remain unaffected,” it says. “Global warming is not yet certain, but many think that to wait for final proof would be irresponsible. Action now is seen as the only safe insurance.”

Of course, this back in 1991. Things change. Research provides new answers. New data comes to light. The Guardian makes a big deal out of this

Except, reality looks like this

Which one is wrong, the observations or the models? The doomy predictions of the 1990’s turned into the Great Pause, a time of statistically insignificant warming, which none of the models accounted for. The excuses for the pause range from “it didn’t occur!!!!!!” to “nature is masking the manmade warming.” Funny how the warming can never be from nature, wouldn’t you say?

I certainly was a Warmist back in 1991. I was a believer that the warming was mostly/solely caused by Mankind as recent as 2004. However, at that point, I was able to use the power of the Internet to see other data, other rationales, other hypotheses, and rebuttals to the Cult Of Climastrology. I was no longer living on the spoonfuls of leftist propaganda from limited outlets. And I was able to see that this whole thing has little to do with nature and just about everything to do with enacting Progressive (nice fascist) big centralized government policies of control and taxation.

So, yeah, maybe Shell knew in 1991. Research brings about new views.

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Southwest Border Sees Big Drop In Illegal Border Crossings

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 8:01 am

Article after article from the Credentialed Media discusses the fear created by Trump’s policies for those who are unlawfully present in the United States. Here’s the thing: perhaps the policies are meant to provide fear to those who might still consider coming to the United States illegally in order to reduce the flow into the U.S.

(Fox) There was a significant dip in illegal immigration across the southwest border during President Trump’s first month in office compared to that of the last three months of Obama’s presidency, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said.

In January, 31,575 individuals were taken into custody between ports of entry on the southwest border. That contrasts with an average of more than 45,000 for each of the previous three months, according to a CPB report released Monday.

The agency said that while it is experiencing a decrease in illegal attempts at entry, the overall total migration remains at elevated levels due to family units and unaccompanied children from three groups: Central Americans, Haitian nationals migrating from Brazil and Cuban nationals.

If people from other nations know they can cross the border and won’t be immediately deported, that they will be a part of catch and release, allowing them to disappear into the U.S., if they are being almost invited by the previous administration and elected Democrats, if some cities will protect them, and so forth, they will come. If they think things won’t go well if they cross the border illegally, many will not bother trying.

Jim Carafano, a security expert with the Heritage Foundation, said an assortment of factors could account for the change in numbers.

“There are a lot of reasons why numbers go up and down, but some of it could be a reaction to statements from President Trump that we’re going to increase border security and seeing media reports that we’re going to get tougher on illegal immigration in the U.S. People may be more resistant to come,” Carafano told Fox News.

“You can’t make too much of monthly numbers, but if you see the total lawful immigration population drop, that means you’re doing something that’s impacting the system overall.”

We’ll see if the numbers continue to drop, or at least stay lower than previous. If the numbers drop, people might be open to some sort of pathway, whether it be to just legalization or goes to citizenship.

A senior Trump administration official said Tuesday that the president is considering legislation to provide a pathway to legal status, but not yet citizenship, for those currently in the United States illegally — despite reports throughout his campaign for a “mass deportation.”

The senior administration official said that the president thinks it is “time to push for an immigration bill.”

The problem with previous attempts, such as the Gang Of 8 bill, and George W. Bush’s push, is that they were clearly meant to provide levels of legalization while paying lip service to actually doing all they could to stop the flow along with things like taking a harder approach to those who might come illegally along with those who overstayed visas. If border security is increased, if conditions are implemented that dis-incentivize people from coming illegally along with overstaying visas, if the unlawfully present are not handed everything on a platter, an overall policy of being tough on illegals, then, we can look at legalization.

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Trump’s Joint Address Played Pretty Darned Well With Viewers

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 7:36 am

Within the liberal media there is quite a bit of vexation over Trump’s speech, which was pretty darned good. It leads to the typical headlines meant to take shots

It keeps going and going, where news organizations had sqeeeeeeee’d after an Obama speech.

How did the people feel about it?

(CNN) President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress received largely positive reviews from viewers, with 57% who tuned in saying they had a very positive reaction to the speech, according to a new CNN/ORC poll of speech-watchers.

Nearly 7-in-10 who watched said the President’s proposed policies would move the country in the right direction and almost two-thirds said the president has the right priorities for the country. Overall, about 7-in-10 said the speech made them feel more optimistic about the direction of the country.

Obviously, CNN attempts to throw cold water on this good news

The survey, conducted among a group of Americans who said in interviews conducted before the speech that they planned to watch and agreed to be re-contacted, only reflects the views of those who watched the speech, not of all Americans.

Says the company which attempted to tell us that Hillary would win based on surveys of 1,000 Americans. In all fairness, this survey was of 509 Americans.

On specific issues, Trump scored the highest marks for his proposed policies on the economy, with 72% saying those went in the right direction. Almost as many, 70%, said the same about his terrorism proposals. Slightly fewer, but still a majority, felt his policies on taxes (64%), immigration (62%) or health care (61%) were heading in the right direction.

Ideologically, about two-thirds saw Trump’s speech as about right, while roughly on-quarter (26%) pegged it as too conservative. Just 8% said it wasn’t conservative enough.

Mr. Trump made lots of promises and policy prescriptions during the speech. No, he didn’t give much in the way of details on how this will happen. These types of speeches never include much in the way of details, they are about lofty rhetoric. And people’s eyes would glaze over if they attempted to be policy wonks. But, now, the trick is to make them happen.

Thank goodness Democrats are being Adult about this

Pelosi: Why Yes-We’re Looking At Ways To Impeach Trump

https://twitter.com/waddatwit/status/836670083959119872

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Could Cause Us To Lose Words

By William Teach February 28, 2017 – 4:56 pm

Everybody panic!

6 Words That Could Go Extinct Because of Climate Change

A warming planet has meant that every year since 2001 was the hottest year on record. Climate change will eventually force many populations to migrate and put a quarter of all species at risk of vanishing. But not all of the doomsday scenarios will unfold before our eyes. The subtleties of climate catastrophe are already affecting language around the world. Wherever you call home, the very words coming out of your mouth are in danger of becoming obsolete. Take these six, for example.

Let’s take a look

Leg Basket

Noun: A compartmental structure on the hind legs of certain bees used to harvest and transport pollen.

This is because bees, who have survived through numerous warm and cool periods, are DOOOOOMED!

Lift Line

Noun: The queue of skiers and snowboarders waiting to board a chairlift for a ride up the mountain at a winter resort.

Because snow at lower levels will be a thing of the past.

Icefoot

Noun: An unmoving ribbon of sea ice that attaches to the coast or edge of a glacier.

This never happened before you drove a fossil fueled, vehicle, you bastard!

Scallop Dredge

Noun: A rake/cage/net thingamabob that’s dragged along the bottom of the ocean to collect scallops for consumption.

Scallops are doomed. I blame you.

Hogshead

Noun: A large cask, a unit of measure for a large volume of liquid, usually beer or wine.

Beer and wine is doomed.

Lanthanides

Noun: The series of rare-earth elements used in the production of myriad green and high-tech devices.

Hooray for hybrid cars and renewable energy, right? Yes, but those car batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines (along with iPhones, MRI scans, and 4K TVs) require the expensive extraction of neodymium, dysprosium, and more than a dozen other elements that can unleash radioactive by-products and contaminate the air and water. Companies are looking at substitutes for the very elements we currently rely on for many of the “green” products that ease our carbon-footprint guilt. With rising demand for renewable and high-tech elements, the vast majority of them coming from China, more companies are putting research and development into abundant-metal substitutes for lanthanides.

Wait, what? Let me see if I’m getting this. Because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle and refuse to buy local (you bastard!), you’ve made it so hot, and will make it hotter, so they had to do all this mining to save us with green energy, which is running out. Right? These people are nuts.

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