Climate Science Deserves a Nobel Prize Or Something

By William Teach December 27, 2016 – 3:03 pm

This is Slate trying to out Salon Salon in nuttiness.

Do you know why?

It may not have the wow factor of other sciences, but the goals are equally noble.

I don’t know about the wow factor. It’s pretty “wow” when someone cheats and manufactures data and results. People like Stalim, Mao, Chavezz, and many other authoritarians probably think the end goals are noble, too.

Climate science in the United States is in an existential crisis. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to cut funding for Earth science, and the Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives will probably make good on those promises. The broader scientific community has mostly stood in solidarity with climate researchers assaulted by denialism.

Sounds more like a religious or political movement, doesn’t it?

The rest is just trying to push this silly notion, but, hey, it might be a great idea, as it would certainly expose just how fraudulent the AGW science is, much like giving a Nobel to Obama.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 27, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon motorbike that probably runs on solar and everyone else should be forced to use, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Virtual Mirage, with a post noting that elections have consequences.

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Katherine Hayhoe: You Don’t Have To Be A Liberal Weenie To Believe In ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 27, 2016 – 10:21 am

Katherine Hayhoe really, really, really wants you to believe this is about science

Katharine Hayhoe: Why Climate Change Should Matter to You

What’s one of the most insidious myths we’ve bought into, when it comes to climate change?

It has nothing to do with the science: It’s the simple idea that we have to be a certain type of person to care about climate change.

If I’m a liberal, if I bike to work and call myself a “tree-hugger,” then of course I care about climate change. But what if I’m conservative, I drive a car or I worry about the economy—does agreeing with the science of climate change mean I have to change who I am?

When I moved to Texas 10 years ago, I didn’t know what to expect. I study climate change, one of the most politicized issues in the entire U.S. If we’re serious about it, we have to wean ourselves off fossil fuels. That’s not a popular message in a state best known for its oil and gas.

It’s not a popular message for Warmists, either, since they, including Hayhoe, refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels.

To answer these questions, I’ve teamed up with our local West Texas PBS station to produce a new PBS Digital Studios web series, Global Weirding: Climate, Politics, and Religion. Every other Wednesday, we roll out a new video exploring climate change and what it means to all of us.

This episode tackles the identity myth, head-on. Climate change is not some distant issue that only matters to the polar bears. It’s affecting our lives right now, in the places that we live. And if we’re a human living on planet Earth, then we already have every value we need to care about a changing climate.

Do you know which episode I want to see? The one where Warmists stop using fossil fuels and live like it it’s the 10th century, giving up all the luxuries of the modern lifestyle.

Climate change isn’t a niche issue that only matters to people who think or act or vote a certain way. Each of us, exactly who we are, with exactly the values we already have, already have every reason we need to care.

Virtually every poll says it is a niche issue. And, as long as Warmists continue to be hypocrites and demand that Other People comply, it will be a niche issue. Yes, climate change is real. The debate is on the cause.

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Where’s The Evidence That “Fake News” Had Any Impact?

By William Teach December 27, 2016 – 8:25 am

For all the caterwauling from the people who lost the election fair and square, is there any actual hard evidence that fake news had an impact?

(Daily Caller) As 2016 draws to a close, the ongoing debate regarding “fake news’ has pressed forward, but notably absent from the debate is any evidence that “fake news” impacted voters’ decisions on whom to vote for in last month’s election.

Lots and lots of (leftist) media outlets have run story after story about the proliferation of “fake news”, running specials yammering about it. But,

Putting aside the fact that BuzzFeed was accused of using suspect methodology to fit a narrative, and putting aside the fact that Facebook has since discredited the data upon which BuzzFeed relied for the study, the findings still didn’t show that fake news had any impact on the way people voted last November.

Vanity Fair ran a piece titled, “Did Russian Agents Influence The Election With Fake News?” late last month. But that article was based on a Washington Post article that relied on since-debunked experts. That article now includes a length editor’s note saying the Post “does not itself vouch for the validity” of the data upon which its article was built. Even before the Post walked back the article, the piece did not provide any evidence that fake news changed the outcome of the election.

The Guardian’s Hannah Jane Parkinson wrote a piece titled, “Click and elect: how fake news helped Donald Trump win a real election.” But Parkinson offered no hard facts to back up her claim other than noting that Facebook helped two million people register to vote.

Essentially, it’s just more Blamestorming from the people who nominated a horrible candidate. No need to reiterate just how bad she was or how bad her campaign was. Just remember, this was a candidate who fainted on video on 9/11 for all to see and had to be thrown into a van like a side of beef. Think that didn’t make an impact? This is a candidate who blew off actually traveling through swing states and talking to people, and they rewarded her by voting Trump, who did reach out and campaign in those places.

As originally reported by TheDC, the data actually shows that “fake news” struggles to actually reach — much less convince — any kind of audience.

So, where’s the evidence? Much like global warming and so many other things, Leftists do not have it. Just feelings.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Good News: UK To “Likely” Experience Hotcoldwetdry Flooding Every Year

By William Teach December 26, 2016 – 5:01 pm

Weasel words and cop outs and more prognostications from the Cult of Climastrology. Which “likely” means a prolonged drought for the U.K.

Major flooding in UK now likely every year, warns lead climate adviser

Major flooding in the UK is now likely to happen every year but ministers still have no coherent long-term plan to deal with it, the government’s leading adviser on the impacts of climate change has warned.

Boxing Day in 2015 saw severe floods sweep Lancashire and Yorkshire, just weeks after Storm Desmond swamped Cumbria and parts of Scotland and Wales. The flooding, which caused billions of pounds of damage, led to the government publishing a review in September which anticipates 20-30% more extreme rainfall than before.

But Prof John Krebs, who leads the work on adapting to global warming for the government’s official advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), told the Guardian: “We are still a long way from where we need to be, in that there is still not a coherent long-term view.”

Here’s an idea: instead of wasting money on silly spreading awareness, failed computer models, shrill prognostications and such, why not deal with the fact that climate and weather have always changed? They spend all their time Blamestorming mankind, when the same things have happened repeatedly, and will continue to happen regardless, because Nature Happens.

Increased flooding is the biggest impact of climate change for the UK, but the CCC has also warned that the nation is poorly prepared for deadly annual heatwaves, water shortages and difficulties in producing food. However, Krebs, who is stepping down from his CCC role after eight years in January, said: “There is still hope this country will make the progress it needs to make.”

So, it’ll cause everything. Everybody Panic! Or laugh, because these people are as nutty as Scientologists (and, no, I don’t care if I piss any off. Long story, not mine, someone I know).

But he said: “We shouldn’t be complacent because those dissenting voices are well-organised, funded and persistent. One has to be strong in the message that the risks are so great that taking out insurance [by acting] now is well worth it.”

Instead of messaging, why not try walking the talk?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 26, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is sand driven way inland due to sea rise and extreme storms, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Datechguy’s Blog, with a post on 7 political lessons for Conservatives in 2017.

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Jesus Would Totally Want The U.S. To Let Those “Syrian” Refugees In

By William Teach December 26, 2016 – 10:31 am

That’s right, the Washington Post Editorial Board used the occassion of Christmas to push immigration from war torn nations replete with radical Islam

Some lessons from Jesus, for all of us

FOR SOME years now, around Christmastime, there has been a pseudo-controversy going on — promoted if not wholly created by various talky people on radio and TV — about a “war on Christmas,” seen as a concerted effort by the disciples of secularism to eliminate or ignore religious elements of the holiday. Now, with a new administration coming to power, the war apparently has been won — by the righteous. “You can say again, ‘merry Christmas’ because Donald Trump is now the president,” proclaimed Corey Lewandowski, a former aide to President-elect Trump, who has himself voiced similar sentiments.

Yes, they also use their Christmas editorial to go down this route.

And much of the message in the Gospels does have such appeal. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, a product of centuries of Jewish thought and debate over the deepest questions of life. He is revered as a prophet by Muslims, and his teachings are respected and honored by millions who do not accept the idea of his divinity in any way. But these teachings are also often honored in the breach. This Christmas might be a good time to give a thought to passages such as these from the Book of Matthew:

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth, . . . . Blessed are the merciful . . . the pure of heart . . . the peacemakers.” Even more timely, perhaps, are these words of Jesus:

The EB then jumps into Matthew 25:35, which includes “ ‘I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’” Leading to

A few hundred miles north of little Bethlehem was the great ancient trading center of Aleppo, like Bethlehem a part of the Roman Empire at the time of Jesus’ birth. Today much of the city is in ruins, thousands of its inhabitants murdered, maimed, dispersed to any place that will take them and to some that will not. Few of these strangers are being welcomed by our own country — fewer than by our far less populous neighbor, Canada, whose people have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to aid and support them. Blessed indeed are they, for understanding that the true meaning of Christmas is more than a jolly greeting.

That’s interesting. So far, Team Obama has barely welcomed any Christians from Syria or the rest of the Middle East. But, this is what the WPEB pimps for their Christmas editorial, bringing in Muslims from war torn areas who aren’t really even checked, and end up being young, fighting aged men. I suggest that any that are brought over be placed in the neighborhoods of the members of the WPEB.

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States Will Lead On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach December 26, 2016 – 7:16 am

The Editorial Board of the NY Times is suddenly super enthused about this whole “federalism” thing, about States’ Rights and limiting the power of los federales. At least as it relates to Hotcoldwetdry

States Will Lead on Climate Change in the Trump Era

State governments will serve as an important bulwark against any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to roll back the progress the United States has made in addressing climate change. And that’s good news for the planet.

Over the last decade or so, most states have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable fuels. These trends should continue as clean energy costs continue to decline and, in some parts of the country, fall below the cost of dirtier fuels like coal.

Because they are utterly subsidized by government. Otherwise, wind and solar are too expensive. And they still require other energy to cover for them when they aren’t working.

Lots of complaints about what Trump might do, leading to

States could blunt much of that damage. Even now, many states will be able to meet the Clean Power Plan’s targets by following through on planned investments and increasing energy efficiency, according to M. J. Bradley and Associates, a research and consulting firm. Some populous states have set targets that are even more ambitious and appear to be on track to meet them.

Of course, energy costs and the cost of living are rising in those states. The government has more and more power of citizen’s lives.

States are also beginning to put a price on carbon emissions to increase the cost of older fuels and encourage cleaner sources of energy, which Congress has refused to do. California has a cap and trade system in which electric utilities, fuel distributors and other businesses have to buy emission permits through auctions or from one another. New York and eight other Eastern states have a similar program for power plants. And this month, Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington proposed a tax of $25 per metric ton on carbon emissions to increase education funding.

Most of those states are hemorrhaging citizens and jobs. All their costs are rising, from food to energy to clothes to what have you. And then the same idiots who vote for this want to escape and head to states that aren’t doing this.

Lawmakers, environmental groups and individuals who care about climate change ought to fight every effort to take the country backward on this issue. But it will be just as important for them to support states that are trying to advance the cause.

The interesting part is how the NY Times Editorial Board loves the notion that all these rules and regulations and laws be forced on everyone. They aren’t willing to practice what they preach without the heavy hand of Government. What’s the carbon footprint of publishing and delivering each paper copy of the Times?

But, if states want to do this, have at it. For the most part, it’ll be the cause of their own doom.

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Sore Loser Theater: Washington Post Pushes To End Electoral College

By William Teach December 26, 2016 – 6:55 am

They just can’t move on. Can’t let go. Though, let’s face it, the Washington Post’s EJ Dionne is a bit late to this pity party. On the other hand, Democrats will surely be whining about the Electoral College for years to come. If they can still whine about Al Gore losing to George Bush legally in Florida 2000, well, they can whine about Hillary losing the election fair and square for at least till the next election

The electoral college is the worst of both worlds. It’s time for it to go.

It’s important for those who favor the popular election of our presidents to separate their arguments for direct democracy from the outcome of a particular contest.

That’ll never happen, and doesn’t happen in Dionne’s piece.

My colleague George F. Will’s recent column in defense of the electoral college offers an excellent opportunity to make a case that has nothing to do with the election of Donald Trump.

After all, Will, admirably and eloquently, insisted that Trump was unworthy of nomination or election. So our disagreement relates entirely to his insistence that we should stick with an approach to choosing presidents that, twice in the past 16 years, overrode the wishes of Americans, as measured by the popular vote.

Will brushes aside these outcomes. “Two is 40 percent of five elections, which scandalizes only those who make a fetish of simpleminded majoritarianism.”

But when is a belief in majoritarian democracy a “fetish” or “simpleminded,” and when is it just a belief in democracy? The current system makes a fetish of majoritarianism (or, to coin an awkward but more accurate word, pluralitarianism) at the state level, but it’s held meaningless nationally. Who is fetishizing what?

Of course, we do not have “majoritarian democracy” when it comes to election the president, we have federalism majoritarian, which is rather supposed to apply to the Senate, except for the passage of the odious 17th Amendment. At the state level, Democrats are whining incessantly about what the GOP majorities are doing, particularly here in North Carolina. They have a big problem when the majority runs roughshod over the minority.

Part of the answer, of course, is that majoritarianism or pluralitarianism are not fetishes at all. They are how we run just about every other election in our country. If the people get to choose the state treasurer or the county recorder of deeds by popular vote, why should they be deprived of a direct say in who will occupy the country’s most important office?

You can see where this is going. Dionne either has no idea how the Constitution works, or is intentionally being obtuse. And these whines continue for a while till we end with

But the question of how a democratic republic should work is not a game. Will says that the electoral college has “evolved” since the 18th century. Well, yes, we now have the worst of both worlds: The electoral college is no longer the deliberative body envisioned by the founders, but it still thwarts the wishes of the majority. Will does not explain why only “political hypochondriacs” think that the winner of the most votes should prevail. In the absence of one, we should complete our evolution toward democracy and elect our presidents directly.

At the end of the day, this is just Sore Loser Symphony. Had Hillary won the Electoral College but Trump won the popular vote, achieving the majority of that extra from, say, Texas, people like EJ would be extolling the virtues of the EC, telling us how great it is, and how the system worked to give States their votes. If Trump won and Hillary hadn’t gotten all those extra votes out of California, Democrats would have a different meme to Complainstorm. It’s what they do.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup – Christmas 2016 Edition

By William Teach December 25, 2016 – 10:41 am

JR Thompson patriotic pinup

Happy Christmas Sunday! It is a gorgeous day to celebrate with friends and family. This pinup is by JR Thompson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Basil’s Blog is all about Christmas
  2. Political Clown Parade discusses no mice stirring
  3. Raised On Hoecakes notes silent nights
  4. The First Street Journal covers Christmas
  5. The Other McCain has a very McTrump Christmas
  6. This ain’t Hell… has the perfect stocking stuffers for liberals
  7. Proof Positive has a PC Christmas carol
  8. Neo Neocon has the Blogger’s night before Christmas
  9. Moonbattery has Prince Charles’ Islamist Christmas message
  10. Legal Insurrection has the ultimate Christmas flash mob video
  11. GeeeZ is all about Christmas
  12. Fausta’s Blog has a beautiful Christmas concert
  13. Evil Blogger Lady reminds us what happened on Christmas in 1776
  14. Bizzy Blog has Cloverton’s Christmas version of Hallelujah
  15. And last, but not least, Virtual Mirage has thoughts on Christmas

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. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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