Team Trump Has Supposedly Told EPA To Remove ‘Climate Change’ Pages

By William Teach January 25, 2017 – 8:24 am

Another anonyously sourced article proclaiming that Team Trump has done something, and it totally means doom

Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted leadership to erase ex-President Barack Obama’s climate change initiatives.

The employees were notified by EPA officials on Tuesday that the administration had instructed EPA’s communications team to remove the website’s climate change page, which contains links to scientific global warming research, as well as detailed data on emissions. The page could go down as early as Wednesday, the sources said.

“If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear,” one of the EPA staffers told Reuters, who added some employees were scrambling to save some of the information housed on the website, or convince the Trump administration to preserve parts of it.

The sources asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Well, at least the main EPA page for Hotcoldwetdry is still standing. If they have ordered the page removed, none of the years of work goes away. Someone still has it. These fragile Snowflakes are confusing a website with actual data.

As Ronald Bailey notes

If Reuters’ sources are accurate, it’s pretty clear that the haste with which Trump and his minions are acting is meant to send a strong signal to the permanent bureaucracy that there’s a new sheriff in town. Presumably the actual data on things such as sources and amounts of greenhouse gases are not being erased and access to them will be restored quickly. It will be interesting to see how “alternative” the new Trump administration’s EPA climate change webpages will turn out to be.

Guess what? Trump won. He’s a climate change skeptic. That belief was wrapped around him winning. The Cult of Climastrology lost. Now’s the time to show that you really believe what you peddle by changing your own lives to match your rhetoric. You won’t be getting all the federal funding for your completely politicized “science”. Perhaps your deep-pocketed buddies like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Steyer can hook you up with some funding. Barring that, practice what you preach.

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Trump’s Supposed To Order Border Wall And Temporarily Curtail Refugees Today

By William Teach January 25, 2017 – 8:03 am

This is what Reuters and the NY Times are reporting. Will he? It’s all based on supposition, reading a Trump tweet, and anonymous sources

Trump to Order Mexican Border Wall and Curtail Immigration

President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from “terror prone” nations from entering, at least temporarily.

The orders are among an array of national security directives Mr. Trump is considering issuing in the coming days, according to people who have seen the orders. They include reviewing whether to resume the once-secret “black site” detention program; keep open the prison at Guantánamo Bay; and designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. (snip)

“Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night. “Among many other things, we will build the wall!”

Mr. Trump will sign the executive order for the wall during an appearance at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, as Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray, arrives in Washington to prepare for the visit of President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico. Mr. Peña Nieto will be among the first foreign leaders to meet the new president at the end of the month.

Some Trumpites are having a fit that Trump is softening on deferred immigration, DACA, the Dreamers, which allows those young people brought into the country by their parents to stay. On one hand, the United States is a generous nation, and perhaps there is some accommodation that can be made, such as requiring they speak and write English, no criminal prosecution in their past, and the individual Dreamers eating some humble pie and not demanding that the US give them Stuff, like citizenship. Make them permanent legal residents, with the ability to gain citizenship after a period of time, say 10-20 years, where they pay a fine. Or serve a stint in the military.

The problem with DACA is that the squishes say “yes, their parents were bad, but, let’s not punish the kids. Oh, and since we’re not punishing the kids, we shouldn’t deport the parents who did wrong. And, they need the rest of their family. Just the grandparents. Oh, and we can’t separate them from their aunts, uncles, cousins.” This entices people to come illegally. DACA should be put through Congress, give the Dreamers a break, and make it explicit that any caught from this time forward will be immediately deported.

The refugee policy under consideration would halt admissions from Syria and suspend it from other majority-Muslim nations until the administration can study how to properly vet them. This would pave the way for the administration to slash the number of displaced people who can be resettled on American soil, and would effectively bar the entry of people from Muslim countries — including Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Syria — at least for some time. (snip)

The expected actions drew strong criticism from immigrant advocates and human rights groups, which called them discriminatory moves that rejected the American tradition of welcoming immigrants of all backgrounds.

“To think that Trump’s first 100 days are going to be marked by this very shameful shutting of our doors to everybody who is seeking refuge in this country is very concerning,” said Marielena Hincapié, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center. “Everything points to this being simply a backdoor Muslim ban.”

All we need to do is look towards Europe, and see what their acceptance of the “refugees” has wrought. Rapes, sexual assaults, crime, ruining towns, women who are told to dress differently so that the vast number of Muslim men do not harass them, and so forth. And there’s no telling how many of these “refugees” hold hardcore Islamic beliefs and are willing to act on them.

At the end of the day, Trump was elected on these policies. Hillary’s ideas of expanding Islamist resettlement in the US and blowing off illegal immigration lost.

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The Raiders Wanting To Leave Oakland Is Totally Related To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 24, 2017 – 5:47 pm

Why are the Oakland Raiders attempting to leave and head to Las Vegas? It used to be that “if you ask why, the answer is money.” Now? According to the Cult of Climastrology, the answer is now ‘climate change’, because everything must be linked

The Raiders Leaving Oakland Is A Case Of Literal Survival

Another week, another NFL team moving. Unlike the Chargers going from San Diego to Los Angeles, though, the Raiders’ departure from Oakland to Las Vegas is well thought out and a good idea for everyone involved.

This week brought the inauguration of Donald Trump as president, which may seem to have little to do with the future of football other than the notion of bread and circuses. Remember, though, that Trump is a climate change denier. The policies he is likely to pursue while in office promise to do little to offset the problems caused by humans to the planet – in fact, it’s not unfair to believe things will get worse.

So, consider the Raiders. Their home stadium, the Oakland Coliseum, sits just across Interstate 880 from Airport Channel, which separates Oakland from Alameda’s Bay Farm Island. There’s a small waterway, Lion Creek, that cuts into the land off Airport Channel and runs along the north and east sides of the Coliseum’s parking lot.

According to the sea level rise maps made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a three-foot rise in sea level would put the northern parts of the parking lot underwater.

With a six-foot rise, the entire Coliseum complex gets wet.

The Raiders are just getting out while the getting out is good, and heading for the other side of the mountains, in Nevada, safe from the encroaching waters.

See, there’s a bit of a problem with this:

According to the actual data from NOAA, it will take 2,400 years for that 6 foot sea rise to happen. Looking at the San Francisco data, it would be just under 1,200 years. This is all provided that the world doesn’t jump back into a cool period, which would be typical in the Holocene era. Of course, what Warmists say is that sea rise is going to suddenly accelerate and bring doom. And to many other NFL teams, as well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 24, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is heat created snow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the week is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Chelsea Handler’s moonbattery towards Melania.

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Trump’s Press Secretary Is A Stalinist Or Something

By William Teach January 24, 2017 – 11:36 am

Usually, people in the Media Industrial Complex (MIC) go with fascist or some sort of Nazi/Hitler reference. This is a new one by Excitable Richard Cohen at the Washington Post

Sean Spicer’s Stalinist apparition

Sean Spicer is the appropriate face of the new Trump administration. He is the White House press secretary, the spokesman and all of that, and he came into the briefing room on Saturday wearing the blank expression of Laurence Harvey after turning over the queen of diamonds in “The Manchurian Candidate.” You’ve heard of a molotov cocktail. Spicer was wearing a molotov face.

Vyacheslav Molotov was Joseph Stalin’s foreign minister. He was so scared of Stalin that when the Soviet dictator ordered Molotov’s wife exiled to Siberia and called for a vote by the leadership on the issue, Molotov abstained. In his dealing with foreign governments, Molotov never strayed from Stalin’s line, no matter how unreasonable. When confronted with facts, logic or the truth, he might break into a sweat. Usually, though, he just looked like Spicer. (snip)

Trump is a human dust devil, spinning off analogies and references. He is Orwellian, Kafkaesque and always chillingly demagogic. He vilifies the press as Hitler and others once vilified Jews — mysterious, powerful, deceitful, unpatriotic. He looks to his schoolboy past for an American future — a tall country in a world otherwise flattened by World War II — and he blames the relative decline not on automation or the inevitable rise of China, but on the indifference and selfishness of the establishment. Like a sleepy child in a creaking house, he imagines boogeymen everywhere.

Whoops, there’s the Hitler reference!

Finally, we have the Stalinist apparition of Sean Spicer, running through his several paragraphs of deceit Saturday like a hostage fearing for his life — or Molotov remembering that his wife, whom he adored, was in Stalin’s gulag. What does a press secretary have but his own credibility? Richard Nixon over time shredded Ronald Ziegler of his, but Nixon’s lies were for a time unprovable. Not so Trump’s. He stood before the wall of the fallen and said his differences with the CIA were concocted by the media. He lied about that, then lied about the turnout for his inaugural address, and then shoved Spicer out into the briefing room to lie about the lies. Trump wants to destroy his enemies. First, though, he’ll destroy his friends.

Good grief. Will the MIC folks be able to keep their apoplexy going strong for the next 4 years? Will they ever realize that Trump beat them like a rented mule, and that their credibility is gone? And that Trump is not your standard Republican, and will not be cowed by the MIC like most elected Republican officials? That he will fight back on a constant basis? Probably not.

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Bummer: California’s Cap And Trade System May Be Unconstitutional

By William Teach January 24, 2017 – 7:57 am

It must have been extremely painful for the LA Times to write this, considering their years long support of Hotcoldwetdry initiatives

The immediate threat to California’s climate-change fight isn’t Trump, it’s this

With President Trump in the Oval Office, California officials are bracing for the possibility that the new administration will undermine the state’s landmark policies on climate change. But the more immediate threat isn’t coming from Washington; it lies in a lawsuit that has been slowly winding its way through state courts.

The 4-year-old legal challenge pursued by the California Chamber of Commerce and a collection of business interests argues that the cap-and-trade program represents an unconstitutional tax. The system, intended to create a financial incentive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, requires companies to purchase permits to pollute.

For Gov. Jerry Brown and the environmental community, the lawsuit has been a ticking time bomb that could eliminate a key source of revenue and undermine a program touted as an international model for fighting global warming.

Eventually, they get around to explaining why

Opponents disagree, noting that the state is collecting revenue through a program that wasn’t created with a two-thirds vote in both houses of the Legislature, the threshold needed to approve taxes.

“What they’re doing is simply outside the law,” said Loren Kaye, president of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education, a think tank affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce.

Law shmaw, they have Warmism to accomplish! Doesn’t matter that this kind of thing hurts the poor and middle classes, and that the people pushing this the most use more than their fair share of fossil fuels and have bigger carbon footprints. Everyone Else must comply.

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Everybody Panic: Trump Has More Power To Quarantine People!

By William Teach January 24, 2017 – 7:52 am

Today’s prognostication of doom has brought the Surrender Monkey back, as the NY Times’ Kyle Edwards, Wendy Parment, and Scott Burris hyperventilate

Why the C.D.C.’s Power to Quarantine Should Worry Us
The administration of Donald J. Trump has even more authority to detain people than the Obama administration had during the Ebola crisis.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new regulations this month that give it broad authority to quarantine Americans. The rules outline for the first time how the federal government can restrict interstate travel during a health crisis, and they establish in-house oversight of whether someone should be detained, without providing a clear and direct path to challenge a quarantine order in federal court.

Notice how the Three Snowflakes fail to mention that these regulations were passed during Obama’s time in office. Remember when the media was quick to trot the meme of “inherited problems”? If these three NY Times Snowflakes are so concerned, perhaps they should have had that concern when Team Obama was passing regulations willy nilly over the past 8 years. But, hey, now

State and local authorities had previously been the ones to usually deal with issues like this during epidemics. Now the administration of Donald J. Trump has even more authority to detain people than the Obama administration had during the Ebola crisis. It’s imperative that whenever the next outbreak hits, emergency health measures are grounded in scientific evidence and guided by clear, fair rules to protect people from wrongful deprivation of their liberties.

The Three Snowflakes mention two incidents: first, when Governor Chris Christie detained a nurse, Kaci Hickox, who had returned from Ebola ravaged Sierra Leone. You know who Christie was trying to protect? The general public, since Hickox loved going out in public with lots of people around, rather than staying at home. Perhaps Christie went too far. Then imagine had she spread Ebola around, and how the media would have destroyed not Hickox, but Christie.

Also mentioned was a bubonic plague outbreak. In 1900. When the Democrats in charge quarantined all the Chinese in San Francisco’s Chinatown. To which the Three Snowflakes write

Given this history, we want to ensure that federal officials applying the new regulations will act on the basis of science and evidence and not on politics and public fear.

1900.

Remember, though, this is all about Trump Derangement Syndrome, so

During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Mr. Trump tweeted, contrary to the judgment of Ebola experts, that West Africans and American health care workers returning from “Ebola-infected countries” should be barred from entering the United States. During his campaign, he said that Mexican immigrants bring “tremendous infectious disease” across the border, which is a lie. Given this history, we cannot dismiss the possibility that his administration would respond to an epidemic (real or feared) in a way that is sensational, discriminatory or ignorant of science.

First, 77% of citizens agreed with a travel ban. That was a rise in a week from 6 in 10. Because Ebola is rather scary.

As far as bringing infectious disease across the border? Trump may have overstated it, but, in fact, many illegals, not even necessarily Mexicans, but those sneaking across from other nations, are bringing disease. But, hey, this is about TDS, and scaremongering what Trump may possibly maybe could we feel it could happen. Doomsaying prognostication, which is what passes for journalism these days.

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Hotcoldwetdry Could Increase Lake Effect Snow

By William Teach January 23, 2017 – 9:28 pm

It’s always something with these pseudo-religionists

Climate Change Could Bring More Lake-Effect Snow – For a Few Decades

Lake-effect snow occurs every winter downwind of the Great Lakes and several other large bodies of water, as long as the necessary conditions are met: cold air crossing over a relatively warmer lake surface, which picks up moisture to condense into clouds and dumps heavy snow downwind of the lakes. But as the Earth’s climate changes, how much longer will these ingredients continue to come together? (snip)

If our planet’s temperatures are getting warmer, surely that must mean there will be less lake-effect snow in the future. If the air isn’t cold, how are we going to get lake-effect snow to form?

Actually, it’s the opposite, according to a recent study by NOAA’s Tom Di Liberto. The study suggests there will actually be more lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes snowbelts, at least for a while.

Lake-effect snow is directly related to how warm and ice-free the lakes are, as well as the difference between the lake temperatures and the temperature of the air blowing over them.

Ok.

There is one hiccup in the hypothesis of a warmer climate leading to increased lake-effect snow, said Di Liberto: “The cold air that flows over the lakes will also be getting warmer over time, which would favor less lake-effect snow. It’s like an epic game of climate change tug-of-war.”

So, eventual doom for lake effect snows, which, apparently, will increase up till 2050 (they love that year), and then fall off from climate change doom.

Regardless, Di Liberto said recent research has suggested lake-effect snow totals along Lake Superior and Lake Michigan have increased from 1927 to 2007. Previous research found increases for the entire Great Lakes region between 1931 and 2001.

Have you ever noticed that their “science” always supports their notions, and always ends in doom? And that mankind is always to blame?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 23, 2017 – 1:00 pm

….is an area flooded from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Strata-Sphere, with a post on Trump’s first executive order.

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ To Lead To More Pleasant UK Weather

By William Teach January 23, 2017 – 10:30 am

Which means doom, in case you didn’t know

(Daily Mail) Britain is in a climate change ‘sweet spot’ which could give us an extra fortnight of fine weather every year, researchers say

Britain is in a climate change ‘sweet spot’ which could mean an extra two weeks of fine weather every year, according to new research.

Days that are perfect for outdoor weddings, picnics or barbecues will increase due to an ‘overlooked benefit’ of global warming, say scientists.

The first analysis of its kind maps the winners and losers where climate change will affect the frequency of mild weather – when cricket, fishing, boating and hiking can also be best enjoyed.

You know, like happened during the Medieval Warm Period, and surely the previous Holocene warm periods. Or whatever they did for fun on warm days.

Britain and Northern Europe will gain as much as 10 to 15 days extra mild weather annually by the end of the 21st Century.

People living in the mid latitudes, which include much of the United States, as well as many mountainous areas around the world, will get more mild weather.

I’m not seeing the downside. People can get outside more, exercise (while looking at their smartphones), enjoy nature (while looking at their smartphones), just get fresh air (while looking at their smartphone).

Of course, the Warmists at Mother Jones can only see Dooooooom, which includes a sad looking dog sitting in a car while it rains

Picture the perfect picnic day: It’s neither too hot nor too cold, neither too humid nor too dry. The sun is shining, and there’s little chance of rain. For many of our outdoor activities, these are the days we care about and plan for. And yet, in the last few decades of climate research, scientists haven’t spent much time researching these “mild weather” days. (snip)

Ticking off a couple of days here and there doesn’t sound too bad when you’re planning for picnics or hikes. But, as Kapnick points out, mild weather days also affect critical economic activities, including construction, infrastructure projects, agriculture, and air and rail travel. Such shrinking and shifting of mild weather could lead to significant negative economic consequences, not to mention a threat to our global food supply. Even for the handful of regions around the world where mild weather is predicted to increase, there could be unexpected consequences. “People in sunny California know that just because you have sunny, lovely weather, mild weather, doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a good thing for your water resources,” says Kapnick.

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