If All You See…

By William Teach October 19, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a forest turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on ecoterrorists.

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Warmists Are Very Upset That ‘Climate Change’ Is Missing From The Debates

By William Teach October 19, 2016 – 10:30 am

Seriously, why wouldn’t Hillary and Trump debate a subject that continuously ranks last or next to last on the lists of American concerns?

(Guardian) Climate change has been the elephant in the room during the past two US presidential debates. Ignoring this issue would be more understandable if this metaphorical pachyderm wasn’t about to rampage the lives of Americans, causing upheaval on a scale not seen since the start of human civilization.

“I’ve been shocked at the lack of questions on climate change, it really is fiddling while the world burns,” said Kerry Emanuel, a leading climate scientist. “This is the great issue of our time and we are skirting around it. I’m just baffled by it.”

The great issue!!!!!! That no one really cares about. And so great that Warmists refuse to practice what they preach in their own lives.

(Boston Globe) Unless Wednesday’s presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace changes his mind, the three presidential debates will add up to four-and-a-half hours without one question from the moderators about climate change. That would be an utter embarrassment to the American political process, a fitting final demonstration of how gutter politics have ignored an issue that affects every person in the United States, and the world.

Instead, Wallace has chosen these topics: debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and the candidates’ fitness to be president. All of these are important, but climate change has massive tentacles in all of them, a critical area for candidates to demonstrate their fitness to occupy the White House.

Got that? ‘Climate change’ is everything!!!!!

(Pittsburgh Post Gazette) However, there is one crucially important issue that has not even been raised by the moderators. That is the question about what the candidates plan to do to deal with the changing climate. They need to be asked: “What is your plan to deal with climate change and how do you plan to convert to green energy?” This is a question that needs to be answered effectively to assure a reasonable future for our country and for our planet.

Donald Trump: “well, I plan to ban the use of trees to produce newspapers and require all news organizations that are Believers to only use solar and wind to power their Internet productions.” Now, that would be funny.

There are lots and lots of articles and opinion pieces scattered around in just the last 24 hours, all taking the same line while failing to provide any scientific evidence (note for Warmists: correlation is not causation) that the current warming is caused mostly or solely by Mankind. We’ll wrap up with the Huffington Post, which has three questions that should be asked, pre-ordaining that Hotcoldwetdry is real

Chris, please ask these three important questions:

First, super storms such as Hurricane Matthew or severe flooding and widespread wildfires in the western U.S. will almost certainly become stronger, more frequent, and more destructive as the climate change accelerates. What policies do you support to address current and future devastation to communities across the U.S. caused by climate change-enhanced weather emergencies?

Of course, the previous prognostications have failed to come to fruition, as it did not make U.S. landfall as a major hurricane, continuing the drought, the longest on record for the U.S.

Next, the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change recently reached the threshold to enter into force, well ahead of schedule. The Agreement, which the U.S. formally joined in September, requires that signatories collectively develop domestic programs to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that will stabilize global warming. How do you propose we achieve this international obligation?

The U.S. didn’t formally join it, since it wasn’t ratified by the U.S. Senate, as required by our Constitution. Obama joined it. Let him give up his own giant carbon footprint. If Trump wasn’t losing badly, he could simply cancel our involvement with a few words on a piece of paper.

Finally, according to estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, rising sea levels in the coming decades will have disastrous effects on low-lying coastal countries and small island states such as Bangladesh, Kiribati, and Tuvalu. What duty does the U.S. owe to vulnerable communities around the world already suffering from the effects of climate change, and those who will suffer greater destruction in the future?

None, because sea rise is entirely normal during the Holocene, it is not accelerating, and it is actually below what should be seen during a Holocence warm period. And why is everything in the future? Why does each prognostication of doom fail to materialize, forcing Warmists to come up with new prognostications of future doom? Could it be that their models are wrong? Could it be that this is simply a political movement, not a scientific one? Of course it is a political movement.

Warmists had their shot to ask questions during the previous debates, run by hardcore Believers. They’ve mostly ignored the issue during the previous election cycles. Why? Because no one really cares.

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Woman Who’s Life Is A Fraud Says Republicans Created The “Rigged Election” Myth

By William Teach October 19, 2016 – 8:14 am

This is cute. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who spent her life getting all sorts of perks by claiming to have Native American heritage falsely, now has a funny opinion piece in the Washington Post

Elizabeth Warren: Trump didn’t invent the ‘rigged election’ myth. Republicans did.

Cratering in the polls, besieged by sexual assault allegations and drowning in his own disgusting rhetoric, Donald Trump has been reduced to hollering that November’s election is “rigged” against him. His proof? It looks like he’s going to lose.

Senior Republican leaders are scrambling to distance themselves from this dangerous claim. But Trump’s argument didn’t spring from nowhere. It’s just one more symptom of a long-running effort by Republicans to delegitimize Democratic voters, appointees and leaders. For years, this disease has infected our politics. It cannot be cured until Republican leaders rethink their approach to modern politics.

For years, Republican leaders have pushed the lie that voter fraud is a huge issue. In such states as Kansas and North Carolina , and across the airwaves of right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Republican voters have been fed exaggerated and imagined stories about fraud. Interestingly, all that fraud seems to plague only urban neighborhoods, minority communities, college campuses and other places where large numbers of people might vote for Democrats. The purpose of this manufactured hysteria is obvious: to delegitimize Democratic voters and justify Republican efforts to suppress their votes.

Obviously, Fauxahontas goes on to complain about voter ID, further repeating the Democratic line that Black people are either too stupid or too incompetent to be able to acquire proper ID. The whines go on and on, while she conveniently forgets about the voter intimidation from the Democratic Party supporting New Black Panthers and Occupy Wall Street, among others. We have photos and video of the New Black Panthers standing with clubs in their hands, and Obama’s DOJ shut down the investigation.

She wraps up her whiny screed with

Democrats and Republicans disagree about a lot of issues. We both fight hard to win elections. But winning isn’t everything. Al Gore understood that when he stood down after the 2000 election. Now Republican leaders seem increasingly concerned that when Trump loses, he won’t follow that example. But Trump’s words and deeds are merely the latest — and loudest — examples in a long line of Republican tactics that are poisoning our political system.

Now that’s funny. Democrats have whined about Florida 2000 ever since as the election being stolen. Gore has whine about it. He didn’t stand down: he was forced to stand down by that pesky thing called The Law. Liberals have accused the Supreme Court of rigging that election.

This sent Democrats, in their utter Bush Derangement Syndrome, in apoplexy, and had them yammering on that they knew the 2004 election would be rigged. They went on and on about Diebold voting machines being rigged before the election, and they yammered on about them post election. Years later they were still saying that the election was rigged/stolen for a variety of reasons. They complained about it being rigged/stolen due to exit polls differing from actual vote counts. And it wasn’t just the same old liberal base nutters: you had people like Rep. Dennis Kucinich claiming the election was stolen/rigged. Jesse Jackson. And many others, including the loser, Senator John Kerry, who whined about it years later.

And Democrats continued on with their complaints for the 2006 midterms and 2008 elections.

Elizabeth Warren is simply repeating the Democrat talking points about election rigging, that Republicans are trying to suppress minority turnout and stuff, because, in Democrat World, minorities need to be treated like children who cannot do anything without the helpful hand of Big Daddy Government.

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Too Good To Check: National Enquirer Releases “Stunning Revelations” From Hillary’s Fixer

By William Teach October 19, 2016 – 7:47 am

As John Hinderaker notes, the National Enquirer was utterly correct when it came to John Edwards, his mistress, and his love child. And the national media had to be dragged kicking and screaming, doing their best Three Monkeys impression, to even mention the scandal when people started to notice that the story could be for real. Of course, really, how many other National Enquirer stories turn out to be true, beyond a tiny kernel in a big bucket of popcorn?

Hillary Fixer Breaks Ranks: I Arranged Sex Trysts For Her — With Men & WOMEN
Stunning revelations of Clinton bag man!

(Starts out with a story about how the fixer arranged for Hillary to slip out for a tryst with a woman, moving on to)

Hillary’s former bagman finally confessed to The ENQUIRER just how he helped her to cover up her affair with married lover VinceFoster, too!

The shadowy figure — who provided PROOF of his employment for the Clintons — also revealed 12 fixes he covered-up, including:

+ How Hillary secretly plotted to a counter-attack on Bill’s mistress Monica Lewinsky — via a document buried for two decades!

+ What crooked reporters were on the take from the Clinton camp!

+ How he covered up Bill’s seedy romp with hookers!

+ Which A-list celebrity had a secret affair with Bill during his presidency!

In the bombshell exposé, The ENQUIRER will reveal the fixer’s dossier of smoking gun proof, including 24-years of documents, notes, and journals.

Of course, to find this all out you have to purchase this edition.

Double of course, this will make zero difference, no matter how much the Drudge Report and Trumpistas push it. Everyone already knows the Clintons are sleazy. Everyone already knows that media reporters are covering for Hillary and Bill. No need to pay them. So, even if this was all true, it would mean nothing, except a way for Trump to bash back, and, with less than 20 days left to election day, it’s meaningless.

Let me ask, though: if this was about Trump, would the media take an interest in investigating?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Bummer: Climate Change Could Lead To Longer Patio Season

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 5:15 pm

Somehow, this is a Bad Thing

Climate change, economics could lead to longer patio season

Kingston’s sidewalk patios are set to close for the season at the end of October, but the city may soon allow them to remain open year-round.

Councillors voted unanimously on a motion instructing staff to review the current patio bylaw with an eye to extending the season.

The current bylaw gives patios a seven-month window to open on municipal property – from April 1 to October 31 – but councillors say that may be long enough. They cite climate change and economics as factors that need to be considered.

“While often we find big large strategies to invest in our downtown we also have to pay attention to the details like this to ensure that we have a healthy vibrant downtown,” said Coun. Richard Allen, who introduced the motion to a warm reception October 4.

In other words, they see extra revenue in the proposal, so are using ‘climate change’ as a rationale. Anyhow, what’s wrong with a longer patio season?

BTW, this is Kingston, Canada, located at the upper north east of Lake Ontario.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a field that has been flooded from extreme weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on the Pentagon issuing a transsexual handbook.

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Say, What’s The Conservative Christian Case For Climate Change Action?

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 10:18 am

Another day, another person attempting to give us the “moral” case for Believing in Hotcoldwetdry and Doing Something

The Conservative Christian Case for Climate Change Action

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Reagan told us that the phrase came from a Puritan leader, John Winthrop, who quoted Jesus as his boat was nearing the New World: “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.” In what has become a season of vastly different visions for American greatness, these words deserve reconsideration today.

Winthrop’s vision demanded a profound sense of moral duty and obligation. It’s time to heed this call and live up to our responsibilities, to move into a sustainable future for America’s kids and all God’s children. To do so, we need to reckon with the driving force of the U.S. economy for the past century: fossil fuels.

To be “pro-life” is to care deeply about the great moral challenge of climate change, as climate disruptions impact each child of God in every nation. No one is left out. Food and water scarcity are made worse across the developing world. Sea-level rise, increased asthma, and disease carrying insects across the U.S. are just a few of the other climate-related impacts.

Here’s the first problem: the writer, Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, fails to provide proof that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the current Holocene warm period. Without proof, there is no “moral” reason to take action. Of course, Hescox is part of groups that may have some conservative leanings, such as being pro-life, they also push leftist stuff, like ‘climate change’, social justice, are pro-illegal alien, some are pro-gay marriage, etc.

The good news is that overcoming climate change presents us with a tremendous opportunity to create a better world. In order to realize it, we must end the partisanship and dump the denial. The scientific debate about climate change is over. We might not know all the particulars about how quickly the oceans will rise, but the causation is clear. One only has to open a window to know that our environment has changed.

But, that provides no scientific proof of causation. If I look at my window and see the sun rising later and later and setting earlier and earlier, is that proof of anthropogenic climate change?

To overcome climate change and be that shining city on a hill, each of us must take responsibility for our energy use. Through public policies, we must act to price carbon and address the market’s failure to count all costs, and we must invest in research and development to create sustainable progress powered by ever-improving clean technology.

More government, more taxation, more control of people’s lives. How is that moral? Especially when Warmists cannot even prove their assertion of AGW?

Oh, and he’s apparently super thrilled with fascist Warmist Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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Woman Of The People: Hillary Treated Security Personnel So Poorly They Didn’t Want To Protect Her

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 7:54 am

It’s shocking that Hillary would ever mistreat the little people, isn’t it? We know she hates the phrase “everyday Americans”, because she most certainly hates everyday Americans. We know she mistreated the Secret Service when Bill was President, and that the White House staff lived in fear of her. She attempted to destroy the women who credibly accused her husband of sexual misconduct and rape. She mistreated the parents of those killed in Benghazi to their faces, and has called them liars. There are also lots of unvetted allegations, like supposedly wanting to ban military uniforms in the White House, to go with her constant hatred for the little people. And there’s this

(Daily Caller) Department of State security officers found then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton so unpleasant they refused to work on her security detail, a former agent claims in newly-released FBI documents.

The FBI Monday released 100 pages of documents relating to its investigation of Clinton’s private email server. The documents incorporate summaries of several interviews the FBI conducted, including one with a woman who served as an agent with the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) during Clinton’s time as secretary of state.

During her interview, the agent said Clinton treated agents rudely and with contempt, and was so unpleasant that senior agents typically avoided being on her security detail.

“[Redacted] explained that CLINTON’s treatment of DS agents on her protective detail was so contemptuous that many of them sought reassignment or employment elsewhere,” the interview summary says. “Prior to CLINTON’s tenure, being an agent on the Secretary of State’s protective detail was seen as an honor and privilege reserved for senior agents. However, by the end of CLINTON’s tenure, it was staffed largely with new agents because it was difficult to find senior agents willing to work for her.”

We also learn that Hillary usually broke diplomatic protocol, snubbing ambassadors to ride with her (Muslim brotherhood) aide Huma Abedin. This embarrassed them, and also made security more difficult. Hillary just doesn’t seem to like people, even her own supporters. Remember when she told her supporter to get to the back of the line? Apparently, that woman didn’t have the cash to donate to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary’s personal slush fund, so didn’t deserve proper treatment from Hillary. Maybe if security had donated, Hillary might have been nice.

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NY Times Suddenly Very Concerned Over People Complaining About Vote Rigging

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 7:29 am

The Editorial Board of the NY Times is in a snot over Trump’s constant comments about the election being rigged, which is being aped by his most ardent supporters, and use this as a means to attack all Republicans

Shameful Silence on Donald Trump’s Lies About Vote-Rigging

It may be too late for the Republican Party to save itself from the rolling disaster of Donald Trump, but the party’s top leaders still have the duty to speak out and help save the country from his reckless rhetoric. The most frightening example is Mr. Trump’s frenzied claim that the presidential election is being “rigged” against him — a claim he has ramped up as his chances of winning the presidency have gone down.

Instead of disavowing this absurdity outright, Republican leaders sit by in spineless silence. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, are the two most powerful Republicans in the country and should be willing to put the national interest above their own. Both know full well that there is no “rigging,” and yet between them they have managed one tepid response to Mr. Trump’s outrageous accusations: “Our democracy relies on confidence in election results,” Mr. Ryan’s spokeswoman said, “and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity.”

Interesting. Certainly, this who rigging thing is over-the-top and absurd. But, is it out of bounds? We know the Democratic Party primary was pretty much rigged for Hillary to a degree. We know that the general election is pretty much rigged from the 90% Democrat supporting media’s point of view, which happens every election cycle.

Other than that, though, how is this rigged? And why is it required for high end Republicans to squash Trump and the surrogates who yammer on about it being rigged, as further described in the article? We’re told that this is like “standing back while an arsonist pours gasoline all over your house, then expressing confidence that the fire department will get there in time.”

Say, where was the NY Times when Democrats were going ape over the supposed theft of the 2000 election? Liberals still say Bush stole the election. They, somewhat quieter, say Bush stole the 2004 election by rigging Ohio. Where was the NY Times EB when Democrats, including elected ones, were saying that Bush would cancel the 2004 and 2008 elections over some sort of manufactured incident. Where was the NY Times pre-elections when Democrats were complaining about the elections being rigged via Diebold voting machines and other things?

Fortunately, the NY Times EB is there to TELL us what is patriotic (you know, like condemning a war and smearing the US military personnel in the middle of a war zone)

So what should patriotic Republicans be telling the nation?

First, they must reject bogus claims of voter fraud, which has been shown time and again to be virtually nonexistent. That will take work, since the specter of fraud, inevitably tinged with racist overtones, has long been a rallying cry among Republicans. But never before has a major party’s presidential candidate openly encouraged this attack on the legitimacy of the electoral process. Mr. Trump does it almost daily. On Monday morning, he tweeted, “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before Election Day.” His claims are never backed up by any evidence, but they’re still working: Only about one-third of Trump supporters believe their vote will be counted accurately, in contrast with two-thirds of Hillary Clinton’s supporters, according to a Pew Research poll.

Interesting. On one hand, we’re told we need massive gun control in order to save one life. On the other, it’s fine if there is just a little bit of voter fraud. And if you don’t decry Trump’s rigging comments, you’re unpatriotic.

Second, top Republicans must reject the ridiculous notion that a national election can be “rigged.”

If that’s the case, then why have Democrats called for federal and United Nations observers during our elections? The NYTEB never had a problem with this.

Since part of what Trump means is that the media is rigging the election by taking a full stand for his opponent, why is the NY Times only condemning Trump and Republicans? They barely touch Hillary. If she had an R by her name, all the things she’s done would get her the Trump treatment.

Still, Trump needs to stop the rigging talk. It’s not helping him win. But, then, I’m not sure he wants to win. He was in Wisconsin Monday night. Why? He’s not going to win the state. It’s a waste of time. Except, he used the time to attack Paul Ryan. He’s essentially trying to burn the GOP down. And he’s attacking Republicans who do not support his rigging claims. He seems to spend more time attacking Republicans than attacking Hillary and Democrats.

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Warmists Rather Upset That Farmers Aren’t Buying Their World Ending Prognostications

By William Teach October 17, 2016 – 4:18 pm

People who find the weather very important pretty much every day for their income are smarter than the Progressive rubes pushing the ‘climate change’ narrative

Most Farmers Still Doubt They Have Anything To Do With Climate Change
Devastation from extreme weather events like Hurricane Matthew isn’t changing their minds, either.

(Lots of yammering about “extreme weather” events, like Hurricane Matthew, which have always happened but now doom us due to CO2 or something)

For his part, (North Carolina farmer Peyton) McDaniel doesn’t think climate change had anything to do with the devastation brought to his farm. His family has been farming its land since 1756 and has seen all sorts of weather across all those decades, he noted.

“I don’t think you can point to global warming or a manmade problem on this,” McDaniel added. “It’s more of a cyclical thing.”

The minimal amount of existing research on the topic shows that most farmers would probably agree with McDaniel, even though their industry is both uniquely vulnerable to extreme weather and a significant source of climate change-causing greenhouse gases.

How dare he actually hold a reasonable position! How dare he use history! It’s uncouth!

Many farmers would agree that weather patterns are changing and extreme weather is increasing, but most don’t think these have anything to do with human activities, according to Dr. J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., a sociology professor at Iowa State University.

“Farmers in general are taking extreme weather more seriously,” said Arbuckle, who has interviewed and polled farmers in the Corn Belt region on the issue. “But most of them are more in line with there maybe being a human cause, but probably some natural cause to it.”

Except, actual research shows there is no increase in “extreme weather”, or, as we used to call it, weather. No increase in drought, flood, tropical systems, tornadoes, etc. In fact, in many cases, these events have gone down. Regardless, the weather has always changed from year to year, and the long term trends create climate, which has always changed. There’s no need to subscribe to some mythical belief that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, and that the only way to solve it is to increase governmental control of everything, including our individual lives. Unless you have an ulterior motive.

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