Climate Weenies Want A Secretary Of Climate Change

By William Teach September 15, 2016 – 8:02 am

Alternate headline: people who use vast amounts of fossil fuels want issue that no one really cares about to be made cabinet level

(Daily Caller) National security insiders and environmentalists believe the next U.S. president must create a new cabinet position to confront so-called man made global warming.

An environmentalist think tank and former members of the military brass argued in a report Wednesday that future presidential administrations must tackle global warming by crafting a cabinet level position to deal with the effects climate change have on national security.

If you’re guessing that the majority of these military folks are hardcore lefties, you’d be correct.

The document, which also describes global warming as a “significant and direct” threat to the U.S. military, is the brainchild of Washington-based think tank Center for Climate and Security, as well as senior military officials including retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, former commander of the U.S. Central Command, and Admiral Samuel Locklear, the former head of the Pacific Command.

Let’s be honest and clear: climatic changes do represent problems for the military. They always have. Think of the cold weather of the Little Ice Age during the Revolutionary War. All the various climates that soldiers fought in during WWII. The cold and hot of Korea. The hot, sticky jungles of Vietnam. It all boils down to the question, though, of causation. These weenies say mankind is mostly/solely responsible for this warm period. Yet, few will give up their own big carbon footprints, and most want initiatives that increase the size, power, and scope of the federal government to increase. More taxation, more restrictions on liberty, more and more control of energy and the economy. More control of your lives.

Why does every “solution” from the Cult of Climastrology revolve around bigger, more powerful government? Answer that question, and you understand the whole ‘climate change’ push.

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Powell Email Hack: Hillary Can Barely Walk Stairs

By William Teach September 15, 2016 – 7:30 am

There are quite a few revelations from the email hack that hit Colin Powell, some ugly for Trump, some ugly for Hillary. Here’s an interesting one

(Mediaite) In a leaked email, Democratic megadonor Jeffrey Leeds said that a Democratic senator had told him Hillary Clinton had difficulty even climbing a podium when they did a joint event.

Leeds has donated large amounts to Democratic candidates and the Clinton Foundation over the years. In a 2015 email that was leaked after the hack of former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell‘s email account, he told Powell privately that one of Clinton’s former Senate colleagues was concerned about her health.

“[Democratic Rhode Island Senator] Sheldon Whitehouse, who is a huge Clinton supporter, said they were both giving speeches at the same event a few months back and she could barely climb the podium steps,” Leeds told Powell.

Interestingly, one of the leftist pundits on MSNBC responded to a question on her falling poll numbers by saying that her campaign was limping.

Powell also makes a comment about her not looking good on HDTV, and that she’s working herself to death. And, that she and Bill loathe Obama, who she always calls “that man.”

Rather puts that photo in a different light, wouldn’t you say?

Both Hillary and Trump released “medical records” Wednesday. Trump released the details of his most recent physical to Dr. Oz, for broadcast Thursday. It will supposedly say that he is overweight (shocking) and takes Statin for cholesterol. Several Democrats, such as Harry Reid and David Plouffe, are taking shots at Trump for being fat.

Hillary similarly released only the details of her most recent exam post-collapse.

Dr. Lisa Bardack said she examined Clinton several times this week following her pneumonia diagnosis on Friday and said “the remainder of her complete physical was normal.”

Bardack, Clinton’s personal doctor, said she found a “mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia.”

Then why was everyone in her campaign catching it?

The rest of the physical exam “was normal and she is in excellent mental condition,” Bardack said in a letter released to the press. The entire letter is posted below.

Um, she had pneumonia (supposedly): why would she to comment on her mental condition? Regardless, you can bet people (meaning “not the compliant press corps”) will be looking to get pictures of her stumbling and not able to walk stairs. Will it all matter? Well, Trump is rising in the polls and Hillary is falling. What will the next round of big polls be? The big ones will be the battleground states and those that Trump should carry.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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UN Recommends Long Fossil Fueled Flights For Mandatory Leaders Climate Meeting

By William Teach September 14, 2016 – 7:28 pm

Can you imagine a President Donald Trump being forced to attend this meeting?

(Climate Change News)  World leaders would be compelled to attend a UN climate summit every five years from 2020, under plans published by the Marshall Islands last week.

It wants a regular repeat of the 2014 New York summit convened by Ban Ki-moon, which saw US president Barack Obama lead fellow heads of state in committing to a new climate pact.

The tiny Pacific island nation’s government believes it’s the best way of guaranteeing the freshly minted Paris Agreement delivers on a goal to steadily raise the speed of global carbon cuts.

The Marshall Islands have 33 airports, 3 of which are military.

Interestingly, this document says that the “historic” Paris climate accord is a piece of worthless refuse

The nationally determined contributions (NDCs) put forward by more than 185 countries are to be welcomed. But even if fully implemented they could still lead to a catastrophic rise in global temperatures of almost 3ËšC by the end of the century. Clearly then the current crop of NDCs are woefully short of what is needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5ËšC. Achieving that goal is required to ensure the survival of our country and to stop runaway climate change throughout the world.

So, if it leads to a catastrophic rise, then what was the point?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 14, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea flooding because That Guy bought food shipped from the other side of the country, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on diagnostics.

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Bummer: We Might All Have To Go Gluten Free Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach September 14, 2016 – 10:16 am

And cut carbs, because you darned people refuse to give up driving fossil fueled vehicles

We May All Have to Cut Carbs Thanks to Climate Change
Rising global temperatures will harm wheat harvests—and poor countries will be hardest hit.

It seems that as the world’s temperature heats up, more of the world may be forced to go gluten-free.

Remember when climate change was commonly called “the greenhouse effect,” which seemed to suggest that at the very worst we might all end up living in a kind of perpetual summer surrounded by lush greenery? It would be a little humid, maybe, but might otherwise resemble a verdant, abundant, postindustrial Garden of Eden? Oh, those were the days.

On the contrary, climate experts and agricultural scientists have long warned that climate change will likely wreak havoc on the global food supply. A new study appears to offer some of the most convincing evidence to date on the serious effect global warming could have on one of the world’s most important crops, wheat.

If you’re thinking that this is just another in a long line of apocolyptic doom stories from the Cult of Climastrology, you’d be correct. Even when proven wrong, they keep banging the same drum, so, hence the reason they pimp future doom

More than 50 scientists based around the world—from China to the EU to the U.S.—participated in the research, the results of which were published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The team found that an increase of 1 degree Celsius in global temperature would cause worldwide wheat production to fall between 4 percent and almost 6.5 percent. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading international scientific body on the issue of global warming, predicts global temperature to rise between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

Got that? In the future. The article even mentions the record wheat crops

All told, worldwide wheat production hit nearly 735 million metric tons last year, a record high that the 2016–17 harvest is expected to surpass.

But, if the CoC is correct, then that will drop by a minimum of 30 million metric tons, and doom! All based on

But for the scientists involved, the study represented something of a breakthrough in that it employed three separate methods—two model simulations and a rigorous statistical analysis—all of which produced essentially the same results.

Interestingly, all their models in the past have been wrong. But, hey, this time they’re going to be correct, right? Right?

Doooooooom!

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Democrats Protected By Armed Security To Call For Gun Control Wednesday

By William Teach September 14, 2016 – 8:06 am

Americans aren’t particularly interested in having their 2nd Amendment Rights restricted, but Democrats have a burr in their bottom, and the only solution is to make America like Chicago: implementing massive restrictions on law abiding citizens, leaving them to be prey for those who are violent criminals

(Daily Caller) House Democrats are storming Twitter Wednesday in an effort to force GOP leadership to call a vote on gun control legislation.

The proposed action follows a 25-hour sit-in on the House floor in protest of Republicans opting not to bring a bill to the floor barring individuals on the federal no-fly list from purchasing guns – legislation critics feel undermines the right to due process.

Democratic members are being encouraged to partake in a “twitterstorm” at 12:30 p.m. The goal is to get House Speaker Paul Ryan to act on a bill that failed in the House Committee on Appropriations and Senate earlier this year, according to an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The article provides the pre-canned Tweets elected Democrats, who have taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution in full, can use.

Lawmakers were also given the early option to participate in floor speeches on the issue as part of the party’s Gun Violence Prevention Day of Action.

“During the debate on the rule, Members will line the aisle and ask unanimous consent (script available on the Floor). Photos of victims will be provided by Rep. Speier,” the email reads.

I wonder if any of them will mention the massive “gun violence” in cities run by Democrats, like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Newark, etc? Will they mention the large number of black people who are killing each other with guns in Democratic Party run cities? Or that terrorists have gotten their hands on guns in massive gun control areas like California? Probably not.

Some have started early

Here’s a suggestion: disarm all security for Democrats in the House and Senate. Restrict them and their aides from owning firearms. Disarm the Secret Service which protects Hillary, Obama, and Biden. If they think guns are so bad and dangerous, then they shouldn’t want guns protecting them. They shouldn’t want guns anywhere near them.

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Poll: People Aren’t Buying Hillary’s Pneumonia Excuse

By William Teach September 14, 2016 – 7:36 am

Hillary supporters haven’t been, for the most part, particularly concerned with Hillary Clinton’s health. They think it’s a big nothingburger, and, why can’t we talk about X (this is stage 6 of the 8 stages of Liberal discourse when they know they are busted)? Polling shows something different

(Daily Caller) Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis, and her campaign’s subsequent handling, is hurting her already waning polls numbers.

According to the latest poll, conducted by YouGov in partnership with the Times of London, only 45 percent of American voters believe the Clinton campaign’s explanation for why she suffered a “medical episode” at Sunday’s 9/11 memorial service in New York.

Furthermore, 46 percent of voters don’t think Clinton has pneumonia at all and is suffering from a different, undisclosed illness, while nine percent said they didn’t know what to believe.

People not believing what Team Hillary has trotted out? Color me shocked!

The poll also found that, while 38 percent of surveyed voters thought Republican nominee Donald Trump was healthy enough for office, only nine percent thought the same of Clinton.

Think on that one. Only 9 percent think she’s healthy enough for office. Sadly, the Times of London poll is behind a firewall, so, we cannot get a breakdown of the metrics. But, even going loony Slate let us know a few days ago that health matters to voters

A recent Rasmussen poll conducted last week before Clinton’s early exit from the 9/11 memorial service, for example, found that 86 percent of likely voters said that a candidate’s health was important to their vote, compared with only 12 percent who said that it was not. Those figures were generally consistent across party lines, too: 89 percent of self-identified Republicans, 85 percent of Democrats, and 85 percent of independents described a candidate’s health as important. Pollsters who have asked a similar question in recent elections found similar results.

Of course, the poll also showed that Democrats didn’t care about Hillary’s health. How will her collapse affect Democrats? They probably won’t vote Trump, but, they might vote 3rd party or just not vote for president.

Will her health matter? We have a bit under two months to find out. If she doesn’t get out on the trail and appear healthy, if she looks sickly and/or low energy during the debates, if she’s caught on video having another collapse or coughing fit, well, all bets are off. Let’s end with a quote from Jimmy Kimmel

“Hillary Clinton was supposed to be in California today… but she had to cancel the trip because of illness,” Kimmel said. “You probably know Hillary was coughing a lot in public last week and then yesterday she was forced to leave a 9/11 memorial because she was feeling faint. Turns out on Friday Clinton’s doctor had diagnosed her with pneumonia but they kept it secret until this happened and they were forced to admit it. You know, these conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health would be a lot harder to believe if they didn’t actually come true.”

Yeah, there’s a bit more to it, in which he’s trying to protect Hillary. Stage 5.

Hillary will be returning to the campaign trail Thursday. Which means more private fundraisers are the homes of rich people Liberals hate, and small, intimate speeches for tiny Clinton crowds. They’ll probably take away all smartphones and video recorders.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 13, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a mountain collapsed from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on Hillary’s new campaign logo.

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Surprise: Warmist Calls For Fewer Children To Avoid Climate Crisis

By William Teach September 13, 2016 – 10:30 am

Quite frankly, it would be nice if Warmists would have no children, which would make it harder for them to pass on their insanity to youth, hopefully starting with Travis N. Reider

Bioethicist: The climate crisis calls for fewer children

Earlier this summer, I found myself in the middle of a lively debate because of my work on climate change and the ethics of having children.

NPR correspondent Jennifer Ludden profiled some of my work in procreative ethics with an article entitled, “Should we be having kids in the age of climate change?,” which summarized my published views that we ought to consider adopting a “small family ethic” and even pursuing fertility reduction efforts in response to the threat from climate change. Although environmentalists for decades have worried about overpopulation for many good reasons, I suggest the fast-upcoming thresholds in climate change provide uniquely powerful reasons to consider taking real action to slow population growth.

Clearly, this idea struck a nerve: I was overwhelmed by the response in my personal email inbox as well as op-eds in other media outlets and over 70,000 shares on Facebook. I am gratified that so many people took the time to read and reflect on the piece.

Having read and digested that discussion, I want to continue it by responding to some of the most vocal criticisms of my own work, which includes research on “population engineering” – the intentional manipulation of human population size and structure – I’ve done with my colleagues, Jake Earl and Colin Hickey.

Of course, if we don’t population engineer, we are totally doomed, as the rest of the article notes. And, since this is science, we’re treated to

How bad will things get?

Some comments – those claiming climate change is a hoax, devised by those who wish to control the world’s resources – are not worth responding to. Since 97 percent of all relevant experts cannot convince climate change skeptics of the basic scientific facts, then nothing I say will change their minds.

First, consensus is not science. Second, it’s cute how he adds “relevant”. You can figure out the meaning of that one.

Fortunately, we are shown what an unhappy family from carbon pollution looks like

If I had Leftist Cult of Climastrology parents, I’d probably unhappy, as well.

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NC GOP Spokesperson Hits NCAA Hard Over Relocating Championship Games

By William Teach September 13, 2016 – 7:16 am

So, the NCAA, which had no problem having tournament and championship games in places like Houston, which has a law against transgender bathrooms, and other places which use the time honored method of having separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers for males and females, did this

Based on the NCAA’s commitment to fairness and inclusion, the Association will relocate all seven previously awarded championship events from North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year. The NCAA Board of Governors made this decision because of the cumulative actions taken by the state concerning civil rights protections.

In its decision Monday, the Board of Governors emphasized that NCAA championships and events must promote an inclusive atmosphere for all college athletes, coaches, administrators and fans. Current North Carolina state laws make it challenging to guarantee that host communities can help deliver on that commitment if NCAA events remained in the state, the board said.

“Fairness is about more than the opportunity to participate in college sports, or even compete for championships,” said Mark Emmert, NCAA president. “We believe in providing a safe and respectful environment at our events and are committed to providing the best experience possible for college athletes, fans and everyone taking part in our championships.”

One of their complaints is over the gender confused in bathrooms. But, the yammering about “fairness and inclusion” is interesting, and let to this

(Daily Caller) In response, North Carolina GOP spokeswoman Kami Mueller released a defiant statement, obtained by local reporter Andrew Carter, arguing the NCAA’s position logically called for the abolition of all athletic distinctions between men and women.

“This is so absurd it’s almost comical,” Mueller said. “I genuinely look forward to the NCAA merging all men’s and women’s teams together as singular, unified, unisex teams. Under the NCAA’s logic, colleges should make cheerleaders and football players share bathrooms, showers and hotel rooms. This decision is an assault to female athletes across the nation. If you are unwilling to have women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, how do you have a women’s team?”

“I wish the NCAA was this concerned about the women who were raped at Baylor,” Mueller continued. “Perhaps the NCAA should stop with their political peacocking — and instead focus their energies on making sure our nation’s collegiate athletes are safe, both on and off the field.”

Andrew Carter, the reporter who released it, said he had to check to make sure it wasn’t a parody account, but, think on the NCAA release: does it not push to do exactly what Ms. Meuller is stating? How can you have inclusion if you aren’t allowing everyone to play in whatever sport they want and go in whatever bathroom, shower, and locker (BSL) room whenever they want regardless of sexual orientation?

On one hand, Leftists are screaming about this “rape culture” on college campuses (which are run mostly by Leftists and hotbeds of leftism, of course). On the other hand, they’re trying to force women to accept biological men in their BSLs.

It will be interesting to see where these events are held. Do they allow the gender confused in whatever BSL they want? Will male athletes be allowed in the women’s BSLs?

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