Al Gore To Take Long Fossil Fueled Flight To China To Teach About ‘Climate Change’

Well, I assume he’ll be taking a long fossil fueled flight, most likely a private jet, as he likes to do. It’s pretty darned doubtful that he’ll take a low carbon sailing ship across the Pacific

(Daily Caller)  Al Gore’s Climate Change Project announced Wednesday that the former vice president help will train a group of community, government and business leaders in China to become global warming activists euphemistically called “Climate Reality Leaders.”

The Climate Reality Leadership Corps training event will be in Shenzhen, China and is scheduled for June 15-16. Gore will be joined at the event by a host of scientists, strategists, business leaders, communicators and technical specialists, all of whom will do their level-best to properly indoctrinate Chinese citizens about why so-called man-made global warming is dangerous.

Someone get Gore a Hypocrisy Offset.

 

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California Tries To Pass Anti-Free Speech Climate Change Bill

Do you know what would be funny as all get out? If all the fossil fuels companies, any companies associated with fossil fuels, and ever company run by a climate skeptic moved out of California. How would anyone get anywhere? Plus, the loss of all those jobs and revenue. Hit them where they hurt

(Washington Times) A landmark bill allowing for the prosecution of climate change dissent effectively died Thursday after the California Senate failed to take it up before the deadline.

Senate Bill 1161, or the California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016, would have authorized prosecutors to sue fossil fuel companies, think tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public on the risks of climate change.”

The measure, which cleared two Senate committees, provided a four-year window in the statute of limitations on violations of the state’s Unfair Competition Law, allowing legal action to be brought until Jan. 1 on charges of climate change “fraud” extending back indefinitely.

In Warmist World, fraud means any speech that they disagree with. But, interestingly, they get very upset when they are called fascists. Originally, the bill allowed suits going back 30 years, but, was then amended to go back indefinitely.

The bill, however, is probably not dead. It can be brought back up later in the year, and, being that the California general assembly is controlled by Democrats, it most likely will, with a few tiny changes to make it palatable in the Senate. If I had to guess, they’ll wait till after the November general election, to avoid the scrutiny that Democrats hate free speech and are fascists

Stephen Frank, editor of the conservative California Political Review, called the bill a “totalitarian statement by Democrats that the First Amendment is now dead.”

“Did you donate to the Pacific Legal Foundation? Do you support Americans for Prosperity? Are you a member of the California Republican Party, which has a platform approving of all forms of energy, including fossil fuel (oil)? Do you work for a gas station, an oil company, have you written a letter to the editor in favor of oil drilling?” Mr. Frank wrote in a May 31 post.

“If so, you could find yourself with being charged in a court of law, thanks to S.B. 1161,” he wrote.

The bill itself proclaims there is no legitimate disagreement on the cause of ‘climate change’, blaming it mostly on fossil fuels. I wonder if those in the California GA have given up their own use of fossil fuels? If not, perhaps the fossil fuels companies can help them out be shutting down operations in California.

Like I’ve noted, Warmists are increasing their use of Lawfare in order to force compliance while chilling constitutionally protected free speech. If they can prove fraud, go for it. Because skeptics can easily prove fraud in the so-called climate science.

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Activists Wear Orange To Protest Gun Violence Or Something

Much like with Earth Hour, leftist activists put on orange for the day (or just the protest) to complain about the high rates of gun violence in mostly Democratic Party run cities

(WTVD) A nationwide movement to end gun violence made its way to the Triangle Thursday.

A handful of state lawmakers stood alongside groups advocating for increased gun safety measures on National Gun Violence Awareness Day at the state legislative building.

Members of the group North Carolinians Against Gun Violence wore orange shirts and handed out orange ribbons in what has also become known as “Wear Orange Day.” The effort launched on June 2, 2015 when a group of classmates wore orange to honor their friend, Hadiya Pendleton.

Pendleton, a 15-year-old Chicago teen, was shot and killed in 2013. Her classmates started wearing orange because it’s the color hunters wear to protect themselves.

It’s probably not a good idea to maker yourself visible in uber-Democratic Party Chicago, where the gun control laws are numerous and burdensome, yet, has a high rate of shootings.

Sen. Floyd McKissick of Durham County says instances of gun violence at are an epidemic level. He criticized lawmakers for expanding the number of areas where “concealed handgun permit-holders” are allowed to carry.

“Why would you want to encourage [guns] on parks and in playgrounds?” McKissick questioned. “Why would we want to allow people at public universities to be able to carry these guns onto their grounds?”

Because, in the vast majority of cases, it is not concealed carry holders who are shooting people. Nor is those who legally passed a background check. And McKissick should worry about all the gun violence by people who obtained their guns illegally in Durham County, and especially in the city of Durham.

Grassroots NC responded

Each time we’ve expanded concealed carry – be it into parks, restaurants or educational property – gun control advocates have predicted horrific shootings. Each time, they have been wrong.

If those claiming to oppose “gun violence” really want to do so, they should join us in eliminating so-called “gun free” zones which actually attract criminals, sociopaths and terrorists who know they can kill with impunity.

Of course, it’s not just gun free zones, it’s people shooting each other all over the place in Democratic Party run cities. And, of course, these orange wearing Liberals say it is not political. Bringing concealed carry into the mix highlights that it is political. However, it is a rather nebulous movement, which, per their webpage, offers no actual policy prescriptions, other than stop gun violence, wear orange, common sense solutions, and take a selfie. And there are quite a few leftist/anti-gun groups involved.

Instead of disarming law abiding people, perhaps they should go after those who obtain guns illegally and implement serious penalties on them. Perhaps these activists should work more in the neighborhoods where violence in more prevalent, particularly in those Democratic Party run cities with massive gun control.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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NY Times: Say, People Are Just Barely Getting By In Obama’s Economy

Obviously, being the NY Times Editorial board, the word “Obama” fails to appear

In the United States, nearly one-third of adults, about 76 million people, are either “struggling to get by” or “just getting by,” according to the third annual survey of households by the Federal Reserve Board.

That finding, dismal though it is, represents a mild improvement in general well-being last year, compared with the two years before. The improvement, however, was clearly too little to raise Americans’ spirits: The new survey, which was conducted in late 2015 and released last week, also shows that optimism about the future has tempered.

Who’s been president these past 7+ years? Let’s be clear, when Bush was president, everything that went wrong economically was blamed on him. Yet, Obama is utterly spared from his policies that have led to the worst economic recovery post-recession since WWII. The wasted money from failed stimulus programs, obamacare, regulation after regulation, economic proposals, they have all helped to stymie economic growth.

Congress and other economic policy makers, as well as the presidential candidates, could also use the survey to get some insight into Americans’ real economic problems. Among them is deep insecurity. Nearly 70 percent of adults said they were “living comfortably” or “doing O.K.” — up a bit from previous years — but nearly half of all respondents said they could not cover an unexpected expense of $400, or could do so only by selling something or borrowing money.

Thanks, Obama and Democrat lawmakers. And these fools want more of the same our of Hillary or Bernie.

Over all, the survey depicts an economy in which many Americans face daily hardship, while even the college educated — the presumed winners in the economy — still face big obstacles. The findings argue for continued low interest rates; for government policies and federal spending to help create good jobs at good pay; for affordable education that starts at preschool, thus fostering college-ready students; and for a safety net that can withstand today’s potent economic forces.

By all means, let’s double down on the policies that have failed, while increasing the size and power of government.

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If All You See…

…is a wonderful low carbon sailboat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on an alphabet squad of weird genders.

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Warmists Pretty Upset That Less Fortunate Are Getting Air Conditioning

The Cult of Climastrology has long held a deep seated hatred for air conditioning, though few are willing to give it up themselves. They always expect it to be restricted for people in Third World Nations. It’s the typical liberal “do as I say, not as I do”. The Washington Post’s resident hyper-Warmist Chris Mooney, along with Brady Davis, continue their complaints, while exposing something interesting

The world is about to install 700 million air conditioners. Here’s what that means for the climate

As summer temperatures finally settle in, many in the United States take it for granted that they can dial down the thermostat: Americans use 5 percent of all of their electricity cooling homes and buildings. In many other countries, however — including countries in much hotter climates — air conditioning is still a relative rarity. But as these countries boom in wealth and population, and extend electricity to more people even as the climate warms, the projections are clear: They are going to install mind-boggling amounts of air conditioning, not just for comfort but as a health necessity.

That’s already happened in some places. In just 15 years, urban areas of China went from just a few percentage points of air conditioning penetration to exceeding 100 percent — “i.e. more than one room air conditioner (AC) per urban household,” according to a recent report on the global AC boom by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. And air conditioner sales are now increasing in India, Indonesia and Brazil by between 10 and 15 percent per year, the research noted. India, a nation of 1.25 billion people, had just 5 percent air conditioning penetration in the year 2011.

A study last year similarly found “a close relationship between household income and air conditioner adoption, with ownership increasing 2.7 percentage points per $1,000 of annual household income.” For Mexico in particular, it therefore projected a stupendous growth of air conditioning over the 21st century, from 13 percent of homes having it  to 71 to 81 percent of homes.

Growth of wealth. Awesome! We should be happy about this, right? Right?

In most ways, of course, this is a very good thing: Protecting people from intense heat — a town in India this month saw temperatures exceed 123 degrees Fahrenheit — is essential for their health and well-being. It’s just that it’s going to come with a huge energy demand, and potentially huge carbon emissions to boot.

How dare these people use energy! But, they have a solution

To try to address this problem, Moniz’s department is participating in the Advanced Cooling Challenge, which is to be launched Thursday in San Francisco at the 7th Clean Energy Ministerial, a global meeting of national energy policy leaders. The goal will be to find creative solutions to lessen the energy and climate impact of an unstoppable trend toward more global air conditioning — by making air conditioners much more energy efficient, and also less dependent on HFCs or hydrofluorocarbons as refrigerants, because these substances themselves act as an extremely powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Now, see, there is nothing wrong with looking towards more energy efficiency. Most companies that make cooling units look to do this, due to consumer demand. And, from an environmental standpoint, which doesn’t include ‘climate change’, looking for alternatives to HFCs is a good idea. However, what we’ve seen from these same Warmists are proposals to increase costs significantly, which would price the lower income folks in the country and around the world from being able to afford cooling. And heating. They’ve advocated for blocking the usage and sales of A/C, along with replacing the refrigerants with really, really expensive gases. Warmists care little about the people their policies harm. Yet, strangely, the same Warmists will not give up their own A/C.

That all said, the article is less bat guano insane than normal, and recommends more research and development. That would be a good thing, even for just saving energy, saving us all money. Of course, Warmists also want to dramatically increase the cost of energy, so….

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Woman Who Let World Read America’s Secrets To Portray Trump’s Foreign Policy Positions As Dangerous

Alternate headlines:

  • Woman who turned Libya into a hotbed of ISIS and radical Islam to protray….
  • Woman who left four Americans to die to portray…
  • Woman who called Bashar Assad a reformer to portray…
  • Woman who refused to support the Iranian Green uprising and the Arab Spring to portray…

Under Hillary, there were many international messes created thanks to the policies of the Obama administration and herself. Honduras, Haiti, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine are just a few of note. How’d that Russian “reset” work out? Relations are poor with Israel, Poland, and Britain, among others. Then there’s that horrific Iran deal, for which Hillary takes credit. Yet, Donald is the problem? The front page has the headline as “Clinton to Paint Trump as a Risk to World Order”, and I really enjoy the photo of Hillary in her Mao pantsuit within the article

Hillary Clinton to Portray Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Positions as Dangerous

Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a scorching assessment of Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy prescriptions on Thursday, casting her likely Republican rival as a threat to decades of bipartisan tenets of American diplomacy and declaring him unfit for the presidency.

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign aides said the speech, which she will deliver in San Diego, would be the start of a persistent assault to portray a potential Trump presidency as a dangerous proposition that would weaken American alliances and embolden enemies.

The argument will include specific criticism of comments Mr. Trump has made about rethinking the United States’s support of NATO; his proposal to allow Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons; his vow to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the United States; and his pledge to advance the use of torture and kill the families of suspected terrorists.

I’m not saying that Trump is necessarily wise or has thoughtful policies, but, a SCOAMF as Secretary of State like Clinton shouldn’t exactly be throwing stones. Heck, even uber-Leftist Salon thinks her foreign policy record is a disaster. And, isn’t being Secretary of State all about foreign policy?

But Mrs. Clinton will also invoke her experiences as secretary of state, including in 2011 when she supported President Obama’s decision to send Navy SEALs on a raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, to make the case that Mr. Trump does not have the temperament to make such decisions.

Supporting someone else’s policies is not an achievement. Just because you supported a sports team which won a championship doesn’t mean you were part of making it happen. Meanwhile, ISIS exploded on the scene under her watch, and Islamic terrorism spread exponentially.

While Mrs. Clinton must be cautious not to alienate liberal Democrats who oppose some of her hawkish foreign policy stances, her campaign says national security could be the catalyst that drives independents and wavering Republicans to support her this fall.

It might if she wasn’t a disaster on foreign policy. It might if she was going against a Republican (in the case of Trump, Republican should be in quotation marks) who was afraid to attack. Trump? He’ll lay into her with shot after shot after shot.

And in the article

In an interview Wednesday night, Mr. Trump criticized Mrs. Clinton’s early support for the Iraq war, which he said he opposed, and questioned her judgment in Libya. “Bernie Sanders said it and I’m going to use it all over the place because it’s true,” Mr. Trump said. “She is a woman who is ill-suited to be president because she has bad judgment.”

You can expect Trump to hit back hard, especially right after Hillary’s speech, and you can bet that the media will be salivating to cover it.

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ACLU Leader Resigns Over Gender Confused Policies

I’ve said and written many times that Liberals are super supportive of letting biological men who feel (or pretend) they are women into bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms with Other Peoples daughters, wives, and girlfriends. When it’s their own, well, things often change

(Life Site News) The African-American woman who leads a state chapter of the ACLU has resigned, citing her own daughters’ “frightened” reaction to biological males using the women’s restroom.

The organization’s increasing focus on legislating the transgender lobby’s concerns pushed Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, to tender her resignation.

“I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults, over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered,” she wrote.

“My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer,” she continued.

In a statement, she said that the ACLU has become “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights.”

And there it is: Progressivism/Liberalism so often breaks down when it is themselves as the recipients of the problems they themselves create (next time you meet a Bernie supporter, ask them how much money they have in their pocket, and to give you half). It’s certainly one thing when a transgender who actually looks the part, as in, you cannot tell that they are the opposite sex goes into the opposite biological bathroom, and no one notices. It’s quite another when you can easily tell. Which means the gentleman were just feeling it but not doing anything for real, or they were taking advantage of idiotic, dangerous Leftist policies.

And this was just a bathroom, where everyone goes into stalls. What of when women are exposed to them in changing rooms and showers? What of when they demand to be part of women’s groups, organizations, sports teams, etc? Will the Leftists welcome them with open arms, or whine that they aren’t actually women? Don’t forget, there’s a movement from leftists about “cultural appropriation” and beyond crazy feminism, which are not exactly exclusionary.

Dillard Smith has already started a new website, Finding Middle Ground, dedicated to creating a “safe space” to discuss the new, red-hot national issue.

“How can we ask these kinds of questions without being called a homophobe?” the video asks. “How do we prevent predators from preying on kids in bathrooms?”

The website features a young black girl standing near a swing set, clasping its chain as she shares her own feelings. “I don’t want him to be uncomfortable in the boy’s bathroom, either,” she said. “I don’t want them to be uncomfortable anywhere. But what about me, too?”

What about women? Like with the Islamist debate, Leftists are more than willing to throw them under the bus in favor of the gender confused. And, yes, of course Dillard Smith has been verbally assaulted and insulted,

A transgender activist, a biological male who goes by the name Cheryl Courtney-Evans, responded to the resignation by calling Dillard Smith “lazy,” “ill-educated,” and a “b–ch” who needs to sit down and “STFU.”

And therein lies a part of the problem: rather than wooing people, the gender confused and their supporters are on a rampage of forced compliance, which includes the typical insults.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Good News: 2012 Was Wrong Year, World To End June 3-4

If there’s something you really need to get done, better do it quick. And it would really suck to finally win the lottery, eh?

(Times Of India) As four years after the deadline for the end of the world (as set by the Mayan calendar) came and went without incident, scholars across the world have been trying to put their heads together to understand how the advanced knowledge of the Mayans had gone wrong.

Turns out, it hadn’t.

Modern day scholars were the ones who got the date wrong. A series of miscalculations led to the faulty date, which has now been revised to five days from today, June 3-4 this year!

There’s all sorts of addition going on, and the notion that the Mayan calendar didn’t account for leap years. So, quit your job, sow your oats, spend all your money, and just go wild.*

*I don’t really have to tell you not to do any of that, right?

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If All You See…

…is a wonderful low carbon sailboat sailing the rising seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day Common Cents, with a post on a serious golf hazard.

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