Good News: Only 27% Of Democrats Want Climate Skeptics Prosecuted

By William Teach November 14, 2015 – 11:11 am

An interesting poll from Rasmussen

Global warming advocates are calling for the prosecution of groups who disagree with them, and New York State has taken it a step further by investigating Exxon Mobil for refusing to play ball with the popular scientific theory.

But 68% of Likely U.S. Voters oppose the government investigating and prosecuting scientists and others including major corporations who question global warming. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 17% favor such prosecutions. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Just over one-in-four Democrats (27%), however, favor prosecuting those who don’t agree with global warming. Only 11% of Republicans and 12% of voters not affiliated with either major party agree.

They all their little Fascist on. Anyway, 24% say the debate is over, with 63% saying it’s not. 13% are unsure, so, we can say that they believe the debate is not over, as well.

Among voters who believe scientists have made up their minds about global warming, one-in-four (24%) favor prosecuting those who question that theory, but 64% are opposed.

Unhinged.

Among voters who Strongly Approve of the job President Obama is doing, 29% favor prosecuting those who disagree with global warming. Eighty-one percent (81%) of those who Strongly Disapprove of the president’s job performance oppose such prosecutions.

Interestingly, these same people care as little as Obama does in regards to reducing their own carbon footprints, and walking the talk. But, then, that’s because this is about politics, and shutting down anyone that disagrees with them.

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Kerry: Paris Climate Agreement Will Totally Be Binding!

By William Teach November 14, 2015 – 8:11 am

Do not expect the Islamist attacks in Paris to stop the upcoming Conference On The Parties working vacation, which looks to increase government control over people, private entities, and economies, along with increased taxation solve the future doom from climate change. But, no worries, because the agreement will totally be sent to the US Senate for ratification. Oh, wait, it won’t

(Daily Caller) Secretary of State John Kerry walked back remarks that a future United Nations global warming treaty would not be legally binding. Now Kerry says a climate treaty would, in fact, be legally binding and not require Senate approval.

“Our position has not changed: the U.S. is pressing for an agreement that contains provisions both legally binding and non-legally binding,” the State Department told Politico regarding Kerry’s Thursday remarks.

Kerry told The Financial Times Thursday that a U.N. treaty to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions is “definitively not going to be a treaty.” At the same time, European officials were arguing the treaty would be legally binding — contradicting Kerry.

“The FT interview with Secretary Kerry may have been read to suggest that the U.S. supports a completely non-binding approach,” the State Department spokesperson said. “That is not the case and that is not Secretary Kerry’s position.”

Obama and Kerry are desperate to come up with some way to make any COP21 agreement legally binding without going through the Legislative branch, as required by the Constitution. They’re avoiding the word “treaty” at all costs. Every other country, especially the 3rd world nations who want all that sweet, sweet “climate cash”, want the targets and such to be legally binding.

What Obama plans is to make a U.N. treaty only politically binding, meaning countries are essentially making voluntary pledges to cut emissions. Somehow, the president also wants these commitments to be enforceable on an international level as well.

The other countries are calling this a treaty, a legally enforceable document. Of course, for all the hype and economy killing measures, not to mention the reduction of liberty and increases in the cost of living, what will we get?

This article investigates the temperature reduction impact of major climate policy proposals implemented by 2030, using the standard MAGICC climate model. Even optimistically assuming that promised emission cuts are maintained throughout the century, the impacts are generally small. The impact of the US Clean Power Plan (USCPP) is a reduction in temperature rise by 0.013°C by 2100. The full US promise for the COP21 climate conference in Paris, its so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) will reduce temperature rise by 0.031°C. The EU 20-20 policy has an impact of 0.026°C, the EU INDC 0.053°C, and China INDC 0.048°C. All climate policies by the US, China, the EU and the rest of the world, implemented from the early 2000s to 2030 and sustained through the century will likely reduce global temperature rise about 0.17°C in 2100(emphasis added). These impact estimates are robust to different calibrations of climate sensitivity, carbon cycling and different climate scenarios. Current climate policy promises will do little to stabilize the climate and their impact will be undetectable for many decades.

This is not about science, it’s not about “healing the planet”. It’s about political ideology and redistributing wealth, while restricting freedom and controlling people and economies.

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Paris Attacks: Syrian Passport Found On Homicide Bomber, ISIS Responsible

By William Teach November 14, 2015 – 7:38 am

By now you will surely have heard of the Islamic jihadi attacks in Paris Friday, something which several news outlets were praying would not be associated with the Islamist movement. Switching between MSNBC and CNN, they were desperate to avoid mentioning anything having to do with Islam. Guess what was found (well, you should know from the headline)

(Associated Press)Two French police officials say a Syrian passport was found on the body of one of the suicide bombers who targeted France’s national soccer stadium.

French President Francois Hollande said the Islamic State group orchestrated the attacks, and IS claimed responsibility.

The identities and nationalities of the attackers have not been released. At least 127 people were killed and about 200 wounded in the attacks.

The police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to be publicly named.

Perhaps Mr. Obama, and all the other Democrats who are pushing to bring in tons of Syrian “refugees”, which seem to be mostly young men, and very few women and children and the aged, to rethink that idea. Sadly, they won’t.

BTW, perhaps someone at the Miami Herald, which is one of the outlets running the AP timeline, could explain why in the heck they’d put the article in the entertainment/celebrities section.

Unsurprisingly, the leftist media are already looking to include “Islamophobia”

A community leader from Paris’ working-class suburbs says he fears a “tsunami of hatred” may await Muslims and residents of poor neighborhoods following the deadly terror attacks.

Nadir Kahia of the Banlieue Plus community association says its members are shocked and feel a sense of solidarity “but we know … some Muslims and poor neighborhoods” will be subjected to hate speech.

Kahia also called Saturday for unity of French people and efforts to calm tensions in a text message to The Associated Press.

Many governments throughout Europe have offered condolences and statements of support, many saying that this evil must be defeated. Many of them, including Italy, Czech Republic, and Spain have seriously heightened their security. And well they should, as these Syrian “refugees” are scattered throughout those nations, as well as other European nations.

(Fox News) Eight ISIS terrorists wielding AK-47s and wearing suicide belts carried out coordinated attacks at six sites around Paris Friday night, killing at least 127 people and wounding at least 180 others, France’s president said Saturday.

Speaking after an emergency security meeting to plan his government’s response, Francois Hollande declared three days of national mourning and raised France’s security to its highest level. He described Friday’s attacks, which produced the worst bloodshed in Paris since World War II, as an “act of war.” Hollande said ISIS was “a terrorist army … a jihadist army, against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet.”

Hollande also vowed that France “will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group” and promised his government would “act by all means anywhere, inside or outside the country.” France is already bombing ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq as part of the U.S.-led coalition, and has troops fighting extremists in Africa.

ISIS claimed responsibility an hour after Holland’s statement, so, it’s probably safe to assume that Hollande had some sort of intelligence that showed ISIS was responsible.

Let’s rethink this whole “bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States” idea. And certainly not accelerate it.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Say, Why Is Climate Change Not Like Being Mauled By A Lion?

By William Teach November 13, 2015 – 3:37 pm

It has something to do with ripples in a pool and the brain is a cosmos. This comes to us from Tim McHenry, who is the Director of Programs and Engagement at the Rubin Museum of Art

Why Is Climate Change Not Like Being Mauled by Wild Lions?

Whoopi Goldberg had a lot on her mind when she met the star of PBS’ “The Brain” at the Rubin Museum in New York City a few weeks ago. “What makes me me?” she demanded. Well, other folks make you you came the answer: “A lot of brain activity is in relation to other brains,” replied Dr. David Eagleman. This was one of 22 onstage conversations the Rubin is mounting this fall to explore the nature of Karma – the thing that almost everyone seems to think is either about retribution, what you come back as in your next life, or a nifty T-shirt slogan.

Ripples in a pool
You won’t find that sort of T-shirt at the Rubin shop; but head up the museum’s signature spiral staircase and you will find that every other work on its walls is from the Tibetan Himalayas, karma central. The simple translation from the Sanskrit of karma is ‘action’. Yet, to the Buddha, karma is not the linear ‘do good and good things come back to you’. Individual actions do not necessarily lead to a corresponding reward or punishment. Instead actions are more like a stone dropped in water–the ripples extend out 360 degrees. And the ripples created by other dropped stones in the same pool intersect in such a way as to create unfathomably complex and unanticipated patterns. A full awareness of these rich intersections, and how we are connected to and responsible for all past, present, and future events, that is karma.

Um, Ok? This leads into The brain is a cosmos, why don’t we care?, a Fear personified, ending with

Is there a Buddhist solution to the paralysis affecting most nations in confronting the perils of climate change? Yes: compassion. If you understand how everything is interconnected, you will not feel yourself as far removed from the circumstances of the near future. Compassion is action. Action is karma. A full circle. I guess it’s what goes around, comes around after all.

Nothing says “compassion” like doing all you can to restrict 3rd world people from using cheap, affordable, reliable energy methods that you yourself in the 1st world have benefited from, and which you won’t give up in your own life. Nothing says compassion like enabling more government dominance over people’s lives. Nothing says compassion like causing the cost of living for the poor and middle classes to skyrocket, all for a political issue for which you aren’t committed enough to make your own life carbon neutral.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 13, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is the massive need for new health care workers because carbon pollution will destroy our health, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Camp Of The Saints, with a post on the coming fear under a life of lies.

This was another challenge photo emailed to me.

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“Caution should be exercised when describing modern climate changes as unprecedented”

By William Teach November 13, 2015 – 10:40 am

The heck you say!

Rates of ancient climate change may be underestimated

The pace of past episodes of climate change is likely to have been underestimated, according to research carried out by scientists at the University of Aberdeen and Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) in Germany.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the research team demonstrate how geological archives do not capture the full variability ofclimate change likely to have occurred in ancient times. The result, they argue, is that maximum rates of climate change in Earth’s history are systematically underestimated.

Dr David Kemp from the University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences is the lead author of the study.

He explained: “Our work shows that rates of temperature change through Earth’s history scale with the timespan over which the changes are measured, meaning that the rates of recorded change are inevitably slower when measured over longer and longer time periods.

“When you look at geological changes in temperature, which can typically only be measured over thousands to tens of thousands of years, you inevitably don’t capture the detail and full variability of changes that we know from more modern records occur on much shorter timescales.”

Huh. Imagine that. Well, that’s nothing a bit of massaging to the data by Warmists won’t erase. Anyhow

He added: “While there is little doubt that the current rate of climate change is unusual and something that causes understandable concern, caution should be exercised when describing modern changes as unprecedented in the context of Earth’s history, since this doesn’t take into account the clear bias that complicates the assessment of ancient rates of climate change.”

There it is in a nutshell: are the minor changes to the climate unprecedented, unusual, strange, extreme, etc? Or are these tiny changes well within the bounds of normality? We don’t have the actual hard data to make these comparisons.

Of course, hard data, history, historical norms and so forth are meaningless to the Cult of Climastrology, as this is, at its very heart, a political movement, not a scientific one.

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Is The GOP Establishment Panicking Over Trump And Carson?

By William Teach November 13, 2015 – 7:14 am

That’s what the Washington Post is implying

Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win

Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.

Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands.

According to writers Phillip Rucker and Robert Cost, the anxiety has become so bad that

According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.

Of course, who are these Establishment folks and big donors who are panicking and thinking about drafting Romney? For the most part, we are never told. In fact, the closest it gets is one quick line at the end of the story (fable?) from George Voinovich, a retired GOP politician. Apparently, this whole hysteric article revolves around

Still, the party establishment’s greatest weapon — big money — is partly on the shelf. Kenneth G. Langone, a founder of Home Depot and a billionaire supporter of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, said he is troubled that many associates in the New York financial community have so far refused to invest in a campaign due to the race’s volatility.

It looks like they do not want to piss away their support money at this point, especially as they see Establishment guy Jeb Bush languishing away, just barely surviving. At the end of the day, though, this article is about attempting to show that the GOP is in massive turmoil, so everyone should just vote Democrat! Is there panic in the GOP Establishment? Probably. This is all what I call a “just wondering” type article from the Credentialed Media, designed to hurt the Republican Party. We’re told how much so many Establishment folks hate Trump, Carson, and Ted Cruz.

The one smart thing they put in there comes from S.C Governor Nikki Haley

“You have a lot of people who were told that if we got a majority in the House and a majority in the Senate, then life was gonna be great,” she said in an interview Thursday. “What you’re seeing is that people are angry. Where’s the change? Why aren’t there bills on the president’s desk every day for him to veto? They’re saying, ‘Look, what you said would happen didn’t happen, so we’re going to go with anyone who hasn’t been elected.’ ”

How’d it work out with John McCain? How about Mitt Romney (he was the best guy for the time in terms of his management and economic skill, IMO)? The Republican Base wants people who are going to fight for our political beliefs as elected Democrats do.

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John Kerry: ISIS Gravest Threat, Embodiment Of Evil

By William Teach November 13, 2015 – 6:53 am

Has he checked with himself and his boss regarding the threat level?

(Washington Post) Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Thursday called the Islamic State “the gravest extremist threat faced by our generation and the embodiment of evil in our time,” describing the group as combining “medieval and modern fascism” and comparing it to the enemies the United States faced in the last century’s world wars.

Well, it’s nice to have the threat recognized. Now, if only they’d acknowledge the true threat from all Islamists, especially those working quietly and without the violence to change Western society using our own laws, Constitutions, and mores against us.

Even as the diplomatic track continues, he said, the fight against the Islamic State has expanded. President Obama “over the last month . . . has directed every member of his national security team to pick up the pace and move forward with ideas for degrading and defeating Daesh more rapidly, more completely, and permanently.” (snip)

“The stakes could not be higher,” Kerry said. “We are on the right track, and we are making gains, and we are clear about the road ahead.”

Imagine what we could have done if someone had treated ISIS as the Varsity, rather than the JV.

Of course, there’s this

There’s plenty more like that from SoS Kerry. He’s also compared ‘climate change’ as being as big a threat as ISIS, Ebola, and other things.

Perhaps Mr. Kerry should have checked with Mr. Obama, who doesn’t seem to make any equivocation regarding ‘climate change’ being his #1 threat.

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What’s The Deal With Hockey Fights?

By William Teach November 12, 2015 – 4:24 pm

As you may or may not know, I am not a hockey fan: I am a Fanatic. The NHL has always been my #1 favorite sport, especially once the NJ Devils came into being. So, I found an interesting explanation regarding fights via Caveman Circus.

Why are fights between players allowed in the NHL when it is very strongly prohibited in just about every other sport?

It helps to remember that fights in hockey are 99% consensual. If you don’t want to fight you turn your back and that’s it. There are players that fight and players that don’t, and it’s not really a machismo/honor thing that you MUST fight. No one thinks less of you for not being a fighter.

If you jump someone who is NOT looking for a fight you are usually going to get tossed from the game and probably suspended for a few games to boot. It’s not OK to blind-side someone who is not likewise spoiling for a fight and generally speaking that is frowned upon.

So the minor penalties and general lack of punishment is only in the case of two people who have collaboratively decided to go at it, which is true for almost every fight you see. They are pre-arranged (often at the face-off) and mutually agreed. At that point, two consenting adults doing what they want, basically, and the refs leave it alone until someone is at risk of getting seriously hurt — usually once someone goes down and it’s no longer a standing fight, or if other people are getting involved, or if one person is effectively incapacitated, etc.

To some degree hockey is a self-regulated game. Refs are there for line calls, not necessarily behavior control. 10 people flying around a small ice surface at 40km/h with wooden sticks can REALLY hurt each other while the ref is looking the other way if they want to.

To avoid this, fighting is used as a pressure relief… all the pent up aggression you feel for the wrongs and slights done to your team goes into cheering for your guy in the fight. Afterward everyone chills out. This is generally true even if the two guys fighting aren’t the actual guys you were mad at. But the thing is, everyone on your team is going to be mad at someone different for some random thing that happened, so it’s not practical to expect everyone will “pay” individually.

This mostly works because most players aren’t assholes. If they do something to earn your ire it was probably by accident or a “one time” thing. It’s unlikely you’ll remember it for more than 5 minutes and unlikely that guy is going to specifically tick you off again. So the fight serves to release the cumulative pressure of all those little things, not necessarily any specific incident.

Where this fails is if there is just that one total dick on a team that is constantly cheap-shotting people or otherwise behaving in a douchey way not consistent with the overall tone of the game. Especially if that person keeps doing it even after a fight or two. At some point the other team is going to remember his number and a “generic fight” won’t fix the issue. That guy now has a target painted on his back and at some point — maybe not even that game but in a future game — someone is going to risk getting tossed from the game/suspended to teach that specific player a lesson.

Though usually half of that guy’s own team are just as happy to watch him get creamed because, honestly, he IS a dick. We’d never say it out loud of course, team solidarity, rah rah rah… but at some point people get what they deserve and everyone on both sides knows it.

Now, there are a couple other things to add. Sometimes guys fight simply to try and pump up their team when they’re down. Sometimes the other guy doesn’t “want to go”, because he doesn’t want to pump the other team up. Sometimes they go because both teams are flat. Sometimes guys just feel like fighting. Mostly, though, it is a pressure valve. In the other hockey leagues, there is no fighting, and, especially in European leagues, guys get a lot of injuries from slashes and other liberties, things that often do not get called. If someone is being wild with a stick in the NHL, it often starts with the other team’s enforcer warning the enforcer of the team with the guy slashing that something is going to go down if it doesn’t stop. The enforcer then tells the guy to chill. If he doesn’t a fight will happen. Sometimes, the enforcer for the slasher’s team may wash his hands of it all, and the slasher has to either fight or “turn turtle”. If you’re going to dish it out, you better be prepared to take it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 12, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful carbon friendly bike, which Everyone Else should be forced to use rather than fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on IT workers forced to train their foreign worker replacements.

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