Bummer: Declining Support For A Tough Climate Deal

By William Teach November 29, 2015 – 4:29 pm

Perhaps the “spreading awareness” and scaremongering have backfired

From the link

Public support for a strong global deal on climate change has declined, according to a poll carried out in 20 countries.

Only four now have majorities in favour of their governments setting ambitious targets at a global conference in Paris.

In a similar poll before the Copenhagen meeting in 2009, eight countries had majorities favouring tough action.

The poll has been provided to the BBC by research group GlobeScan.

Just under half of all those surveyed viewed climate change as a “very serious” problem this year, compared with 63% in 2009. (snip)

Canada, France, Spain and the UK are the only four with majorities in favour of their governments taking a leading role.

Spain, Russia, and India (the report calls them stable, though it shows a 5 point increase), Turkey are the only countries which saw increases. Eight countries saw significant decreases. Even those they call “stable”, saw decreases (except for the aforementioned India).

The pollsters suggest that citizens globally are becoming more informed about climate change. They also found more than twice as many people today blame rising levels of carbon dioxide from human activities for extreme weather events as compared to a similar poll carried out in January 2000.

Interesting. Despite becoming “more informed”, most have lost some interest in Government Doing Something. As for informed, they aren’t if they think CO2 from humanity is causing extreme weather.

They really should do a poll on what steps Warmists are taking within their own lives, and whether they are willing to give up things like fossil fuels, prosperity, affordable energy, etc, due to their beliefs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 29, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…are greenery that will be decimated by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on Sunday feel good stories.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 29, 2015 – 9:29 am

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, birds are singing, the Redskins will be destroyed by 4pm. This pinup is by Ren Wicks, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15 (16 today)

  1. The Independent isn’t a blog, but, I find this photoshopping of ISIS as ducks to be hilarious.
  2. Ice Age Now has NOAA’s climate change fiction
  3. Blazing Cat Fur has another peaceful Muslim assaulting a 14 year old
  4. Bookworm Room notes the PP shooting revealing the Left’s double standards
  5. Creeping Sharia covers how integration of Syrians is going in Sweden
  6. Baldilocks (DaTechGuy) covers what the professional Black leftists are hiding
  7. Flopping Aces has Chris Matthews raising an excellent point, believe it or not
  8. Jammie Wearing Fools has a women freaking out over a Bible in her hotel room
  9. Jihad Watch notes a Muslim cleric’s views on women
  10. Just One Minute discusses the most transparent administration ever being not so much
  11. Legal Insurrection covers Obamacare premiums go up…everywhere
  12. Moonbattery notes moonbats going to counseling after seeing a Confederate flag
  13. Neo-necon offers up some interesting polling of Syrian refugees
  14. Protein Wisdom features a violent confrontation in Aussie land
  15. Raised On Hoecakes notes that universities are not day care
  16. And last, but not least, The Daley Gator notes Obama being a tragedy pimp

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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Climate Change Can Totally Be Obama’s Hallmark Or Something

By William Teach November 29, 2015 – 8:33 am

The big working vacation regarding ‘climate change’ in lovely lovers vacation spot of Paris will begin in just a few days, so, we can expect most of the compliant media (which uses vast amounts of energy and fossil fuels to gather and broadcast the “news”) to yammer on about climate change and how Things Must Happen Or We’re Doomed. Obama cheerleader the NY Times (which kills vast amounts of trees to disseminate their paper edition worldwide) says that Obama’s legacy is at stake, and, if he succeeds, this could be the most important environmental achievement ever!

Obama’s Legacy at Stake in Paris Talks on Climate Accord

At a joint news conference here Tuesday with President François Hollande of France, President Obama veered from his focus on the terrorist attacks in Paris to bring up the huge international gathering beginning in the French capital on Monday to hammer out a global response to climate change.

“What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children,” Mr. Obama said of the climate conference.

The segue brought mockery, even castigation, from the political right, but it was a reminder of the importance Mr. Obama places on climate change in shaping his legacy. During his 2012 re-election campaign, he barely mentioned global warming, but the issue has become a hallmark of his second term.

He also has the largest carbon footprint in the world, at roughly 40 megatons. He runs around the nation and the world on fossil fueled vehicles. He typically travels on a large jumbo jet, with a backup jumbo jet along for the ride, with several fossil fueled fighter jets for protection. He rides in a limo with poor fuel economy, with upwards of 20 fossil fueled vehicles for protection. Yes, the POTUS needs this. Yet, he very often takes all this on a cross country trip, which includes a short official appearance followed by multiple fundraisers and sometimes golf. If he was so worried, he could limit these trips. He could work to reduce his own footprint. He doesn’t.

And, yes, mockery and castigation for his foolish remark. ISIS doesn’t care. And including the climate change schtick shows how utterly out of touch Obama is.

And on Sunday night he arrives in Paris, hoping to make climate policy the signature environmental achievement of his, and perhaps any, presidency.

“He comes to Paris with a moral authority that no other president has had on the issue of climate change,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University who noted that Mr. Obama’s domestic climate efforts already stand alone in American history. “No other president has had a climate change policy. It makes him unique.”

First, no one else cared, nor cares, much about this unscientific issue. Second, Teddy Roosevelt creating the national park system? Richard Nixon enthusiastically signing the Environmental Protection Act? Both blow away joining some sort of climate policy, which Obama and John Kerry want to be structured as something that doesn’t have to be submitted to the US Senate, meaning it will be non-binding. Much like his idiotic Iran deal.

Moral authority? When stacked up against virtually every other issue, climate change comes in at the bottom, often dead last.

Yet during the 2012 campaign, advisers urged him not to talk about climate change. “It didn’t poll well,” said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist in 2008 and 2012.

The candidate cared about the issue, Mr. Axelrod said, but voters cared more about the economy. “He felt bridled in his ability to talk about it,” Mr. Axelrod said. “It was no secret to anyone that this was an issue of continuing and big concern to him. But the reality is that you can’t do anything about climate change if you lose an election.”

It still doesn’t, again, typically coming in last or next to last. And he’s failed miserably on the economy, to boot. His interference in Copenhagen in 2009 helped scuttle any deal. And another NY Times article admits that the so-called pledges won’t fix a darned thing. Not that they are meant to fight a real issue. And an editorial notes that

The conference will succeed if it fosters a sense in countries large and small that all must work to find a solution.

So, squishy feel good stuff along with spreading awareness. Of course, this also means lots and lots of redistributed money along with limitations on the US economy. When will Warmists live their lives like they expect Everyone Else to be forced to live theirs?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 28, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fuels gas pump allowing people to make long, planet killing trips to visit relatives, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Capitalism is Freedom, with a post on the 10 funniest jokes of all time.

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People Who Live Big Carbon Lives Call For Reduction In Other People’s Lives

By William Teach November 28, 2015 – 12:04 pm

I don’t know what we’d do without all the artists and musicians jetting around the world and using vast amounts of energy

(UK Guardian  ) Björk, David Bowie and a host of musicians, actors, artists, novelists and leading figures in the creative industries have called on negotiators at next week’s climate summit in Paris to reach a deal that staves off dangerous global warming.

The letter to the French foreign minister and the UN climate chief in charge of the talks is signed by a selection of A-listers from the British cultural scene, including actors Steve Coogan and Emma Thompson, musicians Damon Albarn and Guy Garvey, and writers Ian McEwan and Philip Pullman.

The creative industry’s letter to Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister who will be president of the talks, reads: “We are deeply concerned that our global economic and industrial systems are accelerating rates of extinction, desertification and soil depletion, degrading ecosystems, acidifying and littering our rivers and oceans, and resulting in a relentless rise in greenhouse gas emissions driving irreversible climate change.

“In short, we are overwhelming the planet’s life support systems.”

Interesting. They do realize that their lives and the way they make their money is, according to their talking points, evil, right? That they are exactly the people they are complaining about?

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Study Says Stopping Hotcoldwetdry Will Be Nearly Impossible Unless We Mostly Give Up Eating Meat

By William Teach November 28, 2015 – 8:19 am

Some say that it will be impossible to stop ‘climate change’ unless we have a big worldwide carbon tax. Others say we can’t stop it without a $100 billion slush fund to give to 3rd world sh*tholes, er, developing nations. Then there’s this one, written by Goji Berry, Chief Happiness Officer.

(One Green Planet)Although I love hoomans, the fact is that they’re not the most subtle creatures on the planet. They take up more space than anybody else and they dictate what the rest of us do. It seems like everything people do has a massive impact on the planet – I mean, there are billions and billions of them and they all mostly like and do the same things … so it kind of figures that all that adds up. One of the HUGEST things that all people do that impacts the planets, though, is their eating habits.

Sure, I get having a nice snack every now and then … but humans LOVE their cheeseburgers, and steaks, and bacon. And all of that love for meat and dairy and other animal products equates to a massive strain on the environment. According to the smart people at the FAO, animal agriculture is responsible for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gases – that’s more than all the emissions for cars, trains, and airplanes.

If you haven’t figured it out, Goji is a dog, hence the strange writing. Not complaining, it is interesting.

A new study from Chatham House, an international think-tank of smarties, came out pointing to the fact that the only way we can hope to curb climate change is to stop eating so much meat. Given the fact that meat production uses over 70 percent of the world’s water resources, around half of the planet’s land is dedicated to either growing animal food or grazing the animals themselves …

The Chatham House study went so far as to assert that if we don’t all make a concerted effort to but down on our meat consumption that it will be impossible to slow the progress of climate change. Seriously people, get with the program. You’re wasting precious natural resources and releasing more harmful chemicals into the environment than ever before … but still one in eight people go hungry.

Well, there you go, Warmists. You have your marching orders. Stop eating meat. Because if you don’t, the planet is doomed! Show us the way.

This is exactly the kind of nutty, over-the-top, bat guano crazy pronouncement from the Cult of Climastrology that makes the tepid believers in anthropogenic climate change tune out.

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“Planned Parenthood Shooter Finally Convinces Leftists that Beliefs Matter”

By William Teach November 28, 2015 – 8:04 am

That is the headline featured at Red State, as written by Leon H. Wolf. He writes

As of the time I sat down to write this article, we know absolutely nothing about the shooter at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado. Much of what we learn in the next 24 hours will be a mixture of falsehood and half-truths, if the normal news cycle is any indication. And yet, already we have multiple emails blaming RedState (and blogs like RedState) for the very existence of this guy. Here are a couple:

And he highlights a few. He goes on

Welp. We never on this site have ever advocated violence of any kind against Planned Parenthood or anyone else, and at this point we don’t know that the guy read RedState or any other conservative publications.

But I tell you what, I find this kind of thinking from liberals refreshing. See, for months, we have been trying to say that the terrorists who go around chopping people’s heads off and screaming Allahu Akbar, or blowing up planes full of civilians in Egypt in the name of Islam, or who shoot hundreds of civilians in Paris in order to strike a blow for Allah in the name of Islam ought to be taken seriously.

We have said repeatedly, “Shouldn’t the fact that these people all claim to be acting in the name of Islam cause us all to ask some pointed questions of Muslims about the extent to which they are fostering this behavior?”

To Leftists, never. They cannot conceive of the notion that all this terrorism and extremist behavior from Muslims could have anything to do with Islam, even when the Islamists tell us that it has everything to do with what is written in the Koran. Those few who can conceive the notion won’t admit to it verbally or in writing. It is a Disapproved Concept, utterly verboten within Leftism.

Leon goes on to note “we ought to cast a good, long hard look at the preachers of that ideology to determine whether they bear some responsibility for the violent acts of their extremists”, and that Red State can withstand the scrutiny, and wonders if Liberals have confidence that Islam can withstand that same scrutiny.

Twitchy has all sorts of tweets which blamestorm White Christians. And all Conservatives. The NRA is being blamed. Republicans as a whole are being blamed. At Think Progress we see

In a statement provided to ThinkProgress on Friday evening, Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains CEO Vicki Cowart said it wasn’t yet clear whether the women’s health organization was the target of the attack. Cowart did, however, say that anti-abortion “extremists” have created a “poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country.”

“We don’t yet know the full circumstances and motives behind this criminal action, and we don’t yet know if Planned Parenthood was in fact the target of this attack,” the statement read. “We share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country. We will never back away from providing care in a safe, supportive environment that millions of people rely on and trust.”

So, what we’ve learned is that Leftists will blame every single pro-life supporter for the actions of a person for which we have no information on their political beliefs or any beliefs. Being pro-life is apparently “poisonous”. Yet, when we have lots and lots of violence in the name of Allah and Mohammad, we’re told this has nothing to do with Islam in the least. Allahu Akbar? It means “God is the greatest”. It is consistently screamed by terrorists who practice Islam. Does this mean that all Muslims are extremists? No. Not in the least. But, there is a big problem within the so-called Religion of Peace.

We’re told that only 10% are radicals. Other polls show just 7%. Some want to claim just 1%, at least of those Muslims living in Europe. Do the math. There are roughly 1.6 billion Muslims. What were 19 Muslims able to do on 9/11? The radicalization is something that progresses, though, with more learning the extremist views, who then teach their kids and others.

If every single Christian, white person, pro-choice believer, Conservative, Tea Party, Republican can be blamed for the actions of one person or small group, despite having nothing to do with the more extremist views, why can’t we blame a small part of Islam for the actions of their extremists?

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Obama Seems Upset That Someone Dared Jump His Fence Illegally

By William Teach November 27, 2015 – 6:59 pm

Good thing there were lots of people armed with firearms to stop him

(NY Post) A man jumped the White House fence on Thursday afternoon while the first family was inside celebrating Thanksgiving.

Joseph Caputo, who was wearing an American flag around his shoulders, raised a binder in the air as he stood triumphantly on the White House lawn. (snip)

Caputo was immediately arrested. The White House was briefly placed on lockdown. (snip)

The Secret Service said criminal charges were pending.

Hey, the guy was just trying for a better life, he wanted someone to listen. Perhaps Mr. Obama and his liberal supporters could explain why it’s A-OK for Obama to live behind a fence and arrest people for jumping the fence, when Obama and his liberal supporters have no problem with people coming across US borders illegally. Furthermore, why does Obama think it is OK for him to have tons of armed security, yet wants to deny law abiding citizens the same protection.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 27, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fire releasing carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on what feminists want to shelve.

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