Surprise: Hurricane Patricia Linked To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach October 23, 2015 – 3:12 pm

I was planning on ignoring the idiocy on Twitter linking Patricia with ‘climate change’, which are runnign rampant (not as much as used to happen, though), but, then I go bored waiting for an appointment, checked Drudge, and saw this

Mexican plea for climate consensus as hurricane nears

Mexico’s climate negotiator issued a tearful plea Friday to UN colleagues to put aside their differences for a global pact, as a superhurricane headed for his country.

“In about four hours, Hurricane Patricia will hit the Mexican coast,” Roberto Dondisch said at the closing session of a fraught round of negotiations in Bonn. “I don’t think I need to say more about the urgency to get this deal done.”

“I ask you all to put aside your differences so together we can start working.”

Dondisch made the plea on the final session of a five-day effort to advance towards a post-2020 UN pact to tame greenhouse gases.

These people are pretty much ghouls, attempting to use a natural even to push their far left fascist/redistributive/taxation agenda. But, here’s where it gets really interesting

Patricia’s track looks pretty bad, eh? Those reds are category 5 status. Oh, wait, no that’s not Patricia’s track at all

That’s Patricia. The first picture is for the 1959 Mexico hurricane, which, interestingly, formed on October 23rd (well, first noticed, this being 1959 and no satellites), and dissipated on the 29th. It was the strongest eastern Pacific landfalling hurricane to date, and Patricia may not beat it. It was also the deadliest, killing 1800 (at least). It had the highest windspeeds, measured up to 160mph.

And all this occurred when CO2 was below the “safe” level of 350ppm, being around 315ppm. Also, interestingly, this occurred during a time when the world was experiencing a Pause/slight cooling. Nothing should be totally implied from all this, except to say that this has happened before, it can and will happen again, and to link it to Someone Else driving a fossil fueled vehicle is stupid, dogmatic, cultish, and un-scientific.

PS: It’s funny, Warmists tell us that no particular storm or cold winter are proof against AGW, and some will say that no particular storm is proof of AGW, yet, they immediately link every storm and weather event to AGW.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 23, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled machine, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on trans-everything.

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Exxon Wants You To Read The Docoments On “Climate Change”

By William Teach October 23, 2015 – 9:54 am

The post from Exxon speaks for itself

When it comes to climate change, read the documents

Read the documents.

Go ahead, you really should. Read the documents on the InsideClimate News site purportedly provingsome conspiracy on ExxonMobil’s part to hide our climate science findings.

In case you need help finding them, the link to the documents on theInsideClimate News site is right here.

Why do we want you to read them?

Because you will see that they completely undercut the allegations made by InsideClimate News in itsseries about ExxonMobil – allegations that were subsequently echoed by activists like Bill McKibben and Naomi Oreskes.

McKibben, for instance, wrote, “Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.”

But if you read the documents, it will become clear the opposite is true.

Read the rest.

At the time the discussions were held back in the 70’s and early 80’s, climate science was truly in its infancy. This research led to to other research, with the determination being that, yes, CO2 does cause some warming, but, it is minimal, and temperature increases mostly precede atmospheric CO2 increases. Regardless, so much of their early research was as widely wrong as all the other anthropogenic global warming research, research that is still wrong today.

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Arizona High School Decrees Wearing American Colors Is Racist

By William Teach October 23, 2015 – 7:10 am

Also green, flags, and Trump related. Such is the state of America these days

(Breitbart) A high school in Arizona has banned pro-Donald Trump clothing at a Friday football game because it would be “racist” or “offensive.”

Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona – with a student body known as “The Tribe” – is set to face off against Marcos de Niza High School Friday in an anticipated rivalry game. The game was supposed to have a “USA” theme. But that theme was considered problematic and thrown out.

“The Tribe tweeted out that the theme for the game would be “USA,” and students should wear red, white and blue. Administration recognized that this theme had negative connotations,” according to a statement Thursday by the Editorial Board of the Corona student newspaper.

The theme was changed to “Orange Out”, and anyone dressed inappropriately would not be admitted to the game. When the student newspaper was asked what is inappropriate, they responded

@DylanJWater Anything perceived to be offensive/racist: green, USA, flags, Trump, etc. It’s not the clothing, but the intent behind it.

— Sunrise Staff (@CdSSunrise) October 22, 2015

And then, apparently, deleted the tweet when it hit the news.

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Good News: Iran’s Past Nuclear Work/Current Weaponization No Barrier To Iran Deal Implementation

By William Teach October 23, 2015 – 6:56 am

Really, why should Iran’s nuclear weapon program details have anything to do with implementing a deal to deny them a nuclear weapon for the next 8-15 years? One of the sticking points is the side deal between Iran and the IAEA, which was meant to investigate Iran’s past nuclear weapons work and the current state of that program. This is rather necessary in order to “establish a baseline” for investigating all their work, their personnel, their facilities, and how far along they were in developing weapons. What would the consequences be if Iran obstructed this investigation? Iran said it had no bearing. The Obama admin said it does. And now? Obama and Kerry have capitulated once again to Iran

(Business Insider) Now we have the answer. On October 19, a Wall Street Journal report cited anonymous US officials who “said the IAEA report would have no bearing on moves by the international community to lift sanctions.”

“That final assessment, which the IAEA is aiming to complete by December 15th, is not a prerequisite for implementation day,” a senior US official told The Journal. “We are not in a position to evaluate the quality … of the data. That is between Iran and the IAEA.”

As The Journal notes, “Secretary of State John Kerry and other US officials had previously said sanctions wouldn’t be lifted unless Iran substantively cooperated with the UN probe.”

Even before the agreement goes into effect, the US is shifting its interpretation of the JCPOA in a way that makes the accord more palatable to Iran.

In the process, the US has essentially decided that the investigation of past nuclear-weapons work, and the state of current Iranian weaponization expertise, is nonbinding on a treaty specifically meant to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Of course, the deal is only meant to restrict Iran’s nuclear weapons program for a period of 8-15 years, at which point they are free to develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them willy nilly. Iran has been pushing the envelope left and right, even dictating terms for the implementation of the deal. They’ve tested Ehmad missiles, in violation of current sanctions, and would be against the Iran deal.

The US has retreated in connecting the weaponization disclosures to the full implementation of the deal — at the same time Tehran is acting as if it doesn’t really value cooperation with its negotiating partners.

Consequently, it looks like Iran looking to push the still-to-be implemented JCPOA as far as it possibly can.

It looks like Iran is looking to push Obama and Kerry as far as they possibly can, and Obama/Kerry capitulated once again.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Salon: Hair Petting Is Now Raaaaacist

By William Teach October 22, 2015 – 4:19 pm

Despite having watched, listened to, and read Lefties for a long, long time, and especially in the Age Of The Internet, their bat guano insane thoughts still manage to be bat guano insane, especially when someone is Offended. And one of the best places to go now for bat guano insanity is Salon. Today’s outrage is brought to us by Anna Silman, their deputy entertainment editor

Taylor Swift is really this clueless: The Weeknd details deeply uncomfortable hair-petting incident

Asking a celebrity interview subject about his/her relationship to Taylor Swift has become a journalistic rite of passage as of late, and we recently got an interesting anecdote about America’s favorite leggy, belly button-less Squad Leader in a new Rolling Stone profile of Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd.

The Weeknd explained that he met Taylor Swift at Sam Smith’s Grammy party this February (at “an $80 million mansion in Bel-Air,” naturally). After telling him how much she loved his music, a presumably drunk Swift pulled the quintessential clueless white person move and started stroking his Basquiat-inspired ‘do.

“I think she was just drawn to it — she must have been a little gone off a few drinks,” The Weeknd explained. “And of course I’m not going to be like, ‘Hey, can you stop?’ I mean, it felt good! But when she started petting my hair, that’s when I was like, ‘I definitely need a drink.’”

Oh Tay, no. Just no. Anyone else ready for that Taylor Swift hiatus to start already?

Got that? She stroked his hair!!!!!!! A white person move!!!!! Hence, racism!!!!

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 22, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a state that’s suffering from extreme drought/flood, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post saying Hillary is now the face of the Democratic Party.

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Warmists Finally Tell Us The Best Global Temperature

By William Teach October 22, 2015 – 10:53 am

At least in terms of economics, which is interesting, considering that they also want to control economies via far left Progressive (nice fascism) policies. Here’s CBS News in climaventilation mode

Global warming spells trouble for world economy

With each upward degree, global warming will singe the economies of three-quarters of the world’s nations and widen the north-south gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new economic and science study.

Singe!!!!!

Compared to what it would be without more global warming, the average global income will shrivel 23 percent at the end of the century if heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution continues to grow at its current trajectory, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature.

There’s the humorous, and unscientific, labeling of CO2 as “pollution”. I’m going to skip the rest of the silliness and go straight to the temperature

Lead author Marshall Burke of Stanford and Hsiang examined 50 years of economic data in 160 countries and even county-by-county data in the United States and found what Burke called “the goldilocks zone in global temperature at which humans are good at producing stuff” – an annual temperature of around 13 degrees Celsius or 55.4 degrees Fahrenheit, give or take a degree.

And there you go. But….

The 20th-century global average annual temperature is 57 degrees, or 13.9 degrees Celsius, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Last year – the hottest on record – was 58.24 degrees and this year is almost certain to break that record, according to NOAA. Burke and Hsiang use different population-weighted temperature figures than NOAA calculates.

Well, that’s weird. Unsurprising, the study authors have all sorts of Excuses.

Erik Worrell has a piece up at Watts Up With That? tearing the foolish study up. But, hey, we finally were provided with an optimal temperature from the Cult of Climastrology.

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Obama Admin Totally Wants New Sanctions On Iran For Missile Test

By William Teach October 22, 2015 – 7:08 am

Team Obama, which has given Iran virtually everything they want with the Iran Deal, a deal which kicks the can down the road 8-15 years in terms of Iran developing a nuclear weapon, rather than stopping their program, is a wee bit upset over Iran’s missile test

(Reuters) The United States, Britain, France and Germany called on Wednesday for the United Nations Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee to take action over a missile test by Tehran that they said violated a U.N. ban.

In a letter containing details on the launch, they said the ballistic missile was “inherently capable of delivering a nuclear weapon.”

The letter, seen by Reuters, was sent to the committee after the United States raised the issue in the 15-member Security Council.

The Iran Deal also limits those missiles, which would take the place of the 2010 sanctions passed by the Security Council.

Diplomats have said it was possible for the sanctions committee to blacklist additional Iranian individuals or entities if it determined that the missile launch had breached the U.N. ban. However, they said Russia and China, which have opposed the sanctions on Iran’s missile program, might block any such moves.

Might? Will. Just like they will block any re-institution of any sanctions for the Iran Deal via “snapback”.

“The United States will continue to press the Security Council to respond effectively to any future violations … Full and robust enforcement of all relevant U.N. measures is and will remain critical,” U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said in a statement on Wednesday.

Iran has violated UN sanctions numerous times. Why would anyone think they won’t violate the nuclear deal?

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday conditionally approved the nuclear deal but warned it would be violated if any of the six world powers imposed any sanctions on any level and under any pretext.

Khamenei is sending a pointed message, extortion, really, to Team Obama, telling them not to try anything or Iran will scuttle Obama’s “historic” and “legacy defining” deal.

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56% Say Increasing Concealed Carry Would Make U.S. More Safe

By William Teach October 22, 2015 – 6:53 am

Yet another poll that’s bad for the gun-grabbers

(Gallup) A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that if more Americans carried concealed weapons after passing a criminal background check and training course, the country would be safer.

Personally, I’d like to see an increase in open carry. If a criminal sees someone carrying a handgun, rather than wondering if they have concealed, they’d be less likely to engage in a criminal act against that person. Anyhow, 82% of Republicans say safer, as do 59% of Independents. Of course, only 31% of Democrats say safer, putting them outside of the mainstream yet again on guns. I guess they prefer the high levels of criminal use of guns in their cities, especially when it comes to Blacks killing Blacks.

We also find that 86% support a “universal background check using a centralized database”. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with a background check, and since the term “universal background check” is not explained, of course people will say yes. Then we get this

So, 53% say it wouldn’t really make a difference. We’re still waiting for the recommendations from the gun grabbers on how to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, gang members, people intent on doing harm, etc. Most of their plans are aimed at those who aren’t purchasing firearms for nefarious purposes.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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