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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Next Phase For Cult Of Climastrology: Suing Companies For Causing “Extreme Weather”

By William Teach November 12, 2015 – 10:10 am

Funny how this all sounds like a Leftist political movement rather than a science, eh?

(ECO Watch) A few weeks ago the first ever human rights legal action seeking the accountability of the 50 big polluters was launched. Filed by Filipino typhoon survivors and several environmental organizations, it demands that the Philippines Human Rights Commission (CHR) investigate and acknowledge the complicity of 50 investor-owned fossil fuel companies in causing extreme weather events.

This comes from a consensus that the typhoons and catastrophic storms that annually batter the Philippines and many other small island nations, are exacerbated by climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels by distant and faceless energy companies. People in the Philippines know that they are at the end of a terrible chain reaction that destroys homes, ruins health and takes lives and livelihoods. It violates their basic human rights, so they, like many others, are starting to seek climate justice.

Consensus, huh? How about science? Eh, that’s immaterial. They want Climate Justice.

They are part of a growing number of people that will no longer stand for companies—despite knowledge of the harms associated with their products—continuing to engorge themselves on profit at the expense of the climate and human lives. These companies are morally bound to help communities at the frontline of climate change while financing a just transition to a 100 percent renewable energy future.

Morally bound! It would be hilarious if all these companies said “oh, you want a 100% renewable energy future? How about starting today, because we are pulling out. Have fun fueling your automobiles and having energy for your homes.” This isn’t to say that they do not have a responsibility to do all they can to protect real environmental concerns, but, ‘climate change’ is mostly not real, and mostly has nothing to do with the environment.

The top 50 investor-owned polluters under public scrutiny are taken from a list of 90 entities who, according to a report by Rick Heede, are responsible for 63 percent of the carbon dioxide and methane emitted between 1751 and 2010.

Pull out. Watch the meltdown by Warmists. Skipping to the end

We encourage the Commission for Human Rights to commit to investigating the big polluters for their human rights violations as a matter of urgency.

Bad Weather, which has always happened, you can’t stop, and will always happen, is now a human rights violation

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The Apocalypse Is In China Ahead Of Climate Talks Or Something

By William Teach November 12, 2015 – 8:04 am

Once again, we see a real environmental problem placed under the banner of ‘climate change’, reducing the actual environmental problem to a lower status

Apocalyptic China scenes ahead of climate talks

China probably doesn’t want you looking at these photos right now, especially since the world is less than three weeks away from the much-anticipated UN climate change conference in Paris.

Thick, toxic smog blanketed the country’s northeast over the weekend, reaching levels more than 50 times what the World Health Organization considers safe.

In Shenyang, a city of more than 8 million people, pollution readings were “the highest ever,” according to Greenpeace.

There are multiple tweets which show the air quality, something we’ve seen many, many times

Apocalyptic scenes such as these are common in northern China during the winter, when the country cranks up its coal-fired public heating systems to keep people warm.

And that’s how this whole thing ties into Hotcoldwetdry. The use of so many poor quality coal plants for energy is certainly an environmental issue for Chinese citizens: on one hand, they avoid freezing to death. On the other, spectacular, sorry, apocalyptic air pollution. Rather than dealing with the actual environmental problem as it stands, these fools must make it all about climate change. It’s idiotic.

And apocalyptic. In the runup to Paris, the words of the season are apocalypse and Armageddon.

  • The earth is slowly slipping into an environmental apocalypse.
  • The horsemen of the climate change apocalypse are almost upon us and their advance guard is here.
  • Waterlogged cities might seem like stuff of the post-apocalypse, but that post-apocalypse might come as soon as a single generation.

Those are just a smattering of gloom and doom stories out there from the Cult of Climastrology. These people are depressing. And constantly conflate real environmental issues, such as air pollution, with their pet cause, ‘climate change’, which turns the real issue into a minor one.

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Entitled Snowflakes Protest Free Speech Panel, Spit On Attendees

By William Teach November 12, 2015 – 7:41 am

This bit of Typical Liberal College Student Insanity comes to us via Alex Griswold at Mediaite, but, let’s start with commentor Greyhound

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive. And the students will be emboldened to push universities around the country even harder. Now they have to restore order one way or another. Now it seems to me the options are either some combination of parental and university action on their part, until they give in – or – the police hit them. A mass arrest.

The cops at Mizzoula have joined in. The universities originally started the PC movement, and is run by far left liberals, and a goodly chunk of the teachers and staffers are the same. They’ve reap what they have sown. Parents? It’s possible, mostly in terms of saying “you’re on your own for the cost of education”.

A group of Yale students interrupted and later protested a panel extolling the virtues of free speech.

The conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. Program held a free speech panel Friday featuring the Freedom for Individual Rights in Education’s Greg Luikianoff and National Review‘s Kevin Williamson. The purpose of the panel was thebacklash and screaming protests on Yale’s campus after an associate master sent an email contesting the University’s stance on offensive Halloween costumes.

During the panel, a student began posting signs around the room reading “Stand with your sisters of color. Now, here. Always, everywhere.” When a security guard asked him to leave, the student refused. The incident was caught on camera.

Earlier in his remarks, Lukianoff mocked those who were hysterical about Associate Master Erika Christakis‘ email about Halloween costumes.  “Looking at the reaction to Erika Christakis’s email, you would have thought someone wiped out an entire Indian village,” he joked.

Griswold then points to a Yale Daily News article and the “comical overreaction” by the students (2015-2016 tuition $46,500, total fees $66,893). As Rick Moran notes, regarding the resignation of a beloved teacher at Mizzou who refused to cancel a test and told students to stand up to bullies “Beloved or not, he did not obey the fascists who have now taken over the school because the adults have abdicated. Infants are running the nursery and it’s a school holiday with ice cream for all whenever they want it.” Where are the adults? Who’s running these schools? Why are schools that cost large sums of money, including to the taxpayer, essentially acting as babysitting services for adult age delinquents?

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