…is the shimmering, hazy world of of heat waves from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Moe Lane, with a post on Dems quietly trying to kill the Cadillac tax.
BTW, this pic was a dare from a friend, who said “try and find a link to AGW without referencing the woman.”
Read: If All You See… »
Two interesting stories
(Yahoo Sports)Â University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe has resigned.
Wolfe announced his decision during a Board of Curators meeting on the Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia campus on Monday.
And
(Daily Caller) Last week, a real-life South Park episode somehow took place within the very prestigious confines of Yale University.
In the lead-up to Halloween, Yale Dean Burgwell Howard sent out an email requesting that students do not engage in “cultural appropriation†when it comes to costume choice. That message prompted a very mild rebuke from the Associate Master of Silliman College Erica Christakis.
If you’re not fully familiar with these two stories, I’d suggest taking a moment to read both links, maybe take a cruise around others for more detail. More from the Daily Caller article, which I read earlier in the morning
This safety argument has allowed these precious snowflake totalitarians to suppress speech on campus. Free speech means nothing to them when it comes at the price of exposing their fragile little minds to ideas they don’t like. Thanks to spineless administrators that rush to appease each and every need of designated minority groups, activists are able to get away with this inane rationale for censorship.
But, from the comments at the Yahoo Sports story
Universities have been encouraging and enabling this kind of behavior, its about time they have to deal with the little monsters they created!
That was my exact thought this morning. Institutions of higher learning were pushing the politically correct mentality and enforcing it way back in the 1990’s, getting more and more extreme each year. Now, they are reaping what they’ve sown.
Read: University Of Missouri President Resigns, Yale Losing Their Minds »
The Associated Press’ Josh Lederman has an article out entitled With Keystone snub, Obama aims to lockdown climate legacy, up leverage in global climate talks, which includes this interesting tidbit
“To fight climate change effectively, we will need to make thousands of changes across our economy,” Michael Brune, the head of the Sierra Club, said in an interview. “We have gone through a period of increased climate denial, but now we’re in a place of dramatically increased acceptance of the need to act on climate.”
I wonder what kinds of changes those could be? They wouldn’t involve government dominance of citizens, private entities, energy sources, and economies, would they? It’s just so weird that the ‘climate change’ movement involves instituting Progressive (nice fascist) policies, wouldn’t you say?
Read: SIerra Club: Thousands Of Economic Changes Needed To Fight “Climate Change” »
I’m guessing this is meant to be a soft hit-piece on Senator Ted Cruz as he runs for President, but, it perfectly explains why he’s so popular with the Conservative base
A lot of people just don’t like Ted Cruz. How come that’s okay with him?
Ted Cruz has been branded a “wacko bird†by a Senate colleague and a “jackass†by the former speaker of the House. A GOP consultant labeled him a show horse, and a strategist for a rival presidential campaign called him the Mitt Romney of 2016 — the Republican no other Republican can stand.
“I just don’t like the guy,†former president George W. Bush, Cruz’s old boss, told supporters at a fundraiser for his brother Jeb Bush last month.
The list of GOP politicians and operatives willing to take open shots at Cruz has grown long: Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, former House speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio), Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), fellow Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. John Thune (S.D.), former senator Tom Coburn (Okla.) — and on and on.
Cruz does not appear to be bothered. The senator and presidential candidate seems to relish the fact that so many fellow Republicans love to hate him. On the trail, the Texas Republican fondly recounts his skirmishes. His campaign blasts out fundraising e-mails quoting the critical words. When Boehner called Cruz a jackass, his campaign’s solicitation quoted him as saying, “I will wear it as a badge of honor because I refuse to join their club.†A super PAC supporting Cruz released a radio spot Tuesday boasting that Boehner referred to Cruz as a “a pain in the you-know-what.â€
It’s a long, long, long article, which doesn’t ever seem to actually reach out to Ted Cruz to find out “why”. Down lower in the article we read
To some supporters, Cruz’s skirmishes make the candidate more attractive.
“He’s hated by the political establishment,†said Chart Westcott, a Dallas biotech investor and Cruz donor. “He’s got that original outsider status, and that’s what I love and has made him attractive to so many swaths of Americans.â€
And there’s one of your answer. He’s standing against the GOP establishment, which has consistently sold out the GOP voting base. They campaign on promises, then fail to keep them, sometimes not even bothering to attempt to keep them. Sometimes going against them. Ted Cruz stands on principle, and does his best to keep to those principles.
The article is an attempt to tell the casual voter just how much certain Republicans hate Ted Cruz. For the Conservative voters, it reinforces why we support Cruz, and why we dislike the GOP Establishment.
Read: Washington Post: Say, Why Do So Many Republicans Hate Ted Cruz? »
Ah, Paris, the City Of Lights, the City Of Love, where 10,000 or so believers in pushing bigger and bigger centralized governmental control over everything along with more and more taxes man-caused climate change will take fossil fueled trips to socialize, eat lots of food, and discuss the Fate Of The World, quite a few of which will be paid for on the taxpayer dime. So, it’s time for more scaremongering
‘Catastrophe’ warnings as climate talks enter final stretch
Large swathes of New York and Shanghai could disappear under the waves and millions driven into poverty, fresh climate reports warned as ministers scrambled Monday for common ground weeks ahead of a crunch environmental summit.
If global warming continues on its present trajectory of 4 Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit), rising sea levels will claim land inhabited by more than 600 million people, according to a survey by Climate Central, a US-based research group.
It’s taken over 160 years for the world’s temperature to rise a minuscule 1.4F. There’s been, at best, statistically insignificant warming over the last 12-26 years during the 3rd pause of the Modern Warm Period. Everything is consistent with a Holocene warm period. Except sea rise, which is below the level one should expect.
Such a rise would hit China the hardest, with around 145 million people living in coastal areas that would be submerged, the report warned.
Even if the Paris summit, which starts on November 30, succeeds in its goal of limiting temperature rises to 2 C, around 280 million people would find their homes underwater, forecast Climate Central.
Why yes, this is all about attempting to scare people about future doom in order to put more power and taxes in the hands of centralized government. They should switch these meetings to start on Halloween each year.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is hosting the meeting, issued his own dire warnings as ministers gathered in the French capital for eleventh-hour negotiations.
“It is life on our planet itself which is at stake,” Fabius told journalists as ministers and climate envoys from 70 countries met for pre-summit talks to iron out tough political questions.
Life itself!!!!!! Doomed!!!! Yet, the carbon footprint for this meeting is humongous. Remember this one from the Club Of Rome?
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention….and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself….believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose.”
That was back in the 1970’s. And, of course, Progressives/Marxists/Socialists, along with the power hungry, immediately jumped on the bandwagon.
And, we will be treated to a plethora of CO2 concentration stories, such as
Earth-warming greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high in 2014: UN
….
WMO’s report, which does not measure emissions of greenhouse gases but rather their concentrations in the atmosphere, showed that CO2 had risen to 397.7 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere last year.
That was 143 percent of levels prior to the year 1750, WMO said, adding that CO2 concentrations would likely pass the ominous 400-ppm threshold in 2016.
Ominous. Is this journalism, or did Stephen King start writing climate change fables?
The rising CO2 concentrations are especially worrying, WMO said, since the gas in turn hikes levels of water vapour — itself a powerful, albeit short-lived, greenhouse gas.
This is because warmer air holds more moisture, the UN agency said, cautioning that “further increases in CO2 concentrations will lead to disproportionately high increases in thermal energy and warming from water vapour.”
Gotta love it. On one hand, they’re trying to say that water vapor, the #1 greenhouse gas, is a minimal GHG, but, on the other, it will be made worse because of CO2, an explicit way to link the two and bring water vapor under the banner of anthropogenic climate change. Of course, actual data disputes the increase in atmospheric water vapor.
Anyhow, that was the AFP. You have similar doom from CO2 stories by the AP and Reuters, among others, with lots and lots of news outlets picking up one of them.
If the science was so sound, there would be no reason for the dire stories of ominous doom. Of course, even if the science was sound, they’d still need the same scaremongering fables because of the policy prescriptions the Warmists are pushing to “solve” the issue.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Cult Of Climastrology Ramping Up The Catastrophe Warnings Ahead Of Paris Meeting »
…is an evil fossil fueled boat causing the seas to rise hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post on Politico and Benghazi
It’s hat week!
Read: If All You See… »
Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the wonderful nation of America. This pinup is by TJ Kuck, with a wee bit of help.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
When it comes to ‘climate change’, as in the tiny 1.4 degree Fahrenheit increase in global temperatures since 1850 being mostly/solely caused by Mankind’s output of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), what Warmists call “carbon pollution”, this is a movement that is mostly ensconced within 1st World left leaning citizens, along with 2nd and 3rd world big-shots, all of who already have access to inexpensive, reliable energy. Nowhere within the Cult of Climastrology is the notion to deny the world’s poor the same access more prevelnt than within the mostly Caucasian 1st world Warmists. Seems rather racist. Here we have Annie Gowen, the Washington Post’s New Delhi bureau chief, and about as lilly white as one could get
India’s huge need for electricity is a problem for the planet
POWER PLAY | Cheap electricity, a changing climate This is part of a series exploring how the world’s hunger for cheap electricity is complicating efforts to combat climate change.
Got that? Cheap, reliable electricity is a problem, nowhere more so than for India’s poor.
Of the world’s 1.3 billion people who live without access to power, a quarter — about 300 million — live in rural India in states such as Bihar. Nighttime satellite images of the sprawling subcontinent show the story: Vast swaths of the country still lie in darkness.
India, the third-largest emitter of greenhouses gases after China and the United States, has taken steps to address climate change in advance of the global talks in Paris this year — pledging a steep increase in renewable energy by 2030.
But India’s leaders say that the huge challenge of extending electric service to its citizens means a hard reality — that the country must continue to increase its fossil fuel consumption, at least in the near term, on a path that could mean a threefold increase in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030, according to some estimates.
There’s an obvious answer: nuclear power. But, the hardcore Left is against the use of nuclear because, well, really irrational, uninformed and exaggerated reasons. Of course, they are super enthused over the idea of alternatives, which aren’t cheap, but so often stop the construction of actual solar, wind, and hydrothermal power plants.
Also, natural gas, which provides enormous power output for low cost without despoiling the surrounding region? Warmists aren’t happy with that, either. Well, at least not for Other People, especially poor non-white people in other countries.
Although 300 million Indians have no access to power, millions more in the country of 1.2 billion people live with spotty supplies of electricity from the country’s unreliable power grid. The grid failed spectacularly in 2012, plunging more than 600 million people into total blackout.
In the country’s high-tech capital of Bangalore, for example, residents have recently had to endure hours of power outages each day after repairs and a bad monsoon season prevented the state’s hydroÂelectric and wind power plants from generating enough electricity.
Shocking! Alternatives failing!
Led by Modi, an early proponent of solar technology, India is in the midst of a huge drive to expand its solar and wind capacity, with plans for dozens of mega-parks that the government hopes will move the country closer to its goal of 100 gigawatts of solar-generating capacity by 2022, plus 75 gigawatts of other renewable energy, predominantly wind. The government wants to expand its hydroelectric and nuclear power capacity as well.
They also plan to double their use of coal. But, hey, this is all a problem for people who have nothing better to worry about but tiny changes in the global temperature, entirely consistent with the Holocene pattern of warm and cool periods. It all seems very racist and shows a profound hatred for the poor of the world, for people Liberals see as inferior.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Warmists Totally Enthused To Deny Cheap Power To World’s Poor »
…is an evil fossil fueled boat causing the sees to rise, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Adrienne’s Corner, with a post wondering of Obama called the family of Tanya Chamberlain.
Had to end with something featuring the best Bond ever.
Read: If All You See… »
Thanks to Junk Science for finding this tidbit, as Professor Brendan Nyhan admits the truth in the NY Times
For years, activists and scholars have contended that groups who reject the scientific consensus on climate change are employing tactics once used to create doubt about the dangers of smoking.
Now environmentalists are taking a page from tobacco opponents by suggesting oil companies misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change. The first step toward a legal inquiry came Wednesday evening when the New York attorney general subpoenaed records from Exxon Mobil.
While this tactic helped tobacco opponents win over regulators and the public, it may be a less effective approach to addressing political opposition to climate change — an issue on which both elites and the public are deeply divided.
All this division shows that it is a political issue. Make sure to read the rest, as we head to the last paragraph
The risk for environmentalists is that this legal strategy may play out differently in a polarized age. With the issue and Congress more divided, lawsuits and investigations could provoke further conflict between liberals who distrust oil companies and conservatives who are skeptical of interventions in the free market. Though investigating Exxon is a creative tactic, it may end up reinforcing polarization on climate change rather than removing it.
Here’s the thing: they aren’t environmentalists, most seem to care little about the damage they themselves do to the environment. They are hardcore leftists. And, this is simply a tactic to push their far left political policies.
Read: Warmist Admits Persecuting Exxon Mobile Is “Just A Tactic” »
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