…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to use to reduce desertification, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post wondering if Islam is the religion of whining narcissists.
Read: If All You See… »
Remember when Warmists were saying that Game Of Thrones was really all about being a metaphor for “climate change”? Now we have
‘The Lord of the Rings’ reimagined as climate catastrophe — in GIFs
A planet in potential devastation — a dark power dangles within reach and tantalizes humans to the point of valuing increased personal opulence over the survival of all. Few stewards fight to maintain peace, while the plague of human obsession for abundance and domination spreads across the land.
The masses remain naïve to the situation, while an equal amount believe their actions won’t make a difference in the play out of good versus evil. The sky darkens. The earth crumbles beneath. The only chance of survival depends upon the kindling of hope burning in the hearts of the beings of Middle Earth.
Sound familiar? That may be because it is a synopsis of “The Lord of the Rings,” or it may be because the LOTR story line is starting to fit our global reality. The unfolding evil manifesting from the great ring of power in LOTR parallels the devastation in our reality inflicted by powerful institutions/organizations on the natural world and in turn humanity.
Here are five reasons why LOTR well represents our world under climate change conditions.
You’ll have to pop over to the link to see those 5, Fair Use, standard Blog Rules, and just simple respect of the writings of others prohibits me from jacking the whole post, but I do enjoy this part in #1
We each have the same individual choice to make by being conscious consumers, giving up simple luxuries and getting educated about the impacts of our waste.
Funny, because the vast majority of Warmists refuse to make those individual choices to reduce their own consumption of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, or as close to CN as can be. I guess that makes them the Evil Orcs.
Read: Climate Change Is Totally Like The Lord Of The Rings Or Something »
If you tell everyone to come and get free stuff from your business, should you be surprised when lots of people show up?
(The Hill) The United States saw a spike last month in the number of unaccompanied minors and families illegally crossing the southern border, the White House said Monday.
“We have seen, just in the last month, in the month of August, a surprising uptick,†press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
While this is certainly less than last year’s massive influx, August is supposed to be a slower month, due to the heat. But, hey, when you have an administration and a political Party constantly pushing to legalize illegals, promising them all sorts of things (at the expense of the American taxpayer), refusing to enforce existing laws, more and more will continue to come and attempt to cross the border. They know that the majority will never be sent back. How many of last years inflow were deported? How many have simply disappeared into the country after being told to appear in court? Heck, how many are still receiving government assistance?
Czechoslovakia built a fence to stop the flow of “refugees” in two days. Granted, a much smaller border. Yet, the U.S. doesn’t seem capable of finishing the border wall over decades. And the worst thing is the promise from Democrats, some Republicans, and the President to help all the illegals who make it here out, providing them education, medical care, driver’s licenses, etc, and looking to legalize them quickly.
Read: White House Is Surprised By Increased Border Crossings »
Ask a Democrat for a plan on anything and the answer is always “More Government!” Witness
(USA Today) Hillary Clinton on Tuesday will roll out a plan to rein in prescription drug costs by forcing pharmaceutical companies to reinvest their profits into research and allowing for more generic and imported drugs.
This seems based due to
Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous. Tomorrow I'll lay out a plan to take it on. -H https://t.co/9Z0Aw7aI6h
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 21, 2015
Greedy, or just a company that refuses to lose money anymore?
Regardless, there are lots of reasons why drugs in the U.S. cost so much. For one thing, it can cost a lot of money, in the billions sometimes, to develop a drug, do all the research and testing, get it through clinical trials and the FDA, then get it to market. Oh, and Government intervention also increases costs. Sure, some companies are “greedy”, but most are reasonable.
The last thing we need is more government intervention, especially as pushed by a greedy presidential candidate who makes hundreds of thousands on short speaking engagements, along with all the other money raked in through her “foundation”. Big Pharma certainly reinvests a portion into more R&D. The other portion goes to things like paying people, including shareholders. They probably reinvest more than the Clinton Foundation does.
One part of her bullet point plan doesn’t seem Big Governmenty, though it is
Allow Americans to import drugs from abroad. Countries in Europe with similar safety standards often pay half of what American pay for the same drugs, according to the campaign.
There are reasons why many of those drugs cost less: refer to link above in “Government intervention”. Democrats have voted against this notion many, many times. Then we get
Encourage the production of generic drugs including lowering the amount of time companies can exclusively produce new treatments.
In other words, Government would pull the patents quicker after companies have spent billions for their work. This is exactly the wrong way to do it, since many pharmaceutical companies try to recoup their costs quicker due to an already short period of patent time.
Oh, and Bored Grandma will announce plans on dealing with out-of-pocket expenses Wednesday. Who wants to bet they revolve around More Big Government?
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Hillary Has Plan For Prescription Drugs, Called Big Big Government Mandates »
One of the things members of the Cult Of Climastrology, including elected officials, media outlets, and low hanging Warmists, constantly push for is a “carbon tax”, usually in a manner that they think will only effect Other People. And they always tell us that this artificial construct would be the free market in action. For instance, here’s one I ran across at the Miami Herald in a letter to the editor from Walt Minnick, cofounder of the Partnership for Responsible Growth, a hardcore Progressive group out of D.C. pushing for all sorts of climate change schemes. Here’s what he calls “innovative solutions”
(1) Rely on the free market instead of more EPA regulation. If Congress approves a fee on carbon emissions, business will become more energy-efficient, and consumers will buy less carbon-based fuel.
(2) Use half of the revenue generated to reduce our corporate tax rate, the highest in the industrialized world, to 25 percent and return the balance to low- and low-middle-income families to offset their slightly higher energy costs;
See? Free market! And an acknowledgement that these schemes will increase costs. Returning (tiny amounts) of money back to low and middle class families makes them even more reliant on Government. Anyhow, free market!
Carbon pricing schemes double since 2012 in climate fight: World Bank
The number of carbon pricing schemes worldwide has almost doubled since 2012 but most taxes or markets have prices too low to prevent damaging global warming, the World Bank said on Sunday.
Carbon pricing, including emissions trading schemes from California to China, now covers about 12 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in a sign of momentum before a U.N. summit on climate change in Paris in December, it said. (snip)
The study showed that prices, meant to shift investments from fossil fuels toward cleaner energies such as wind or solar power, ranged from less than a dollar a tonne of carbon dioxide in Mexico to $130 a tonne in Sweden.
In more than 85 percent of cases the price was less than $10, “considerably lower”, the report said, than levels needed to help limit temperature rises to a U.N. goal of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
So, once Government has instituted these schemes, the Free Market has determined that the values are not worth much, and Warmists want them artificially increased. In fact, many of these schemes have been deemed as “worse than junk bonds“.
The free market also dictates that companies will move away from areas that have these carbon tax schemes, or work hard to avoid paying them. There is a lot of fraud occurring. They increase costs to the consumers and reduce jobs. Governmental intervention in the free market hasn’t worked out so well.
Read: Surprise: Carbon Scheme Pricing And Taxes Are Just Too Darned Low »
…is a world turning into desert, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on yet another infrastructure attack in California.
Read: If All You See… »
Let’s see: making a TV show uses vast amounts of energy and fossil fuels. You can bet that there are lots and lots of plastic water bottles present. Putting on the Emmys certainly uses vast amounts of energy and fossil fuels. Then you have all the fossil fuels used to transport all the stars, attendees, and media to the Emmys. But, hey, green ribbons!
Green Ribbons at the 2015 Emmys Draw Attention to Climate Change
The most notable accessory on the red carpet at the 2015 Emmys on Sunday night wasn’t a diamond necklace or stack of shiny bracelets. Instead, several stars sported green ribbons to call attention to climate change.
As tweeted by the National Resources Defense Council, the green ribbons worn by celebrities like Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor were part of the #DemandClimateAction campaign, which calls on world leaders to directly address climate change, including “a new universal legal agreement” between countries committing to a “low-carbon future.”
Congrats to @jeffreytambor! And thanks for wearing the #DemandClimateAction ribbon! http://t.co/pUtLXHesPEhttp://t.co/Efdl2uydtP #Emmys
— NRDC ???????? (@NRDC) September 21, 2015
Green ribbons have previously been worn to highlight mental illness, but these had small white letters spelling out the hashtag #DemandClimateAction. Love how they’re pinning them to dresses and suits that cost thousands of dollars, pimping an issue for which the solutions would harm the poor and middle class.
You also have to love that the Cult of Climastrology is still pimping awareness after all these years, rather than changing their own lives to accord with their talking points.
Read: We’re Saved: People Wore Green Ribbons At Emmys For “Climate Change”! »
Hey, remember when Liberal supporters of the Iran deal were scoffing at the notion of a secret side deal between Iran and the IAEA which would allow Iran to do their own inspection of their Parchin facility, even going so far as to refer to those who believed the AP report as “Parchin Truthers”?
Remember when Obama said “Iran will face strict limitations on its program, and Iran has also agreed to the most robust and intrusive inspections and transparency regime ever negotiated for any nuclear program in history. So this deal is not based on trust, it’s based on unprecedented verification.”?
This is the “unprecedented verification, I suppose
(Reuters) Iranian nuclear experts have taken environmental samples from the military base at Parchin without United Nations inspectors being present, the spokesman for Iran’s atomic energy agency was quoted as saying on Monday.
The procedure for taking the samples, which could shed light on whether Iran’s nuclear program ever had a military dimension, has been under intense discussion since Tehran reached a nuclear deal with world powers in July.
Western diplomats told Reuters earlier this month inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, would observe samples being taken.
“Iranian experts took samples from specific locations in Parchin facilities this week without IAEA’s inspectors being present,” Behruz Kamalvandi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
Well, now, this means that the side deal is real, or that Iran is blowing off the requirement to allow inspectors, and just doing the work themselves.
Anyone want to place a bet on the samples being perfectly clean? Will Iran even submit the required videos and pictures that the side deal demanded?
So much for anytime anywhere verifiable inspections. I guess we’re just going to have to go with “trust“. Of the Iranian regime.
Read: Iran Takes Samples At Parchin Military Site Without IAEA Present »
Fantastic! Nothing like bringing tons more people from war torn countries with a history of Islamic extremism, who will mostly not speak our language, won’t share even the most basic of American values, and will immediately demand government assistance, over the needs of American citizens
(NY Times) The Obama administration will increase the number of worldwide refugees the United States accepts each year to 100,000 by 2017, a significant increase over the current annual cap of 70,000, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday.
“This step that I am announcing today, I believe, is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,†Mr. Kerry said, adding that it “will be accompanied by additional financial contributions†for the relief effort.
The American move, announced after Mr. Kerry held talks in Berlin with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, still falls far short of the global demand for resettlement from people who continue to flee turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries.
A goodly majority of these refugees/migrants are fighting age men. By all reports, only one-half to one-third are women and children. You look at all the pictures, and see barely any women and children. A good chunk of European countries are shutting down their borders, especially the prosperous northern EU nations.
What skills do they bring? What of their culture? How many are part of the Islamic extremist movement? How many are violent? We’ve seen more than enough rioting in European countries that have seen these folks stream in. Why are they not streaming into other Middle Eastern countries and Africa? Why only prosperous Western nations? Why are we responsible for them?
Who are they?
(UK Daily Mail) Only one in every five migrants claiming asylum in Europe is from Syria.
The EU logged 213,000 arrivals in April, May and June but only 44,000 of them were fleeing the Syrian civil war.
Campaigners and left-wing MPs have suggested the vast majority of migrants are from the war-torn state, accusing the Government of doing too little to help them.
‘This exposes the lie peddled in some quarters that vast numbers of those reaching Europe are from Syria,’ said David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth. ‘Most people who are escaping the war will go to camps in Lebanon or Jordan.
The stream of these “economic refugees/migrants” exploded when some leading politicians in Europe said they would accept Syrian refugees. Now, some 80% are coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Albania, Libya, and other nations not called Syria. Reports show this could cost Germany 25 billion Euros, the equivalent of $28.13 billion US. Why are we responsible for taking in those escaping from their own hell-hole for economic reasons, at the expense of our own citizens?
How will will make sure that those coming are not part of extremist Islam? We aren’t talking about people escaping Europe, who brought similar and compatible values. We aren’t talking about other refugees who joined the great melting pot and raised families.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Obama Administration To Accept 200,000 “Refugees” Through 2017 »
This is not a new excuse: it’s number 5 on the list of global warming pause excuses. This is just a new attempt to explain the Pause away
(Takepart) It has been a bad week for global warming skeptics.
On top of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations’ announcement that 2015 will almost certainly beat 2014 as the hottest year on record (not to mention the U.K. Met’s projectiont hat 2016 will smash heat records),…
Interesting. They’re already telling us what they plan to do prior to actually having data. Science! And it still wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation.
….new research out of Stanford University is trashing climate skeptics’ “hiatus†theory, which claims there was a 15-year lull in rising global temperatures between 1998 and 2013.
The paper, published Thursday in in the journal Climatic Change, looked at a comprehensive set of papers, statistics and historical records to see if temperatures really stopped rising around 1998, for about 15 years—what many have dubbed the climate change “pause†or “hiatus.â€
Turns out it was just a statistical error, said Noah Diffenbaugh, climate scientist at Stanford and coauthor of the study.
The “statistical error” thing isn’t new, either.
First, the data points were misleading. In a study released in June, NOAA officials reexamined their ocean temperature points from buoy measurements. They found that for the past couple of decades, their buoys had been returning cooler temperature readings than the measurements gathered by ships in the same are. When they reworked the data, they found that the rate of warming (about .116 degrees Celsius per decade) was nearly identical to the past five decades.
To cover their bases, lead researcher Bala Rajaratnam, an assistant professor of statistics and Earth system science at Stanford, said the team combined NOAA’s old and corrected measurements to see if a climate pause could be detected.
In other words, they didn’t like the actual raw data, so they changed it. They also went on to use a “statistical” method, whereby they manufacture out of nothing, er, extrapolate, data in areas that have no measurements.
It’s cute how the Cult of Climastrology works so darned hard to protect their cult. At the end of the day, even this fails to disprove the utter failure of their computer models, which predicted fast rising temperatures. Even if we are to believe that 2014 was the Hottest Evah!!!!!, it was by hundreds of a degree. And that data had issues, to the point where they admitted there was only a 38% chance they were right. But, it would still be below the original models.
Keep trying, Warmists. And give up your own fossil fuels usage.
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