“Climate Change” Could Make San Francisco Feel Like San Diego Or Something

By William Teach August 5, 2015 – 4:34 pm

Today’s scary story, though, how having the gorgeous weather of San Diego is scary, I’m not sure, but, hey, we aren’t actually supposed to ask those kinds of questions

Climate change could give San Francisco the climate of San Diego, scientists say

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In addition to a broad look at heating and cooling needs around the country, Petri and Caldeira also zeroed in on 25 major U.S. cities to see how some of the country’s most populous places could change in the future. They found that, as of now, San Diego is the most “comfortable” city temperature-wise, meaning it has the lowest number of combined heating and cooling degree days. Residents of Minneapolis are less lucky — their city is the least comfortable.

And, in fact, projections indicate that Minneapolis will stay the city with the greatest number of heating and cooling degree days. But San Diego, on the other hand, will lose its title to another California city if nothing is done about climate change. Under a business-as-usual trajectory, the researchers found that San Francisco will become the city with the least number of heating and cooling degree days in the country. “The fact that future San Francisco will be quite similar to San Diego is really quite interesting,” Petri says, as present-day San Francisco is known for having a much cooler climate overall.

So, this would be a bad thing? Really? Of course, it would mean that the average temperature for San Fran would have to rise about 6-7 degrees Fahrenheit to match San Diego. Give it 600-700 years, and that could happen, what with the average global temperature rising a measly 1.4F since 1850.

Under the same scenario, Los Angeles would heat up enough to match the number of cooling degree days currently experienced by Jacksonville, Fla. And New York City’s combined number of heating and cooling degree days will match that of present-day Oklahoma City, as it will both lose heating days and gain cooling days.

Hooray for computer models!

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 5, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a fish that lives around reefs dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Camp Of The Saints, with a post on Going Mussolini.

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Bummer: Warmists Say Obama’s Climate Change Plan “Practically Worthless”

By William Teach August 5, 2015 – 11:26 am

Also, that it is basically a narcissistic moment

(MSNBC) But for some who study climate change the only shame is this: Obama’s plan does not go nearly far enough. It’s meek and dangerously self-congratulatory, sapping the movement of urgency while doing almost nothing to maintain the future habitability of the earth.

“The actions are practically worthless,” said James Hansen, a climate researcher who headed NASA’s Goddard’s Institute for Space Studies for over 30 years and first warned congress of global warming in 1988. “They do nothing to attack the fundamental problem.”

“You’ve got to be kidding,” he wrote, when asked if the plan would make continued climate activism unnecessary. Obama’s plan, and for that matter the proposed plan Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, he continued, “is like the fellow who walks to work instead of driving, and thinks he is saving the world.”

But, if every Warmists gave up their own fossil fueled lifestyle and went completely “carbon neutral”, they’d make a big difference, and would go a long way towards convincing non-believers that Warmists think it’s actually a crisis. Of course, what they really want is more and more governmental control emanating from the central government. Obama is attempting to do this incrementally, knowing that once a big policy with all its tentacles is in place, it is damned near impossible to get rid of.

Many other Warmists are cited as thinking this plan is lame, and MSNBC makes sure to patronize their unhinged Warmists base (which hasn’t given up their own use of fossil fuels) with a poll that asks two questions about O’s plan

1. Yes, you support it and it’s long overdue

2. No, the plan falls far short on climate goals

Did I mention that Warmists, including ones like Obama and Hansen, fail to give up their own use of fossil fuels? Just want to make sure.

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Baltimore Is Totally Trying To Take Back Their Streets Or Something

By William Teach August 5, 2015 – 8:45 am

This is typical in big cities run mostly/solely by members of the Democratic Party. Crime running rampant, so they come up with all sorts of squishy feel good measures. Baltimore just tried a 300 Man March on bikes to stop the violence. There are demonstrations and marches and sermons and this and that, but, there rarely ever seems to be “hey, let’s go arrest the hell out of the bad people and prosecute them”. Which plays into a statement by Baltimore’s mayor

National Night Out seeks to reclaim Baltimore’s streets, image

The onslaught of violence in Baltimore this summer isn’t only devastating the victims, their families and friends, Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young said Tuesday — it’s also embarrassing the city on a national level.

“The image they’re showing of our city is sickening,” Young said told a crowd in Park Heights during a National Night Out celebration.

They should have worried about that when the police were essentially told to stand down and the mayor said to give looters space to destroy, all broadcast on live TV.

Forty-five people were killed in July, the city’s deadliest month in four decades, and 116 have been slain between May and last month — a three-month record.

At events around the city Tuesday night, Young, Mayor Stephanie-Rawlings Blake, interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and other officials declared their intent to “take back” the neighborhoods from those who are committing crimes and turn Baltimore’s image around.

“The community is coming out to say, ‘Enough is enough,'” Rawlings-Blake said. “‘We want to work in partnership for a safer Baltimore.'”

This has been done time and time again in Baltimore and other cities. Yet, they keep needing to do this kind of thing. I wonder why?

“Too many in our community know who the perpetrators are,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blacks said. “We know who is perpetrating the violence. We have to speak up, we can’t be silent. That’s what National Night Out is about, to say we’re going to come forward and reclaim our streets.”

If you know who they are, why not roust them, arrest them, and prosecute them? Snitch them out. What, exactly, does “speaking up” do? Does she think the criminal element will suddenly have a change of heart? The criminals know exactly who owns the streets, and it is not the mayor and her ilk, not when they are soft on crime.

Neighbors line-danced to the “Cupid Shuffle” and enjoyed burgers and hot dogs, while kids jumped rope and played in two bouncy castles.

I’m sure this totally made the criminals all squishy inside and change their minds.

Councilwoman Sharon Green Middleton stirred up the celebrants and spoke to their dedication.

“That is what brings pride back into your community,” she said. “I can’t thank you all enough for coming together.”

Nothing says pride like watching your neighbors loot, pillage and commit arson in your own neighborhood. On the bright side, there were no reported shootings Tuesday overnight into Wednesday. Unlike with this poor unlucky soul the previous night

Don’t forget, this a totally Democratic Party run city.

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Obama Set To Rail At Americans Who Fail To Support His Really Bad #IranDeal

By William Teach August 5, 2015 – 8:20 am

Almost every poll shows that the Obama/Kerry Iran deal is underwater. The latest from CBS News has it at 30% disapprove, 20% approve, with the rest not sure. Most say it won’t be effective in stopping Iran from going nuclear, which is an important point. The main opposition comes from Republicans and Independents, with Democrats falling in line as typical. So, Obama’s going to make a speech, surely throwing out all sorts of strawmen and harsh words at those who dare defying Him

(USA Today) President Obama will deliver a crucial speech on the Iran nuclear agreement Wednesday, arguing that the congressional vote that could block the deal is “the most consequential foreign policy debate since the decision to go to war in Iraq,” the White House said.

White House aides said Obama would “point out that the same people who supported war in Iraq are opposing diplomacy with Iran, and that it would be an historic mistake to squander this opportunity” to contain Iran’s nuclear program.

The framing of that message appears to be a direct appeal to congressional Democrats, many of whom either opposed the Iraq War or came to regret their votes to authorize it. Obama will need their votes to get the one-thirds vote necessary to sustain a veto.

This is Obama’s strawman argument. There is, in fact, a better choice, namely, negotiating a better deal, rather than one which simply limits Iran’s nuclear weapons aspirations for a decade while essentially removing sanctions which won’t ever “snapback”, all while providing security for Iran. Plus all the other bad parts of the deal, which was negotiated from a position of weakness by Team Obama.

USA Today apparently missed the memo from the White House that the speech will channel John F. Kennedy. The Washington Post is running an article with a headline that mentions it, as do many others, including Politico

Obama channels John F. Kennedy to pitch Iran deal
The president plans to use speech at American University to argue for talking to enemies.

As he defends his nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama is honing a larger vision of foreign policy — one in which military power alone can’t achieve the most important objectives, America is strongest when leading an international coalition, and even an imperfect agreement with a sworn enemy can be progress, not capitulation.

Now, in a speech Wednesday at American University drawing on Cold War history — namely, a 1963 address by John F. Kennedy proposing new dialogue with the Soviet Union — Obama will try to reframe the Iran debate around the grander worldview underlying his new dialogue with Tehran and Cuba.

“You don’t enter into these kinds of agreements with your friends. You have to resolve these kinds of differences with your adversaries,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday.

There’s nothing wrong with talking to enemies, especially if it can stop them from Bad Behavior. It’s quite another thing to make an historically bad deal. And we still do not know about all the side deals. And this bad deal could very well lead to military action, which would mean war, after Obama has left office.

Obama will “describe how this debate is fundamentally about U.S. leadership in the world and how we can lead global efforts to address threats like Iran’s nuclear program the way we did when President Kennedy made the case for diplomatic efforts to address the threat of nuclear weapons and avoid catastrophic conflict,” Earnest said Friday.

Obama has already quoted Kennedy more than once in recent weeks, citing a famous line from the 35th president’s inaugural address in the context of the Iran talks: “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”

Instead, they negotiated from a position of weakness, and showed that U.S. leadership is lacking. It’s capitulation. Expect him to whine at those who do not support his bad Iran deal (as he always does), because, as we all know, the best way to entice the opposition to come to your side is to verbally abuse them.

The remarks are scheduled for 11:20am, so, turn the TV on around 11:45 if you’re interested in watching. Nothing says “I respect you and want your support” like showing up late.

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Two Illegal Aliens Appointed To Huntington Park Commission

By William Teach August 4, 2015 – 3:30 pm

This is exactly the kind of utter insanity that has Donald Trump leading the GOP polls

(LA Times) Julian Zatarain always assumed the doors of City Hall were closed to him because he is here illegally, arriving from Sinaloa in 2007 when he was 13.

The 21-year-old college student found other outlets for service, such as volunteering for the Red Cross and with an organization that helps young people like him get access to educational resources.

Then on Monday, Zatarain proudly accepted an appointment to the Huntington Park parks and recreation commission. Another immigrant here illegally, Francisco Medina, 29, won an appointment to the health and education commission.

“I’m speaking out for people like me,” Zatarain said. “I’m not doing anything wrong.”

Yes, you are. You’re in the country illegally. Will you represent the legal citizens? You’ve as much stated that you won’t.

Unsurprisingly, the comments are heavily against giving two illegal aliens these positions. It’s the same at Yahoo News, where I first ran across the story.

People who are in this country illegally cannot vote or seek elected office, but officials in Huntington Park said their status should not stop them from helping govern in other ways.

This is a dereliction of duty, and blatantly violates federal law which prohibits anyone from hiring anyone who is in the country unlawfully. It may be legal in California, but, federal law trumps state law. As liberals were quick to point out when states tried to crack down on illegals.

Typical liberal insanity. And once they’re done ruining a city, liberals move elsewhere to escape from the messes they created.

One thing the Huntington Park government is telling residents and visitors is that they do no have to actually obey the law.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…are coral reefs being bleached from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Allen B. West, with a post on a comment that should make the DHS chief resign.

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North Carolina To Fight Obama’s Silly Climate Change Plan

By William Teach August 4, 2015 – 10:00 am

And this is one the big reasons why we elect Republicans

(News and Observer) But resistance to the plan is hardening in Raleigh. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources says the EPA misinterpreted the federal Clean Air Act. The state will file a legal challenge.

“Not only will these new federal rules raise electricity rates,” Gov. Pat McCrory said in a statement, “they have the potential to jeopardize the success we’ve made in making North Carolina’s air the cleanest it’s been since we began tracking air quality back in the 1970s.”

McCrory said the state is already on track to cut carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030 without federal intrusion.

States are supposed to file compliance plans by September 2016, although they can get two-year extensions. A federal plan will serve as a backstop for states that don’t craft their own plans.

The North Carolina Senate will take up a measure Tuesday that prohibits the state from filing a compliance plan until legal challenges are resolved.

Expect more states to file suit as well as refuse to participate in this silly plan. And, it is very silly, as Jo Nova points out

This “ambitious” goal is purely symbolic. Here’s why. Electrical power plants make 37% of US emissions, which are about one-fifth of global human emissions, which are 4% of total CO2 emissions globally. So a 32% cut in US electrical emissions will result in a 0.1% cut in total global CO2 emissions (at best)*. If the Obama/EPA plan is “successful” and if the IPCC are right, Paul Knappenberger and Pat Michaels estimate that  Obama’s new plan will cool the world by an unmeasurable 0.02°C by 2100. (snip)

NERA Economic consulting estimates US electricity prices will rise 12 -17%. The Heritage Foundation estimates that rising energy costs will have an economy wide effect and the  US will lose $2.5 trillion  in GDP.  Choosing expensive electricity as a form of global climate control will cost more than one million jobs.[2]

She goes on to note all the coming legal battles.

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Amy Schumer Joins Chuck Schumer In Pushing Gun Control, Protecting White People

By William Teach August 4, 2015 – 8:17 am

Liberal gun grabbers never stop, and, all of a sudden, Amy Schumer is Concerned

(GMA) Comedian Amy Schumer is joining forces with her cousin, Sen. Chuck Schumer, to push for new gun control legislation on Capitol Hill.

The “Trainwreck” star appeared with the New York senator this morning at a news conference with a sign saying “Enough Is Enough” by their side.

“Amy may have started out as a comedian but this subject is really serious,” the senator said, adding, “I have a lot of press conferences but I almost never get this many people.”

For Amy Schumer, the subject of gun violence and mass shootings became “extremely personal” last month, when John Russell Houser opened fire in a movie theater in Lafayette during a screening of her film “Trainwreck,” killing two people and injuring nine others.

Her only link was that this occurred during a screening of her movie, which was random. I wonder how she and Chuck would respond to legislation requiring government to check and see if any Muslim applicant has links to hardcore Islam?

She called the three-pronged plan Sen. Schumer is putting forward in Congress “sensible measures.”

The senator wants to compel states to share information about felons, spousal abusers and the adjudicated mentally ill with the federal government for the national background check system; to survey all 50 states on their standards for involuntary commitment for the mentally ill and put forward national best practices; and to get Congress to fully fund mental health and substance abuse programs.

“No one wants to live in a country where a felon, the mentally ill or other dangerous people can get their hands on a gun with such ease,” his star cousin said.

These are all generally White People problems. In the ghettos in primarily Democratic Party run cities, most of those guns are not legally purchased, and Blacks are shooting and killing other Blacks in huge numbers, even record numbers (see Baltimore). Why is there so little concern from Liberals over Blacks shooting Blacks? Most of the big news events surrounding shootings tend to occur where White People gather, and the shooters are either White or Islamists (though, the link to radical Islam is usually downplayed). The news, run mostly by White Liberals, tends to mostly ignore the huge gun crime problem in Black urban areas that Democrats run.

Why are White Liberals not concerned about Blacks shooting Blacks? Why don’t they have a plan that will reduce what is termed “Black in origin” crime?

Interestingly, Democrats have worked hard to make it harder for citizens to obtain handguns, which would protect them from felons, adjudicated mentally ill people, and spousal abusers.

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Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In The World Says There’s No Plan B On Climate Change

By William Teach August 4, 2015 – 8:00 am

Let’s remember, this is a guy who took a big fossil fueled auto convoy to Andrews to play a round of golf, then jumped in a fossil fueled helicopter to get to a fossil fueled plane. This was just this past weekend. This is a guy who has taken separate flights from his family for vacations. A guy who flew in his dog on a separate plane. A guy who had to be browbeat to put solar panels up on the White House. A guy who is known for keeping the White House extra toasty (using lots of energy). A guy who takes lots and lots of fossil fueled flights across the country for short official speeches, followed by multiple fundraisers, all of which require huge fossil fueled auto convoys

(The Hill) President Obama on Monday rolled out a historic rule that imposes the first-ever federal limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants.

An emotional Obama argued climate change already affects the “reality we’re living with every day,” adding that it would be “shameful” if the U.S. waited any longer to address its causes.

“We only get one home. We only get one planet. There is no plan B,” he said at the White House. “I don’t want my grandkids to not be able to swim in Hawaii, or not to be able to climb a mountain and see a glacier, because we didn’t do something about it.”

So, Plan A is to implement rules that will drastically increase energy costs, will which increase the cost of almost everything else, which will harm the lower and middle classes, all while doing nothing for the climate. Even the NY Times had to admit that this will accomplish nothing, unless all the other countries in the world do the same.

The Environmental Protection Agency regulation demands that power producers cut their carbon emissions 32 percent below what they were a decade ago by 2030, and is designed to encourage use of cleaner alternatives.

But Republicans and industry groups have vowed to fight the rule in Congress and the courts, arguing that it could kill jobs in coal-producing areas, drive up power bills and cause the electric grid to become unreliable.

The NY Times’s Editorial Board notes that this Plan A will shut down hundreds of coal fired power plants: there is no possible way, at least in Reality Land, that this can lead to lowering the cost of energy.

Obama announced he will be the first president to travel to the Alaskan Arctic, where he will highlight the negative effects of climate change. He’ll also promote clean energy sources during an event this month in Las Vegas.

So, he’s going to take a very long fossil fueled flight, accompanied by a backup plan, plus all the fossil fueled vehicles that travel with him, to highlight the dangers of “climate change”? It really doesn’t get much more hypocritical.

He assailed “the special interests and their allies in Congress” who claim the rule will “cost jobs, kill jobs, destroy the coal industry, and hurt low-income and minority community.”

What of the special interests pushing this job killing plan that will hurt the low-income and minority community? In fact, the majority of the people in these groups are lilly-White liberals. It is a very non-diverse movement.

“We’ve heard these same stale arguments before,” he said. “Every time America has made progress, it has been despite these kinds of claims.”

“If you care about low-income and minority communities, start by protecting the air that they breathe,” he added.

400ppm (parts per million) of CO2 is absolutely no threat to anyone, except in the fevered minds of Cult of Climastrology members. Most raw data shows that, despite the rise in CO2, the earth is not warming or has only warmed in a statistically insignificant manner since the last big El Nino in 1998.

Unsurprisingly, this plan gives the federal government massive new power and control over the energy sector and states. And that, right there, is the main point. Expect lots and lots of lawsuits.

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