Cult Of Climastrology Predicts 10 Feet Of Sea Rise In 50 Years

By William Teach July 23, 2015 – 10:18 am

Doooooom!

Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
Could the oceans really rise 10 feet in the next 50 years?

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels.

The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be “substantially more persuasive than anything previously published.” I certainly find them to be.

Two points. First, this is all about scaring politicians and those who really don’t pay attention beyond the superficial to Do Something. Second, if this came to pass, it would in no way prove anthropogenic causation. Because it has happened before.

Actually, there’s a third. This is beyond nutty. Even during much warmer Holocene warm periods the sea rise was less. All we saw during the 20th Century was 7 inches. To think that there will be well over twenty times this amount in the next 50 years is bat-guano insane. And plain scare-mongering.

And only a portion of Antarctica is actually melting, and Science says that it is primarily from underneath the ice, from the Earth’s natural heat, mainly volcanic activity.

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Democrats Want Planned Parent Investigation…Of Group Who Shot Videos

By William Teach July 23, 2015 – 8:08 am

Anything to protect the Democratic sacrament of abortion on demand

(The Hill) Several House Democrats are calling for a federal investigation into the anti-abortion group targeting Planned Parenthood with dozens of hours of hidden camera footage.

A group of Democrats, led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Justice arguing the undercover videos from The Center for Medical Progress may have broken federal and state laws.

The Center for Medical Progress, which is going after Planned Parenthood because of its abortion services, created a fake company to gain access to its facilities and meetings with its high-level officials. (snip)

“This elaborate scheme raises serious questions about whether any federal or state laws were violated in securing the LLC or the personal identification that were part of its execution,” the Democrats wrote to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Additionally, the Democrats said the secretly recorded video may be illegal under California law, as it was filmed without the consent of the Planned Parenthood doctor.

The letter was also signed by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.).

This is what’s important in Liberal World: going after those who uncover wrongdoing by abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

David Daleiden, executive director of Center for Medical Progress, accused the Democrats of trying to distract from the videos.

“They will attack me and my organization all day long, but that does not change the facts about what our investigation has uncovered and what the American people now know — that Planned Parenthood is engaged in an enterprise-wide operation that traffics and sells baby body parts,” he wrote in a statement.

Democrats are working hard to lie, obfuscate, and distract from this issue. Jim Treacher notes

The Democrats can’t make the Planned Parenthood disaster go away. They can’t rebut the facts. They can’t convince people that the evidence of their own senses is a hoax. So they’re trying to use their political power to protect their investment and maintain their control.

Hey, they have the NY Times available to whitewash just how bad this is.

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John Kerry Makes His Case For Iran Deal, Fails Spectacularly

By William Teach July 23, 2015 – 7:52 am

Over at the Washington Post, Secretary Of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz make their case for the Iran Deal, after first taking it to the United Nations. When the deal is already underwater, per polls. I wonder if they will mention the side deals, none of which managed to get the American citizens back?

(Washington Post) When President Obama took office, he faced an Iran that had mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, had constructed a covert uranium enrichment facility inside a mountain, was on its way to installing nearly 20,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, was developing advanced centrifuges and was building a heavy-water reactor that could produce weapons-grade plutonium. If Iran wanted to develop a nuclear weapon, it was already well down that road and the international community had little insight into its program. Against this backdrop the president vowed never to let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon.

Vowed!

The deal reached in Vienna this month is not only the best way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, it is the only durable and viable option for achieving this goal. This comprehensive diplomatic resolution has the unified support of the world’s leading powers. It extends the time Iran would need to develop a nuclear weapon, provides strong verification measures that give us ample time to respond if Iran chooses that path, and takes none of our options off the table.

So, in one breath, it completely and totally STOPS!!!!!!!!! Iran from perusing a nuclear weapon, and in the very next breath tells us that it simply extends the time Iran would need to make a nuclear weapon.

To preclude cheating, international inspectors will have unprecedented access to Iran’s declared nuclear facilities, any other sites of concern and its entire nuclear supply chain, from uranium production to centrifuge manufacturing and operation.

Except for the long, long delays built into the deal, giving Iran plenty of time to play games. But, Iran wouldn’t ever cheat, right? Right?

If Iran fails to meet its responsibilities, sanctions will snap back into place, and no country can stop that from happening.

Except for China and Russia, and any country that starts seeing lots of legal business with Iran. The UN Security Council can nix any snapbacks. Guess who sits on the UNSC? The snapbacks are set up so that Iran can nullify the entire deal and resume building nuclear weapons.

President Obama has said clearly that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. Neither sanctions nor military action can guarantee that outcome. The solution is the comprehensive diplomatic deal reached in Vienna.

Except, this guarantees nothing. Iran can easily cheat, they’ll be flush with cash from the removal of sanctions, and they can overtly resume their nuclear weapons program in eight years, when Obama and Kerry will be long gone from office.

And, no, no mention of any side deals. Surprise?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Developing El Nino Could Be Strongest Ever

By William Teach July 22, 2015 – 3:34 pm

So says the Washington Post’s hyper-Warmest Jason Samenow. Unfortunately, I have to pull part of this from the Boston Globe, since, for whatever reason, the original Washington Post article is no longer available. Maybe they realized that it didn’t help the “climate change” narrative. I do have it saved to Pocket, so, some info you can’t see

The present El Nino event, on the cusp of attaining ‘‘strong’’ intensity, has a chance to become the most powerful on record.

The event — defined by the expanding, deepening pool of warmer-than-normal ocean water in the tropical Pacific — has steadily grown stronger since the spring.

The presence of a strong El Niño almost ensures that 2015 will become the warmest on record for Earth and will have ripple effects on weather patterns all over the world.

A strong El Niño event would likely lead to enhanced rainfall in California this fall and winter, a quieter than normal Atlantic hurricane season, a warmer than normal winter over large parts of the U.S., and a very active hurricane and typhoon season in the Pacific.

Whoa, wait a minute, El Nino is a natural event. If a big one is going to occur, and if we’re being told that this year has so far been a moderate El Nino year, this means that all the warming for 2015 can be blamed on nature, not Mankind. No wonder they wanted to pull the article. It destroys the narrative about 2015 being the hottest ever because of Mankind’s “carbon pollution”.

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If All You See…

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

…is horrid carbon pollution releasing beer, causing the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on random feminist craziness.

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Good News: There Are Two Side Deals With Iran That Won’t Be Shared With Congress

By William Teach July 22, 2015 – 9:48 am

The hell you say! This comes Fred Fleitz at National Review

Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Congressmen Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) issued a press release today on a startling discovery they made during a July 17 meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Vienna: There are two secret side deals to the nuclear agreement with Iran that will not be shared with other nations, with Congress, or with the U.S. public.

One of these side deals concerns inspection of the Parchin military base, where Iran reportedly has conducted explosive testing related to nuclear-warhead development. The Iranian government has refused to allow the IAEA to visit this site. Over the last several years, Iran has taken steps to clean up evidence of weapons-related activity at Parchin.

The other secret side deal concerns how the IAEA and Iran will resolve outstanding issues on possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s nuclear program. In late 2013, Iran agreed to resolve IAEA questions about nuclear weapons-related work in twelve areas. Iran only answered questions in one of these areas and rejected the rest as based on forgeries and fabrications. (snip)

This means that two crucial measures of Iranian compliance with the nuclear agreement will not be disclosed to Congress despite the requirements of the Corker-Cardin bill (the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act), which requires the Obama administration to provide the U.S. Congress with all documents associated with the agreement, including all “annexes, appendices, codicils, side agreements [emphasis added], implementing materials, documents, and guidance, technical, or other understandings and any related agreements, whether entered into or implemented prior to the agreement or to be entered into or implemented in the future.”

As Fleitz notes at the end, this should make us all wonder what other side deals were made, ones which neither Cotton nor Pompeo were informed about. Ones which the duly elected Congress will not be informed about. Nor the American People.

From the press release

Pompeo said: “This agreement is the worst of backroom deals. In addition to allowing Iran to keep its nuclear program, missile program, American hostages, and terrorist network, the Obama administration has failed to make public separate side deals that have been struck for the ‘inspection’ of one of the most important nuclear sites—the Parchin military complex. Not only does this violate the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, it is asking Congress to agree to a deal that it cannot review.

“The failure to disclose the content of these side agreements begs the question, ‘What is the Obama administration hiding?’ Even members of Congress who are sympathetic to this deal cannot and must not accept a deal we aren’t even aware of. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand up and demand to see the complete deal.”

Cotton said: “In failing to secure the disclosure of these secret side deals, the Obama administration is asking Congress and the American people to trust, but not verify.  What we cannot do is trust the terror-sponsoring, anti-American, outlaw regime that governs Iran and that has been deceiving the world on its nuclear weapons work for years.  Congress’s evaluation of this deal must be based on hard facts and full information.  That we are only now discovering that parts of this dangerous agreement are being kept secret begs the question of what other elements may also be secret and entirely free from public scrutiny.”

Most transparent administration ever.

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NY Times Very Upset Over Planned Parenthood Sting

By William Teach July 22, 2015 – 8:30 am

Not once does the Editorial Board profess anything approaching repugnance to the selling of aborted baby parts

The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood

A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses. It shows nothing of the sort. But it is the latest in a series of unrelenting attacks on Planned Parenthood, which offers health care services to millions of people every year. The politicians howling to defund Planned Parenthood care nothing about the truth here, being perfectly willing to undermine women’s reproductive rights any way they can.

The nine-minute video clip released by the Center for Medical Progress, an outfit apparently created in 2013, invites viewers to “Hold Planned Parenthood accountable for their illegal sale of baby parts.” In it, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, is seen discussing the collection of fetal tissue in a lunch meeting with two people posing as potential tissue buyers. A second video, released on Tuesday, shows another Planned Parenthood staff member discussing fetal tissue.

Interestingly, the EB isn’t howling about PP selling baby parts. Nor are they howling after we learned that PP employees wanted to sell baby parts to buy a Lamborghini.

Of course, the rest of the editorial is all about protecting PP, and attacking the group that shot the videos. There is no concern that PP is illegally selling aborted baby parts. No outrage. Heck, they aren’t even upset that PP was using ultrasound to make the abortion cleaner to get the parts. Aren’t abortion on demand proponents against ultrasound for abortion?

Researchers use fetal tissue to study and develop treatments for diseases and conditions like H.I.V., hepatitis, congenital heart defects, retinal degeneration and Parkinson’s. Last year, the National Institutes of Health gave $76 million in grants for fetal tissue research. Planned Parenthood is certainly not the only collector of fetal tissue — clinics associated with universities also supply tissue for research.

So far, embryonic stem cell research has provided no viable cures nor medications. Unless you deem fixing a medical issue then causing big tumors “progress”.

The Center for Medical Progress video campaign is a dishonest attempt to make legal, voluntary and potentially lifesaving tissue donations appear nefarious and illegal. Lawmakers responding by promoting their own anti-choice agenda are rewarding deception and putting women’s health and their constitutionally protected rights at risk.

It’s dishonest to promote abortion as a means to gain tissue for failed research as a means to continue the abortion mills. If these were puppies or baby seals, the NYTEB would be freaking out in apoplectic outrage. And this same EB seems to have a big problem when it comes to school choice, especially vouchers, and the choice to own a gun.

Would this same NYTEB, along with all the leftist supporters of unfettered abortion on demand, have a problem with an open investigation of Planned Parenthood in light of these videos? I’m suspecting that the answer would be “no”.

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Poll: Only 38% Approve Of Obama/Kerry Iran Deal

By William Teach July 22, 2015 – 7:59 am

Hilariously, Mr. Obama proclaimed that 99% of the world agrees with him on the Iran deal, a notion that was backed during a White House presser, as Press Secretary Josh Earnest made a fool of himself.

(Pew Research) More Americans disapprove than approve of the deal struck last week by the U.S., Iran and five other nations to limit Iran’s nuclear program: Among the 79% of Americans who have heard about the agreement, just 38% approve, while 48% disapprove (14% do not offer an opinion).

There is widespread skepticism about aspects of the agreement, particularly the Iranian leadership’s commitment to the terms of the deal: Most of those familiar with the agreement say they have not too much (35%) or no confidence at all (38%) that Iran’s leaders will uphold their side of the agreement. And while there is greater confidence in the U.S. and international agencies’ ability to monitor Iran’s compliance, 54% are not too (33%) or not at all (21%) confident, while a smaller share (45%) express at least a fair amount of confidence in their ability.

It’s going to be rather hard to overcome those numbers when information keeps rising that shows how good this deal is for Iran, and how worthless for the rest of the world, especially the U.S.

Recently, we’ve learned that there really are no restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missiles. There are many disturbing issues in this deal. Many disturbing issues. We hear about “voluntary commitments” made by Iran for their nuclear weapons program, which they still won’t admit to. How does an international body investigate compliance when Iran won’t admit what they’ve been doing?

Obviously, Democrats overwhelmingly approve, but, still 25% disapprove. Among Independents, 49% disapprove, with 36% approving. Not good numbers for the deal.

In the wake of the agreement, just 26% of those who have heard at least a little about the agreement say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence that Iran’s leaders will abide by its terms. About a third (35%) do not have much confidence, while 38% say they have no confidence at all.

44% of Democrats have a great deal/fair amount of belief in Iran sticking to the agreement, compared with just 8% of Republicans and 22% of Independents.

It’s no wonder that Team Obama is pushing this deal hard, because, like so many Obama policies, it is underwater. It surely doesn’t help that they took it to the United Nations prior to the US Congress. Nor that he and people who work for him are trotting out irresponsible language, distortions, even lies, about what this deal does. Obama likes saying that the deal will “cut off every single one of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon”, even when it does anything but. According to the actual deal. Even provided Iran doesn’t cheat.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Deep-Pocketed GOP Squish Really Wants To Tackle “Climate Change”

By William Teach July 21, 2015 – 2:49 pm

The squish in question is Jay Faison, writing at Politico

A GOP Approach to Tackling Climate Change

I’m a Republican, and I want to champion Republican answers to a challenge we aren’t yet known for embracing.

But first, as a happy — if worried — conservative and a lifelong entrepreneur, I’m ready for the Obama administration to pack its bags. I believe in school choice, tort reform, balanced budgets and small government. I believe we need a health care policy that doesn’t cost businesses like mine millions of dollars. I support a free enterprise system unshackled from bad regulation and big labor unions — which were the right thing for American workers in 1890.

If you’re that much of a Conservative, you don’t have to tell us, you’re really a Squish

For all those reasons and more, I’m a committed GOP donor, having contributed to campaigns and super PACs supporting Mitch McConnell, Jeb Bush and Rob Portman, to name a few. But I also believe that my party needs a fresh approach on one of the most important issues of our age.

Yup, a Squish.

Energy policy should be a powerful tool in the coming Republican resurgence, but for too long we’ve ceded the issue to the Democrats. It’s time to develop a conservative national energy agenda that grows the economy, reduces our dependence on foreign oil, protects jobs over lizards and reduces greenhouse gas emissions that are warming our planet.

Here’s the question: why does it have to deal with “climate change”? Sure, the policies that he proposes are actually more in line with mine, but, I don’t propose them as sops to the Cult of Climastrology, but simply as wise energy policies. What Jay is doing is buying into the “consensus” of anthropogenic Hotcoldwetdry, along the nominal lines of taking the issue away from far left fascistic Progressives.

I want to capitalize on this momentum, so I’ve committed $175 million of my personal funds through a new charitable foundation and a separate political action fund. The foundation will engage in targeted advocacy at both the state and national levels, make the public case through cutting-edge media platforms and give grants for innovative, conservative policy work. The political action fund will champion Republican candidates and legislation that support market-based solutions for clean energy and climate issues.

He’s very upset that people are comparing him to uber-leftie Tom Steyer, but, he’s essentially doing the same thing.

  • First, we need to prevent and reform regulations that obstruct the promise and development of distributed solar power, especially on rooftops.
  • Second, conservatives should encourage and fund innovation and research and development in both the private and public sectors.
  • Third, conservatives should embrace and promote energy efficiency in their own lives and businesses.

You should read the rest of each of those paragraphs for more detail, but, let me note that Conservatives tend to be much better at energy efficiency in our own lives than Warmists, because we like to not waste money. Of course, I have to ask if Jay has done the same in his own life?

People too often forget today that the Republican Party has long been the voice of smart environmental policy. Teddy Roosevelt, our original conservationist, protected our national treasures for future generations. Richard M. Nixon signed the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Ronald Reagan forged an international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals. George H.W. Bush enacted a trading program that lowered sulfur dioxide, the primary ingredient in acid rain, by 80 percent.

Environmentalism is good policy. “Climate change” is a manufactured political issue based on junk science.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil CO2 infused beer, which wastes hops that could be made into fuel, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on when American exceptionalism was good.

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