Ahead Of Paris Talks, NOAA Proclaims 2014 Totally Like The Warmest Ever!

By William Teach July 17, 2015 – 7:43 am

Of course, this doesn’t prove any anthropogenic causation (except in the way NOAA adjusts their data)

International report confirms: 2014 was Earth’s warmest year on record

In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases ─ setting new records. These key findings and others can be found in the State of the Climate in 2014 report released online today by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

One of their findings is

Record temperatures observed near the Earth’s surface: Four independent global datasets showed that 2014 was the warmest year on record. The warmth was widespread across land areas. Europe experienced its warmest year on record, with more than 20 countries exceeding their previous records. Africa had above-average temperatures across most of the continent throughout 2014, Australia saw its third warmest year on record, Mexico had its warmest year on record, and Argentina and Uruguay each had their second warmest year on record. Eastern North America was the only major region to experience below-average annual temperatures.

Huh. Near the surface, but not at the surface? Of course, many of the actual data sets, such as RSS, dispute the findings. And, then there is this from the Met Office

The HadCRUT4 dataset (compiled by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit) shows last year was 0.56C (±0.1C*) above the long-term (1961-1990) average.

Nominally this ranks 2014 as the joint warmest year in the record, tied with 2010, but the uncertainty ranges mean it’s not possible to definitively say which of several recent years was the warmest.

Colin Morice, a climate monitoring scientist at the Met Office, said: “Uncertainties in the estimates of global temperature are larger than the differences between the warmest years. This limits what we can say about rankings of individual years.

Using an average that includes data which had a slight cooling effect through 2/3rds of the period (1960-1979) is rather disingenuous, wouldn’t you think? Love all the uncertainties.

(Watts Up With That) As many readers know, NOAA/NCDC (NCEI) is the SOLE SOURCE of data the global surface temperature dataset. They are the source for GHCN surface temperature record, and for the ERSST v4 sea surface temperature dataset. Both are highly adjusted, the adjustments are in one direction, a warmer trend, and both datasets are entirely under the control of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The other agencies and their “independent” datasets use the source GHCN and ERSST data from NOAA/NCDC to make their own datasets, applying their own set of adjustments.

Even if the data offered by NOAA was 100% rock solid, it still wouldn’t provide proof that the warming since 1850 is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, or even that it is 50% caused. And that is what the debate is about: causation. There has been warming, there could still be more warming, just like has happened throughout the Holocene, particularly since many of the previous warm periods have been warmer and seen more sea rise than the current one.

But, if Warmists are so concerned, perhaps they should give up their own use of fossil fuels and go carbon neutral.

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Dems Offer Legislation On “Unfair” Work Schedules

By William Teach July 17, 2015 – 6:57 am

Another bit of populist pandering to low wage workers from people who have rarely ever worked a real job

(Daily Caller) In the name of fairness, congressional Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would put significant restrictions on how employers schedule their employees.

“This bill is about basic fairness,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a statement. “A single mom should know if her hours are being canceled before she arranges for daycare and drives halfway across town to show up at work.”

What about a single dad, or any male? Sounds rather sexist.

Nearly 80 lawmakers out of the House and Senate introduced the measure. The Schedules That Work Act will add restrictions on how employers can schedule their employees. If passed, it would ban employers from putting their employees on call, splitting their shifts, sending workers home with no pay, or punishing them for requesting schedule changes.

It’s already illegal to send workers home with no pay, per FLSA, at least for the time worked. Splitting shifts and on-call? People knew about it when they took the job (and, yes, those things do suck). Schedule changes? If you own a business with 15 or more employees

“Employers would be required to consider and respond to all schedule requests, and, when a worker’s request is made because of a health condition, child or elder care, a second job, continued education, or job training, the employer would be required to grant the request unless a legitimate business reason precludes it.”

Got that? If your employee wants to run off to a second job, you must grant their request. Unless you have a legitimate reason. You, as the business owner, will surely lose if brought up to some government board if you refuse to grant.

For the others, the legislation requires additional pay.

“This bill is extraordinarily intrusive in how it would direct employers to run their operations,” Marc Freedman, an executive director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said according to law firm Seyfarth Shaw’s Employment Law Lookout.

“It will not create new jobs, open up opportunities, nor spur economic growth,” he continued. “In fact, one potential consequence is that employers will cut back on the number of part time and other non-full time employees they carry.”

Democrats do not care. They have a pandering agenda.

Are some workers treated unfairly? Of course. Welcome to Lifeâ„¢. Are these things a big problem? No. Should we have the Central Government dictating and micro-managing the way businesses run? Hey, requiring that schedules be provided two weeks in advance is a good idea, but, this should not be part of the federal code.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 16, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will rise hundreds of feet in the future, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on judge shopping in Baltimore.

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Mayors To Take Long Fossil Fueled Flights To Compain About Climate Change At Vatican

By William Teach July 16, 2015 – 10:01 am

As Glenn Reynolds constantly writes “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis”

(Wall Street Journal) New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will go to Rome on Monday, where he will meet with Pope Francis and give a speech on climate change at the Vatican, the mayor’s aides said Wednesday.

The mayor will join 65 other mayors from around the U.S. and the world at the Vatican-sponsored conference Modern Slavery and Climate Change: the Commitment of the Cities. The mayors of Boston, Seattle, New Orleans, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., are expected to attend.

This is the second trip to Italy for Mr. de Blasio since he took office 18 months ago. The mayor, who is partially of Italian descent, went there with his family last summer for a vacation.

That’s slightly over 1 metric ton per person for a round trip from NYC to Rome. The carbon footprint obviously is higher for those coming from further away. The trip is being paid for by the people of NYC. Will they also be paying for the carbon offsets? Because Warmists would rather pay a penalty rather than giving up their own big carbon ways.

This time, Mr. de Blasio will deliver a speech on the city’s climate-change plan, called OneNYC, and the role the mayor says it will play in addressing income inequality.

Funny how Warmism also seems to jibe perfectly with Progressive goals and talking points.

And always includes metric tons of hypocrisy.

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EPA Head Gina McCarthy Admits Obama Climate Regs Have No Measurable Impact On Climate

By William Teach July 16, 2015 – 8:19 am

Costs to the American public be damned, they have a cult to push. This comes to us from a July 9th U.S House Science Committee meeting (via Climate Depot)

Via: The HARRY READ ME File: Testifying before Congress, EPA’s McCarthy defends the Agency’s climate regs as ‘enormously beneficial’ when asked about the rules climate benefit of reducing global temps by just one one-hundredth of a single degree Celsius.

CHAIRMAN LAMAR SMITH: “On the Clean Power Plan, former Obama Administration Assistant Secretary Charles McConnell said at best it will reduce global temperature by only one one-hundredth of a degree Celsius. At the same time it’s going to increase the cost of electricity. That’s going to hurt the lowest income Americans the most. How do you justify such an expensive, burdensome, onerous rule that’s really not going to do much good and isn’t this all pain and no gain.
ADMINISTRATOR GINA MCCARTHY: “No sir, I don’t agree with you. If you look at the RIA we did, the Regulatory Impact Analysis you would see it’s enormously beneficial.
CHAIRMAN SMITH: “Do you consider one one-hundredth of a degree to be enormously beneficial?”
ADMINISTRATOR MCCARTHY: “The value of this rule is not measured in that way. It is measured in showing strong domestic action which can actually trigger global action to address what’s a necessary action to protect…”
CHAIRMAN SMITH: “Do you disagree with my one one-hundredth of a degree figure? Do you disagree with the one one-hundredth of a degree?”
ADMINISTRATOR MCCARTHY: “I’m not disagreeing that this action in and of itself will not make all the difference we need to address climate action, but what I’m saying is that if we don’t take action domestically we will never get started and we’ll never…”
CHAIRMAN SMITH: “But if you are looking at the results, the results can’t justify the cost and the burden that you’re imposing on the American people in my judgement.”

Go that? The fact that the rules will make no difference in the temperature, but will increase the cost of living, is immaterial. It’s all about Doing Something.

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Protest Featuring Confederate Flags Greets Obama In Oklahoma, Organized By “Uncle Tom”

By William Teach July 16, 2015 – 7:58 am

Obama took a fossil fueled flight to Oklahoma City Wednesday to discuss economic development and prisons and stuff, and here is how he was greeted, via The Blaze

https://twitter.com/TheBlazeNOW/status/621515528142745600

The protest was organized by Andrew Duncomb, who calls himself “the Black Rebel,” KFOR-TV reported.

“We don’t believe it’s a symbol of racism,” he told the news station.

“They’re blaming the racist problems on the flag and not on the real problems of America. Through the race lies the people who carry and harbor the hate inside,” Duncomb added.

Several other black individuals participated in the demonstration.

In case you didn’t pick it up, Duncomb is Black. And here’s what we get in the comments at the Washington Post, which has a similar story

Mihalix Benko: So one Uncle Tom and the racist possy cheering on under the battle flag of traitors and slavers claims the flag is totally not racist. Yeah sure. Traitors.

Gotta love how this liberal uses a racist description before calling people racists. This is Liberal World, after all.

The protestors’ mothers and children must be oh so proud

Like when Liberals bring their kids to pro-abortion protests. Or “climate change” protests where the grounds are left an environmental mess.

Hopefully the President’s skin had thickened enough by now that this did not hurt too much, but it is hard to think of a more offensive way to greet your Commander-in-Chief..

Yeah, remember when the Obama crowd boo’d George Bush at Obama’s coronation? Remember all the assassination chic from the Left? Liberals should never discuss any sort of “that’s mean”. Of course, Obama does have very thin skin, and The Precious was very upset over a question asked

The president later took umbrage when CBS News reporter Major Garrett asked why he is “content” the freedom of American prisoners held in Iran was not secured, despite their cases apparently being raised.

“The notion that I am content, as I celebrate, with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails — Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better,” Obama said, adding: “I’ve met with the families of some of those folks, and nobody’s content.”

The president said teams are working “diligently” to free them, but said tying their freedom to negotiations could create an incentive for Iran to use American prisoners as leverage for concessions.

Yet, they’re still in Iranian jails, and, perhaps he shouldn’t be giving massive concessions to a country that is the #1 state sponsor of terrorism, a country that has been positively linked to the deaths of 500 US military members, a country that wants to wipe Israel off the map, a country that constantly burns American flags and chants “death to America”, a country that calls America the “Great Satan”, a country that foments violence in the Middle East, and much more. If he had negotiated from a condition of strength, it would have been no problem. Instead, he and John Kerry negotiated like they were the representatives for Iran.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Team Obama Deems “Climate Change” A Moral Obligation

By William Teach July 15, 2015 – 4:36 pm

Perhaps these administrators, hired by Obama, should tell O that taking a fossil fueled flight across the country for fundraisers and a few rounds of golf is bad for Hotcoldwetdry

(Washington Free Beacon) Obama administration officials are labeling fighting climate change a “moral obligation” for world leaders.

U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Gina McCarthy and Obama-nominated U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Kenneth F. Hackett published a joint blog post on the EPA website Monday praising Pope Francis for dedicating his second encyclical to urging swift action on global warming.

“He makes clear our moral obligation to prevent climate impacts that threaten God’s creation, especially for those most vulnerable,” they write, referring to the crusade against global warming as a “moral obligation” three separate times throughout the 600-word post.

If it’s a moral obligation, why are these Warmists not giving up their own fossil fueled travel and making their lives carbon neutral? oh, right, this is all about punishing Other People, while putting the big shots in charge of Other People’s lives.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 15, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike offsetting evil ice cream, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Tradition, with a post on Iranians dancing in the streets.

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Obama Says We Should Stop Telling Prison Rape Jokes

By William Teach July 15, 2015 – 10:24 am

No, really

This comes via Twitchy, which notes people making fun of Obama for the joke part. This may be a minor thing, but, I’m actually going to defend Barack on this point. His statement may seem silly, but, really, he has a point. Rape of any type really isn’t funny. The folks in prison may be bad people, sometimes really, really, really bad people, but, they still should have protections and rights, particularly since they are being housed by the government.

Eliminating gangs in prison, though, good luck with that. A goodly chunk of people in prison are, in fact, gang members to start with. What most experts will tell you, though, is that the best way to reduce gangs in prison is segregation. First, segregating Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, and Asians. There are many of each race who are forced to join a gang in prison for protection. Sometimes from members of their own race, since you can get multiple gangs in each race.

That said, you can also segregate those who are not gang members from the gang members. In this situation, you can have members of multiple races living together. Even there, though, you can have a clash of cultures, which can lead to violence.

But, this kind of thing is poo poo’d by leftist sociologists, who, of course, never have to actually live in prison themselves. Yes, prison should be hard time. But, those sentenced still are entitled to safety themselves.

That all said, Obama did say something else interesting, also via Twitchy

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/621062255380156416

That’s very interesting, because Democratic Party policies have made the Black community the violent and criminal one it is today. Arrest rates in Democrat voting and run cities tends to be pretty high, with Dems keeping Blacks in government supported ghettos. Dems have done all they can to destroy the family and church within the Black community. If Obama wants to complain, he should look in the mirror at his own party.

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Poll: Developed World Not That Concerned With “Climate Change”

By William Teach July 15, 2015 – 8:19 am

After 25+ years of spreading awareness, of unhinged pronouncements of doom, massive spending by government and special interests (who are often funded by government) in support of Doing Something about “climate change”, this is the best that can be accomplished

(Pew) Concern about climate change is relatively low in Europe. While a median of 42% report being very concerned, global climate change is not one of the top two threats in any European country surveyed. Anxiety about this issue is highest in Spain (59%), but just 14% in Poland say the same. In a number of European nations, concern about climate change is more pronounced for those on the left of the political spectrum. Ideological differences are particularly large in the United Kingdom, where about half of those on the left (49%) express serious concerns, compared with 30% of those on the right. Those to the left of the political center are also considerably more concerned about global climate change in Italy, France and Spain.

Global climate change ranks substantially lower as a comparative global threat for Americans, with 42% saying they are very concerned about the issue. The only global issue that is even less worrying to Americans: territorial disputes between China and its neighbors (30%). Much like in Europe, perceptions in the U.S. about the threat of climate change depend on ideology. About six-in-ten Democrats (62%) are very concerned about climate change, while just 20% of Republicans say the same.

Here’s how it all breaks down

So, only in Latin America and Africa, where education is much less, and they want lots of that redistributed cash, does concern over Hotcoldwetdry break the 50% barrier. Concern over ISIS is higher, since it tends to be a real threat, unlike the tiny increase in global temperatures (1.4F since 1850).

So, after all this time, after the constant promotion of doom from the news media, special interests, government, this is the best they can do.

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