Is Earth Heading For A Mini-Ice Age?

By William Teach July 13, 2015 – 12:02 pm

OK, so a bunch of people have asked, in both email and on Twitter, why I haven’t commented on this yet

Earth heading for ‘mini ice age’ within 15 years

The earth is 15 years from a “mini ice-age” that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted.

Solar researchers at the University of Northumbria have created a new model of the sun’s activity which they claim produces “unprecedentedly accurate predictions”.

They said fluid movements within the sun, which are thought to create 11-year cycles in the weather, will converge in such a way that temperatures will fall dramatically in the 2030s.

Solar activity will fall by 60 per cent as two waves of fluid “effectively cancel each other out”, according to Prof Valentina Zharkova.

This is not the first article I’ve read on this prediction, and I’m sure it won’t be the last that is trotted out.

That said, this is still a prediction. Yes, it is based more on science, rather than “computer models”, hysteria, and politics, but, it is still a prediction. Will it happen? Maybe. Maybe not. Time will tell. But, I’m not into predictions, at least not that far out. I blast Warmists for making them, and I won’t believe this type of prediction till it is closer to happening, which I have stated multiple times. I’m comfortable predicting that the Giants will win a Super Bowl in the next 15 years. Not something like this. I take all predictions with a tub of salt.

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NASA: Pause Is Real, And It’s Totally Due To The Heat Hiding In The Oceans

By William Teach July 13, 2015 – 10:18 am

Bad news, Warmists. Even NASA is saying that the Pause exists. Of course, they use one of your favorite excuses, namely, that the deep oceans ate your warming

NASA Study Finds Indian, Pacific Oceans Temporarily Hide Global Warming

A new NASA study of ocean temperature measurements shows in recent years extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped in the waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Researchers say this shifting pattern of ocean heat accounts for the slowdown in the global surface temperature trend observed during the past decade.

Researchers Veronica Nieves, Josh Willis and Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California, found a specific layer of the Indian and Pacific oceans between 300 and 1,000 feet (100 and 300 meters) below the surface has been accumulating more heat than previously recognized. They also found the movement of warm water has affected surface temperatures. The result was published Thursday in the journal Science.

During the 20th century, as greenhouse gas concentrations increased and trapped more heat energy on Earth, global surface temperatures also increased. However, in the 21st century, this pattern seemed to change temporarily.

“Greenhouse gases continued to trap extra heat, but for about 10 years starting in the early 2000s, global average surface temperature stopped climbing, and even cooled a bit,” said Willis.

So, nature can magically hide the heat, making it responsible for the Pause. But, according to NASA and the rest of the Cult of Climastrology, nature can’t be responsible at all for the warming.

“Given the fact the Pacific Decadal Oscillation seems to be shifting to a warm phase, ocean heating in the Pacific will definitely drive a major surge in global surface warming,” Nieves said.

Wait, I thought it was Mankind’s fault from GHGs? It really does sound like they pull this all out of their butts.

(reporting climate science) “Natural, decadal variability has been with us for centuries, and it continues to have big regional impacts on society,” said Nieves, a JPL scientist with a joint appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We can expect to have more hiatuses in the future, but unless future hiatuses are stronger than usual, they will be less visible due to fast rising greenhouse gases. Right now, the combined effect of the human-caused warming and the Pacific changing to a warm phase can play together and produce warming acceleration.”

This is actually part of the new Warmists talking points, which attempt to incorporate natural variability, then say that GHGs from Mankind make things worse. They’ve been trotting this out as of late in instances where their typical Blame Mankind talking points do not work so well.

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NY Times Editorial Board Spins A Fantasy To Protect Illegal Alien Killers

By William Teach July 13, 2015 – 8:10 am

If you want to read what the Liberal intelligentsia believe, you head to the NY Times. And, right now, they want to protect sanctuary cities, which protect those who have entered out country illegally or overstayed their visas, even if they are bad people who have committed serious crimes.

The editorial from the mostly white and male Editorial Board starts off with a discussion of the murder of Kathryn Steinle by 5 time deported illegal Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who also has a long rap sheet. Of course it devolves into whines about him being a “dark-skinned face of the Mexican killers that Donald Trump — in a racist speech announcing his presidential campaign, and numerous interviews thereafter — has been warning the nation about.” And whines about people taking advantage of the murder to complain about illegals and sanctuary cities. Because liberals never take advantage. How many op-eds and editorials emanated from the NY Times about gun violence? Then we move to

Lost in the screaming were the sound reasons that cities and localities shun the role of immigration enforcers. They are balancing public safety with a respect for civil rights and the Constitution. San Francisco had received an ICE request, called a detainer, to hold Mr. Lopez-Sanchez, but detainers are unconstitutional; a person can’t be held without charge just for ICE’s convenience. Turning the local police and sheriff’s deputies into de facto ICE agents heightens fear and distrust in immigrant communities, which makes fighting crime harder.

Well, when a city is inviting illegal aliens, including those with criminal records, to their cities, telling them they will be protected from Los Federales, public safety has been thrown out the window. Civil rights? What civil rights? The illegals have broken federal law by entering illegally/overstaying visas.

Unconstitutional? He would be held with charge. Being in the country illegally. It is criminal to re-enter country after being deported. Who cares if this causes fear and distrust in the illegal alien communities? They’re here illegally. Funny how Liberals pick and choose which federal law they want to enforce. When Arizona passed its SB1070 law, cracking down on illegals, they pitched a fit that Arizona wouldn’t be following federal law. Yet, they support Sanctuary cities.

The Homeland Security secretary, Jeh Johnson, last fall announced his plan to replace Secure Communities with a new Priority Enforcement Program, which would only seek custody of immigrants convicted of certain serious crimes, and only by asking the local authorities to notify ICE about their imminent release. If the program had been in place in San Francisco earlier in the year, a phone call might have kept Mr. Lopez-Sanchez off the streets.

No, it wouldn’t, because Sanctuary cities refuse to let ICE know anything. They could have picked up the phone and called ICE about Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez when they had him in custody. They chose not to.

People like the NY Times Editorial Board and San Francisco government have the blood of Kathryn Steinle on their hands. They refuse to get serious on these illegals. OK, fine, most are probably nice people, looking for a better life. They’re still here illegally. Mexican law wouldn’t put up with this same conduct. Nor would most other countries. And they sure wouldn’t coddle illegals who also break serious property and violent crime laws.

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Scott Walker Joins The GOP Race

By William Teach July 13, 2015 – 7:47 am

Talk about a crowded field

(The Hill) “America needs new, fresh leadership with big, bold ideas from outside of Washington to actually get things done,” Walker said in a video.

“In Wisconsin, we didn’t nibble around the edges. We enacted big, bold reforms that took power out of the hands of the big government special interests and gave it to the hard-working taxpayers, and people’s lives are better because of it,” Walker said.

“We fought and won. In the Republican field, there are some who are good fighters, but they haven’t won those battles,” he added.

The video is available at that link. As one article notes about Walker (it also has good info on a few other GOP other candidates)

Pros – The Wisconsin Governor is about as Reaganesque as one could want. He has one two elections in “progressive” Wisconsin, including a union-driven recall election. He’s pressed and succeeded in pushing a conservative agenda in an unlikely state.

Cons – Could be viewed as too “vanilla” on the campaign trail. Today, politics is more about personality and emotions than how good at a particular job any candidate would be. More people thought Mitt Romney would be a better President than Obama had been, but they voted for him based on empathy.

A second The Hill article notes the same

He faces a charisma question, and is seen by some critics as a vanilla candidate from the Midwest who lacks the “wow” factor — the same liability that capsized the candidacy of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2012.

While competing with more exuberant rivals such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Donald Trump, Walker must show he can appeal to wide swathes of voters.

Pawlenty was an excellent candidate, one of the best for 2012 IMO, except that he seemed boring, and flamed out early. Walker will need to kick up the excitement factor.

For me:

  • Walker: Yes
  • Rubio: could hold my nose over his amnesty push
  • Bush: he’d have to seriously convince me, after his big support for Common Core, illegal immigration, and “climate change” legislation
  • Carly Fiorina: Yes!
  • Trump: oh, hell no. Zero trust of this guy. He’s saying the right things on immigration, and attacking Hillary and Dems, but, do we really know who this guy is politically?
  • Cruz: Yes!
  • Christy: I do not trust him. He seems more than willing to attack Conservatives, but not Democrats.
  • Rand Paul: I like the guy, he has good ideas, but, I don’t think he would play well during a general election.
  • Perry: meh.
  • Ben Carson: good guy, I don’t think he has what it takes to win a general election.

Now it’s time to see how this all shakes out.

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In Democrat Run Baltimore, Apparently Guns Just Go Off By Themselves

By William Teach July 12, 2015 – 6:40 pm

It couldn’t have anything to do with the people/voters who live in Baltimore, and the policies they enact, could it?

After Charleston shooting, Baltimore gun control advocates take to church to spread message

In the middle of a rousing sermon at his Southern Baptist Church on Sunday, the Rev. Donte Hickman asked congregants to raise a hand if they had personally been affected by gun violence.

Hands immediately shot up, one after another, in nearly every pew in the East Baltimore house of worship — a testament to a problem Hickman said disproportionately impacts black communities in the city.

“People are not our problem,” Hickman said. “It’s the pistols that they’re packing that are our problem.”

Right. Because before those guns, most of which are illegally owned, found their way in the hands of those people, they were perfect little angels.

Anyhow, the good Reverend was part of yet another push to take back the streets. Funny how we constantly need these in these heavily Democratic urban areas. And, of course, they want more gun laws. Because the hardcore criminals shooting each other in the streets of Baltimore will finally pay attention to the law. It’s not like 155 people have been murdered in 65% Black Democrat run Baltimore this year.

Actually, there haven’t been 155

(Baltimore Sun) Violence continued in Baltimore as three people were killed late Saturday and early Sunday.

In all, more than 15 people have been shot since Friday, including six who died. Among them is a man shot in the head in the Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park area early Friday morning who died over the weekend.

The actual number is now 158. Good job, Democrats! Hey, let’s disarm all the non-criminals.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 12, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle pushing evil ice cream at an evil water sucking golf course, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on a woman attacked in Chicago for being white.

It’s ice cream week! Why ice cream? What is it made with? Milk. Where does milk come from? Cows. Cows that release planet boiling greenhouse gases. And, remember, ice cream requires evil refrigerators, which have evil refrigerant gases! So, if you eat ice cream, you’re part of the problem!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 12, 2015 – 10:00 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! A great day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the fish are biting. This pinup is by Arthur Sarnoff, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That discusses a possible mini ice age
  2. American Power covers the coming era of civil disobedience
  3. Blazing Cat Fur notes another peace loving mosque
  4. Chicks On The Right discusses something that White people can finally get Offended over
  5. Fausta tells us what Mexican immigration law is today
  6. Fire Andrea Mitchell notes some more wonderful illegal aliens driving
  7. Free North Carolina discusses Paris in flames
  8. Just One Minute notes that SJWs never sleep
  9. Legal Insurrection covers more fallout for churches that refuse to perform gay marriage
  10. Moonbattery notes a homosexual suing a Bible publisher
  11. neo-neocon covers trail by government agency
  12. Political Clown Parade is not impressed by The Donald
  13. Powerline discusses Obama’s silence on the SF lady murdered by an illegal alien
  14. protein wisdom wonders where the dignity is in California
  15. And last, but not least, The Camp Of The Saints has thoughts on The Donald

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.

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Important Things: Why Are Our National Parks So Darned White?

By William Teach July 12, 2015 – 8:23 am

Nothing like some good race baiting for the sake of race baiting

Why Are Our Parks So White?

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The national parks attracted a record 292.8 million visitors in 2014, but a vast majority were white and aging. The most recent survey commissioned by the park service on visitation, released in 2011, found that 22 percent of visitors were minorities, though they make up some 37 percent of the population.

This suggests an alarming disconnect. The Census Bureau projects that the country will have a majority nonwhite population by 2044. If that new majority has little or no relationship with the outdoors, then the future of the nation’s parks, and the retail and nonprofit ecosystem that surrounds them, will be in trouble.

Perhaps people of color just do not want to go to parks? Maybe it’s not their thing? No, wait, it must be racism. Probably unconscious racism. Even though no is actually stopping people of color from going to the parks.

A neighbor, Carla DeRise, has been to Mount Rainier and other parks, and is game to go again. She just can’t get any of her friends to come along. They are worried about unfriendly white people, hungry critters and insects, and unforgiving landscapes, said Ms. DeRise, 51, an African-American. So she mainly hikes alone, albeit with some anxiety. “I don’t have a weapon,” she quipped. “Yet.”

One has to wonder how it would have gone over had the article been written about, say, Detroit or Baltimore, with White people worried about “unfriendly Black people”? It’s a heck of a lot more dangerous going into those urban parks.

There was always nervous banter as we cruised through small rural towns on our way to a park. And there were jokes about finding a “Whites Only” sign at the entrance to our destination or the perils of being lynched or attacked while collecting firewood after the sun went down. Our cultural history taught us what to expect.

Again, what if the article had been written about worries about being shot, stabbed, raped, robbed, and/or assaulted while visiting the ghettos of Baltimore, Detroit, Birmingham, Newark, and other majority-minority cities? How would that have worked out? Our recent history has taught us what to expect. Seriously, this article is about as race-baity as it gets.

This is part of what the park service is up against, which may help explain why so many minorities say they know little about the nation’s parks or what to expect when visiting them. In the 2011 park service survey, nonwhites were more than three times as likely as whites to say that the parks provided poor service and were not safe to visit.

And those responses were from nonvisitors, which means that perceptions had congealed into reality among what should be an important constituency for the parks.

Oh. So people who have never been there are scapegoating whitey in a racial manner. Who’s the racist now?

The place to start is the National Park Service. About 80 percent of park service employees in 2014 were white. The parks’ official charity, the National Park Foundation, has four minority members on its 22-person board.

Minorities did not exceed 16 percent of the boards or staffs of some 300 environmental organizations, foundations and government agencies included in a 2014 study for Green 2.0, an initiative dedicated to increasing racial diversity in such institutions. Minorities hold fewer than 12 percent of environmental leadership positions, and none led an organization with a budget of at least $1 million, the study found.

The National Park Service is the logical leader to blaze a trail to racial diversity in the natural world. It has a high public profile, and its approaching centennial can serve as a platform for redefinition.

Here’s the thing in our forced conformity world: maybe they do not want to be involved. Has anyone considered that? Maybe it is simply that simple, that there are things different groups like doing and not doing. They obviously do not like being part of the NY Times’ Editorial Board. Maybe the article writer should be asking why the EB is so darned white.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 11, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…are palm trees which will soon be growing in Detroit from too much heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on the utter ignorance of the Church’s left wing.

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Doom Today: 20 Feet Of Sea Rise “In The Future”

By William Teach July 11, 2015 – 11:00 am

Today’s scary story

(CBS) Rising sea levels have been mostly measured in inches in the past decades, but scientists said they could increase more than 20 feet in the future as global warming continues to melt ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

The dire projections are based on a look back at the climate record, with scientists finding that increases of 20 feet have happened at least twice over the past 3 million years when temperatures were very similar to what they are today.

If similar increases were seen across the globe, that could put tens of millions of people living in coastal communities from New York to Miami to Bangkok at risk of storm surges and increased flooding. Even NASA is fearing its launch pads could be threatened by climate change.

Many of these coastal communities are already seeing increased flooding – and that is just from global sea levels rising around 8 inches since 1880. Records also indicate the rate of sea level rise has intensified since the 1990s.

Eight inches of sea rise over a period of 135 years is actually well below what should be expected during a Holocene warm period, looking at the average of 6-8 inches of rise per century over the last 7,000 years. Remember, cool periods last longer, meaning sea rise would be lower than the average, and even negative, hence, to make the average, warm periods, which have typically been shorter than the cool periods, must have much higher sea rise.

But, hey, this is about Scaring People, so, reality need no intrude, and this is totally going to happen In The Future, you guys!

“Modern atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are today equivalent to those about 3 million years ago, when sea level was at least 6 meters higher because the ice sheets were greatly reduced,” he said. “It takes time for the warming to whittle down the ice sheets but it doesn’t take forever. There is evidence that we are likely seeing that transformation begin to take place now.”

OK. So, what caused that in the past? If you say “nature, of course”, then why can’t nature be the primary driver now?

“As the planet warms, the poles warm even faster, raising important questions about how ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will respond,” Dutton said. “While this amount of sea-level rise will not happen overnight, it is sobering to realize how sensitive the polar ice sheets are to temperatures that we are on path to reach within decades.”

Strange, since Antarctica is not warming. The amount of Arctic ice has been getting bigger and bigger over the past few years. Greenland is not melting down. And, still, there is no proof, just conjecture and stale talking points, that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the current warm period.

Anyhow, I see that Anthony Watts took a stab at the “science” surround this pronouncement of doom. Really, though, this goes directly to

Dutton said understanding the response of the ice sheets “will be very important to guide policy makers or inform decisions on mitigating sea level rise.”

“One of the most burning questions for policy makers is how fast sea levels will rise,” she told CBS News. “We want to know will sea levels rise gradually as ice sheets retreat or will they rise very suddenly due to rapid ice sheet collapse? That is a fundamental question that we are trying to get at by looking at the past records.”

Yeah, this is all about getting Government to Do Something, which means forcing citizens to act like it’s a crisis, something Warmists refuse to do now, despite their dire prognostications.

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