…is a wonderful forest that is dying from too much carbon pollution (look at all those fallen leaves!), you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post noting that Ocare is still really unpopular.
Read: If All You See… »
The Calgary Herald’s Barry Cooper thinks that having a conversation would be a great thing
According to President Barack Obama, climate change is an American security problem.
As a follow-on to the 2012 Rio climate summit, which featured the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer bathed in green light, the Pope is preparing an encyclical on climate change. Prior to the December climate summit in Paris, we can anticipate extravagant exhortations to save the planet. Such is the context for Premier Rachel Notley’s call for change in response to “the worldwide conversations around climate change.â€
A conversation would indeed provide a contrast with the usual exchanges of vitriol. For the following reasons, it seems highly unlikely to occur.
First, there is the problem of the natural causes of climate change. So far as I can tell from contemporary studies, natural causes include solar and gravitational changes, volcanic and magnetic changes linked to plate tectonics, and cosmic radiation. There are cycles in ocean currents, including Dansgaard/Oeschger cycles in sea-ice cover, and Milankovitch cycles in the Earth’s tilt, motion around the sun, and so on. The periodicity of these cycles ranges from decades to millenniums.
In contrast, we have about two centuries of thermometer readings and 35 years of microwave sounding units to estimate global average temperatures. In terms of climate cycles, that’s worth about one data point.
The big problem, of course, is that Warmists, mostly part of the far left Progressive movement, do not want a conversation. Like with most issues, they want a soliloquy. You are either part of their beliefs set or you need to shut up. Even by “force”. Hence the reason for sayings like “the science is settled”. Hence the reason websites, including news organizations, shutting down all comments from those opposed to the Cult Of Climastrology. Nor allowing articles that have a skeptical viewpoint. Warmists want nothing to do with debating Skeptics, and rarely do. They will often bow out or leave a news set when confronted.
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, noted that, if there were proof that CO2 was a significant factor in global worming, it would be written down. It isn’t. The effects of CO2 are described as “likely†or “probable,†which reflect a judgment, not a proof. More precisely, they are statistical estimates that flow from models that in turn reflect assumptions governing their operations.
I’ve mentioned that same thing about using those words many, many times. As far as the models go, they have not only failed in prediction, they fail when applied to the past. Hence the need to constantly “adjust” the data.
Again, Warmists do not want a conversation, because actually having a conversation exposes the true agenda, which is not science, but politics, as I’ve written time and time again.
In yet another sad occurrence, another police officer has had their life ruined because of lawless behavior by citizens, behavior that is completely excused by the social justice warriors
(NY Times) A police officer in McKinney, Tex., who was seen on video pulling his gun on teenagers in swimsuits and shoving a young black girl’s face in the ground at a pool party has resigned, the police said Tuesday.
Cpl. David Eric Casebolt, who had been placed on administrative leave after the episode on Friday, remains under investigation, Chief Greg Conley said at a news conference. The corporal will keep his pension and benefits, the police chief said.
“Our policies, our training, our practice doesn’t support his actions,†Chief Conley said. “He came into the call out of control, and as the video shows was out of control during the incident.â€
Of course, and as usual, not mentioned in the article is that the officers were called to this illegal party by the security guard at the pool, due to these kids running around, being extremely loud and rude, assaulting the security guard, accosting the members of the pool, jumping the pool fence, causing property damage, and fighting. When the duly sworn peace officers showed up, the kids continued to run around, fight, refused to listen to the officers, used foul language, challenged the authority of the officers, refused to disperse, and, when Casebolt had one of the offenders on the ground, who was continuing to resist, approached the officer in an aggressive manner, which caused him to pull his service weapon.
One adult man was arrested on charges of interfering with the duties of a police officer and evading arrest. Chief Conley said on Tuesday that those charges had been dismissed.
Where are the charges of, at the least, trespass, for all these kids? They broke the law? But, this is how it works in this nation now, where we turn cops into the lawbreakers and excuse the behavior of the lawbreakers, especially if they are of a particular color. No, I do not want to go racial. Let’s face it, it can’t be ignored. The SJWs went racial first. Why do they excuse criminal behavior by these kids? They do love turning cops into The Enemy. And then they whine when the cops aren’t there to protect the SJWs.
You can bet that the officers on the force have totally lost respect for the chief, after he threw Casebolt under the bus. Casebolt had to leave town due to threats to his life. Certainly from the same “peace loving” SJWs.
Are there bad cops out there? You bet. Casebolt wasn’t one of them. He responded to lawless behavior, and paid the price for having to deal with out of control youths. The SJWs always talk about coming together, working together, but, quickly jump to claim scalps. And use death threats. They could have worked with the officer, talked with the officer, “come together as a community” to make sure this didn’t happen again. But, that’s not the way things work in SJW Land. Scalps must be taken and lives must be ruined, while, in a case like this, all the others involved in criminal/hooligan behavior are excused.
Where’s our “national conversation” on excusing criminal behavior by out of control kids?
Read: Social Justice Warriors Take Another Scalp: McKinney Police Officer Resigns »
North Carolina already has a driver’s license for illegals given executive amnesty by Barack Obama. Other than driving, registering a vehicle, and purchasing vehicular insurance, they provide no lawful status. In order to register a vehicle, one must have a valid DL and valid insurance. In order to obtain a DL, one must have valid insurance. This applies regardless of immigration status. Now the NC House looks to offer this to all illegal aliens
(WRAL) When a bill that would allow immigrants in the United States illegally to obtain limited driving privileges cleared the House Finance Committee Tuesday morning, Gregorio Morales and Carmen Rodriguez were among the folks sitting in the back of the room smiling.
Morales, who is originally from Mexico, has lived in the United States for 17 years – seven of those in North Carolina – and would be one of the people lining up for the new identity cards if House Bill 328 becomes law.
“I am a small-business owner. I have a landscape company,” Morales said shortly after the vote. He and his five employees would all benefit from the bill, he said.
“When you’re driving without a license, you always feel fear,” he said.
That’s right, at least two illegals were present, and they….weren’t detained. Despite admitting that not only were they present in the US illegally, but had been breaking other laws.
House Bill 328 would create a “restricted ID” for undocumented residents in North Carolina that would look different from a standard driver’s license. People obtaining one of the permits would need to undergo fingerprinting and background checks and prove their identity. Driving privileges would be attached to the restricted ID once applicants pass a state driving test and obtain liability insurance coverage.
While the bill cleared committee on a 22-11 vote, the measure is controversial, splitting Republicans in the House who are divided between encouraging people who are on the road anyway to get insurance and those who say the state should not provide public benefits to undocumented workers.
“What we want to do in this undocumented community is to separate those who are engaged in criminal activity from those who otherwise are not engaged in unlawful activity,” said sponsor Rep. Harry Warren, R-Rowan.
What’s the point of electing Republicans when they just act like Democrats? Some Republicans were dead set against this bill, including Governor McCrory.
Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam, R-Wake, pointed out that, in the case of an accident involving a driver without insurance, the other driver’s insurance bears the cost of damage and medical bills. Part of the insurance premiums drivers pay every month go toward covering such accidents.
It is a good point, and, if we look at this pragmatically, there are, unfortunately, too many who put roadblocks in the way of detaining and deporting the illegals, as well as stopping them in the first place.
As to the details of the bill, on page 11 line 23 we learn
The Division shall work with other State and local agencies on an ongoing basis to ensure that restricted drivers permits are not used to obtain public benefits for which only citizens and lawfully present persons are eligible
So, at least there is a provision blocking illegals from obtaining any benefits with the DLs. Whether this would be obeyed is another matter.
There is a long list of requirements and approved documents in order to obtain one of these special DLs, which would be marked as special. Passports are allowed, but no other document from an embassy (this is aimed directly at the Mexican consulate) would be allowed.
Possession of one of these special DLs cannot be used as basis to investigate nor detain the card holder.
They are only good for a period of one year, so, yearly renewal, which would certainly mean a yearly background check. And there is a long list of offenses which bar an illegal (and one would hope that this would mean immediate detention). However, things like “disturbing the public peace, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, worthless checks, misdemeanor larceny, shoplifting, or public drunkenness” do not disqualify.
Of course, this is all predicated on the bill actually making it on to the House floor for a vote, being passed in the Republican controlled House, then passing in the Republican controlled Senate, then avoiding a veto by the Governor.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: NC House Committee Passes Bill Allowing Driver’s Licenses For Illegals »
The Law Of Unintended Consequences rears its head
(UK Daily Mail) It is touted as the flagship of Britain’s energy future: the world’s biggest green power plant burning wood pellets to generate renewable biomass electricity that will safeguard the planet for our children.
But today The Mail on Sunday can expose the hypocrisy that underpins the Drax power station in North Yorkshire – which far from curbing greenhouse emissions, is actually increasing them, while adding huge sums to the nation’s power bills.
Drax was once Britain’s biggest coal-fired power station. It now burns millions of tons of wood pellets each year, and is reputed to be the UK’s biggest single contributor towards meeting stringent EU green energy targets.
But astonishingly, a new study shows that the switch by Drax from coal to wood is actually increasing carbon emissions. It says they are four times as high as the maximum level the Government sets for plants that use biomass – which is defined as fuel made from plant material that will grow back again, therefore re-absorbing the CO2 emitted when it is burnt.
At £80 per MW/hr, Drax’s biomass energy is two-and-a-half times more expensive than coal – a cost passed on to customers. Last year Drax soaked up £340 million in ‘green’ subsidies that were added to British consumers’ power bills – a sum set to rocket still further. Without these subsidies, its biomass operation would collapse.
Perhaps most damningly of all, its hunger for wood fuel is devastating hardwood forests in America, to the fury of US environmentalists, who say that far from saving the planet, companies like Drax are destroying it. Drax denies this, saying it only uses dust and residues from sawmills, as well as wood left over when others log trees for purposes such as construction. Inquiries by The Mail on Sunday investigation suggests this claim is highly questionable.
Apparently, they are only using about 9.5% dust and residues. Mostly, they are using trees that are being clearcut that are not good for lumber. So, we’re replacing coal, which has a much lower cost (but still has real world environmental costs, like mountain top removal), with an even older technology, wood, which results in forest destruction, and still has a high CO2 output.
In fact, the use of wood is growing in Europe, due to all the draconian “climate change” rules, regs, and laws. Which has led to governments enacting and proposing regulations on wood burning stoves and fireplaces.
Read: World’s Biggest “Green” Power Station Apparently Not So Green »
…are wonderful trees that can be used as biomass to replace coal plants, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on work ethic being right wing propoganda.
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The UK Guardian is currently your go-to place for bat guano insanity regarding Hotcoldwetdry, which features Holly Burn, who is a comedian, writer and actor (and surely takes lots of fossil fueled trips)
John Oliver can make global warming funny, but climate comedy is still hard
The problem when it comes to making comedy about climate change is that it’s about the world falling into an open sewer, and it’s too impersonalComedy = tragedy plus time. That’s the equation to make ha ha’s happen. You may not know it, but all us lot in the comedy production line just hang out riffing maths formulas and that’s how we come up with the gold. Simples. (Winky face.)
So I’m not that great at math(s) – NB I do like to keep in with the Yanks. But I can still do the sums when it comes to melting all the ice caps away with our long baths; destroying Mr P Bear’s ice house with our TripAdvising globe trots; and finishing off the fossil fuels by blowdrying our hair to bits. Once we’ve done all that it’ll be too late. There’ll be no time left for the punchline: set up and then just tragedy. The laughter will be stranded and left for dead, marooned like one of those polar bears balancing on a singular floating block of ice. (snip)
US actor and comedian Mel Brooks said: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die†(and he charged £500 a ticket for his show in the West End recently so he must be right?). The problem when it comes to making comedy about climate change is that it’s the world falling into the open sewer. It’s this mammoth problem too big for any of us to get our heads round, too impersonal to understand and too far removed for any of us to grapple tangibly with. Most of us feel we are not yet living directly with the consequences of climate change. Human peeps are a selfish lot bothered with the here and now and if we can’t see it it ain’t happening and we don’t care.
If you’re in the U.K., make sure to check Holly and her poor grammar as she tours the nation in what will surely be a fossil fueled vehicle, as well as on TV, which uses vast amounts of power.
Read: Hooray! Comedy Can Tell Us All About “Climate Change”! »
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And once they were done, they jumped in their fossil fueled vehicles surrounded by other fossil fueled protection vehicles. This is beyond bat guano insane, unless they can come up with a viable alternative. It’s pie in the sky, it’s beyond wishful. Perhaps they want the world to go back to whale oil?
(UK Guardian) The G7 leading industrial nations have agreed to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century, the German chancellor,Angela Merkel, has announced, in a move hailed as historic by some environmental campaigners.
On the final day of talks in a Bavarian castle, Merkel said the leaders had committed themselves to the need to “decarbonise the global economy in the course of this centuryâ€. They also agreed on a global target for limiting the rise in average global temperatures to a maximum of 2C over pre-industrial levels.
What countries participated? Germany, Britain, France, the US, Canada, Japan and Italy. Merkel can simply jump in a fossil fueled vehicle to drive home, along with her surely large entourage. The leaders of France and Italy could take fossil fueled vehicles for the drive home (along with all their entourages), but, instead, they will take fossil fueled vehicles to the airport for a fossil fueled flight. The rest have no choice but to take FF vehicles to the airports to board their FF airplanes for FF flights back home. Obama will then take a FF helicopter back to the White House.
It would be nice to replace fossil fuels with something cleaner, in terms of real environmental issues, as opposed to the ginned up “carbon pollution”. How? That’s the part that is utterly missing from these members of the Cult Of Climastrology. The 1st World is set up for fossil fueled transportation. Even the 3rd world uses lots of fossil fueled travel. There are no viable alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation at this time. Nothing. What of the production of a good chunk of goods, which use plastic? So many other products require fossil fuels. Foams, rubber, synthetics, etc and so on. Fossil fuels are probably involved in 90% of everything. The majority of mankind’s infrastructure relies on fossil fuels. Will we go back to horse and buggy and sailing ships? No air transportation?
Samantha Smith, a climate campaigner for the World Wildlife Fund, said: “There is only one way to meet the goals they agreed: get out of fossil fuels as soon as possible.â€
The 350.org campaign group put out a direct challenge to Barack Obama to shut down long-term infrastructure projects linked to the fossil fuel industry. “If President Obama wants to live up to the rhetoric we’re seeing out of Germany, he’ll need to start doing everything in his power to keep fossil fuels in the ground. He can begin by rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline and ending coal, oil and gas development on public lands,†said May Boeve, the group’s director.
Well, Obama is working hard to knock out FF development on public lands. Fortunately, there are plenty who are drilling on private land. Even if he does reject Keystone XL, Canada is still going to develop the tar sands, and ship it somewhere. One has to wonder if the people who work for 350.org have given up their own use of fossil fuels?
It will be interesting to see if this “end fossil fuels by 2100” mantra grows. It’ll also be interesting to see if the people who are pushing it remove fossil fuels from their own lives. We all know they won’t.
Read: People Who Use Vast Amounts Of Fossil Fuels Pledge To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By End Of Century »
Everyone keeps saying that the video from the McKinney (illegal and against the community HOAs) pool party is hard to watch. Of course, they mean because of the supposed way these kids were being treated. It’s actually hard to watch because we see kids running rampant, refusing to listen to law enforcement, charging an officer causing him to pull his gun. Police officers are humans, and they get tired of listening to a bunch of hooligans, and telling them to settle down, especially when the kids are the ones who were in violations
(Fox News) Hundreds of demonstrators rallied outside an elementary school in a Dallas suburb Monday in response to a video that showed a white police officer pushing and pinning a black teenage girl to the ground before drawing his gun on two others who tried to intervene.
KDFW reported that many of the protesters came from outside the town of McKinney, about 35 miles northeast of Dallas. They held signs that included the phrases, “My skin color is not a crime,” and, “Don’t tread on our kids.” More than 150 people were part of a counter-protest on a nearby corner, waving flags and holding signs that said “Back the Blue.”
No, your skin color is not a crime, particularly since white kids were involved, as well. The party itself was a crime, as was trespassing, jumping the pool fence, fighting, assaulting the security guard, destruction of property, resisting, failing to listen to a duly sworn peace officer, and aggressively approaching a police officer. As far as “treading on our kids”, where were the parents of these kids? Perhaps they should have taught them better values. Yes, kids will be kids, and I think we can all understand that many might have been upset about being invited to this party, reportedly being charged $15 for attendance, then being kicked out because the party was illegal per the HOA rules. Of course, that’s still no excuse for the fights, property destruction, etc.
A few dozen addressed the crowd through a bullhorn, including Derrick Golden, a pastor from McKinney who met earlier with the city’s police Chief Greg Conley. He said Conley “responded appropriately” in placing the officer, 41-year-old Eric Casebolt, on administrative leave following the incident. However, Golden said he would push for Casebolt to be fired due to the officer’s use of profanity and his brandishing of the gun.
But Benét Embry, a black local radio personality who witnessed the incident, said it was “not another Ferguson” or “another Baltimore,” referring to other police encounters that have left suspects dead and fueled a nationwide “Black Lives Matter” movement.
Let’s assume that Officer Casebolt went a little too far. That wouldn’t have happened if the illegal party hadn’t taken place, if the kids weren’t trespassing, abusing the security guard and residents (who pay a fee for the pool), fighting, etc and so on.
Robert Taylor, a criminology professor at the University of Texas at Dallas who has done studies for the McKinney Police Department, said both the officer and the teens at the pool party acted inappropriately.
The teens were not following police orders, he said, but the officer’s decision to pull out his gun did not help.
“That’s not the way we’re trained,” he said. “We’re trained in policing to de-escalate problem encounters like this. … Obviously, that officer lost his cool. No doubt about it.”
Maybe he did lose his cool. Police are human, and they certainly can get tired of the hooligan behavior, the yelling, the cursing, and do not appreciate anyone aggressively approaching them when they are attempting to restrain someone else, as the video shows.
Overall, this is typical. Something happens, and people go overboard in their protests, totally forgetting that the people they are protesting in support of were acting in a lawless manner. Perhaps they should spend their energy in teaching the kids civilized behavior, instead of attempting to ruin other people’s lives. By the way, residents of the neighborhood are being harassed and abused, and even threatened. Why aren’t the social justice warriors worried about that?
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Good Grief: People Protest In Texas Over “Pool Party” »
Eschatology: a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind. Robert Edward Gordon tells us about the eschatology of the Left
I am always amazed that people without the capacity to verify the climate data are so convinced that “climate change†— which used to be “global warming,†but had to be changed to accommodate the “Great Pause†— is real and catastrophic. Since most people cannot independently verify the science of climate change, then those whose political leanings favor anti-capitalist solutions will accept the “facts†as if they are as true as gravity.
Liberals are sheep, led by their political masters, and have been told to Believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that we’re all doomed. In order to forestall the doom, we must change the economic system to a Progressive/Marxist economy, and implement tons of rules, regs, and laws which restrict personal freedom, the freedom of private entities, and control of the economy. Of course, they all think this should happen to Other People, never themselves, and mostly refuse to change their own lives to match their talking points.
The Left need causes that necessitate unitarian government. As such, they are global universalists. They want universal health care, global government via the United Nations, a world without borders. Global climate change is a perfect totalizing umbrella to unite the world under a single, controlling, horrifying rubric of an Earth in jeopardy underwritten by the prestige, authority, and inaccessibility of high science. The truth is that the earth is a religion to the Left, and climate change is its eschatology — an end of the world scenario. It used to be global thermonuclear war. Movie after movie in the 1980s fabricated a readymade collective anti-reality that only Leftist politics of disarmament and a “new world built on the ashes of the old†could solve. But that needed to be changed after the fall of the Berlin Wall (another reason to hate Reagan). A new collective umbrella needed to be fashioned.
Calling it “unitarian government” is a nice way of discussing what Warmists, part of the Progressive/Leftist movement, want, namely, an authoritarian centralized government.
Why, hasn’t anyone ever wondered why Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance (1992) was released so shortly after the fall of Russian Communism? Indeed, its subtitle is “Forging a New Common Purpose.†Climate change skeptics are not denying that a legitimate scientific issue exists that humans need to grapple with, but the political aspirations of those promoting its purported catastrophic consequences, whose ideas and solutions for humanity just might actually end life as we know it. Food for thought.
Al Gore, and other leading Warmists, have made quite a bit of money pushing these notions, jet setting around the world, gathering acolytes, while demanding that the rest of us reduce our lifestyles. Food for thought.
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