ZOMG: Alaskan Rivers Turning Orange Due To Global Boiling!

By William Teach May 23, 2024 – 7:00 am

Um, how did the minerals get frozen under all the ice in the first place?

Alaskan rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds

Dozens of rivers and streams in Alaska are turning rusty orange, a likely consequence of thawing permafrost, a new study finds.

Wait, likely? It is or isn’t. Shouldn’t a scientific study determine the causation? Wasn’t that the point? Not to say “we feel” and “sure, why not”? This isn’t like a hypothesis of the mechanics of a black hole. They can actually go there and do Science.

The Arctic is the fastest-warming region in the globe, and as the frozen ground below the surface melts, minerals once locked away in that soil are now seeping into waterways.

“It’s an unforeseen impact of climate change that we’re seeing in some of the most pristine rivers in our country,” said Brett Poulin, study author and assistant professor of environmental toxicology at University of California Davis.

That’s weird, because they tell us everywhere is the fast place. Regardless of whether this is happening, it doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation

The rusting is a seasonal phenomenon, occurring in the summer typically during July and August, when the soil is thawed the deepest. The researchers at the National Park Service, US Geological Survey and University of California Davis now want to better understand the long-term implications of the changing water chemistry in places with continuous permafrost, which includes Arctic regions such as Alaska, Canada, Russia and parts of Scandinavia.

Did this happen during previous Holocene warm periods? That’s rather a necessary comparison to practice science.

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UK Guardian Says You Stupid Peasants Are Totally Wrong On the Bidenconomy

By William Teach May 23, 2024 – 6:45 am

The media is rather foolish in pushing this so early. It would be better off in September, but, hey, never interrupt an enemy in the midst of a mistake

From the link

Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian. The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer.

The poll highlighted many misconceptions people have about the economy, including:

  • 55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession, though the broadest measure of the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), has been growing.
  • 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, though the index went up about 24% in 2023 and is up more than 12% this year.
  • 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high, though the unemployment rate has been under 4%, a near 50-year low.

Many Americans put the blame on Biden for the state of the economy, with 58% of those polled saying the economy is worsening due to mismanagement from the presidential administration.

The Guardian then spends time trying to up-play the Bidenconomy, but, that’s a heavy load, because

Yet even with these small strands of approval, pessimism about the overall economy is pervasive. It will be an uphill battle for Biden to convince voters to be more hopeful.

“What Americans are saying in this data is: ‘Economists may say things are getting better, but we’re not feeling it where I live,’” said John Gerzema, CEO of the Harris Poll. “Unwinding four years of uncertainty takes time. Leaders have to understand this and bring the public along.”

Sure, some parts of the economy are getting slightly better, but, people have had 3+ years of rising prices on everything, and, while inflation has dropped a bit, those price increases are now baked in, and the middle and working class feel the pinch, while the Elites in the media do not care. How do you convince people who are paying more for all their favorite foods that everything is great? When they drive by gas stations and see $3+ a gallon? When their car insurance is way up?

Yeah, the Atlantic tried this, as well. I love that at some point they changed their headline to “Voters don’t care about the economy as much as they think they do.” They just keep calling you stupid. They did change it back to the original at some point

Joe Biden is, at the moment, losing his reelection campaign. And he is doing so while presiding over the strongest economy the United States has ever experienced.

Why won’t you stupid people give him credit? Dumb peasants.

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Almost Half Of Americans Have Been Turned Into Climate Doomers

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 3:00 pm

There’s “we believe anthropogenic climate change is bad” and then there’s this

Almost Half of Americans Believe Climate Change Will Devastate The Planet In Their Lifetime

Half of Americans believe climate change will devastate the earth during their lifetime, according to new research.

The survey of 5,000 Americans, split evenly by state, revealed that 48% of all respondents believe they’ll live to see climate change destroy the planet.

Respondents in Hawaii were the most likely to agree (66%), with Vermont (59%) and New Mexico (56%) rounding out the top three states most concerned about the effect of climate change in their lifetime.

Washington (55%) and Minnesota (54%) were fourth and fifth, respectively.

Commissioned by Avocado Green Mattress and conducted by Talker Research, the survey also asked respondents if they believe climate change will have a greater impact on their state, versus other states.

The hallmarks of a doomsday cult which has infiltrated schools and the news media to spread their propaganda. Their is a short video at most outlets covering this, not something I can embed.

Regardless of where they live, 65% of respondents wish they could do more to be environmentally conscious in their day-to-day lives.

Um, they can. Give up their own use of fossil fuels, give up meat, etc and so on, as I’ve written numerous times. This is the bottom 5 states

  • 46. Wyoming — 41%
  • 47. Oklahoma — 40%
  • 48. North Carolina — 38%
  • 49. Missouri — 37%
  • 50. Indiana — 36%

So, even in Indiana 36% are batshit insane. Of course, they only surveyed 100 people per state, so, not very representative. And, as much as I’ve looked, there is no link to this poll anywhere, so, for all we know, they could be polling people in deep Democrat areas primarily. We do not know. We do know that there are lots and lots of wackos out there.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is wood rotting from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on focusing on real environmental conditions.

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Sanctuary City Denver Launches Ambitious Plan For Illegal Aliens

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 10:30 am

Goodness, what could possibly go wrong with this?

Denver launches ambitious migrant program, breaking from the short-term shelter approach

illegal alien Democrat In a hotel conference room in Denver, Dallenis Martinez attended orientation with hundreds of other migrants Monday for the city’s new, ambitious migrant support program, which includes six-month apartment stays and intensive job preparation for those who can’t yet legally work.

It’s an about-face from strategies Denver, New York City and Chicago have used as the cities scrambled to support thousands of migrants and slashed budgets. The largely improvised support strategies have included days- to weeks-long shelter stays or bus tickets to send migrants elsewhere.

Now, Martinez, 28, and her two young kids, along with some 650 others in Denver, are being set up with an apartment with six months of rental, food and utility assistance, a free computer, a prepaid cell phone and metro bus passes.

Then, the city working in coordination with several nonprofits plan to provide courses on English language, computers, financial literacy, and workers rights, while also assisting migrants in getting credentialed in specific industries, like construction, retail, hospitality, healthcare and early childhood education. Martinez said she will take any job to support her kids.

I’m sure the homeless Americans in Denver are thrilled that illegal aliens are being given all this support. I’m sure illegals already in the U.S. and heading towards the U.S. are seeing this and saying “let’s go to Denver, they’ll pay for everything.” Is the government giving you all that assistance? It seems like government is doing all they can to raise your costs.

You also have to wonder what happens at 6 months: will the illegals leave the apartments, or just say “nah, we’re established.” And what of their neighbors? Will they enjoy having all the illegals in their neighborhoods with all the crime and life disruption they’ve brought with them?

(CBS NY) The tents have got to go. That’s the message from a community group pushing to get a migrant shelter off of Randall’s Island.

That group is threatening legal action, but city officials said Tuesday they have no alternatives.

From the outset, community groups did not like the idea of usurping eight acres of ball fields and parkland on Randall’s Island for a 3,000-bed migrant shelter. Now, after months of what one group calls violence, fights and reports of illegal activity, the Randall’s Island Park Alliance says it’s time for the city to fold its tents, remove the cots and hit the road.

“It is to the detriment of all — those temporarily housed in the park, along with the thousands of New Yorkers being denied access to parkland,” the group said in a letter to Mayor Eric Adams. “Moreover, it is illegal, and it is time for it to end.”

Well, that’s weird. One would think the Democrat voters in Sanctuary City New York would be happy to have illegal aliens in their neighborhoods, considering they support unfettered illegal immigration. They don’t enjoy the violence, fights, illegal activity?

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Your Fault: People Hurt, One Dies From Air Turbulence

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 7:00 am

I told you to buy a bike and give up your fossil fueled vehicle, move to a tiny home in a big city, and give up meat, but, no, you wanted to live a modern life

Mid-air turbulence turns fatal: How climate change is impacting your flight journey

Turbulence is one of the uncertain factors a flyer may encounter when travelling on a plane. While these inconvenient shake-ups are rarely fatal, they quite certainly can inflict unwarranted injuries.

The rarest mishap occurred on Tuesday when a passenger died after Singapore Airlines’ Boeing 777 encountered “severe turbulence”. The flight was heading from London to Singapore but later diverted to Bangkok.

The incident, in which many passengers were injured, has thrown up multiple questions, with climate change impact being one of them.

Experts say global warming may increase instances of clear air turbulence by up to 200% by 2050. In India, the increase in flight turbulence could be felt during the pre-monsoon season.

Uh huh. In fact, it’s rare, but, it does happen

(USA Today) In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration reported 163 passengers and crew have been seriously injured by turbulence between 2009 and 2022.

Why only those dates? Turbulence goes plenty far back. Planes have been taken down by it.

But, you know, the talking points went out

Those are just a few, but, I got bored with the cult propaganda. And, really, all this proves is that the Earth is in a typical Holocene warm period. It doesn’t prove it is mostly/solely caused be Mankind. But, I recommend that all believers should stop flying.

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Good News: Aid Coming From Biden’s Gaza Pier Has Gone Nowhere

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 6:45 am

It seems they’re having a bit of trouble

Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population

surprise surprise surpriseNone of the aid that has been unloaded from the temporary pier the US constructed off the coast of Gaza has been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, as the US works with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes inside the enclave, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Several desperate Gazans intercepted trucks delivering aid from the pier over the weekend, leading the UN to suspend the delivery operations until the logistical challenges are resolved.

The US is working with Israel and the United Nations to establish “alternative routes” for the safe delivery of the 569 tons of aid transported to Gaza since last week, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Tuesday.

Asked whether any of the aid has been delivered to the people of Gaza, Ryder said, “As of today, I do not believe so.” He added that aid had been held in an assembly area on shore, but as of Tuesday had begun getting moved to warehouses for distribution throughout Gaza as alternative routes have been established.

Sitting in warehouses, eh?

By Palestinians, that’s Hamas. Who then mostly hordes the aid, so, it mostly doesn’t make it to those starving Gazans.

(Cleveland Jewish News) According to Israeli estimates, Hamas has been stealing up to 60% of the aid entering the Gaza Strip, and a Channel 12 report last week revealed that the terrorist organization has made at least $500 million in profit off humanitarian aid since the start of the war on Oct. 7.

Huh.

Reuters also reported that “food and medicine for Palestinians in Gaza are piling up in Egypt because the Rafah crossing remains closed.”

Israel took operational control of the crossing weeks ago, but Cairo so far has refused to cooperate with Israeli authorities to facilitate the entry of aid through Rafah. The Israeli government wants to allow aid into Gaza through the crossing but is unable to do so without Egyptian cooperation.

What do the Egyptians know about the Palestinians?

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Small Islands Win Victory In Climate Doom Suit

By William Teach May 21, 2024 – 3:00 pm

I wonder if they truly considered the implications of winning

Climate change: small island states hail ocean court victory

A global maritime court found on Tuesday that greenhouse gases constitute marine pollution, a major breakthrough for small island states threatened by the rise in sea levels caused by global warming.

Cult science. CO2 is necessary for life on Earth

In its first climate-related judgment, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea said emissions from fossil fuels and other planet-warming gases that are absorbed by the oceans count as marine pollution.

Its ruling – an “advisory opinion” that should nevertheless provide a precedent for cases elsewhere – also said countries must go beyond the requirements of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement to protect the marine environment and the states that depend on it.

“What happened today was that the law and science met together in this tribunal, and both won,” said Cheryl Bazard, ambassador to the European Union of the Bahamas, one of nine Caribbean and Pacific island nations that sought the opinion. (snip)

The court said states have a legal obligation to monitor and reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change and laid out specific requirements for their environmental impact assessments. (snip)

The other nations in the group that brought the case were Palau, Niue, Vanuatu, St.Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines and St. Kitts and Nevis.

So, what exactly do these nations want? There’s nothing really specific in their suit other than “Other Nations must do something.” Nor did the court really offer a ruling on what should be done. So, what happens if nations do Do Something? Perhaps they end the use of fossil fueled planes and ships, which bring tourists and goods to these islands. How well would that work out for them? Every single one of these islands depends heavily on tourism. For instance, tourism accounts for 65% of St. Lucia’s economy. Do they think people will want to sail to the island? The Bahamas depends on tourism and banking. That would utterly dry up.

Will these nations be getting rid of their airports and seaports? Banning fossil fueled vehicles? Will they be catching fish using rowboats and sailboats?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 21, 2024 – 1:34 pm

…is coffee which will soon be too expensive to purchase unless you’re uber-rich, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on cameras being raaaaacist.

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Biden Regime Give Condolences To Iran On Death Of “Butcher Of Tehran”

By William Teach May 21, 2024 – 10:30 am

I remember when Obama picked Biden for his “vast foreign policy experience.” I also remember when all the Leftists in the news media said Biden would bring sanity back the foreign policy of the United States. Here’s the latest example of how bad it is

Biden Admin Expresses ‘Official Condolences’ For Death Of Iranian President Who Was Dubbed The ‘Butcher Of Tehran’

The Biden administration on Monday expressed condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

Raisi and several Iranian regime officials were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Iran over the weekend. Raisi, known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” oversaw aggressive foreign policies that increased tensions with the West and authoritarian domestic policies to repress and abuse the Iranian population, whom he was deeply unpopular with.

“The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement on Monday. “As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

“We regret any loss of life. We don’t want to see anyone die in a helicopter crash,” Miller told reporters on Monday.

Raisi was elected to the presidency in 2021 but had spent decades serving in various roles in the Iranian regime. As a prosecutor in 1988, Raisi was on a “death commission” panel responsible for ordering the execution of thousands of Iranian political prisoners, earning him the “Butcher” nickname. Raisi boasted of his role in executing the prisoners and called it “one of the proud achievements” of the Iranian regime, according to Amnesty International.

The article itself goes into much more detail of how bad Raisi was. For one thing, Iran is still the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism. How about all the morality police assaulting and even killing women for not wearing a hijab? Executing gays? Raisi was simply not a good person, and the US should not be officially expressing condolences for his death. Would the Biden admin do this if Putin died? How about Kim Jong Un?

Just imagine if it was the Trump State Department making this official proclamation: the Credentialed Media would be destroying him. Bored Panda has a long thread on women celebrating Raisi’s death, which, unfortunately, puts the women on the radar of Iran’s government, which has a tendency to do bad things to women. Further, Iranian dissidents around the world celebrated his death. But

(NY Post) But in the medium term, it (sadly) seems unlikely to change anything significantly.

Iran is still committed to its project of regional hegemony, a project far bigger than Raisi.

The Islamic Republic has scored a number of big wins on that front through proxies in recent months: the Houthi offensive against Red Sea shipping; Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities; the gathering storm of an Israel-Hezbollah war.

Nothing will change. Iran leaders will simply appoint another leader who will continue the same path as Iran has been traveling since their revolution in 1979. I have to wonder if it would have made a positive difference if Obama, with Biden as his VP, had completely backed the Iranian Green uprising, instead of blowing it off.

Meanwhile, Eli Copter enters the discussion

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