Bummer: Climate Cult NY Won’t Meet Their Climate Cult Goals

By William Teach May 1, 2024 – 7:15 am

This is so weird. It’s almost like all the New Yorkers who voted for the politicians who forced this on the the peasants aren’t practicing their beliefs, in the same way as the politicians aren’t

NY won’t meet climate change goals under ‘asinine’ green energy law, business rep claims

New York’s “asinine” climate change law demanding a dramatic increase in green energy has set unattainable goals — and could trigger soaring electrical costs for consumers, a top state business advocate claims.

“It is very clear that  New York will not meet the goals that are required under the statute when it comes to climate change,” Paul Zuber, senior vice president at the NYS Business Council, said during an interview on WABC 77 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” program.

Without modifications, the law will just drive more residents and businesses out of New York because of skyrocketing energy costs to build the transmission lines for renewal projects, Zuber argued.

Well, hey, all those climate cult voting New Yorkers, mostly Democrats, are just fine with paying higher energy costs, which will increase the cost of almost everything else, right?

New York is betting too heavily on wind and solar instead of a more diverse energy portfolio to juice the state that includes nuclear energy and natural gas, Zuber said.

“It especially doesn’t work when you do what many of the environmentalists want — having only wind and have only solar… When you look at it that way, it is a joke,” he said.

“The cost for the average consumer when they’re paying their electric bill is going to skyrocket because utilities have to build transition lines lines to these renewable projects, which costs money, and that cost is passed on to the taxpayer.”

I’m confident that the Democrats in the NY general assembly will pass a law which limits how much can be passed on to the consumer. Maybe allow nothing to be passed on. It would be fascinating to see the consequences of this.

“This climate change law has the potential to murder upstate manufacturing,” said Ken Girardin, the Empire Center’s research director, who published a recent study claiming state projections undercount the true costs of complying with the statute.

Hochul’s office defended her administration’s implementation of the climate change law and claimed that nearly 60% of the state’s power generation mix is now coming from clean energy sources including hydropower, wind and solar.

Well, heck, she has her fortune, so, she’s not worried about more businesses packing up and leaving, leaving a lot of people out of a job, and lots of tax money going goodbye.

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Middle School Girls Protest Boy Competing Against Them. School Blocks Girls From Competing

By William Teach May 1, 2024 – 7:00 am

It wasn’t that long ago when were were hearing “protect all women”

Middle schoolers who protested trans athlete’s participation are banned from future competitions

Five West Virginia middle schoolers who protested a transgender athlete’s participation in a track and field competition have been barred from future meets — prompting the state attorney general to ask the US Supreme Court to weigh in on transgender student-athlete bans for a second time.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a lawsuit against the Harrison County Board of Education on the dissenting students’ behalf after they were blocked from upcoming meets following their protests at the April 18 shot put competition, West Virginia Watch reported.

Five girls from Lincoln Middle School stepped up to the circle for their turn before refusing to throw in the event, which was won by Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old girl who takes puberty-blocking medication and estrogen hormone therapy.

While West Virginia law bans transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, a recent federal appeals court ruled that the law couldn’t lawfully be applied to the eighth-grader.

How insane is this?

They won’t ban males with gender confusion, who, as we’ve seen, have harassed females, make them feel unsafe, waved their dangly bits at the women, including minors, and hurt them in competition, but, will ban females. Insane.

Meanwhile, it looks like the UK is continuing to come to their senses on the subject

(Telegraph) The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift against gender ideology.

Changes to the health service’s written constitution proposed by ministers will for the first time ban trans women from women-only wards, and give women the right to request a female doctor for intimate care.

The NHS constitution, a document that aims to set out the principles and values of the health service and legal rights for patients and staff, was last updated in 2015. It has to be updated at least every 10 years by the Secretary of State.

Campaigners for women’s rights welcomed the significant shift, which comes after years of wrangling and follows accusations that the health service had been captured by “gender ideology”.

Perhaps they’re finally listening to the majority of real women who do not want the trans madness.

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Bummer: Very Few Top Movies Mention Climate Doom

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Well, why should they? What if they have nothing to do with global boiling? Are they supposed to just interject the cult for the heck of it? Just randomly have a character make a Speech?

Only 32 of the Top Movies in the Last Decade Say Climate Change Exists — Study

Last month, non-profit group Good Energy launched what it called a Bechdel Test for Climate Change, a simple set of criteria designed to determine if it was clear climate change was present in a film. The real Allison Bechdel even endorsed it.

Good Energy, in launching its “Climate Reality Check,” said just three movies nominated for Oscars this year passed the test’s two simple rules: “Climate change exists” and “a character knows it.” Now in a more extensive study, the group analyzed 250 of the top grossing movies between 2013 and 2022.

Global warming has been with us for a while now, but only 12.8 percent — 32 of the 250 films studied in that time span — even passed the first criteria saying that climate change exists. Only 24 films, or 9.6 percent, passed both criteria of the test.

Good Energy and researchers at Colby College’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment picked 25 films from each year between 2013 and 2022, looking at the total number of IMDB ratings to determine the most popular. They only looked at fictional films, not documentaries, and they filtered out any that weren’t set in the modern day or the near future, which includes films set after the year 2006, before the year 2100, and ones that are actually set on Earth. So no, Westerns, period pieces, and intergalactic sci-fis are excluded from needing characters to be aware of climate change.

Better yet, why is this important? Why was it necessary to do this study? It pretty much shows that this is a doomsday cult.

In fact, only six of the 32 movies had three or more scenes in which climate change was mentioned. The winner with six scenes was “Happy Death Day” (2017), which because of a “Groundhog Day” style repeating day syndrome, the character has to hear over and over again from an activist about saving the environment. Bong Joon-Ho and Christopher Nolan were the only two filmmakers who had two movies that each passed one of the criteria, “Parasite” and “Snowpiercer” and “Tenet” and “Interstellar.”

I looked it up: they’re talking about the environment in Happy Death Day, not Hotcoldwetdry. Great movie, BTW. There’s a short list at the link with the movies that passed both cult criteria, and, really, a good chunk had nothing to do with it, like “Midsommar,” “Marriage Story,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu” in 2019. But, this is a cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution driven drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post wondering why there are so few pro-Hamas protests in Conservative areas.

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“Advocates” Push To Make California Minimum Wage $20 For All

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 10:30 am

This is hilarious, because the advocates think people are leaving California because they cannot afford to live there, so they need more money, but, raising the minimum wage makes things more expensive

Advocates gather at California Capitol to push for raising minimum wage

unintended consequencesAdvocates gathered at the California State Capitol on Monday, calling for a statewide minimum wage of at least $20/hr.

The group supports an assembly bill that calls for a study on raising the minimum wage.

“They’re leaving because the wage is not $20 an hour,” said Saru Jayaraman of One Fair Wage. “$20 an hour would be a way to keep them in California because they’d finally be able to afford to live.”

In April, the minimum wage for many fast food workers in California was raised.

Following the victory for fast food workers, advocates urge state lawmakers to consider comprehensive wage policy reform.

How’s that victory working out?

(ABC News) It’s been nearly one month since California raised the minimum wage at certain restaurants, which has put a spotlight on a course correction that many see as long overdue.

But for some — and not just fast food franchise owners — the newly raised bar for compensation also marks a pivotal point for restaurants to remain competitive in an already difficult post-pandemic landscape. The industry with famously thin margins is once again being pushed to make monetary and operational adjustments to stay afloat, all without compromising consumer expectations.

Some customers have already felt the pinch of costs being passed onto them, as recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, which restaurant owners and executives at chains like Chipotle and McDonald’s warned could come as a result of the state voting to increase the minimum from $16 to $20 an hour at restaurant chains with at least 60 locations nationwide.

So, it costs more to eat

(Washington Times) In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.

The move to making customers place orders at digital kiosks alleviates what owners say is the financial strain of rising labor costs after the minimum wage for the state’s fast food workers increased on April 1 from $16 to $20 per hour.

Harsh Ghai, a Burger King franchise owner who manages 140 outlets along the West Coast, is leading the transition to automation. He plans to introduce digital kiosks across all his restaurants within months — a drastic acceleration from his original timeline of five to 10 years.

So the minimum wage will be $0, because the jobs will dry up. People who have no real skills/work ethic will be unemployed with a lot fewer opportunities. Those who are looking for part time work will likewise find the opportunities diminished. And this is what will happen all across California if they pass $20 as the minimum wage. Which I think they should do. Because every experiment needs an experimental group, right? We should see what they outcomes are. Unfortunately, this will cause ripples across the country when it comes to certain product, like produce, since so much is grown in the People’s Republik of California.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Could Be Messing With The Lifecycle Of Cicadas

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 7:00 am

By this time, everyone knows that two different groups of cicadas are coming out of the ground, right? So, of course, the climate cult has to jump in

For cicadas, it’s safety in numbers. Is climate change throwing off their timing?

A cicada in sync with its brood is a cicada with a chance.

The insects’ synchronized emergence is an evolutionary strategy, scientists say. Birds, raccoons and other predators can eat only so many of them. So the more cicadas emerge together, the better the odds that more will live on to reproduce and pass along their genes.

“They have the safety-in-numbers strategy,” said Chris Simon, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut who studies the insects. (snip)

This summer, the number of periodical cicadas is expected to be extra large, as two broods emerge at the same time. The last time these two emerged together was in 1803. Tens of billions of the insects are predicted to surface. Users of the Cicada Safari app, which is designed to report cicada sightings and help scientists track the insects, have tallied more than 1,000 sightings in Georgia and hundreds in North Carolina and Alabama.

And the next time will be in the 2200’s. BTW, 1803 was during the Little Ice Age.

What’s more, scientists say they’ve noticed some changes in the insects’ rhythms, which has led to hypotheses that rising temperatures may be rewiring the internal clocks of some periodical cicadas.

Gene Kritsky, an entomologist and cicada expert at Mount St. Joseph University in Ohio, said that as average temperatures have climbed higher because of global warming, the dates of emergence have shifted earlier in the calendar year.

“Cicadas are insects of the climate,” he said, adding, “They’re now emerging almost 10 days to two weeks earlier than they did in 1940.”

ZOMG, no!!!! Seriously, big woop. Things get warmer during a Holocene warm period.

Simon has a theory about how climate change may be playing a role: She thinks rising temperatures are lengthening the growing seasons of the plants that cicadas feed on, supercharging the insects’ development underground. That, in turn, may cause many more “stragglers” to emerge early. Eventually, she said, the entire population will adapt and shift timing.

Simon predicted that 17-year cicada broods will shift to become 13-year cicadas. And 13-year cicadas might emerge every nine years.

Will Simon put his/her job and reputation on the line with this prognostication? Anyhow, it’s just another case of the climate cult involving itself in every issue.

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Jewish Students Sue Columbia Over Anti-Jew Hatred

By William Teach April 30, 2024 – 6:45 am

Columbia has pretty much let this go on for weeks. It was easy to see, as the Jew haters were upfront with their beliefs, and the constant reports of Jewish students being harassed and attacked were real. Columbia was also promising to Do Something all Monday, yet, never did. They’re getting what they asked for

Jewish student files class action lawsuit against Columbia for failing to guarantee safety

A class action lawsuit against Columbia University was filed in federal court on Monday morning on behalf of a second-year Jewish student who alleges the school could not guarantee their safety.

“We support peaceful protests but when a sliver of them invites and engages in violence including saying all “Zionist’s” (read “Jews”) should be killed and calls for terrorists attacks on American soil, that has no place in our country,” Jay Edelson, the attorney representing the students, said in a post on X.

According to Edelson, the lawsuit alleges Columbia needs to enforce its policies and let students feel free to study, take finals and otherwise be students “without worrying they will be assaulted.

“We are proceeding on a breach of contract theory and are seeking immediate injunctive relief,” Edelson wrote on X.

And that’s where it’s going to go badly for Columbia, in that the school has refused to enforce it’s published code of conduct. As has been said, if “protesters” were doing this against blacks or LGBTs, the school would have shut it down and expelled any students involved and terminated employment for any employees.

The lawsuit says many individuals at Columbia are exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest and express their views about Israel, but there’s a subset of protestors who have gone beyond engaging in free speech and have “menacing goals” including committing acts of violence and intimidating and harassing Jewish students and faculty members.

Many are, even though they are dupes and morons, taking the side of Islamic extremists. Any wearing an Intifada keffiyeh are supporting Jew killers.

The lawsuit accuses the Gaza Solidarity Encampment of being the center of “round-the-clock” harassment of Jewish students who have been punched, shoved, spat upon, blocked from attending classes and moving freely about campus.

“These extreme demonstrators are not engaging in constitutionally protected free speech. Instead, they are openly inciting violence against Jewish students,” according to the lawsuit.

And all of this is easily provable with video and photos. We’ve seen massive banners and signs––with statements such as: “Death to the Jews”; “Long live Hamas”; “Globalize the Intifada2”; “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution” (invoking Hitler’s “final solution” of killing all Jews); “Hamas we love you.” Columbia will soon be paying quite a bit of money. And many pro-Hamas students and employees are going to have their faces splashed in the news.

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Washington Post: Those Darned Republicans Are Seizing On College Kids Being Jew Haters

By William Teach April 29, 2024 – 3:00 pm

It was just a matter of time, right?

It’s a pretty hard paywall at the WP, no reprint at Yahoo News yet, but, you get the idea. But, yeah, pretty peaceful, except for all the threats against Jews and Israel, the support of a U.S. State Department designated terrorist group, the calls for a world-wide Intifada, chants of death to America, assaulting Jews, blocking them from going places, resisting arrest, assaulting law enforcement, etc, along with all the vandalism

It’s a long thread of photos.

Here’s one of my favorites

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 29, 2024 – 10:30 am

…are Bad Weather clouds from carbon pollution rolling into a city, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on some states refusing to cooperate with Biden’s extreme Title IX trans rules.

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Interest Rates Staying High Blamed On “Affluent Americans”

By William Teach April 29, 2024 – 10:30 am

See, it’s not that the policies of Biden and Democrats, such as too much spending and borrowing money, are causing issues. Nope, it’s you older rich Americans

Affluent Americans are driving US economy and likely delaying need for Fed rate cuts

I did that BidenSince retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game.

Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She’s planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that, along with a trip next year to neolithic sites in Great Britain.

“I really have more money to spend now than when I was working,” said Harris, 64, an engineer who worked 29 years for the federal government and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

So, taking normal trips is now bad? What about the Democrat Congress critters who are taking a large number of flights to D.C. from their homes each month? This is silly

Older Americans like Harris are fueling a sustained boost to the U.S. economy. Benefiting from outsize gains in the stock and housing markets over the past several years, they are accounting for a larger share of consumer spending — the principal driver of economic growth — than ever before.

And much of their spending is going toward higher-priced services like travel, health care and entertainment, putting further upward pressure on those prices — and on inflation. Such spending is relatively immune to the Federal Reserve’s push to slow growth and tame inflation through higher borrowing rates, because it rarely requires borrowing.

Affluent older Americans, if they own government bonds, may even be benefiting from the Fed’s rate hikes. Those hikes have led to higher bond yields, generating more income for those who own such bonds.

It’s not like they’re going out and buying lots and lots of big ticket items. It’s more like they’re simply the recipients of the Feds policy of higher rates

Wealth is also disproportionately held by older Americans. People ages 55 and over now own nearly three-quarters of all household wealth, up from 68% in 2010, according to the Fed. In percentage terms since the pandemic, household net worth has also surged for younger households. But because younger adults started from a much lower level, their gains haven’t been anywhere near enough to keep pace with older Americans.

Well, yeah, because they worked for it. They weren’t getting worthless degrees which make it hard to get a good paying job. They aren’t putting on too many visible tattoos and face piercings which makes it tough to employ them. And having a poor work attitude. So, the wealth has to go somewhere, and the Millennials and GenZers haven’t put in the work to increase the pie and put it in their pockets

One result of the Fed’s higher rates has been a kind of bifurcated economy, by age. Older, wealthier Americans who already own homes and cars have been much less affected by the Fed’s rate hikes. By contrast, younger Americans are enduring a combination of expensive home prices and high mortgage rates, making it much harder to buy a first home.

Well, yeah. And, so far, has it really helped?

(Daily Caller) The U.S. economy is showing signs of stagflation as growth slumps down and prices continue to surge for average Americans, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

U.S. annual economic growth measured just 1.6% in the first quarter of 2024, following a report of persistently high inflation in March of 3.5% year-over-year. The combination of both low growth and high inflation, in conjunction with continuously high amounts of government spending and debt, has led to signs of stagflation in the U.S. economy, which wreaked havoc on U.S. consumers throughout the 1970’s, according to experts who spoke to the DCNF.

Well, we’ll see. There are lots of reports like this, but, unemployment isn’t spiking, and low growth is not happening quarter after quarter. Anyhow, the media will do anything to avoid blaming Biden and Democrats for their policies and reckless spending.

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