If All You See…

…is a wise use of water than the evil dishwasher, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Director Blue, with a post on Obama mainstreaming anti-Semitism.

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Surprise: Skeptics Edge Out Warmists In Climate Change Knowledge Study

Granted, the study is rather limited and only scratches the surface

(Fox News)  Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science?

Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychologyby Yale Professor Dan Kahan. He finds that skeptics score about the same (in fact slightly better) on climate science questions.

The study asked 2,000 respondents nine questions about where they thought scientists stand on climate science.

On average, skeptics got about 4.5 questions correct, whereas manmade warming believers got about 4 questions right.

What kinds of questions?

One question, for instance, asked if scientists believe that warming would “increase the risk of skin cancer.” Skeptics were more likely than believers to know that is false.

Skeptics were also more likely to correctly say that if the North Pole icecap melted, global sea levels would not rise. One can test this with a glass of water and an ice cube – the water level will not change after the ice melts. Antarctic ice melting, however, would increase sea levels because much of it rests on land.

And, of course

Liberals were more likely to correctly answer questions like: “What gas do most scientists believe causes temperatures to rise?” The correct answer is carbon dioxide.

Of course, that is wrong, since the #1 greenhouse gas is water vapor. Warmists are mostly science illiterate, relying more on talking points, feelings, and computer models. They wouldn’t know the scientific model if it reached up and bit them in the posterior.

“It’s easy to believe in the religion of global warming.  It takes critical thinking skills to question it,” Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.

Correct.

 

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Climate Change Totally Means Bigger Snow Storms And Cold Snaps

Hot? Climate change. Wet? Climate change. Dry? Climate change. Snow? Cold? Yup, climate change.

Extreme Weather Exposes Serious City Flaws

Deespite the Patriots winning the Super Bowl, January and February were not kind months for the people of Boston and New England. By February 10th, more than 60 inches of snow in 30 days fell on the city and parts of the wider region, closing schools, shuttering businesses and offices, interrupting road, rail and air travel, paralyzing the region.

Across the Northeast and down highway I-95 as far as Philadelphia, the massive snowfalls caused disruption and damage totaling millions of dollars. Factor in the cost of all the lost business, and the tally reaches into the billions.

This is the new normal for weather in the US. Global climate change increases the chances that the once-a-century event is now a once-every-twenty-years occurrence. The country is now experiencing more severe weather events: long droughts in the Southwest, destructive wildfires in the West, and more intense hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

Uh huh. The hurricane schtick is wonderful, since the US hasn’t experienced a major hurricane in over 9 years, a record for the nation of America. It has only experienced two hurricanes, one of which (Isaac) could be argued was below hurricane strength at landfall. Even tropical storm landfalls have fallen. Wildfires have not increased, and droughts are entirely within historical norms.

Here’s the photo they use for an article on “climate change”

I write from personal experience of this new normal. Living in the Washington, DC, region, I survived Snowmageddon, a three-foot snow dump, in February 2010. Two years later, I endured a one-week power outage in what was the hottest week in June on record after a derecho – a fast-moving wind rarely seen east of the Appalachians before the summer heat begins to intensify – moved in from the Midwest, felling trees and cutting off power.

See? No matter what the weather does, it’s “climate change”.

You would think that the new experiences would spawn a general debate about the need for new programs and policies for cities and municipalities. You would be wrong. It is not just the carbon corporate power structure at work funding climate change deniers. Many scientists and policymakers have failed to draw the connection between global changes and local events – something I’ve studied as a professor of public policy.

Since Boston is a big area for belief in Hotcoldwetdry, I recommend that they not be allowed to use fossil fueled machines to clean all the global warming from fossil fuels created snow.

Meanwhile

Few Show Up For Climate Change Demonstration (it was too cold and snowy)

It’s Too Cold To Protest Global Warming At Yale.

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Obama Illegal Aliens Program Pretty Much Includes Pathway To Citizenship

We probably shouldn’t be surprised that Team Obama was trying to pull a fast one

(Washington Times) The Obama administration quietly told Congress this week that its deportation amnesty programs will, in fact, include a pathway to citizenship, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who said that breaks a promise President Obama made to the country when he announced the program.

In a conference call with congressional staffers, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would allow so-called Dreamers applying for the deportation amnesty, known as DACA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, to also apply for “advance parole,” which is a separate program that also serves as a shortcut to a green card, which is the key step on the path to citizenship.

In a letter Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Mr. Goodlatte demanded he put an end to the new program, which could open an avenue for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to bypass the regular rules and gain citizenship, which carries voting rights and eligibility for taxpayer-funded benefits.

And those two are what really matter to Democrats, because this would create more Democrat voters. Any consideration as to whether the program is good for the country, whether it makes a mockery of our immigration laws, whether it shows a complete lack of respect for those who have done things the right way, they are all meaningless to Obama and Democrats.

Current Dreamers who have applied for advance parole had an approval rate of 88 percent, which suggests a large number of the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants eligible for the new program will likely also be put on a path to citizenship.

Mr. Obama announced the program for Dreamers in June 2012, and began taking applications in August of that year. More than 600,000 persons who were brought to the U.S. as children have been approved.

In November, the president announced he would expand the program to lift age limits, and create a new program for illegal immigrant parents whose children are already U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. That program could apply to as many as 3.85 million illegal immigrants, the administration says — though it says only about half of those will be apply.

One of the big problems with the illegals is that there is a big question as to whether they really want to be part of the American experience, part of the great melting pot. Too many continuously push for the United States and its government, its people, and its companies to accommodate the illegals, rather than doing all they can to become American. They demand we speak their language, that we publish signs, papers, documents, etc, in their language. They demand governmental services. They often fly the Mexican flag, a nation they left and that doesn’t want them, above or in place of the American flag. They get upset when people where American flag clothes on Cinco de Mayo. They agitate over returning the American Southwest to Mexico (a country so many illegals left and which doesn’t want them). They demand schooling and free school funding. Medicare. Medicaid. Welfare. They don’t seem to mind that they bring 3rd world diseases. Everything is about “what can you do for me”, rather than here’s what I can do for America.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Clueless President Chimes In On Chapel Hill Murders

This incompetent Boob has no clue

(WRAL) President Barack Obama expressed outrage Friday over the shooting deaths of three students in Chapel Hill this week.

“No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like or how they worship,” Obama said in a statement.

Two points: first, they weren’t targeted over anything Obama mentioned. The police still think this was over a parking dispute.

Second, this happened several days ago. It took him this long to find out? Incompetent boob.

Oh, and third, his Facebook page shows he’s an Obama supporter.

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Semi-retired President Played With Selfies On Day It Was Confirmed Kayla Mueller Was Killed

Let’s play a game, called “What If Bush Had Done This?” Obama played his little selfie stick Schtick in order to drum up support for Ocare, apparently think that the young people the video was aimed at are idiots. But, consider

(Hot Air) But there is more to mourn here than simply the devaluation of the stature of the presidential office, a feature of the executive branch that many see as unduly inflated and the loss of which they will not grieve. According to reports, this video was shot mere hours after the United States government confirmed that another of its citizens, Kayla Mueller, died in ISIS custody. The day that this video was shot, February 10, was also the day in which American embassy staff and security personnel abandoned Yemen amid chaos and violence.

Well, perhaps Obama hadn’t had the chance to learn all that from the news.

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If All You See…

…is a horrible gas fired stove, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on Obama’s Internet power grab. And a big happy 52nd birthday to Gator Doug!

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“Climate Change” Experts Claim Winter Storms Will Get Worse

This is the evolution of Hotcoldwetdry at play

Experts: Climate Change May Make Northeast Winter Storms Worse

The idea of a snow day is becoming less and less appealing as the city and surrounding areas suffer one winter storm after the other.

Snow has been no friend to the Northeast this winter, and as another storm is ready to pummel the Northeast this weekend, climate change experts offer an explanation of why record-breaking amounts of precipitation may become a norm for the region.

“Simple physical laws will tell you that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture,” Dr. David Robinson, a state climatologist at Rutgers University, says. “So it’s related to warmer temperatures and more abundant moisture available in the atmosphere, but you still need an impetus.  You still need a storm.”

Of course, they hedge their bets for “in the future”

As for the future, climate change may also be behind why increasing snowfall will continue to happen not only in the next couple of years but for decades to come with a contained, much smaller winter season for the Northeast.

“Frankly, we’re going to see that for years and years to come, a 20 degree snow storm in a couple of decades may a 25 degree snow storm as long as it’s still cold enough to snow,” says Dr. Robinson. “And with the warmer atmosphere, I see the chances of heavier snows continuing into the future. But with time, youre going to have occasions where a snow storm from the past is going to become a rain storm because you have crossed that important threshold of the freezing point.”

In other words, future winters in the Northeast may turn from snow days to rainy days.

So, now global warming (caused mostly/solely by mankind, according to Warmists, mind you) will first make it snowier, then rainier?

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Civil Rights Leaders Get Big Lesson In Police Shoot/Don’t Shoot Situations

It’s very easy for people not in situations to say how the police should have handled them. It’s rather different when you yourself are put in those situations

(Fox News) It was a split-second decision.

A distressed man with a baby in tow was pacing back and forth in a manic state and shouting incoherently. The responding police officer calmly addressed the man in an attempt to calm him down and defuse the situation, but the man suddenly pulled an object from his side and lunged toward the officer. Instinctively, the officer raised his Taser and squeezed the trigger. It turned out the man was armed with a knife, but the “officer,” who was actually the firebrand African-American activist known as Quanell X, acknowledged he would have fired whether the assailant had a knife, a spoon or an empty hand.

“I didn’t even see it,” said the leader of the Houston area Black Panther Party, who was taking part in a training scenario in an attempt to understand what police officers go through during high-pressure situations. “It could have been anything in his hand, and I still would have used force to stop him.

“It all happened so fast,” he added. “You don’t know what they could have in their hand.”

Quannell X and Arizona activist the Rev. Jarrett Maupin took part in these exercises, and learned quite a bit as to what happens in situations where officers may use force, up to the use of deadly force. Quannell took the test with the police department of Houston, in situations where one may pull a gun (they used paintball guns), a taser, or hold fire. At one point, Quannell pulled his gun and fired it 6 times during a routine traffic stop scenario where the suspect reached behind his back.

“I walked away with a few things,” Quanell said “Many of these officers do not have adequate training and they should not be patrolling by themselves. Having backup would stop them from being skittish and firing their weapon.

“Also, we have to teach our community that, even if you disagree with the officer, do not try to litigate with them on the spot,” he added. “Live to see another day. Don’t let our pride get in the way. Otherwise, you are setting yourself up.”

Having backup would certainly help. Unfortunately, that is often not an option, as situations develop quickly. Officers are often skittish because they essentially deal with crime most of their day, and use of force situations so often happen in neighborhoods which are not the safest.

Muapin joined the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for exercises, and learned quite a few things himself, and opened fire during a situation where a suspect rushed him, even after he gave them a very respectful greeting

“I encourage all civil right leaders to take this training,” he added. “I know there’s truth to the other side.”

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a standing invitation for Al Sharpton to come down and give the training a whirl.

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Cornyn Reintroduces Bill To Allow Concealed Carry Reciprocity

It’s amazing that we actually need this, considering reciprocity is embedded in the Constitution

(The Hill) Gun owners would be allowed to carry concealed weapons around the country under new legislation introduced in the Senate.

The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act would allow gun owners who have a concealed carry permit in their home state to bring their firearms in any other state with concealed-carry laws.

“This operates more or less like a driver’s license,” Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the second-ranking Republican in the upper chamber, told The Hill. “So, for example, if you have a driver’s license in Texas, you can drive in New York, in Utah and other places, subject to the laws of those states.”

Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said this would “eliminate some of the ‘gotcha moments,’ where people inadvertently cross state lines” with guns they are legally allowed to carry in their home state.

Furthermore, it would easily allow those with concealed carry permits to protect themselves when traveling, as Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action notes

“Our fundamental right to self-defense does not stop at a state’s borders. Law abiding citizens should be able to exercise this right while traveling across state lines,” Cox added.

Of course, this does not address the notion of people without concealed carry bringing their weapons to another state while traveling, who would use it with open carry as in their own state and/or keep it locked up. Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt

Everytown argues that Cornyn’s bill would allow states with the “weakest gun laws to trump the reasonable judgments” of others, since people who qualify for concealed carry permits in some states would get to carry their guns into places with tougher requirements.

And, typically, those areas with the most stringent CCPs have the most crime, necessitating the need for a CCP. Strange how that works, eh?

Cornyn’s bill previously came close to passing in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and may have a better chance this time around under the Republican majority

Unless Republicans get squishy, this should pass easily. And would probably lead to another Obama veto threat prior to Obama even reading the bill.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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