“Climate Change” Could Cause Less Snow, But More Extreme Storms

By William Teach February 5, 2015 – 10:00 am

This sounds familiar. As I’ve noted multiple times, Warmists claimed that “climate change” would cause more tropical storms that would impact land, especially blowing a gasket after the big year of 2005. Almost immediately, tropical systems started drying up, with landfalling storms dropping considerably. Then they claimed that Hotcoldwetdry would mean that there would not necessarily be more hurricanes, but that they would be stronger. When that failed to materialize, they started saying that “climate change” was killing off hurricanes, causing them to do other things.

Climate change may fuel more extreme storms

Researchers at the University of Toronto linked climate change to an increase in large storm systems. To put it simply, warming temperatures globally lead to more moisture in the atmosphere through evaporation. That increases the potential for more historic storms like the Blizzard of 2015. The study went on to say that overall these “mega-storms” will happen less often, but when they do form, they could be more severe. Last week’s storm didn’t affect the East at all, but the potential is there for the East to be impacted by storms in the future.

Tom Rickenbach, an associate professor with the Department of Geography at ECU said this: “I think what we can expect is that when it does snow, we could get more snow. and the number of snow events may not increase, they actually may decrease, but when we get them, they could snow more.”

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UK PM David Cameron: The ‘Disease’ Of Jihadist Extremism Is Spreading Worldwide

By William Teach February 5, 2015 – 8:33 am

It’s nice to see that Cameron can actually say that this is Islamic extremism. He has seemed to recognize the threat from extremist Islam, which isn’t just from the violent ones, but also from those who are “mostly peaceful”, and want to replace our modern first world societies with their repressive, regressive, 7th century notions, and use our own laws, rules, and mores against us. Obama can’t even say it

(Newsmax) Obama on Tuesday called the killing of the pilot “one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization.”

The president avoided associating the militants with Islam. “It also just indicates the degree to which, whatever ideology they’re operating off of, it’s bankrupt,” Obama said.

It’s a simple concept: they are operating within the ideology of fundamentalist Islam. The quote is also available many other places, such as Politico, for those Leftists who want to question the delivery source.

(UK Daily Mail) The threat posed by the ‘disease’ of Islamic extremism will last for a generation, David Cameron warned today as he rejected claims Britain was not doing enough to take on ISIS.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, the Prime Minister insisted the government was doing all it could to ‘defeat the monstrosity of Isil’.

But he warned it would require ‘long-term determination and perseverance’ in a fight which might not end in his lifetime.

It requires two main things; first, the so called “moderate Muslims” will have to say “no more in my name”. We aren’t asking for an apology. They shouldn’t have to apologize for the way some within their religion act. But, they have to fight back. They are not being blamed, but, sadly, one does have to wonder about these moderate Muslims and what they really believe when so few will condemn the actions of hardcore Islam.

Second, it requires Leftists world wide to acknowledge the problem emanating from the Islamists. We’ve discussed this many times, noting that the Islamists stand against almost everything Leftists do, yet, most Leftists refuse to condemn Islamists, often trot out the notion that they really aren’t Islamic (contradicted directly by what groups like ISIS, al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and others say and write), and typically like to deflect to “hey, Christians did something bad!!!!!!!”. That last one is an interesting argument for two reasons

  1. Killings and bad actions from Christians are rarely done in the name of God and/or Jesus
  2. They are blaming the entire Christian religion for the actions of a few, but freak out when anyone condemns the hardcore Islamists, saying it is wrong to blame all Muslims (which isn’t usually what is being blamed).

Back to Cameron

He insisted countering the threat was about more than just military action. ‘We have got to go after the hate preachers, we’ve got to go after the radicalisation.

‘We have got to stop people travelling to Syria, we have got to prosecute those who have been and been radicalised and would do us harm.

‘You have seen actually a big growth in the number of people in Britain who have been prosecuted and convicted for Islamist extremist violence ’And we need to keep up our guard.’

Mr Cameron has read detailed reports of the latest video, in which al-Kassasbeh was set alight, but he has not actually watched it in full.

He did, however, view the footage of British hostages being beheaded last year.

‘These videos are absolutely horrific and depraved,’ the Prime Minister said.

‘And obviously I take the time to make sure I take the time to see what they are doing so I understand what families have been going through.’

Asked if Britain would be free of the jihadist threat in his lifetime, he admitted it was a battle which would last many years.

‘I think the threat of Islamist extremism is a threat that we are going to face throughout this generation.

‘It is going to be years rather than months.’

The threat from the Islamists has always been around, but has been truly growing as the world modernized, travel and relocation became easy, and societies started implementing “diversity” and “multiculturalism”, allowing the hardcore Muslims to spread with ease within 1st World nations, again, using our own laws, rules, and societal mores against us. Any complaint is called “Islamophobia”. They do all they can to restrict speech.

While ISIS could be defeated eventually in Iraq and Syria, the ‘disease’ of Islamic extremism is spreading around the world and is harder to contain, he warned.

‘What we have seen with Islamist extremism whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country.

‘The disease is the Islamist extremism and that’s what we have to fight, that’s the narrative that we have to beat.

The violent Muslims are an immediate danger. The ones who are spreading through softer means are a threat to the later, as they change our systems.

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GOP Release Obamacare Replacement Plan

By William Teach February 5, 2015 – 7:55 am

Democrats and their 90% Liberal media partners have long complained that the GOP has no plan to replace Obamacare. Well, two points: first, why is it necessary to have a plan to replace a bad plan? Second, the GOP actually has several different plans to replace Ocare, and have never been able to get together to craft a full replacement plan. Most of the plans are actually pretty close in content, so this may be the starting point to craft a full GOP legislative replacement piece, now that the GOP controls both branches of Congress

(Fox News) Congressional Republicans are unveiling what they say is a new plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, but the ‘blueprint,’ as they call it, looks an awful lot like what’s been floated before.

The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment – or CARE – Act was crafted by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich.

The first bicameral proposal of the 114th Congress calls for the outright repeal of President Obama’s signature health care law, and with that, the individual mandate to buy insurance or pay a fine.

It provides for targeted tax credits to individuals and families up to 300 percent above the poverty line to encourage people to buy plans in the market place.

It also allows insurers to sell plans across state lines and caps the amount of monetary damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice litigation.

Like the Affordable Care Act, dependents are able to stay on their parents’ healthcare plans until they’re 26, and no one can be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions – although this plan calls for a specific ‘continuous coverage’ protection where individuals moving from one plan to another cannot be denied.

There are many more parts to this. I’d recommend reading the article in full, as well as the link to “proposal” in the excerpt, which leads to the press release.

One thing noticeably absent are nationwide insurance pools, which, at a minimum, should be allowed to create pools for individuals and small businesses in order to bring down costs, making sure that there are quite a few healthy people to offset those who aren’t.

Much of it is still about government empowerment, which is a main complaint about Ocare. However, it moves much of that power to State government choice, which is a good thing.

It would also “reduce distortions in the tax code that drive up health care costs”, such as “cap the exclusion of an employee’s employer-provided health coverage”.

There would be “targeted tax credits to help buy health care” for small business and individuals”.

It does away with mandates and most of the noxious issues with Obamacare.

If these proposals sound familiar it’s because most of them are. Many are based on an outline pitched last year by Burr, Hatch, and former Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

“One of the reasons that you don’t see massive changes is we thought we had a decent product last year based on feedback as we’ve talked with governors, with industry,” an aide familiar with the plan said. “A lot of industry frankly thinks this is a very durable sustainable, credible alternative from a market perspective, and they think it’s operationally viable.”

If the ideas are viable, why come up with new ones? Of course, we probably should not expect a massive push anytime soon

“Let’s all be realistic, the president, who the law is named after, he’s not repealing his bill. So what we are doing is putting a very credible idea out there because what our bosses were sick and tired of hearing is the Republicans have no ideas,” one aide said.

I suspect that we’ll probably start seeing this truly debated in the House and Senate sometime either between late spring 2016 and September 2016, that way the plan is detailed in full, and ready to pass if a Republican wins the White House. Personally, I think the GOP should craft the full legislation now and vote on it. Have it ready to go.

The original idea of Ocare was a good way: finding a way to make it so the tens of millions without health insurance were able to obtain health insurance. From there, it degenerated into the monstrosity we see now. Health insurance reform is a good idea. Involving the Central Government so much in our private lives regarding not just health insurance, but health care, is a Bad Idea.

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Do You Know What The Key to Stopping “Climate Change” Is? Birth Control

By William Teach February 4, 2015 – 4:33 pm

Of course, when Warmists are talking about birth control, they’re mostly aiming this at 3rd world nations comprised of “minorities”, because, let’s face it, Warmists, with their Progressive leanings, are bigots and racists, love the thought of eugenics, and, let’s not forget that they really love abortion on demand, which is part of what they consider to be “birth control”

Experts Say Birth Control Access Key To Curbing Climate Change

In Pakistan, where just a third of married women use contraception, half of all pregnancies – 4.2 million each year – are unintended, according to the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau.

At the same time, the rising population in Pakistan – and elsewhere around the world – is creating more climate-changing emissions and putting more people in the path of extreme weather, food and water shortages, and other climate change pressures.

That suggests that giving more women who want it access to birth control to limit their family size – in both rich and poor countries – could be a hugely effective way to curb climate change and to build greater resilience to its impacts, according to population and climate change researchers and policy experts.

Of course, don’t call this “population control”, which it is

“We’re not talking about population control. We’re talking about giving people the choice to limit their family size and all the good things that go on from that” such as better health and education, said Baroness Jennny Tonge, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, during an event at the UK Parliament Monday on linking population and climate issues.

Huh. Looks like population control, which has long been a big thing with Progressives, and now they use “climate change” to continue pushing it.

Still, an international coalition of experts on climate change, family planning and development aid are now pushing for universal access to family planning to be recognized as a part of “climate-compatible development” and included in new U.N.-backed Sustainable Development Goals set to be agreed in September.

In other words, they want people in productive nations to pay for the birth control of people in non-productive nations.

Some countries, such as Ethiopia, already have included family planning among the activities they want to undertake on climate change, using international climate finance, according to an analysis by the London-based Population and Sustainability Network.

“They themselves identified population as a factor making it more difficult for them to adapt. We in the north are worried about, ‘Is it fair to make this connection?’ when people in the south are already making it,” said Karen Newman, coordinator of the network.

What makes it difficult is that Ethiopia is poor place to live when it comes to infrastructure, business climate, and agriculture. And a growing Islamic extremist population.

Family planning could potentially find a funding source in the Green Climate Fund, which was established as part of U.N.-led climate talks and which will later this year and early next begin its first distributions of about $10 billion in funds donated to help poor countries adapt to climate change impacts or adopt a lower-emission development path.

“Donated” is another word for “taken from taxpayers in productive nations and given to non-productive nations, referred to as “developing nations”, which never seem to develop”.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 4, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle which should be restricted for Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Right Wing News, with a post on humorous hate mail.

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Awesome: More Illustrations Of “Climate Change” Doom

By William Teach February 4, 2015 – 10:33 am

You have to admire Warmists: they just never ever give up. Of course, there is that whole bat guano insane aspect (FYI: the inability to use proper capitalization is a function of the website, not me)

evgeny kazantsev forecasts the effects of cataclysmic climate change

the world as we’ve never seen it before — evgeny kazantsev presents a surreal look at what our cities and surroundings might look like in catastrophic conditions. the series imagines a pattern of extreme weather changes, forcing the earth’s natural and urban landscapes into ruin and disrepair. beloved landmarks, towns and touristic sites are afflicted by heat waves, ice storms and droughts, leaving each in a state of decay and degeneration.

kazantsev envisages venice’s world-celebrated canals without water, leaving a sad scene of abandoned gondolas at the bottom of an empty waterway; unusually warm conditions sees an alpine town without any sign of snow, the unfortunate scene unfolding from a lone tram car descending down the moistureless mountainside; beachgoers appear to find the sight of a mammoth glacier sitting just off the sandy shores an ordinary circumstance. ‘cataclysm happens’ — made for burjui design bureau and their client, gefest insurance company – sheds an unnerving light on the potential for natural disaster, and uncovers the alarming scenarios if such havoc were to ensue.

Let’s look at a few, shall we?

Wait, I thought Warmists were saying that Venice would be flooded from Hotcoldwetdry?

Apparently, the world will look like The Birds.

Actually, it’s much, much worse. The article make the case (there seems to be no captions or writing to go with the photos at the painter’s website) that “weather patterns force a flocks of birds to loose track of their directional pull”. Seriously. Are they making the case that “climate change” will mess with the Earth’s magnetic force?

There’s also one of Niagara Falls frozen from….wait, too much heat?

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Ferguson Police Look To Roll Out Non-Lethal Methods

By William Teach February 4, 2015 – 7:39 am

Perhaps they should consider instead why so many in communities like Ferguson are violent and lawless

(Washington Post) About a month after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., the city’s assistant police chief, Al Eickhoff, took to Google and searched under the words “less lethal.”

Huh. It’s like there was no reason for the shooting. No mention of Michael Brown attacking a store clerk, stealing cigars, walking illegally in the middle of the street, attacking said police officer, trying to take the officer’s gun, running away briefly, then charging the officer. Context matters.

Eickhoff, a 36-year veteran of Missouri police work, said he was looking for any new device, weapon or ammunition — any alternative to lethal force — that might have prevented a deadly result when Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson encountered each other in the noonday heat last August.

Browsing a California company’s Web site, Eickhoff found pictures and videos of an odd-looking, blaze-orange device docked on a normal handgun barrel. When a bullet fired, it melded with an attached projectile the size of a ping-pong ball that flew with enough force to knock a person down, maybe break some ribs, but not kill him, the product’s makers said — even at close range.

Its name: the Alternative.

The Ferguson PD is planning on arming all its officers with the Alternative.

But others consider the product dangerous because officers must take time — if only a few seconds — to remove it from their belts and affix it to a service weapon. That “exposes police officers to greater risk” and “turns policy on its head,” said Steve Ijames, a former Springfield, Mo., police major and training expert.

“I am all about less lethal,” he said. “What bothers me is we will allow an officer to face immediate deadly jeopardy with a less-lethal round. Deadly force is the most likely thing to repel deadly force.”

It’s not a bad idea, and it will certainly have its uses. There are times when an officer has the time to affix it.

Of course, after they’ve fired that first shot, then what? There are many times where people have been shot multiple times and keep going. Michael Brown did.

Question: Could this thing have saved Brown? After a ruminative pause, Eickhoff offered that if Wilson’s fusillade of gunfire didn’t stop Brown, it’s not likely that a single-shot blunt-force projectile would have. “You could still shoot him with this round,” the assistant police chief said, “and he could still get up and come at you.”

Huh. That tidbit comes as the last paragraph of the article.

Actually, it’s a bulbous metal alloy bullet-capture device that travels up to 250 feet per second (when propelled by a 9mm slug) and sends “a shock wave of pain through the suspect” when it hits, Ellis said. Effective to a range of 30 feet, the Alternative incapacitates a person but would very rarely penetrate the skin, he said, citing ballistics tests using leather chamois, foam and gel to simulate the human body. All tests were conducted at a range of five feet from muzzle to target.

There are good points and bad points. If police can have less lethal methods, great. It will certainly save lots of problems for police officers who have to deal with taking a life, even if said life is a criminal scumbag looking to harm an/or kill the officer or someone else. Unfortunately, so often an officer has no time to attack the Alternative when they are pulling their service weapon, with unfortunate tragedies occurring at times. Like when someone aims a fake gun at officers, and there is no way in the moment to see that it is a toy gun.

Bob Owens is less than impressed.

You can see how it works here.

One question I have is whether the “ball” that captures the bullet and hits the perp is reusable. Because the units cost around $45 each. Much less than a life snuffed out by accident in certain circumstances, of course.

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Jordan Executes 2 Islamists After ISIS Releases Video Of Pilot Burned To Death

By William Teach February 4, 2015 – 6:50 am

Barbarism demands a response

(UK Daily Mail) Jordan has executed two ISIS-linked prisoners, including a would-be female suicide bomber, it has been revealed this morning.

The executions, at about 4am local time today, came just hours after Islamic State militants released a sickening video showing a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive in a cage.

Jordan had vowed a swift and lethal response and government officials this morning revealed that two prisoners, Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouli, have already been hanged.

Al-Rishawi had been on death row for her role in a triple hotel bombing in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2005 that killed dozens.

The executions took place after gruesome footage emerged showing Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being torched to death by his captors.

The article has an interesting sidebar piece about ISIS

The latest murder by Islamic State terrorists represents a new level of barbarity from a group notorious for its savagery.

As with previous beheading videos, footage of Moaz al-Kasasbeh’s murder is characterised by its slick production values and graphics.

But unlike the others, it contains an added cinematic dimension clearly designed to achieve heightened impact – as if the horror of burning alive wasn’t enough.

ISIS blames the fighter pilot for burning houses and killing babies with airstrikes before he was captured in December.

The manner of his death is a symbolic show of strength to strike terror into ‘non-believers’ and encourage doubters within their ranks.

The pictures are brutal, and I personally want nothing to do with watching the video. I’d recommend that those who utterly refuse to condemn the hardcore version of Islam that ISIS practices to take a gander, though. But, then, nothing else has seemed to change the minds of these Leftists. Not how the extremist view of Islam treats women. Not how they treat gays. Not how they stop free speech. Nothing.

Anyhow, of course there are those who complain that executing jihadist prisoners will bring more atrocities from ISIS. Newsflash: Islamists will carry out atrocities and attacks regardless.

Even Piers Morgan gets it: PIERS MORGAN: Watching ISIS burn a man alive was the most abominable thing I have ever seen – and any Muslim who won’t stand up to these barbarians must watch it too

Other headlines at the UK Daily Mail

What will it take to wake Leftists up? Interestingly, they’re more than willing to blame the entire Christian religion for the actions of a few, even though said actions are rarely done in the name of God. Yet, they seem to take the opinion that any condemnation of hardcore Islam, practiced in the name of Allah and Mohammed, is an unacceptable condemnation of all of Islam. No, it isn’t. What will it take to convince Leftists?

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Obama’s Unserious Budget Is Still Mostly About Creating A Fight

By William Teach February 3, 2015 – 4:30 pm

I’ve already mentioned several times that Obama’s proposed budget is primarily about creating a fight with not just Congressional Republicans, but all Republicans. More proof

(Politico) Obama is using the budget to challenge Republicans on middle-class issues, as well as national security funding. He made his budget pitch during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security, where he warned Republicans that they’ll undermine the nation’s security and hurt the federal workers who work at those agencies — including the Border Patrol, airport screeners, law enforcement officials, the Coast Guard and the Secret Service — if they don’t send him a “clean” funding bill that doesn’t try to block his immigration executive actions.

“Don’t jeopardize our national security over this disagreement,” Obama said. “These Americans aren’t just working to keep us safe – they have to take care of their own families. The notion that they would get caught up in a disagreement around policy that has nothing to do with them makes no sense.”

Obama said the sequestration cuts have been bad for economic growth and national security, and warned: “I’m not going to accept a budget that locks in sequestration going forward … I will not accept a budget that severs the vital link between our national security and our economic security.”

That kind of rhetoric from Obama, particularly the “I’m not going to accept…”, is language designed to create strife, not language designed to come to agreement.

Republicans wasted no time rejecting Obama’s budget. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called it “another top-down, backward-looking document that caters to powerful political bosses on the Left and never balances—ever.” House Speaker John Boehner said it “would impose new taxes and more spending without a responsible plan to honestly address the big challenges facing our country.”

And Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi and House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, in a joint statement, declared that “a proposal that never balances is not a serious plan for America’s fiscal future.”

Here’s what Republicans should do: don’t say anything about Obama’s proposed budget (which was on time for a first), other than that they will take a look at it in committee. Do not allow themselves to get into the partisan fight Obama desperately wants. And then, while they would be tempted to simply table the budget, instead, take it, tear it apart, keep the normal budget stuff, perhaps raising some and lowering others, along with ideas they can agree with, and strip out all the poison pills. Then put it up for a vote. If Obama and Democrats complain, simply say “hey, most of these ideas and funding measures are Obama’s idea. Is he complaining about his own ideas?” Turn it around.

But don’t get caught in the fight Obama wants. You can’t win. Not when he has the presidential bully pulpit and the majority of the U.S. media behind him.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 3, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon unfriendly dog causing the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post wondering what happened to the last $3 trillion.

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