“Climate Change” Is Like Totally Making White Christmases A Thing Of The Past Or Something

By William Teach December 26, 2014 – 8:39 am

All because you drove your fossil fueled vehicle and/or took a fossil fueled flight to travel to see your relatives

Climate change making white Christmases a thing of the past: UW prof

The chances of a white Christmas in southwestern Ontario are getting slimmer and slimmer.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Environment Canada was calling for rain to start falling that night and continue, more or less steadily, through Christmas Eve – easily erasing whatever traces of snow still remained on the ground.

While Christmas Day could bring some flurries, especially to areas near Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, a true white Christmas – at least 2 cm of snow on the ground by 7 a.m. – seems like an impossible dream at this stage.

Obviously, this means doom

But what may seem like an abnormal December may in fact be the new reality.

That’s what Jason Thistlethwaite thinks.

A professor at the University of Waterloo focused on climate change adaptation, Thistlethwaite says the “quintessential” white Christmas is already 15 per cent less likely to occur in southern Ontario than it was in the 1970s and 1980s – a trend he doesn’t expect to shift anytime soon.

“The temperature’s just going to be too high,” he said.

“If you do get a white Christmas, cherish it. A green Christmas is going to be the new normal.”

But, of course, this is all really going to happen in 40 years or so, when people will have forgotten the prognostication. Even if this does happen, there is not scientific proof that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. Just a typical Holocene warm period. There is barely a trend in decreased White Christmases for SW Ontario since the 1950’s. In the continental U.S., white Christmases have increased.

Of course, any increases in the future will be blamed on “climate change”, where the Warmists claim there is more water vapor in the atmosphere which causes more snow. Heck, Warmists even blame colder weather on “climate change”, the mark of a true cult.

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NY Post: It’s Not About The Right To Protest

By William Teach December 26, 2014 – 8:17 am

The NY Post Editorial Board is not impressed by Mayor de Blasio’s call for giving protest a rest till the murdered officers are buried

It’s the lawlessness

Mayor de Blasio’s call, apparently unheeded, for protesters to stand down until after the funerals for Police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu was meant to give a city torn apart by their barbarous double murder some time to come together and heal.

It’s not a bad idea. Even so, it misses the point.

New York City’s problem is not that we have people protesting. The problem is the nature of the protests.

Ever since a Staten Island grand jury found no probable cause to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Holder, the protesters in this city have shown disregard for the law

We’ve seen the calls for “dead cops”. There have been dozens of threats against the NYPD, with at least 6 arrested. The FDNY had to abandon one of its stations due to it being next to a police station targeted by a gang. Streets have been blocked, creating problems for ambulances.

But instead of demanding protesters obey the law, the mayor and others for too long validated an anger based on a smear: that cops do not value black life. Not once did we hear Mayor de Blasio or Al Sharpton state the obvious: If Eric Garner and Michael Brown had in fact put their hands up and not resisted arrest, they would be alive today.

Don’t charge police officers. Don’t try and take their service weapons. Don’t resist arrest.

So let’s not pretend any of this is about the right to protest.

It’s lawlessness — done in a clear attempt to hold this city hostage — that is the real problem. And the city authorities who have until now winked at it.

It’s not just in NYC. We certainly saw this in Ferguson and the St. Louis area, not too mention the lawlessness spreading out to many other Liberal leaning cities across the country. Looting, arson, property destruction, violence, threats. In Oakland last night (yes, that would be Christmas night), anti-police “demonstrators” marched through the streets smashing windows, throwing bottles, tearing decorations off a Christmas tree

Leading the pack of 50 or so marchers was a group carrying a banner reading, “Justice for O’Shaine Evans. No Justice. No Peace,” referring to the 26-year-old Oakland man shot and killed by San Francisco police in October. The officer who shot Evans seven times said the man had aimed a gun at him.

“What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” the protesters cried. Another chant was aimed specifically at the police: “F.T.P.! F— the police!”

Don’t point a gun at a police officer unless you’re attempting suicide by cop. Our Constitution enshrines the right to protest peaceably. It’s also helpful if people are protesting on the side of criminals.

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Tribal Raid In Peru May Be Related To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach December 25, 2014 – 11:40 am

Seriously, wait for it. This is how bat guano insane Warmists have become, enough so that I’m actually blogging this on Christmas

Raid on Peru village by uncontacted tribe may be related to climate change

A Peruvian official said climate change has triggered temperature drops which may have disrupted the uncontacted tribe

Wait, what?

Climate change may be forcing increasingly large groups of uncontacted tribes out of Peru’s Amazon, officials said as advocates for the tribes reported that riverboats were sent to evacuate a remote village after a raid by members of an uncontacted tribe.

A group of about 200 men from the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe, armed with bows and arrows, arrived in the community of Monte Salvado on Thursday, according to Survival International, an indigenous rights group. The men raided the village, taking weapons and destroying the homes.

Here we go

Balbuena said climate change may have triggered the latest incident, as it has caused abrupt drops in temperatures in that area of the southeast Amazon.

Farmers in other areas of Peru have echoed concerns about colder-than-usual temperatures. During the latest climate change conference, or COP20, held in Lima this month, indigenous communities living in the Andes Mountains said global warming is threatening the biodiversity they have worked so hard to protect.

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Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

By William Teach December 25, 2014 – 7:41 am

Every Christmas, once everyone is up, Christmas greetings are made, hugs are exchanged, the presents are opened, and breakfast is being made, I read this first in the paper (ye olde parental units get an actual paper, and they live in NJ). It is a Christmas classic that has always touched my soul. While some people outside of the Tri-State area have heard of it, rarely do papers outside of the NY-NJ-Conn area see it in print, and I always direct them to read it online. I humbly bring it to you, and hope it touches you as much as it touches me:

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

And a Merry Christmas from deep down in my heart to all my friends and visitors out there.

If you would like to know the background on the letter, you can go to the 2004 posting of this.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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That’s What Christmas Is All About, Charlie Brown

By William Teach December 24, 2014 – 5:01 pm

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Say, What Would Jesus Say About “Climate Change”

By William Teach December 24, 2014 – 1:53 pm

He’d probably say something about the people pushing “climate change” as being tyranical and wanting to control every aspect of citizen’s lives.

Let’s Pause and Consider What Jesus Would Say About Climate Change

‘Tis the season when the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. That child born in Bethlehem so long ago grew up to become one of mankind’s greatest moralists, teaching messages of love, sharing and compassion.

As the cloud of climate change hovering over us grows ever more ominous, huge moral issues swirl about both the causes and the solutions. I can’t help but wonder: if Jesus were here today, what would He say?

Carl Duivenvoorden, a “sustainability consultant”, is Very Concerned, and delves into the typical Warmist/Leftist tropes of consumption, fairness, and social justice, but never actually provides a clue to what Jesus would say, but he does trot out the morality play

When it comes to solving climate change, we have all the technological solutions we need. But as the recent climate talks in Lima reaffirmed, political solutions remain more elusive, largely because of the vastly different perspectives of developed and developing nations. As well, it seems we as individuals have a ways to go, both in thought and action.

Funny that few Warmists actually take action in their own lives, eh? Jesus might say something about the hypocrisy of “do as I say, not as I do.”

So as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, perhaps we may pause to reflect upon His principles and teachings, and strive to be guided by them as we come to grips with the moral challenges raised by climate change.

This comes from people who tend to support abortion on demand, particularly for Black people in third world nations.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 24, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle used by Other People to travel for the holidays, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross, with a post on the UN coming with a gun grab.

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Say, Could Hotcoldwetdry Be The Grinch That Steals Christmas?

By William Teach December 24, 2014 – 8:06 am

The annual rite of climate insanity continues

Could climate change be the Grinch that steals Christmas?

Everyone hates a Scrooge.

The winter holidays are a time to gather together, celebrate, stuff ourselves with figgy pudding and otherwise forget all about the travails of the outside world. But much like a certain nasty green fellow who lives in the vicinity of Whoville, climate change doesn’t show much respect for hallowed holiday traditions.

It’s hard to deck the halls without a Christmas tree, but thanks to rising temperatures, they may become harder to find. A Union of Concerned Scientists report released in September predicted dramatic losses in “climatically suitable” areas for Rocky Mountain tree species like ponderosa pines, Engelmann spruce and Douglas fir trees. Lodgepole pines, for example, could see their range decline by 90 percent by 2060, the report said (ClimateWire, Sept. 11).

Do you know what we have a lot of here in the south? Pine trees. I see many of them right outside the back window. Pine trees, like many trees, deal with a wide range of temperatures. My parents live in the Pine Barrens region of NJ. Those pines deal with below zero temps all the way into the 90’s. Does anyone think that a few degrees higher global temperature would be noticed?

Planning a holiday toast? California varietals could someday disappear from holiday wine lists. Pests and diseases that plague the Golden State’s vineyards are only encouraged by warmer weather (ClimateWire, March 25).

“Could”. No proof of mostly/solely anthropogenic causation, just fanatical, unhinged, anti-science prognostications by Warmists.

As for the Arctic, well, Santa Claus’ homeland certainly isn’t what it used to be.

“The Arctic has been getting greener, warmer, increasingly more accessible to shipping, energy extraction and fishing,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stated this week (ClimateWire, Dec. 18).

Except for the massive growth of the Arctic the past few years.

But, really, rebutting any of this is virtually worthless. Warmists have a narrative and they go two out of three monkeys when presented with anything that violates their cultish beliefs (see no evil, hear no evil….yes, they think Skeptics are evil). They are as dogmatic as the most hardcore cults, ones like Heavens Gate and al Qeada. They use holidays to push their insanity every year. Not Muslim holidays, mind you, because they do not want to offend Muslims.

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Anti-Police Protesters Chant “NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?”

By William Teach December 24, 2014 – 7:36 am

Police hating NYC mayor Bill de Blasio asked protesters to give it a rest till after the funerals of the two officers slain by a nutjob who espoused the same feelings as the protesters. The protesters said “nope”

(NY Post) More than 1,000 anti-cop protesters defied Mayor de Blasio and flooded Manhattan Tuesday evening, marching through the Fifth Avenue shopping district before heading uptown.

“The mayor says stop that, we say f–k that!” the mob chanted at one point.

Other slogans were of the sort that Hizzoner has denounced as “hateful” and “inappropriate” in the wake of Saturday’s assassinations of two city cops.

“NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?” the protesters shouted.

The demonstrators, some carry­ing a banner that read “Stop Racist Police Terror,” started marching south from 59th Street on the sidewalks, but later blocked traffic on Fifth and Madison Avenues.

Some protesters said they were protesting specifically because de Blasio said not to. At another protest Tuesday, the protesters called police “pigs”. I wonder how they’ll feel when they need the police to come and help them out when they are mugged in an increasingly lawless and criminal NYC?

(Breitbart) Anti-police protesters marching in New York City to protest the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown recite an inspirational quote—which turns out to be the slogan of Joanne Chesimar, aka Assata Shakur, a convicted cop killer living in Cuba to avoid prison since 1984.

The chant says: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Chesimar/Shakur has been charged with multiple serious crimes, and been convicted of many, including murder of a NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster. She’s on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 23, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…are plants which will be wiped out because they do not like carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on a loopy anti-gun PSA.

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