Bummer: Hotcoldwetdry Is Messing Up Your Christmas Tree

By William Teach December 12, 2014 – 9:59 am

Bad me, I missed this one back on December 1st, whereas Warmists started their typical “let’s ruin Christmas by interjecting “climate change” into the season” schtick

Climate Change Is Messing Up Your Christmas Tree

Owners of spotty and bare Christmas trees this winter can blame the California drought. Farmers say they’ve noted “dry spots” and other signs of stress in many trees, particularly those five feet and taller (buyers should plan on watering them immediately for best results). In many parts of the country, the drought also means a price hike of as much as 10 percent. Looks like climate change is the real War on Christmas.

The article then refers readers over to NBC San Diego for more confirmation of their insane cult. Of course, there’s a bit of a problem with this: even the NOAA was forced to admit that the cause of the drought was natural, not manmade. Warmists have caterwauled incessantly, blaming the drought on Mankind, but, as usual, they’re wrong.

Meanwhile, in The Phillipines

Albay is going camote this Christmas. A 40-foot Christmas tree layered with 3,000 black nursery bags of camote (sweet potato) tops and adorned with huge white lanterns and lights has been put up at Peñaranda Park in front of the provincial capitol in Legazpi City, ushering in the monthlong holiday celebration in the province.

Known as Karangahan Festival, the celebration features indigenous materials as a way of raising awareness on a clean and green environment, according to Gov. Joey Salceda. Karangahan was coined from the Bicolano root word ranga, meaning endearment, and when used to refer to the festival, it means “endearment to culture, arts and nature.”

For its Christmas tree in 2011, the first time the festival was held, the provincial government used empty fuel drums. In the next two years, it tapped pili saplings and coconut shells.

They just can’t help themselves in being bat guano insane. If they really cared, they would stop exporting camote, which requires vast amounts of fossil fuels.

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Almost Half The States Now Part Of Lawsuit Against Obama’s Unconstitutional Immigration Order

By William Teach December 12, 2014 – 7:14 am

Recently I noted that there were 16 States suing over Obama’s unilateral executive amnesty. Now…

(Fox News Latino by way of AP) Four more states have joined a Texas-led coalition suing the Obama administration over executive action on immigration.

The addition of Arkansas, Michigan, North Dakota and Oklahoma brings to 24 the number of states fighting the order in a federal district court in Brownsville.

Announced last month, the president’s unilateral move is designed to spare millions of people living illegally in the United States from deportation. But the lawsuit accuses the White House of “trampling” the U.S. Constitution.

Along with Texas, we have Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

I have a recommendation: all the states that do not want to sue can have all the illegals. Let them pay for the cost. California and New York are states that apparently love illegals, and a good chunk end up in those states. They can have them if they want to go along with Obama’s supposed executive action. Why supposed? I also mentioned that the Executive Orders he supposedly signed still do not seem to exist

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., a leading opponent of President Obama’s move to provide amnesty for up to 5 million illegal immigrants, expressed astonishment Monday and ridiculed the administration for not carrying out the action through an executive order.

In remarks made at the Washington office of the government-watchdog group Judicial Watch, Sessions said: “I guess they just whispered in the ear of (DHS Director) Jeh Johnson over at Homeland Security, ‘Just put out a memo. That way we don’t have to enforce the law.’”

The news that Obama had not signed an executive order to carry out the policy he announced to the nation in a televised address Nov. 20 was broken by WND Senior Staff Writer Jerome Corsi last week.

He doesn’t actually need an EO, just a bunch of memos directing agencies to, well, fail to follow federal law, to enforce the law, in order to be sued. Remember, though, that he made a Big Deal out of saying he was doing this through Executive action.

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Know What’s Apparently Dangerous To Democracy? Partisan Debate Over CIA Report

By William Teach December 12, 2014 – 7:01 am

The Washington Post’s Charles Lane is Very Upset that people might have differing views on the 100% Democrat Party written CIA torture report. But, then, Leftists are usually often always Very Upset over people taking a differing view. What they want is a monologue

Why the partisan debate over CIA oversight is so dangerous

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s sickening report about the torture of terrorism suspects by CIA officers and contractors, with its revelations about “rectal feeding” and prolonged sleep deprivation, should trouble the conscience of every American.

I love when Leftists tell me how I’m supposed to feel

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Yet what’s potentially most dangerous to this country’s democratic future is not so much that these abuses occurred, which was already well established, but that congressional oversight of the CIA, and public discussion of it, should be developing along the same partisan political lines that quickly form around every other issue in today’s polarized Washington.

Interesting. What Lane means is that you had best come around to the Democrat position

Thus does the United States approach a slippery slope, at the bottom of which lies an intelligence community that sees itself as the whipping boy of one political party and protected favorite of another — to the latter of which it owes reciprocal obligations.

I wonder if he regrets that paragraph, because that’s essentially what is happening. What is not noted is that the GOP is not necessarily protecting the CIA, which we acknowledge has issues, and surely went too far, from criticism and change, but, that this occurred almost a decade in the past, and there was no need for Democrats to release this report, which is simply scolding, abusive, offers no ideas to correct the issues, attempts to diminish America, and puts our people in harms way.

Lane actually seems to take issue with Democrats as well as Republicans

Today, partisanship reigns in Washington. For Democrats, it’s not enough to expose the CIA’s tactics, correctly, as inhumane and cruel; these tactics must also be condemned, much more controversially, as providing no intelligence that couldn’t have been gotten otherwise. For Republicans, by contrast, it’s all about exaggerating the benefits of “enhanced interrogation” and playing down the costs, moral and practical.

So, whose view should we all take?

Those who would argue for a more nuanced view have no true spokesman in Washington, unless you count President Obama. He has banned “enhanced interrogation” and supported release of the Senate committee’ s report (after insisting on redactions), but he eschewed prosecution of the officers involved and defended the CIA and its director, John Brennan, in general terms — while refusing to weigh in directly on whether the agency’s methods, objectionable as they were, helped thwart terrorist plots.

It is interesting to note that Lane made the statement about partisan debate being dangerous, but never actually backed it up later in the op-ed. He takes a stab at showing what the political positions are, but, I guess he just assumes that Liberals will immediately agree with his position that debate is dangerous.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Warmists: Here’s Your World Underwater

By William Teach December 11, 2014 – 6:31 pm

The end of the last ice age occurred roughly 21000 years ago. Serious sea rise from melting occurred starting around 15000 years ago, leveling out around 8000 years ago. They sea rise was roughly 130 meters, which equals 426 feet. Since 8k years ago, there has been an average see rise of 7 inches per century. In fact, the 20th Century saw just that. Being a Holocene warm period, it actually should have seen much more, based on the law of averages, where the cool periods would see low to negative sea rise. Yet, here’s more Warmists prognosticating more gloom and doom

Your world, underwater: Here’s what US cities will look like after global warming

Remember Waterworld, the extravagant 1995 dystopian Hollywood flop that imagined Earth after the polar ice caps melted, with humans living on what looked like floating junkyards? You might not be growing gills and webbed feet a la Kevin Costner anytime soon, but your great-great-great-great-great children might have to worry about finding dry land.

The United States Geological Survey estimates that if the ice sheets located in the Antarctic and Greenland melt as a result of climate change, sea levels could rise up to 80 meters (approx. 262 feet). Jeffrey Linn, a Seattle-based urban planner who is between jobs, decided to use some of  his spare time to show how this climate apocalypse would affect a number of cities in North America.

Here’s one of the pithy representations

Of course, after trotting out the scary graphics, we learn

“This will happen someday, but not in our lifetimes,” Linn writes, pointing out that timeline predictions vary widely, leaving any estimates with huge margins of error. So don’t worry, the human race could have anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 years to enjoy our time on dry land.

It may well happen if this inter-glacial period continues to where glaciers end. It won’t be because of Mankind, though. Until then, Warmists will trot out their scary stories, then jump in their fossil fueled vehicles to drive a mile to the grocery store.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 11, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful bike in a field that would be perfect for solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on the State Dept refusing to turn over documents.

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Study Highlights Extreme Amount Of Plastic Pollution In Oceans

By William Teach December 11, 2014 – 9:27 am

I rarely drop so many posts in the morning, and I have several more sitting in draft, as well as some other pieces of interest saved to Pocket, but I feel rather strongly on this one. Kudos to typically hyper – Warmist Chris Mooney for leaving “climate change” out of the story (others, who will remain linkless, didn’t)

(Washington Post) A major new study of the world’s oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world.

With a global population of about 7.2 billion, that’s nearly 700 pieces per person.

I’d highly recommend reading the entire article, as well as a few others via Memeorandum. I can’t stress enough the damage that all that plastic can do, and is doing, to our oceans. I may not be a believer in human caused climate change, but true environmentalism is very important to me.

And, yes, I buy plastic. I reuse and recycle. I do my damned best to not litter. But I have to wonder what happens after I have my plastics picked up in the recycling bin. I pledge to do better.

Regardless of your beliefs, we should be better stewards of the planet. On this issue I have no problem being preachy.

AJ Strata makes a good point

It is disgusting how we REALLY pollute our world (as opposed the nutty “CO2 Is Poison!” meme we get from the Green Blob).

My view, we should take the IPCC funds and do something tangible with them  (and reduce the CO2 and heat from all the hot air that body produces in the process).

Yup.

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Warmists Call For “Science Of Climate Diversity”

By William Teach December 11, 2014 – 9:00 am

Apparently, “climate change” is not only a 1st World Problem, but a “White (Liberal) Problem”

Researcher calls for new ‘science of climate diversity’

There is cloud hanging over climate science, but one Cornell expert on communication and environmental issues says he knows how to help clear the air.

In the December issue of Nature Climate Change, Jonathon Schuldt ’04, assistant professor of communication, joins co-author Adam Pearson ’03, assistant professor of psychology at Pomona College, to argue that only by creating a “science of climate diversity” that helps guide researchers and public leaders can climate science and the larger climate-change movement overcome a crippling lack of ethnic and racial diversity. (snip)

…The report found that this “white Green Insiders club” narrows research and limits public engagement.

In other words, it is mostly White Liberals who truly give a damn about Hotcoldwetdry. By their own talking points, this makes “climate change” racist and bigoted.

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MSNBC: Capitalism Is Oppressive And Like Totally Racist

By William Teach December 11, 2014 – 7:18 am

Because the Big Government socialist/Progressive policies have worked oh so well for Blacks

(Daily Caller) A guest on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” Wednesday told guest host Michael Eric Dyson that after activists deal with police brutality, they need to deal with “the oppressive force” of capitalism. (VIDEO: MSNBC Guest: ‘Foundation Of This Country Is Racism’ )

DYSON: The problem extends beyond police departments. What is the next institution that needs to be isolated and challenged?

“HIP HOP ACTIVIST” ROSA CLEMENTE: The economy. Capitalism! I think that’s the institution all over this country, it is really what is the oppressive force. And the police are actually in my opinion– and we have a lot of theory that proves this– are that force that are keeping us as particularly working class people from achieving this idea of, you know, economic justice. Economic justice is not devoid from racial justice, just like it’s not devoid of gender justice.

Two questions: The Ed Show is still on? MSNBC must be having trouble getting worker bees. Second, what the heck is a “Hip Hop Activist”? Only in Liberal World.

… Also in the classroom here at California State University Los Angeles in the Pan-African Department, my students are having those conversations. These are working class students, going to school full time working two jobs and continually being harassed by the police at many different levels. So I think what these young people are talking about, is now, as we are talking about policing, how are we talking again about the system, particularly the economic system that really from birth determines how we’re going to be looked on?

I love how this pronouncement is being made at a station that is part of the capitalist system. Companies pay for ads, which allow MSNBC to operate. But, we shouldn’t be surprised. Progressives are constantly denouncing capitalism. At least for Other People. They certainly like making and keeping their own earned money. Now we have them linking capitalism to raaaaacism. Two great comments

Those against capitalism are those who are unable compete on their own merits.

They fear the meritocracy, they abhor the competition, they reject personal responsibility.

Clemente is yet another in a long line of hardcore Leftist teachers teaching insanity. Blacks have been kept down in soul crushing poverty and stagnation for decades and decades thanks to Democrat Big Government Leftist policies. Some fortunately escape thanks to the capitalist system.

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Greenpeace Pulls “Spreading Awareness” Stunt, Faces Criminal Charges In Peru

By William Teach December 11, 2014 – 7:00 am

And they’re really, really sorry. Because they got caught

(UK Daily Mail) Peru has vowed to prosecute Greenpeace activists after they allegedly damaged the world-famous Nazca lines during an environmental publicity stunt.

Activists from the group unfurled cloth letters spelling out a green energy slogan at the millennia-old site on Monday, adjacent to where the figure of a hummingbird is etched into the ground.

Peru has said the activists damaged the ground by leaving footprints, which could last for thousands of years.

“It’s a true slap in the face at everything Peruvians consider sacred,” Luis Jaime Castillo, the deputy culture minister, said.

In a statement, the Peruvian culture ministry said: “After the illegal, premeditated action by environmental defense group Greenpeace, the zone has been seriously affected.”

Peruvians are livid over this stunt (video here), and Greenpeace is “sorry”

Greenpeace later said it apologised “without reservation” for the offence it has caused and said it was “deeply sorry”.

A spokesman said: “We fully understand that this looks bad. Rather than relay an urgent message of hope and possibility to the leaders gathering at the Lima UN climate talks, we came across as careless and crass.”

Uh huh. Peru is looking to stop Greenpeace members involved from flying out of the country (wait, fossil fuels?), and they could face up to 8 years in jail. Oh, and

(Greenpeace) said that Kumi Naidoo, the International Executive Directort of Greenpeace, would fly to Lima to personally apologise for the offence caused.

So, Greenpeace is super worried about the environment and the use of fossil fuels, therefore Naidoo will personally take a fossil fueled flight to Lima to apologize for the reckless actions of Greenpeace?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Bishops In Peru Issue Call On Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach December 10, 2014 – 4:14 pm

Perhaps they should have started by recognizing the huge amount of money ($45 million) to hold COP20, not to mention all the  money spent for those over 10k people to fly in,  along with all the fossil fueled “carbon pollution”

(Physical.org) Catholic bishops from around the world issued an urgent call Saturday for greater action to combat global warming and reduce “climate injustice.”

Religious leaders of all faiths should work together “to work sustainable agreements to promote the care of our planet,” the clergy members said in a statement issued by the Episcopal Conference of Peru in Lima.

“Climate change creates poverty and leads to an increase in injustice.”

Know what works great to move people out of poverty? Inexpensive,  affordable, reliable, and obtainable power.

Know what doesn’t help? Overbearing government with increasingly more power, taking more money from the people, and artificially raising the cost of living.

anyhow,  I’m guessing there was no poverty during the Little Ice Age and Dark Ages, right?

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