If All You See…

By William Teach September 26, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful jungle that may or may not be good for climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Nice Deb, with a post on a radical Islamic cleric finally being arrested in the UK.

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US Homeland Security moves to tackle climate change risks

By William Teach September 26, 2014 – 11:13 am

Good news. They aren’t particularly interested in securing the border or any of their other responsibilities, but, Hotcoldwetdry? They’re on it

(Retuers) Protecting the infrastructure of American cities from the effects of climate change is rising on the agenda of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a top agency official.

“Increasingly, we’ve moved not only from a security focus to a resiliency focus,” said Caitlin Durkovich, assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at Homeland Security, an agency better known for its fight to curb terrorist threats.

Durkovich spoke Thursday on a panel at the Rising Seas Summit, a three-day conference organized by the U.S.-based Association of Climate Change Officers to discuss tools and ideas on building resiliency, particularly against rising sea levels.

They’re doing a piss poor job of controlling the border, keeping out terrorists, monitoring the illegals they let in, securing cyberspace, etc and so on, and now they’re going to piss away their budget on “climate change”. Super.

To help communities develop resilience, Alex said, California is part of a pilot program under which AmeriCorps, the Corporation for National and Community Service, will dispatch 50 young people to educate local communities about climate adaptation and resilience.

Ah. I see. This is a way to provide overpriced jobs to Democrat voters who obtained worthless degrees from colleges.

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While Pentagon Pushes Soldiers Out The Door, They Look To Recruit Illegal Aliens

By William Teach September 26, 2014 – 9:56 am

Right now, the Pentagon is pushing US military members out the door, especially focused on those of officer’s rank, but also including lower ranked service personnel. Liberals have been working hard to transform the military

(RT) The Pentagon is to start recruiting undocumented immigrants who came into the US as minors and possess valuable skills like speaking Persian and Chinese. The program offering the opportunity is capped at 1,500 recruits per year.

The new policy revealed by the DoD on Thursday expands the existing pilot program called Military Accessions Vital to National Interest, or MAVNI. It has been tried since 2008, offering positions in the US armed forces to foreigners living in America legally as refugees or under a temporary visa.

Starting next fiscal year, MAVNI will also apply to illegal residents who came to US with their parents before age 16, reports the Military Times. The potential recruits would be selected from those eligible for the 2012 Obama administration policy known as Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, or DACA. Getting a DACA illegal immigrant status involves a background check by the Homeland Security Department.

The Pentagon recruits some 5,000 foreigners each year, most of them ‘green card’ holders. The MAVNI program may account for up to 1,500 recruits annually, although the military services are not required to accept them. In practice the Army has been the only service to accept a significant number, while the Navy and Marine Corps are not seeking applicants under it.

It’s “only” 1500 recruits a year. For now. 1500 who came here illegally and have no allegiance to this country.

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Seattle To Penalize Citizens Who Do Not Compost

By William Teach September 26, 2014 – 7:32 am

All in the name of climate change, of course

(CNN) photo green-police.jpgHave you ever thrown away a banana peel or dumped expired milk into the garbage? Well, if you do it in Seattle you are in for a fine.

Under a new policy, passed 9-0 by the Seattle City Council earlier this week, those who fail to compost “food waste and compostable paper” will be penalized.

The new program will come into effect in January 2015 for commercial establishments and residences. It will be enforced by the Seattle Public Utilities commission. Seattle has had a similar rule for noncompostable recyclables for nine years.

In other words, the little Progressives (nice fascists) on the council will require the garbage men, excuse me, sanitation workers, to go through your garbage to make sure you’re in compliance.

After receiving two warnings, residents and businesses will be fined $50 for dumpsters and a more modest $1 for waste at single-family homes. Previously, the utilities commission left residents and businesses a note that asked them to compost. If they did not comply, the city refused to collect the garbage.

It’s not much of a fine. It’s the thought that counts. And what happens if they catch you multiple times?

“Compostables are about 30% of what is still in the garbage and they are the largest target we have to help us reach our goals,” said Timothy Croll, solid waste director of the utilities commission, which asked the city council for the change. “Also, composting food waste reduces emissions of methane, which is a strong cause of climate change.”

Told you.

Of course, I have noted many times the danger of methane, and that agriculture and landfills are the two leading causes of greenhouse gas output from mankind.

But, see, there’s a problem: composting creates large amounts of methane and nitrous oxide. So, they’re turning sanitation technicians into law enforcement officers for no reason. And some think the fear of green police is silly.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Know What “Climate Change” Really Needs? A Song!

By William Teach September 25, 2014 – 5:57 pm

Sometimes, I have to wonder if the Warmists, most of whom are bat guano insane, are just trolling Skeptics with this kinda of nutbaggery. Then I remember that Liberals really have no sense of humor (unless it’s about assassinating Bush, Republicans, and people who do not agree with them), and Warmists are serious

Maybe climate change needs a great pop song
Pop music helped transform the way the West viewed the Cold War. The environment could really use an earworm, too.

As leaders from around the world gather at the United Nations this week for a global summit on climate change, the outlook is gloomy. The U.S, historically the world’s worst polluter, can’t even decide if man-made climate change exists. Meanwhile, China, the current king of greenhouse gas emissions, is reluctant to sign on to any climate change pact that would hinder its growth.

All of which got me thinking about Sting.

The 1980s were pretty dark days in geopolitics, but also the apex of do-good populism in the music industry. Before the rebirth of the music festival in the 1990s, A-list rock and pop musicians collaborated on topics ranging from helping family farms in the Midwest to helping starving children in drought-plagued East Africa.

Of course, those interests were primarily real. Live Aid was an attempt to help people starving. Bob Geldoff put his life on the line to pull Live Aid off. He didn’t try to “spread awarness”. He got down and dirty. The article then goes on about the anti-war music and musicians, ones who tried to “humanize” the Soviet bloc, and were against nukes and stuff. Of course, we can’t blame them for being punked by Reagan’s rhetoric and military buildup: the Soviet Union was punked, too. What it was all about was destroying the Soviet Union economically.

Giant marches are great, but they only last for a few hours and rely on the news media for coverage. If a song’s a hit, you can’t get rid of it. You can’t argue with it. And if the melody gets stuck in your head, the words will eventually catch up and sink in.

The right song might help create a generation committed to fighting for and thinking up smarter ways of generating electricity and responsibly managing the Earth’s resources (WT-hey, will the right song get Warmists to practice what they preach?). Or at least a generation that overwhelmingly believes human-influenced climate change is a real thing and a real threat. The politics are tricky, but not much more fraught than Soviet relations in the time of Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Leonid Brezhnev, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 25, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful field that can be used to make biofuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Dakota Voice, with a post on how the GOP can get the Hispanic vote.

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Study: U.S. West Coast Warming Mostly Natural

By William Teach September 25, 2014 – 11:57 am

Let’s reiterate that the debate is primarily about causation: Warmists say it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, especially our use of fossil fuels (which Warmists mostly refuse to give up themselves). Skeptics say the warming during the Modern Warm Period is mostly/solely natural. At that point we can get into the debate about Man’s contributions, such as true global changes, land use, urban heat island effect, etc. Warmists state that this warm period is utterly and completely different from previous warm periods because of industrialization, whining as they type on their corporate made laptop/tablet/smartphone as a they sip a corporate made latte made with beans shipped from another country, made in a corporate built building which has evil ice makers, which they picked up in their fossil fueled vehicles, while they sit on their corporate made couches in their homes which use lots of electricity. Anyhow, another dagger in the heart of the screeching about man mad global warming/climate change/climate disruption

West Coast warming linked to naturally occurring changes

Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human-caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and in the sea along the West Coast of North America over the last century, a study has found.

The analysis challenges assumptions that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been a significant driver of the increase in temperatures observed over many decades in the ocean and along the coastline from Alaska to California.

Changes in ocean circulation as a result of weaker winds were the main cause of about 1 degree Fahrenheit of warming in the northeast Pacific Ocean and nearby coastal land between 1900 and 2012, according to the analysis of ocean and air temperatures over that time. The study, conducted by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington, was published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

These are changes that have been going on for billions of years. Little changes in natural forces can have large effects.

This latest research shows that similar changes in atmospheric and ocean circulation can drive trends that last a century or longer, overshadowing the effects of human-generated increase in greenhouse gases, the study’s authors said.

Of course, the LA Times had to reach out to a hyper-alarmist (and fossil fuels using hypocrite)

Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in the study, said its conclusions about long-term trends were probably overstated because the quality of data from the early 20th century was poor and unreliable. The results may also reflect the fact that the northeast Pacific is an area of the globe where past studies have shown the “signal” of climate change is low relative to the “noise” of natural variability.

Oh, OK, so now data from the early 20th century is meaningless. But, of course. Another excuse when Science shows Warmist idiocy is wrong.

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The Zombie Apocalypse Is Apparently Starting In Africa

By William Teach September 25, 2014 – 9:46 am

Slow news day, nothing of any real interest (I have plenty of “climate change” stuff in the hopper, though). Romney 2016 being for reals doesn’t really get me excited. Liberals attempting to position Obama’s war on ISIS being totally unlike anything Bush did is expected. No mention of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, of course. So, zombie apocalypse (FYI: I read quite a few zombie books, love them. Just finished the latest Zombie Fallout book) . The big pull at Memeorandum is from an All Africa article, but their server is apparently not resurrecting from all the traffic. Vox Popoli covers that one, here’s one from the UK Mirror

Ebola victims in African village ‘rise from the dead’ causing panic and fear among locals

Panic is spreading across an African community after reports that two Ebola victims have risen from the dead.

The victims, both females in their 40s and 60s, died of the deadly virus in separate communities in Nimba County, Liberia.

But according to reports in a local newspaper, the pair have reportedly been resurrected and are now walking among the living, causing panic and fear among locals.

Panic is spreading across an African community after reports that two Ebola victims have risen from the dead.

The victims, both females in their 40s and 60s, died of the deadly virus in separate communities in Nimba County, Liberia.

But according to reports in a local newspaper, the pair have reportedly been resurrected and are now walking among the living, causing panic and fear among locals.

OK, we’re doomed. Kinda makes you wonder about the wisdom of bringing Ebola patients to the U.S., eh? It’s like the start to a zombie book or movie.

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Semi-Retired, Mostly-Delusional President Looks To Implement 30 Day “Climate Change” Warning System

By William Teach September 25, 2014 – 8:59 am

When it comes to weather forecasting, most meteorologists will tell you that things start getting really dicey beyond 3-5 days. Ten day forecast? Good luck with that. Know what the forecast a few days ago was for Raleigh? Low 70’s and partly cloudy. Know what’s happening now? It’s 59 and rainy, with a special weather statement about the potential for heavy rain up to half an inch an hour.

Remember Hurricane Katrina? They were not sure where it would make landfall just 24 hours out. Same with most hurricanes and tropical systems. Remember that big El Nino that was supposed to occur this year? Didn’t happen (yet). How about the very cold winter and heavy snow? Most did not predict that. Some long term conditions are easier to predict than others, but, Obama has delved into Fantasy Land in his climate speech at the UN

(Breitbart) The NOAA will also begin developing “extreme-weather risk outlooks” for as long as 30 days in advance to help local communities to prepare for damaging weather and prevent “loss of life and property,” partnering with private companies to monitor and predict climate change.

“This effort includes a new partnership that will draw on the resources and expertise of our leading private sector companies and philanthropies to help vulnerable nations better prepare for weather-related disasters, and better plan for long-term threats like steadily rising seas,” Obama said during his speech at the United Nations Summit.

So far, the vast majority of Warmists “extreme weather” prognostications have failed. Especially when it comes to there being no statistically significant warming in almost 18 years.

As for Obama’s full speech at the UN, Ben Shapiro breaks it down, and ends by noting

America shares virtually nothing with the other member states at the UN. But President Obama shares a lot with them: a desire for America to take a secondary role in the world affairs, a desire for Israel to surrender in the face of its enemies, a desire for talk rather than action, a desire to demean the United States on the global stage.

Obama had a serious problem with discussing American exceptionalism.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Warmist: Stop Planting Trees, You’re Making Global Warming Worse

By William Teach September 24, 2014 – 5:03 pm

Um, OK. Here’s Nadine Unger in the NY Times

To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees

Deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of global emissions of carbon dioxide. The assumption is that planting trees and avoiding further deforestation provides a convenient carbon capture and storage facility on the land.

That is the conventional wisdom. But the conventional wisdom is wrong.

In reality, the cycling of carbon, energy and water between the land and the atmosphere is much more complex. Considering all the interactions, large-scale increases in forest cover can actually make global warming worse.

Of course, this is counterintuitive. We all learn in school how trees effortlessly perform the marvel of photosynthesis: They take up carbon dioxide from the air and make oxygen. This process provides us with life, food, water, shelter, fiber and soil. The earth’s forests generously mop up about a quarter of the world’s fossil-fuel carbon emissions every year.

So it’s understandable that we’d expect trees to save us from rising temperatures, but climate science tells a different story. Besides the amount of greenhouse gases in the air, another important switch on the planetary thermostat is how much of the sun’s energy is taken up by the earth’s surface, compared to how much is reflected back to space. The dark color of trees means that they absorb more of the sun’s energy and raise the planet’s surface temperature.

Climate scientists have calculated the effect of increasing forest cover on surface temperature. Their conclusion is that planting trees in the tropics would lead to cooling, but in colder regions, it would cause warming.

As Don Surber notes

She’s losing it. Temperatures have leveled off for 15 years. Having hung all their rationalization for seizing industry from capitalists on global warming, liberals are stuck with a planet that is not getting warmer. Or cooler. Or anything any time soon. They are stuck with it and they are lashing out.

Back to Miss Unger

In order to grow food, humans have changed about 50 percent of the earth’s surface area from native forests and grasslands to crops, pasture and wood harvest. Unfortunately, there is no scientific consensus on whether this land use has caused overall global warming or cooling. Since we don’t know that, we can’t reliably predict whether large-scale forestation would help to control the earth’s rising temperatures.

Interesting. She’s making a big call for land use as being a big cause of warming.

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