Warmist Proclaims Hotcoldwetdry Causing Fewer, But Stronger, Tornadoes

By William Teach August 8, 2014 – 10:54 am

This is reminiscent of the hurricanes debate. First we were told that there would be more hurricanes because of “climate change”. The massive 2005 season would be the “new normal”. When hurricane activity, particularly for landfalling systems, immediately started drying up the following season, we were told that there wouldn’t be as many, but that they would be stronger. When that failed to come to fruition, Warmists started blaming nature for ruining their prognostications, before finally deeming that the lack of hurricane activity is due to man-caused climate change

(Daily Caller) A geography professor at Florida State University has co-authored a new study claiming to show that climate change is likely causing more severe tornadoes in the United States even though there are far fewer actual tornadoes.

The professor, James Elsner, published his findings earlier this week in the journal Climate Dynamics.

“The risk of big tornado days featuring densely concentrated tornado outbreaks is on the rise,” explains the abstract of the findings.

Elsner admits that his research shows that tornadoes have formed on fewer days in recent years across America’s tornado-prone plain, according to Insurance Journal.

In 1971, for example, data shows that tornadoes occurred on 187 different days. In 2013, only 79 days saw tornadoes in the United States.

Nevertheless, the Florida State professor insists that when the violently rotating columns of air do form, they are now forming with greater intensity and density. In the days before the calamity of climate change two tornadoes would form, Elsner says. Now three and perhaps even four are materializing.

“We may be less threatened by tornadoes on a day-to-day basis, but when they do come, they come like there’s no tomorrow,” Elsner told Insurance Journal.

Uh huh. Next up, the climate preachers will inform us that nature is interfering with the damage mankind is doing to tornado formation, inevitability followed by the climate deacons blaming Mankind for causing tornado activity of all levels to go down drastically.

This kind of “study” is needed by the Warmists because tornado activity is down sharply over the past few years. And, of course, tornadoes used to be blamed on global cooling. This study is all about keeping the Church Of Climatology going, along with the money train.

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Obama Doesn’t Want You To Be Cynical

By William Teach August 8, 2014 – 9:37 am

Seriously, is there anything to be cynical about? Isn’t everything all lollipops and unicorns?

(The Hill) President Obama’s message in 2008 was hope and change. In 2012, it was change takes time.

In 2014, it’s don’t be so cynical.

As Obama struggles with the lowest approval ratings in his presidency and the real chance his party could lose the Senate in the midterm elections later this year, the one constant in his speeches — from weighty economic addresses to small fundraisers — is now: “Hope is a better choice than cynicism.”
It’s a recent shift—which began with commencement addresses meant to inspire young graduates, and the White House’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative to help under-privileged young people.

But now the sentiment is seeping into nearly every single speech Obama delivers, highlighting how the White House is trying to use the message to win over voters and play off Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

The IRS targeting Conservative groups, a stagnant economy, real wages down tremendously, historic numbers of citizens dropping out of the workforce in despair, savings in the toilet, foreign policy a mess….the list continues on and on. It’s hard to consider what should be on that list without writing a book. But, hey, don’t be cynical!

In recent speeches in Austin and Kansas City, the words cynical or cynicism have appeared as many as a dozen times in the president’s text as Obama plays the role of a motivational speaker and psychologist for voters.

“You can’t afford to be cynical,” Obama told a packed crowd in Kansas City last week. “Cynicism is fashionable sometimes. You see it all over our culture, all over TV, everybody likes putting stuff down and being cynical and being negative, and that shows somehow that you’re sophisticated and you’re cool.

“You know what—cynicism didn’t put a man on the moon,” he continued, before ticking off a list of other non-cynical monumental events.

Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about that anytime soon, since NASA has moved its focus from space to manufacturing “climate change” data along with massaging the self esteem of Muslims.

“He doesn’t see ‘hope’ as blind optimism or happy talk but as a belief that forces us to keep trying in the face of adversity and fear and doubt,” said Jon Favreau, who served as Obama’s chief speechwriter at the White House and during his two presidential campaigns. “Cynicism is the idea that the game is rigged, everyone’s in it for himself or herself, and there’s no point in trying to make a difference.

Which is hilarious, when you really think about it, because Obama is in it only for himself.

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Ceasfire Ends, Rockets Fired From Gaza – To Apply Pressure Or Something

By William Teach August 8, 2014 – 9:21 am

There are quite a few idiotic stories on some group in Gaza firing rockets at Israel as the ceasefire ended, and the NY Times has the most idiotic. Here’s what it looks like on the mobile edition (both web and their app) front page

Hey, I do that all the time on the golf course when someone is playing slow, wildly fire a few shots from my .22 to apply pressure. I understand that business folks fire bottle rockets across town during negotiations all the time, and throw Brown Recluse spiders across the negotiation table during lulls. Just to apply pressure

(NY Times) As a 72-hour truce in Gaza expired at 8 a.m. Friday, Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded with airstrikes, one of which killed a 10-year-old boy, according to relatives.

The renewed hostilities interrupted the indirect talks in Cairo, brokered by Egypt and backed by the United States, for a more durable cease-fire agreement. While the rocket fire signaled Hamas’s refusal to extend the temporary lull and its desire to apply pressure for its demands to be met at the talks, the Israeli government said in a statement that “Israel will not hold negotiations under fire.”

Huh. So a “militant” group is firing missiles (and also lobbing mortars) to put pressure on Israel. Interesting that they are not called “terrorists”. Let’s switch to the Washington Post article

Palestinian militants began to fire rockets at Israel again Friday morning after a three-day truce ended and talks in Cairo to extend it sputtered.

More than 20 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, according to an Israeli military spokesman. Two were intercepted over the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, and several fell short and landed in Gaza, the spokesman said.

Militants. Israeli president Netanyahu directed the IDF to respond, and

Moments later, the Israeli military announced it was striking targets in Gaza, and journalists in the coastal enclave began to tweet photos of smoke plumes and news of explosions.

Interestingly, both of the two cited articles were relying on the IDF stating that rockets and mortars had been launched. Add CBS News, and many others, to that list. It’s almost like the major news outlets aren’t bothering to really have anyone on the ground in Israel, and are focusing all their assets within Gaza, a place controlled by terrorists.

In a separate statement, the militant group Islamic Jihad and another Palestinian faction claimed responsibility for the rocket fire.

Hmm, so two other “militant” groups claimed responsibility. Militant group Hamas stated they did not do it. Why is it so hard for news outlets to call them terrorists? Oh, right, they sympathize, and would label Israel as the terrorist group if they could get away with it.

Hamas officials, in their first public rally since the truce with Israel, vowed Thursday to never give up arms and to reignite war if Israel does not accept their demands for the lifting of the blockade.

The defiant rhetoric, delivered as supporters chanted, “Blow up, blow up Tel Aviv,” came on the final day of a three-day truce that brought a rare calm to the region after a month of violent conflict.

“The war is not over yet,” Mushir al-Masri, a top Hamas official, told the gathering. “Our fighters are still in the field, in their frontline positions. Our tunnels still exist, and they reach into Israeli territory. If Israel doesn’t agree to our demands, we will come there.”

Hmm, peaceful. Militants.

I actually have an idea: Israel and Egypt should stack tons of troops, fighting vehicles, and tanks on the border to Gaza, have lots of bombers ready to go, and then fully lift the blockade, stating that a) if Hamas and the rest of the Gazans use the inflow of goods for military purposes, and launch any strikes against Israel, it is on the head of the Obama, Kerry, and the other terrorist supporters, and b) say if anything is launched, Israel and Egypt will go in with massive force, and truly occupy Gaza, and it is on the heads of Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Obama, Kerry, and the rest of the Gazan supporters.

Of course, even if Israel was forced to respond, the Liberal media and leftists around the world would simply blame Israel. They sympathize with Hamas in wanting to “blow up, blow up Tel Aviv”. And see the end of the Jewish state.

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Warmist: Things Are So Bad We’re F*cked By The Climate Dragon Or Something

By William Teach August 7, 2014 – 3:54 pm

Another day, another unhinged Warmist

When a Climate Scientist Publicly States “We’re F**ked” Things Are Bad It’s one thing to note the unusually hot weather we’ve been having and then slather on some suncream. But when a climate expert unceremoniously concedes that the planet is “f**ked”, it’s probably time to get seriously worried.

Scientists at the Stockholm University recently discovered that vast methane plumes were escaping the Arctic Ocean seafloor. And that’s got noted climatologist Dr. Jason Box very worried.

“If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we’re f’d,” he tweeted. “Methane is more than 20 times more potent than CO2 [carbon dioxide] in trapping infrared as part of the natural greenhouse effect,” he later told Motherboard. “Methane getting to the surface—that’s potent stuff.”

“We’re on a trajectory to an unmanageable heating scenario, and we need to get off it. We’re f**ked at a certain point, right? It just becomes unmanageable. The climate dragon is being poked, and eventually the dragon becomes pissed off enough to trash the place.”

Here’s how bad that unmanageable trajectory is

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 7, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a carbon intensive golf course which would be a great place for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on silly Brits thinking gardening is racist.

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Ocare Looking To Bring Breast-feeding To A Company Near You

By William Teach August 7, 2014 – 10:03 am

Now, now, don’t misunderstand: there is nothing wrong with breastfeeding. There are tons of studies showing that breastfeeding and/or using breast milk is the best thing for babies. But, this is not really about breastfeeding: it’s about federal government interference in the economy, yet again

(Reuters) Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must provide time and space for new mothers to express milk for their babies until the child turns one year old.

“This is a terrific opportunity to show businesses that lactation is important and that women should be accorded the right to provide milk for their babies,” said Dr. Richard J. Schanler, director of neonatal services at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York in New Hyde Park.

This requirement has been “sort of on the books for a while,” Schanler told Reuters Health, but the ACA provision makes the rule concrete.

One has to wonder, why are women bringing young babies to the workplace in the first place? Here’s where it gets dicey

The law allows women to pump for a “reasonable amount of time,” as often as necessary, and requires employers to provide a clean, private space other than a bathroom for them to do so.

“It should be a room, a separate quiet place, not a bathroom, and let the mother express her milk and have a place to store it,” Schanler said.

There will certainly be companies that have the space to create this new lactation room. And many can certainly afford to spend a small amount to make it pleasant. Many already do provide a space. But, there are many which cannot. As an example, back in my days of working for AT&T wireless, there was really no extra space to have some sort of extra room in most retail stores, unless a section of the sales floor was taken away. This would apply to quite a few businesses.

Businesses with fewer than 50 employees may be exempt from the break time law if it would be an “undue hardship,” causing difficulty or expense for the employer.

But the spirit of the law is to make this available for all working women, Schanler said, and it’s hard to imagine what difficulty or expense an employer would face.

Consider, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and tons of other corporations would not be allowed any exemption. What are they supposed to do? Every bit of the store is optimized. There are no places to build a separate room. And they get no waivers. Companies that may, and I stress “may”, get an exemption, are in the same boat. They have no space. It’s easy for Schanler to be unable to imagine difficulty and expense that would be incurred, but, then, he works in a giant hospital, which probably has a space already set aside. Will businesses have to do away with much of their floor space they currently have and when they look to build new locations?

A couple comments from the Yahoo article

  • I guess things like this is why most jobs created are part time or temp jobs.
  • “This is a terrific opportunity to show businesses that lactation is important and that women should be accorded the right to provide milk for their babies,” = One more cost for US companies and a reason to outsource more jobs to more company friendly locations
  • I wonder how many women wont be hired now.
  • This is going to be a huge boon to trial lawyers. Just wait and see!
  • Single males should have their own room and paid time to ejaculate. It is proven to lower the chances of prostate cancer and also provides positive psychological properties. It would also likely reduce violence on the jobsite.
  • How many more rules and hidden regulations are in this you have to pass  it in order to find out what it is in it bill?

This ACA rule is most likely simply more patronization of women by Democrats, much like how breast pumps are now required to be free under Ocare insurance. Strange, considering how hostile the Democrat party is to babies in the first place. In the Real World, legislation has unintended consequences, and they are not always the good kind. See the third comment.

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When It Comes To Illegal Immigration, Obama’s Like Lincoln Or Something

By William Teach August 7, 2014 – 7:43 am

Trolling the opinion pages of the major news outlets is an easy way to find bat guano insane, or, heck, just plain stupid opinion pieces, by far left ideologues. There’s always plenty of La La Land material, especially if one visits the NY Times and Washington Post. Today is like every other day, and here’s a doozy by Charles Lane. One the Washington Post web front page the article is referred to as “Obama the emancipator: On immigration, the president may be similar to Lincoln”. Inside, we get

With immigration reform, President Obama takes cue from Lincoln

Not since Abraham Lincoln pondered his Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 has a president considered ordering a more sweeping adjustment to membership in the American community than the mass relief for illegal immigrants that President Obama is said to be contemplating.

There is obviously no analogy between slavery and the disadvantages the undocumented face today.

But, Lane is still going to find a way

Among many other differences, the undocumented arrived voluntarily, searching, often successfully, for a better life. Also, they established residence unlawfully, for which there must be some reckoning.

But

Still, the essentially permanent presence of some 11 million people whose labor and cultural contributions benefit the United States — yet who must exist on the margins of society — creates dilemmas both practical and moral.

And the issue has this in common with slavery: It’s a long-standing debate over fundamental rights that the nation’s democratic institutions have proven incapable of resolving, leading to increasingly bitter partisan conflict.

The ideological concept behind Obama’s grand slicing of the Gordian knot of immigration, if he attempts it, would be akin to that which drove Lincoln’s action: the president as liberator.

There’s so much wrong with that, I’m not even sure where to start and end. Let’s just note that the slaves were brought involuntarily, while illegals come voluntarily, both those who come illegally to start and those who overstay their visas.

And if Obama does it

Still, its impact would be dramatic, and might define Obama’s legacy as powerfully as the Emancipation Proclamation defined Lincoln’s.

In short, the broadest measure Obama is considering would be constitutionally dubious, politically explosive and flatly contradictory to his own recently expressed views.

It would also bring many hard-working people out of the shadows, make generations of Latinos into Democrats and secure a place in history for its author.

Got that? Doing this would be lawless, but, hey, he should do it anyhow! Liberal World.

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Sec State Kerry: Sure, Lots Of African Kids Die Of Hunger, But, Climate Change!

By William Teach August 7, 2014 – 6:59 am

It’s no secret that Believers in “climate change” are increasingly hostile to Other People having children, particularly those in 3rd world nations. There’s always been a racist component within the beliefs of the climate change movement, which go back to the eugenics of early Progressivism. The examples of population reduction and restriction are rife throughout the movement, and seem to be targeted at Blacks in Africa quite often. Here’s high flying, limo taking, big carbon footprint John Kerry

(Daily Caller) Nearly 50 African heads of state have gathered for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C. this week to discuss trade, security and governance in the three-day summit.

While there has been a lot of talk about corruption, climate change and strengthening business ties, some other revealing agenda items were unveiled during the summit.

Here are some memorable moments from the summit:

1) U.S. Secretary John Kerry: Africa has “chronic hunger” but creating more farms in Africa causes too much carbon population.

During the Africa Summit “Resilience and Food Security in a Changing Climate” panel, Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience that “8,000 children die every day” and in sub-Sahara Africa, one in four suffer from chronic hunger.

But, in Warmist World, too much agriculture, new farms,  to feed the children causes carbon pollution

In other words: For the Obama administration, starvation in Africa will be solved by combating climate change not more farms.

This is the “climate change” movement in a nutshell. Real world problems need to be diminished and subservient to dealing with “climate change”, believing that man has caused the current changes, despite changes having always occurred, and there being an almost 18 year pause that destroys the computer models “climate change” is based on. And Someone Else must always pay the price for the beliefs, rarely the believers themselves.

Sure, making existing farms more effective and productive will certainly help. Of course, Warmists also want to restrict using modern fossil fueled methods, heck, modern methods altogether, when it comes to agriculture. You’re not going to be able to run a giant combine on solar power. Other environmental extremists will jump in and protest. What Africans in certain areas need is more food, better food. Of course, the spread of radical Islam, people living in areas that have been crummy for farming for thousands of years, and the ever present graft, strife, and dictators doesn’t help. Nor do idiot, racist climate change believers.

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People Getting Summertime Sadness Over Below Average Temps

By William Teach August 6, 2014 – 3:18 pm

Obviously, the cooler than normal temps must be due to someone else refusing to give up their fossil fueled travel

(CBS NY) The area is on track for our coolest summer since 2009, but that’s leaving some people with seasonal depression, CBS 2’s Cindy Hsu reported.

Staten Island high school seniors Gabriell Vinci and Antoinette DiStefano said summer is going by way too fast.

“It’s very depressing,” Vinci said.

Even though summer is only  halfway over, Donna Barnes said she is feeling the frantic rush.

“I have to admit, I’ve got a little bit of a panic of like there’s so many things that I wanted to do that I haven’t done yet,” Barnes said.

Damned globull warming isn’t cooperating!

Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert said this year’s summer sadness has a lot to do with the weather.

“Following the long, cold winter, they just expected a really long, hot summer, so they’re not seeing that,” Alpert said.

What will these folks do if The Pause continues? Fortunately, the liberals running NYC want to spend oodles on Hotcoldwetdry mitigation programs (that will benefit their campaign donors and friends).

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 6, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous climate hating golf course, which should be replaced with lots of solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on American pessimism.

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