If All You See…

By William Teach April 12, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a flooded world because climate change causes too much snow which melts, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Notebook, with a post on crazy Common Core schools.

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Creepy Sculptures Show As What Happens “If We Ignore Climate Change”

By William Teach April 12, 2014 – 11:36 am

PolicyMic calls the sculptures “haunting“. I call them creepy

Artist Isaac Cordal’s tiny sculptures are found in the most unlikely of places: on top of buildings, in alleyways, on gutters, at bus stops. They are found in nooks and crannies around the world, and the gravity of their meaning is far greater than their size.

The first outdoor “intervention” of the artist’s Cement Eclipses series is from 2008. Since then, he’s made approximately 60 “interventions” (Cordal’s word for the installations), published two books and brought his work to countries around the world. Sometimes the sculptures stay in one space for long periods, other times he places them, takes a photograph and moves on. In every place and with every sculpture Cordal is making a point, or more pointedly asking a question: What are we doing to our world?

Cordal’s work is desolate, haunting and haunted, but that makes sense: He is fixated on environmental disaster and he uses his art, specifically his project “Waiting for Climate Change,” to bring that potential future into sharp focus. In his work, small human figures seem to cope with a post-apocalyptic reality. According to the artist statement on Cordal’s site, “The art work intends to catch the attention on our devalued relation with the nature through a critical look to the collateral effects of our evolution.” It’s safe to say, Cordal succeeds.

Interesting: Cordal has apparently traveled all over the world for the art. Obviously, Mr. Cordal walked, right? No fossil fueled travel, right? Let’s see one

More at the PolicyMic link.

I’m waiting for the day when Warmists stop their art, poems, plays, spreading awareness, and simply practice what they preach.

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Obama Tells Us What The Real Voter Fraud Is

By William Teach April 12, 2014 – 7:23 am

Hint: it’s the people passing laws that require people to verify who they are in order to vote

(The Blaze) President Barack Obama tore into state voter ID laws Friday when speaking to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, accusing Republicans of trying to block minorities, women and seniors from voting and calling the laws a fraud.

“We don’t want folks voting that shouldn’t be voting,” Obama told the gathering in New York. “Let’s stipulate to that as the lawyers say, but there is a reason why those who argue that harsh restrictions on voting are somehow necessary to fight voter fraud are having such a hard time proving any real widespread voter fraud.”

Except for the 36,000 cases of potential voter fraud in 2012, just in the state of North Carolina. Every illegal vote harms a legitimate vote.

Obama said most studies show voter fraud is not a problem.

“The real voter fraud is those that try to deny our rights by making arguments about voter fraud. but I have to say, there have been some of these officials who have been passing these laws have been more blunt,” Obama said.

And there you have it: Mr. Obama is Chooming again. Or demagoging. Possibly both. Of course, Liberals are only concerned about voter fraud when they lose an election. Otherwise, it’s no big deal.

Would it surprise you that Obama also went down the raaaaacism superhighway? Of course not: he’s a Democrat and speaking at Sharpton’s race baiting and tax avoiding NAN.

He noted that he visited the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library the day before. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to prevent efforts by local government to prevent blacks from voting.

“The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not since nearly five decades ago. Across the country, Republicans have led efforts to pass laws making it harder, not easier, for people to vote,” Obama said. He went on to say, “We won’t let voter suppression go unchallenged.”

Democrats think that Blacks are too stupid and too lazy to be able to get a proper ID, which is needed for almost everything nowadays. Like……visiting the White House

All guests 18 years of age or older will be required to present a valid, government-issued photo identification (detailed below). All foreign nationals must present their passport. All other forms of foreign identification will not be accepted.

What kind of ID’s are acceptable?

Valid government-issued United States identification card (e.g. drivers license, military ID, etc.)

Valid United States or other official government-issued passports

Apparently, Obama doesn’t want Black people to visit the White House. Otherwise, why would he require ID and in such a restrictive manner?

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EPA’s War On Coal Puts US At Risk Of Brownouts And Blackouts

By William Teach April 12, 2014 – 6:59 am

Anyone surprised?

(Fox News) Facing the Obama administration’s so-called “war on coal,” some utility officials are warning that fewer coal-fired power plants could leave the U.S. power system vulnerable to blackouts in the near future.

The officials warn that intense summer heat or extreme winter cold could soon be too much for the system to handle.

“I worry about the potential of brownouts and blackouts if we’re … actually depending on this generation that’s going to be retired,” Nick Akins, from American Electric Power, told Fox News in an interview.

“Regulation from five years ago is closing about 20 percent of the coal plants. Regulations being proposed now could close an additional 20 percent of coal plants. And that creates huge stresses — we’re just not ready for anything like that in this country,” Mike Duncan, from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, told Fox News.

I’ll note once again that I’m not a big fan of coal, which is not entirely clean, and can be bad for environmental health (I’m not referring to “climate change”, but real environmental issues). Nor do I buy into clean coal. At this time, there power generation has not been replaced, and solar and wind are still non-viable alternatives.

Obviously, Gina McCarthy’s out of control EPA, along with Gina herself, say there’s nothing to worry about, and

“Nothing we do can threaten reliability. We have to recognize that in a changing climate like the one we have recently been experiencing, it is an increasing challenge to maintain a reliable energy supply,” McCarthy said.

That’s right, she blames any grid issues on “climate change”. Aren’t you glad the person in charge of your electricity supply is insane?

Still, considering this past winter’s severe cold and “Polar Vortex,” Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski noted at a Senate hearing this week that the system was at its limits.

“Eight-nine percent of the coal electricity capacity that is due to go offline was utilized as that backup to meet the demand this winter,” Murkowski said.

This is the danger of having radical activists with an axe to grind in charge of any government agency, much less the EPA: they aren’t really worried about the overall impacts of their foolish, deranged, and irrational rules and regulations. With the coal rules, they’re worried about the fictional issue of Man causing changes to the climate 50-100 years down the road, despite all their models failing, rather than about the need for Americans to have the energy needed for a modern society.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Bummer: Your TV Is Bad For Climate Change

By William Teach April 11, 2014 – 2:33 pm

This just goes to show that Warmists never give up on a good meme, they just keep recycling it. In this case, out to the Philippines

CLIMATE CHANGE ALERT | Leaving your TV set on ‘standby mode’ is hurting the environment

MANILA – Want to help the environment by bringing down your carbon footprint? Here’s a simple step that even a couch potato can do: when not in use, turn off the TV set, instead of placing it on standby mode.

According to Department of Energy (DOE) director Mario C. Marasigan, curbing “uncontrolled utilization of energy” from appliances on standby mode such as TV sets reduces our carbon footprint.

“There are 90 million Filipinos in 19 million homes with at least one TV. This TV [uses] seven watts of power while [you are] not watching, just waiting for you to operate. That’s 133 megawatts for not watching TV,” he said during a media briefing on Thursday.

There is a thing called “vampire energy”, and this is what it is about. Appliances using energy even when turned off. But, really, the only thing it can hurt is your electric bill, not the “climate” and certainly not the environment. But, hey, if Warmists believe this so much, then they should unplug the majority of their appliances whenever they aren’t in use, and just deal with the resetting, and, in some cases, like DVRs and cable boxes, the long turn on cycle.

Marasigan said the government is collaborating with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and World Wide Fund in a study to come up with policy and technological recommendations to reach “climate safe” development by 2050.

And normal speak, that means the government of the Philippines is looking to raise people’s costs as well as burden them with more Big Government control of their private lives.

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If All You See…

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

…is a field of food that will be destroyed by Hotcoldwetdry, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on a fitting end to the Sebelius era.

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Sen. Whitehouse Plans Fossil Fueled Tour Of Southern States

By William Teach April 11, 2014 – 10:30 am

To push “climate change”, of course

(Providence Journal) In his own version of spring break, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is hitting the road in April, bound for Miami with several stops along the way — all to raise awareness of climate change.

While heading south to oceanfront destinations might seem like a classic junket, the visits are strategic in the Democrat’s high-profile campaign: the locations are among the most vulnerable to sea-level rise and severe coastal weather — and they are governed by Republicans.

“I think that by going down the coast, I’ll be able to bring some of our good Rhode Island common sense and find its equivalent in these areas where the effect of climate change is not only undeniable, it’s actually measurable,” Whitehouse said.

“I’m trying to explore what the best arguments would be to get my colleagues to move away from climate denial — that strategy — and find a way to engage on this issue as opposed to pretending it isn’t happening.”

I welcome him here in North Carolina (though there is no real agenda yet which would tell me he’s coming here). I’d be happy to discuss my “denialism” with him, and show him the data that highlights that anthropogenic causation is primarily a pantload of mule fritters. Oh, and I’d love to ask him why he is using fossil fuels

Whitehouse will travel with two staffers and, for part of the trip, drive from one coastal community to another. After making stops in Charlestown, S.C., and Tybee Island in Georgia, they’ll fly the last leg into Miami.

Whitehouse has complained quite a bit about fossil fuels usage. He’s big in backing the whole divestment movement. Yet, here he is, taking fossil fueled trips.

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Jindal, Louisiana State Party Call On Kissing Congressman To Resign

By William Teach April 11, 2014 – 8:39 am

This kinda stuff annoys me

(Times Picayune) Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday (April 10) called on U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister, R-Swartz, to resign. The statement came only hours after the state GOP issued a similar request.

“Congressman McAllister’s behavior is an embarrassment and he should resign. He says he wants privacy to work on his issues with his family. The best way to get privacy and work on putting his family back together is to resign from Congress.”

Hours earlier, Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere also suggested McAllister resign, calling his actions “extreme hypocrisy” that “has embarrassed our party, our state and the institution of Congress.” Louisiana’s newest congressman, McAllister was elected to represent the 5th District last November.

Why does this annoy me? I’m sure many Republicans and Conservatives, especially social conservatives, will disagree, but this is much ado about nothing. This was a personal failing, and embarrasses McAllister and the woman and their families. It only affects the GOP if they let it, and by calling for McAllister to resign they’ve joined into a personal issue, that, guess what, is not against the law. Just a bad personal decision.

Republicans are too quick on the draw to eat our own over small issues. Yes, we say we have better morals overall than Democrats, and we actually do. But, the flesh is weak, and people make mistakes. And, really, to expect most politicians to be super awesome moral people is to ignore the history of politics. Also, is it not Christian, and Conservative, to forgive? Especially since, in this case, this did not affect our own lives? What effect did the kiss have on the lives of most Republicans, including those in his district? Zip. Nada. Nill.

Do you see Democrats eating their own over tiny things? Heck, they almost never eat their own over big things. How many tax cheats work or worked for Obama? How many are in Congress? Dems vastly beat out Republicans on the tax cheat list. You have those taking bribes. How many in the Obama admin are lawless, including Obama? It’s no wonder 70% of felons register as Democrats.

This doesn’t even cover Democrat politicians denigrating, insulting, going after, etc, private citizens in a manner than may not violate the letter of all parts of the 1st Amendment, but certainly the spirit. And they love to violate many other Amendments, like the 2nd and the 4th.

People have personal failings. If something like this happens again, then McAllister should step aside. Or, the people of his District can vote him out. He broke no laws.

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White House Continues To Be Squishy On Keystone XL Deadline

By William Teach April 11, 2014 – 7:51 am

This is the most simple of things: approve or disapprove the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama put off any decision for the politics of the 2012 elections. Report after report, including the most recent one, give a thumbs up to the pipeline. So why not just make a decision?

(The Hill) White House press secretary Jay Carney attempted to sideline any noise that President Obama would establish a hard deadline for his decision on the Keystone XL pipeline Thursday.

“Our position on that process hasn’t changed, which is that it needs to run its appropriate course without interference from the White House or Congress,” Carney said to reporters. “It was because of actions taken by Republicans in Congress that one delay was caused in the process already.”

“So that review continues at the State Department, where it’s housed in accordance with past practice of previous administrations of both parties. And when there’s a decision to be announced, it will be announced,” Carney said.

What they are attempting to do is two-fold. First, they are trying to hold off and play it in the middle, neither ticking off nor pleasing either side, being the unhinged Warmist nutballs protesting Keystone XL (many by taking fossil fueled travel to the protests) and the smart people who know the pipeline is good for the economy. Oh, and just one of many, because other pipelines are being built.

Second, Warmist Barack Obama, along with hyper-Warmist John Kerry, both of who take lots and lots of fossil fueled trips, are desperately looking for a reason to disapprove the pipeline along globull warming lines, despite every report and study saying “nope!”

Oh, and then there’s the whole thing about Obama being a terrible leader and unable to make good decisions. And it would be work that interferes with campaigning and all the fun parts of the job.

Eleven Democrats, many of them who are under threat to lose their seats during the mid-terms, sent a letter to Obama telling him to set a hard deadline. Good luck with that. The politics, er, process, has to run its course. Because 5 years isn’t long enough to make a decision despite every study being in favor of the pipeline.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Surprise! EPA Chief Gina McCarthy Is A Climahypocrite

By William Teach April 10, 2014 – 3:05 pm

Anyone surprised? Much like Al Gore, Barack Obama, James Hansen, and the recently mentioned IPCC climate chief Christiana Figueres, McCarthy is a typical hypocrite

(Daily Caller) Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy may be a global warming crusader, but her weekly flights home to Boston are causing her to emit tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The EPA recently released a photo album titled “A Day In The Life of the EPA Administrator” that shows what McCarthy does on a typical day, including the fact that she flies home nearly every weekend to spend time with her family.

“Although she keeps a small apartment near EPA headquarters, almost every weekend McCarthy travels back to Boston, to her home and her husband,” according to the EPA.

But flying on an airplane twice nearly every weekend means she is significantly adding to her carbon footprint by using transportation that emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which the EPA says causes global warming.

The Daily Caller News Foundation calculated that McCarthy’s footprint from simply flying is nearly as much as the average total carbon footprint of one person over the course of an entire year. According to the EPA, “20,750 pounds [10.375 tons] is about average in the United States for a household of one person over a year.”

Numbers from 2006 show the average carbon footprint for a US citizen is 19.78 metric tons. The Daily Caller estimates McCarthy’s footprint for just the flights to and from Boston to be between 7.5 and 9.4 tons yearly. The EPA responded to the Daily Caller stating that sometimes she drives home! Note the photo at the “according to the EPA” link. The first photo is of her getting out a large size fossil fuels chugging SUV. Then getting back in for a trip around town to a meeting (pictures 9 and 10), which features the caption “Given the focus on climate change, and the key role EPA plays on the issue, McCarthy spends considerable time coordinating with the president’s senior advisors.” Do as they say, not as they do. Picture 12 shows her at the airport.

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