Member Of House Of Lords Asks If Baked Beans Are Bad For “Climate Change”

By William Teach April 10, 2014 – 8:51 am

Welcome to Warmist Town, the wackiest town around (via Dana)

(Western Morning News) A hereditary peer has questioned whether flatulence caused by the country’s high consumption of baked beans is adding to global warming.

Viscount Simon, 73, a Labour peer who has been a member of the House of Lords for more than 20 years, raised concerns about the “smelly emissions”.

His comments came as energy minister Baroness Verma answered questions in the Upper House on how the Government was tackling climate change.

Lord Simon said: “In a programme some months ago on the BBC it was stated that this country has the largest production of baked beans and the largest consumption of baked beans in the world.”

To laughter from peers, he asked Lady Verma: “Could you say whether this affects the calculation of global warming by the Government as a result of the smelly emission resulting there from?”

Instead of asking Lord Simon if he was stoned or losing his marbles, she said his question was different, and

But she added: “You do actually raise a very important point, which is we do need to moderate our behaviour.”

And by “we”, she means “you”, and by “moderate”, she means “by force of Government”.

This is Warmist World, where they link everything to their pet cult, no matter how wacky, no matter how stupid sounding, no matter how insane. All for more Government Control.

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Pew Poll Highlights How Important Obamacare Is For Midterms

By William Teach April 10, 2014 – 8:38 am

And the news continues to be bad for Democrats

(USA Today) The Affordable Care Act looms as a powerful issue in this year’s congressional elections, a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll finds, and one that is reverberating in ways likely to boost the GOP.

In the survey, taken after President Obama announced a surprising 7.1 million Americans had signed up for health care through the law’s exchanges, more than eight in 10 registered voters say a candidate’s stance on the law will be an important factor in determining their vote. A 54% majority call it very important.

By 2-1, those who rate the issue as very important disapprove of the law.

That means it is more likely to motivate opponents than supporters to vote — a critical element in midterm elections when turnout often is low.

The law is still negative, with 50% disapproving and 37% approving. Obviously, most Republicans disapprove and most Dems approve. The danger is that 54% of Independents disapprove, with only 34% approving.

So far, most Americans, 57%, say the law hasn’t had much of an impact on them or their families. In coming years, they predict by 35%-29% that it will have a mostly negative effect on them. In a survey that has mostly bad news for proponents, that 6-percentage-point gap may provide a glimmer of good news: It has narrowed from 12 points in December.

They’ve spent billions and billions of dollars on this boondoggle, damaged the economy, caused people to be shifted to part time work hours, and limited hiring, among others, all for a net gain in private insurance of about 1.4 million (after 6 million or so lost their plans). And let’s not forget the potential cancellations come fall 2014. Think about all the advertising for this, the free positive press, all the tweets and silly campaigns for ACA supports. Think about all that, and most think that the ACA will have either no effect or a negative effect. Even 58% of Democrats say that it has pretty much had little effect on their lives.

Asked about the effect on the country as a whole so far, 43% say it has been mostly negative, 30% mostly positive. That’s a bigger shift, to a 13-point gap from a 26-point gap in December. That may reflect some reassessments as the heart of the law goes into effect.

47% of Independents lean negative. Just 26% say mostly positive. Those are numbers that do not bode well for Dems for the midterms.

Just 17% overall state that Ocare has had a mostly positive effect on the country. Democrats are destroying the health care system for 17% positive.Think about that.

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Could A Potential El Nino Be A Big One?

By William Teach April 9, 2014 – 3:43 pm

The bigger question is “how will Warmists use a natural phenomenon to their unhinged advantage?” Also, “who will be the first Warmist to blame the El Nino on “climate change”?”

(ABC News) El Niño is a growing threat this year that could play havoc with weather patterns in the United States, forecasters say.

El Niño, named for the warm waters that occasionally occur in the Pacific Ocean near South America, brings fluctuating weather that includes droughts, flooding and heat waves.

“We have above-normal temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean and that often precedes an El Niño because there’s a large volume of above-average water temperature below the surface of the ocean,” Anthony Barnston, chief forecaster for the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, told ABC News. “Volume often tends to come up to the surface; often, but not always.

“That’s the uncertainty,” Barnston said. “It’s more likely to rise than not.” (snip)

Barnston notes a 70 percent probability of the United States’ experiencing an El Niño this year. He said the official outlook will be coming Thursday from the two agencies – his research institute and the Climate Prediction Center – and will most likely give a slightly lower probability of an El Niño event.

If an El Niño persists, Barnston said, it will develop between April and June and last until the start of the next calendar year for a nine-to-10 month cycle.

It is not expected to be a big one, about half the power of the massive 1997 El Nino. You know that the warmth and rain and other weather changes will be blamed on Mankind.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 9, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful climate friendly bike that Everyone Else should be forced to ride instead of taking fossil fueled travel, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on Germany wasting 100 billion Euros for no drop in CO2.

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Sharknado 2 Goes All Climate Changey

By William Teach April 9, 2014 – 12:12 pm

How perfect: a beyond suspension of belief fake movie about a fake issue

(LA Times) The director and some cast members of “Sharknado 2: The Second One” appeared on stage in a Pasadena hotel on Tuesday to preview the upcoming airborne shark sequel and touched on a very serious topic: climate change.

Whoever could have predicted that Ian Ziering taking on flying sharks with a chain saw would give Al Gore a run for his cinematic money?

Costar Judah Friedlander, the guy who always wore trucker caps on “30 Rock,” plays a childhood friend of Ziering’s character and proclaimed the film about a weather phenomenon involving flying sharks “the most important ever made about climate change.”

To be clear, he was talking about “Sharknado 2,” not “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Sharknado had a brief mention of “climate change”, this one looks to make it a big deal. It’ll premier on July 31st at 9pm. It’ll be interesting to see how they blame the snow (it was cold and snowy during filming) on “climate change”…or, it would if I had plans to watch it. The first one, like most SciFy originals, was a really, really bad movie.

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Is There A Climate Crystal Ball Or Something?

By William Teach April 9, 2014 – 10:02 am

Live Science’s Graham Wayne wonders if there is one. He’s also one of those Warmists who think Someone Else should act locally, preferably at the barrel of a government regulation (if he’s like most Warmists), while thinking globally, which is really a copout for making no changes within ones own life. Anyhow, here’s the first of two money quotes

It is often said that climate models are like crystal balls. Scientists can gaze into them, but due to the basic constraints of any modeling, the results are cloudy. Scientists know the basic physics of the atmosphere well enough to capture the big trends, but the smallest atmospheric features are still being fine-tuned. So unlike soothsayers and fortune-tellers, climate scientists don’t make bold pronouncements, but instead couch their projections in caveats and careful language to be honest about the uncertainty involved.

Except, they do. They’re constantly making bold predictions of doom and gloom.

Here’s the most important quote

Studying short-term climatic responses (TCR), Shindell found that a number of assumptions about the way the atmosphere responds may be skewing the models to underestimate climate sensitivity. So, in essence, this study is polishing the crystal ball, finding that previous TCR findings might be too low.

So, a prediction of more doom. Furthermore, we were supposed to make past policy predictions on things like fossil fuels, economic conditions, taxation, cap and trade, limitations on personal freedom, etc, in crummy assumptions and skewed data, of which they were telling us previously that “the science is settled”.

They’re saying their old crystal balls were flawed, but now we’re supposed to trust that their Crystal Ball 2.1 is fixed? What happens in 10-20 years when they come back and say “um, guys, the 2.1 version was skewed, sorry about that, please give us more money for CB 3.0.” Will they apologize for all the economic and personal freedom damage?

BTW, if anything, their findings seem to be drastically over-estimating the effects of man released GHGs.

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Say, What Did Afghans Use During Their Historic Vote?

By William Teach April 9, 2014 – 7:05 am

Good question, if I don’t say so myself

(IBD) About 7 million Afghans turned out to vote in Saturday’s presidential election, many proudly brandishing a photo ID that our Department of Justice claims is a symbol of racism and voter intimidation.

In perhaps the most ironic tweet of all time, former Obama adviser David Axelrod noted concerning Saturday’s presidential election in Afghanistan: “Afghans defied threat of death to vote. Here’s hoping that Americans vote in large (numbers) this fall, despite efforts to make voting harder.”

Axelrod may not have noticed, but millions of Afghans also defied the threat of death when they lined up earlier to obtain the same photo voter IDs they could carry as they voted in an election that will produce the first peaceful transition of power in that beleaguered nation’s history. Afghans proudly showed their photo voter IDs, just as President Obama did when he voted early in Chicago in the 2012 election.

If people in some countries, as Axelrod notes, will risk death to vote, it is hard to see the intimidation in requiring people who vote to prove they are who they say they are — especially when voting results in America show that minority voters turned out in greater numbers in states that adopted voter ID requirements.

That’s a heck of a thing, eh? The White House praised the Afghan elections, and Allen West had a few choice words

But as you can see in this video, the people of Afghanistan will not be cowed, and will do what they can to ensure democratic elections — even if it means getting a photo for a voter identification. You cannot tell me citizens of the United States face a hardship in getting photo IDs to show at their polling place. How do the people of Afghanistan manage it, when they don’t have a CVS, Walgreens or Duane Reade at every corner?

When liberals in this country talk about “voter suppression” they really mean “fraudulent voter suppression” — yes, requiring a photo I.D. will suppress fraudulent votes. If you don’t agree with me, come on down to Florida and we’ll chat about it. But first, try getting on the plane without your repressive photo IDs.

Boom. Democrats are worried about having to show something that most people in the U.S. already have in order to vote, because they really want to commit fraud.

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Mark Levin On Obama: “This Man Is A Disgrace”

By William Teach April 9, 2014 – 6:45 am

What has Mark Levin so vexed? We pretty much know that Obama is a disgrace in general. Here’s in specific

(The Blaze) Conservative radio host Mark Levin on Tuesday said he is “ashamed and disgusted” that President Barack Obama plans to hit a fundraiser on Wednesday, hours after attending a memorial service to honor the slain military heroes who were killed in the recent Fort Hood shooting.

“I want to tell you something that I’m ashamed of and disgusted about,” Levin began. “This is just so appalling.”

He explained that, according to the schedule on the White House website, Obama and the first lady leave at 9:05 a.m. on Wednesday and arrive in Killeen, Texas, at around 11:30 a.m. CT.

The president and Michelle Obama will attend the Fort Hood memorial service on Wednesday and then take off for a Democratic National Committee fundraising event about an hour and a half later. The fundraiser reportedly starts at 5 p.m. CT.

The Associated Press reportedly obtained an invitation to the April 9 event “where tickets start at $16,200 a person and go up to $64,800 for a couple.” Obama is expected to be joined by Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

After that fundraiser, Obama will then go to a Democrat dinner event, which means he will spend more time at partisan fundraising events than at Ft. Hood.

“The president is actually spending more time fundraising in Texas than honoring those who were murdered at Fort Hood at the memorial ceremony,” Levin said, clearly angry but speaking with a somber tone. “I’m sorry ladies and gentlemen, I believe this man is a disgrace.”

“I don’t know how you leave such a solemn event and then within hours you’re glad-handing you’re fundraising as if you can turn it off and turn it on,” he continued. “No, I’m sorry, that’s a disgrace and he’s a disgrace.”

As one of the commenters notes

If he didn’t have to justify the travel he would have skipped the event at Fort Hood.

Making an official stop at Ft. Hood allows Obama to only pay for the short trip from Ft. Hood to the fundraiser, rather than the full trip to Texas, per campaign laws.

Let’s not forget that Obama hit the campaign trail the day after 4 Americans, including our Ambassador, were murdered by Islamic jihadis in Benghazi, along with all the US compounds attacked on September 11, 2012.

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Surprise: Premiums Spiked In Recent Years

By William Teach April 8, 2014 – 2:49 pm

A good chunk of this is directly related to the “Affordable” Care Act

(Forbes) Health insurance premiums are showing the sharpest increases perhaps ever according to a survey of brokers who sell coverage in the individual and small group market. Morgan Stanley’s healthcare analysts conducted the proprietary survey of 148 brokers. The April survey shows the largest acceleration in small and individual group rates in any of the 12 prior quarterly periods when it has been conducted.

The average increases are in excess of 11% in the small group market and 12% in the individual market. Some state show increases 10 to 50 times that amount. The analysts conclude that the “increases are largely due to changes under the ACA.” (snip)

For the individual insurance market (plans sold directly to consumers); among the ten states seeing some of the sharpest average increases are: Delaware at 100%, New Hampshire 90%, Indiana 54%, California 53%, Connecticut 45%, Michigan 36%, Florida 37%, Georgia 29%, Kentucky 29%, and Pennsylvania 28%.

For the small group market, among the ten states seeing the biggest increases are: Washington 588%, Pennsylvania 66%, California 37%, Indiana 34%, Kentucky 30%, Colorado 29%, Michigan 27%, Maryland 25%, Missouri 25%, and Nevada 23%.

Congratulations, Democrat states, you are the proud recipients of the majority of the pain. Ironic, wouldn’t you say?

(Daily Caller) Individual policies saw a much starker jump after the Obamacare exchanges launched, in anticipation of the health care law going live in 2014. Morgan Stanley’s September 2013 survey, like the previous three quarters, found a fairly constant growth rate around 2 percent — but in December, the rate had shot up to above 9 percent.

Morgan Stanley’s results echo what consumers are already seeing: the Affordable Care Act’s intensive regulation of the insurance market is driving health care premiums up strikingly.

Well, fortunately, those who enroll in Obamacare can get Someone Else to pay a good portion, if not all, of their premiums. Funny thing is, Obamacare, and the rules from Team Obama and HHS, focused on controlling costs, rather than expanding service. What they got are higher costs for premiums and deductibles and reduced provider networks, all while achieving a net increase in those with health insurance of only about a million consumers. Wasn’t a main point of this whole exercise to provide the 30-45 million Americans without health insurance that health insurance?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 8, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a sacrificial pedestal perfectly suited to kill all deniers and please Gaia, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Scared Monkeys, with a post on jihadis going all splodey-dope.

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