Warmists Sign Petition To Lower The Temperature Of The Sun

By William Teach March 15, 2014 – 3:57 pm

The Daley Gator calls these people nutbags. That might be a bit generous

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 15, 2014 – 1:27 pm

…is a flooded drought world, where dry water causes people to walk to work wearing snorkels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on scientific integrity at HHS.

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Bummer: Americans Not Buying The Notion That Cold Is Caused By “Climate Change”

By William Teach March 15, 2014 – 12:38 pm

As you might know, Warmists have been pushing the notion that cold and snow and ice, ie, winter weather, is now caused by “climate change”, due to man-induced greenhouse gas release. That talking point, designed to protect the “climate change” cult during a 17 year pause in statistically significant warming, and after several strong winters, isn’t gaining traction with the American people. They also aren’t buying the drought argument, either

(Gallup) Two in three Americans say their local area is experiencing colder-than-usual temperatures this winter, and one in four say their area is experiencing drought. When asked why they think these extreme weather events are happening, many more say they are attributable to normal yearly variation in temperature or rainfall than to human-caused climate change or global warming.

The cult just can’t catch a break.

This was part 3 of Gallup surveys on “climate change”. The first showed that “climate change” ranks almost dead last on the list of American concerns. The second, which was published on the 13th, shows that only 36% are concerned with global warming in their lifetime. It is elevated from the beginning of the polling in 1998, but down a bit from a high of 40% in 2008. But, this doesn’t distinguish causation, ie, whether natural, anthropogenic, or a mix.

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9 Year Old NJ Girl Explains Restrictive Guns Law Idiocy

By William Teach March 15, 2014 – 8:11 am

This goes to the proposed law I mentioned back in February, which would limit magazines to 10 rounds, among other things. She, figuratively, blew the room away

(The Blaze) Speaking before the New Jersey Law and Public Safety Committee in Trenton, N.J., on Thursday, 9-year-old competition shooter Shyanne Roberts spoke in opposition to a proposed bill that would further limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds.

In her speech, which earned thunderous applause from the audience, she presented the simplicity and common sense nature of the pro-gun argument in a way only a kid can.

“I am not a ‘gang banger or domestic terrorist’ as a certain vocal supporter of this bill claimed two weeks ago in the Star Ledger,” Roberts said. “This bill, if it becomes law, will severely impact me and a million other gun owners.”

The 9-year-old girl explained that she is a 4th-grade honor roll student and competitive shooter in multiple styles with numerous local, state and national sponsors.

“I have worked and trained very hard to get to the level I am at and if A2006 becomes law, I will be forced to choose between giving up on a very great and promising future in a sport that I love or asking my dad to move to another state. I will not be giving up my sport.”

She stated that if the law went into effect, it would make illegal the sport of competitive shooting

“Everyone is upset about bad people doing bad things to others, but punishing the people who didn’t do anything wrong is not the way to stop bad people,” she added. “If it wasn’t against the law, I would’ve brought one of my competition guns with me today to show you it won’t do anything unless someone touches it.”

Boom! She encapsulates the issue succinctly, in that the laws criminalize the behavior of law abiding citizens and punish them. And let’s not forget that the true criminals that these laws are supposed to stop do not care, because they are criminals.

Post by Shyanne Roberts.

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Obama: Hey, We’ve Got Enough Enrollments To Ensure Obamacare Survives

By William Teach March 15, 2014 – 7:47 am

He’s pretty casual in throwing out the supposed enrollment figure, though strangely unable to provide the risk pool mixes

(Washington Post) President Obama said Friday he was confident enough Americans had enrolled under the Affordable Care Act to make the program “stable.”

In an interview with WebMD (transcript here), Obama said the fact that 4.2 million people have already signed up for plans under federal and state marketplaces mean enough companies will be invested to stay in the system.

“Well, at this point, enough people are signing up that the Affordable Care Act is going to work. The insurance companies will continue to offer plans,” the president said. “It will be a larger number than that by the end of March 31st, the deadline to get insurance this year.”

How many healthy people have signed up? Don’t ask the President Of The United States, of which this is his signature law. He doesn’t know. Or didn’t bother to know. Or knows, but refuses to say

Obama noted, however, that the larger question is whether the risk pool is diverse enough to ensure premiums don’t skyrocket, since “the more you can spread the risk with more people, the better deal you’re going to get.”

“You know, the impact in terms of the program has always been based more on the mix of people who sign up. Do we have a mix of people who are gray-haired like me and may have some old basketball injuries and aches and pains, along with young people who are healthy and don’t really have any issues right now?” he asked. “Do we have a good mix of gender, in terms of men and women?”

It would be nice if the POTUS had the answer to those questions. For the amount of money already spent developing the websites and getting this POS law up and running, one would think there would be a way to obtain the data. The insurance companies must know what the mixes are. Either Obama doesn’t know, which makes him derelict in his job, or does know, and knows the numbers are bad. From the transcript

So, if all 40 million people who didn’t have health insurance all signed up by March 31st –in which case there probably would be a line, a little bit, in terms of signing up –but if all 40 million people signed up, then you could assure that probably the premiums would go down significantly next year, just because the pool would have gone beyond what the insurance companies anticipated.

Well, we’re only 36 million off. And the CBO estimates that, come 2024, there will still be 31 million uninsured. But, here’s an interesting little tidbit

A White House official noted that the federal law now requires an adequate network of providers, and in the coming year Health and Human Services “plans to have even more aggressive efforts in place to ensure that consumers have good networks of doctors, community providers and specialists.”

Does that sound to you like HHS is planning on forcing insurers to increase the networks? Which would cause costs to skyrocket, of course. And we can speculate that HHS would force insurers to eat the costs. Not that we should feel sorry for the insurance companies, at least those who were cheerleaders for this law.

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Claim: Bin Laden’s Body Not Shown Because It Was Riddled With Bullet Holes

By William Teach March 14, 2014 – 3:33 pm

Real? Not Real? You decide for yourself

(The Blaze) The “real reason” the White House has yet to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse is because U.S. troops “took turns dumping magazines-worth of ammunition” into the terror leader’s body, according to a new SOFREP report. Citing unnamed sources within the special ops community, the report alleges bin Laden “had over a hundred bullets in him, by the most conservative estimate.”

Lest you think this is just The Blaze, the article originated at the Huffington Post, which worries about “savagery” from US military personnel

Initial reports claimed two shots were fired to kill bin Laden. While that number climbed in later reports, the claims of “over a hundred bullets” would suggest a level of savagery and, as SOFREP puts it, “self-indulgence” not admitted in prior accounts of the operation. SOFREP notes these actions would violate the Laws of Land Warfare and build on a disturbing trend of alarmingly brutal military behavior that includes graphic evidence of U.S. troops burning and urinating on slain enemy combatants.

But an extreme degree of violence would explain why U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration was so resistant to release a set of photos, for fear of a possible backlash against U.S. interests.

Whatever.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 14, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful bicycle which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on it being game over for Keystone XL opponents.

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Al Gore Takes Long Fossil Fueled Flight To Complain About Fossil Fuels

By William Teach March 14, 2014 – 11:14 am

When we discuss Warmists being hypocrites, this is exactly what we’re referring to

(Mail And Guardian) Al Gore, the former American vice-president and Nobel Peace prize winner, spoke on the second day of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Johannesburg on Thursday. The event drew environmental thinkers and activists from around the continent. The corps is a global movement to teach people about climate change and help them adapt to a changing world.

In his presentation, Gore gave an overview of how humans were driving climate change and how it was affecting conditions around the world right now.

“Whenever any important question is ultimately resolved into a choice between right and wrong, the outcome becomes inevitable.” The current global system was destroying the habitability of the planet by burning fossil fuels, Gore said, adding that it was wrong and needed to change. “We can see the pathway ahead very clearly and we are going to prevail.”

A round trip flight from Tennessee to Johannesburg, S.A puts out almost 10 metric tons of “carbon pollution” (that’s Gore’s euphemism for CO2). The average “carbon footprint” for Americans is around 19 metric tons yearly. For world citizens, it is around 4 metric tons. So Gore put out almost half of what each American does for a year, and over double for a world citizen, just to give a brief talk in South Africa.

And, yeah, he does his normal insane schtick

The number of warmer days had rapidly increased since the 1980s as a result. Extreme cold and hot days used to occur 0.1% of the time, now they happen 10% of the time.

So greenhouse gases make it cold, too? He blames hurricanes and tropical storms on “climate change”, and pretty much everything. What he fails to show is proof that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, instead, like most Warmists, he jumps to conclusions, creating a causal relationship, yet, refuses to live the carbon neutral life he tells everyone else to live.

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Poll Shows Europe Cares Little About Climate Change

By William Teach March 14, 2014 – 7:16 am

We already know that “climate change” ranks at the bottom of concerns for American citizens. How about for the EU? Bjorn Lomborg finds an interesting study

EU likes to say “climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the modern age.”

But its citizens don’t think so. They focus on unemployment, the economic situation, inflation, government debt, health, social security, immigration, crime, taxes, pensions, education and housing before they worry about climate.

Moreover, notice, how they’ve bunched up environment, climate *and* energy issues, and still can’t get it above 5%.

The whole report, from Eurobarometer fall 2013, shows a lot of other interesting facts. Perhaps surprisingly, the only countries that seem to worry even remotely about global warming are Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Malta (global warming is 3rd or 4th most important). Perhaps not so surprisingly, these are also the countries that are feeling the least worried about their economy.

So, when you’re rich and unconcerned, you can allow yourself to also worry a bit about global warming. But otherwise, you care about more immediate issues.

25+ years of pushing “climate change”, of attempting to scare the citizens, and even in Europe there is an overall shoulder shrug.

But, then, why should the average citizen be concerned with “climate change” when Warmists aren’t based on their own inaction and refusal to modify their own lives to match their supposed belief sets?

The report is here.

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Pelosi Claims Democrats Won’t Run From Obamacare

By William Teach March 14, 2014 – 6:58 am

That’s incredibly easy for her to say, being in an ultra-safe seat. She should perhaps consult with those in not so safe seats, especially in the Senate

(Real Clear Politics) Nancy Pelosi said her Democratic colleagues should not shy from the Affordable Care Act in their 2014 midterm campaigns, arguing that Republicans “are wasting their time using that as their electoral issue.”

The House minority leader’s comments came in the aftermath of a two-point special election victory for Republicans in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. Some observers believe the win forecasts difficulties ahead for Democrats, as their opponents are sure to use the unpopular health care law and the president’s poor approval rating as campaign issues.

But Pelosi insisted Thursday that that strategy would be in vain. “It’s time for Republicans to end their obsession with the Affordable Care Act,” she said. Asked whether Democrats should steer clear of the health law in congressional campaigns, she answered, “Absolutely not.”

“I’m very proud of our House Democrats and how they have not only embraced the Affordable Care Act, because they helped create it, but how proud they are of it,” she told reporters at her weekly briefing. “I think the Republicans are wasting their time using that as their electoral issue, and they will find that out.”

There you go, Democrats have embraced the destruction of our health insurance and health care systems, a law so bad and politically damaging that Mr. Obama has unilaterally, and sometimes illegally, delayed/changed portions of the law in order to attempt to protect Democrats from voter dissatisfaction.

Democrats are going to spend lots of time coming up with just the right message for the mid-terms, which will revolve around “fixing” Obamacare. Perhaps if they had read and understood the reality of the legislation prior to passage, the damage that it would do to health insurance, health care, jobs, and the economy overall, they might have reconsidered their votes and support. Alas, the entire thing is owned by Democrats. They can spin, but they can’t hide.

When asked Thursday about the GOP’s campaign approach to Obamacare in light of the Florida election, Boehner said jobs and the economy resonate with the electorate, and that the health care law should be approached within that context.

“As you’ve heard me say more than once, the issue is jobs. There aren’t enough jobs out there, we’re not expanding the economy, and we’re not increasing wages because of the president’s policies. Chief among those policies hurting the economy is the issue of Obamacare,” he told reporters, noting recently announced administration changes to allow some insurance policy holders to keep plans that don’t comply with the law until next year — a move intended to help Democrats in the midterms.

Looks like Republicans have their own mid-term plan in place, highlighting the anemic economy and how Obamacare is stifling growth.

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