…is scorching heat created snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on GLAAD’s fascist totalitarianism.
Read: If All You See… »
…is scorching heat created snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on GLAAD’s fascist totalitarianism.
Read: If All You See… »
But not for individuals. We need “collective action”, says Sami Grover at Treehugger
From my rambings on why green lifestyle choices won’t save us to the meteorologist who broke down over climate change and vowed never to fly again, I’ve regularly argued that personal carbon footprints can be a distraction, when what we really need to focus on is collective, system-wide change.
It’s not always a popular position. In fact, some commenters have accused me of being “weazely” – and they may have a point. Like most human beings, I am a hypocrite. And like most hypocrites worth their salt, I regularly feel guilty about it. But it really has never been about me. (Honestly!)
At least he’s honest that he’s a hypocrite. He perfectly encapsulates the Warmist mentality, that taking steps is something Other People have to do, preferably be forced to do, as a collective. I’ll write this slowly so Warmists/Liberals can understand: if you don’t believe in what you’re pushing enough to make even minor changes in your own lives to match your belief set, then why should anyone else? Why should we allow laws to be passed if you won’t walk the talk?
As I read Lloyd’s piece on why so many energy saving tips are bad, I was reminded again that caulking, turning down thermostats and switching off lights are indeed immensely valuable—but that we have to focus the lions’ share of our efforts on those actions which have the biggest, collective impact.
And that means simplifying our messages.
They’ve been messaging for 25 years. Yet, more and more people are learning the truth about the reality of anthropogenic “climate change”. Warmists want everyone forced to change their lives, hence the “collective” crap. Which is not really about any sort of environmental benefit, but about instituting hard-core Progressive dogma, laws, and regulations.
Imagine if, say, 25% of the population installed a Nest thermostat (or just programmed the thermostat they had already). Imagine if 25% changed their light bulbs—oh, wait – we’ll all be changing our light bulbs soon anyway. Imagine if 5% of the population installed solar, if 10% of us crowdfunded a solar project, and if 15% divested from fossil fuels. And maybe if a few more of us started to turn off the lights when we leave the room too.
Good luck with that. Warmists will mostly only make changes when they are forced to. How many are voluntarily giving up fossil fuels?
Read: Brave Warmist Tells Us That Turning Off The Lights Can Make A Difference »
A road that would give people access to medical care (via The Lonely Conservative)
(CNS News) Environmental priorities have trumped the medical concerns of a small Alaskan community.
After four years of study, the Obama administration has decided on that the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska may not build a 22-mile, single-lane gravel road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to the town of Cold Bay.
The decision, announced on Dec. 23 by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, has infuriated the people of King Cove, where the proposed road has been discussed since the 1980s.
The road would have given them access to emergency medical and other services by way of the all-weather airport at Cold Bay.
“Are birds really more important than people? It seems so hard to believe that the federal government finds it impossible to accommodate both wildlife and human beings,” the Associated Press quoted Aleutians East Borough Mayor Stanley Mack as saying.
In exchange for the 200 acres needed for the road, the state of Alaska and the King Cove Corp. would have added 55,000 acres to the refuge.
“I am angry. I am disappointed. I am frustrated. I am sad for the people of King Cove,” the newspaper quoted Murkowski as saying. “Four thousand miles from where they’re sitting, somebody has said you can’t have a 10-mile, one-lane, non-commercial-use road so you can access the second longest runway in the state of Alaska to get out for medical reasons.”
Well, yeah, the birds are more important in this case, as The Lonely Conservative points out
This is the same administration that has no problem with solar panels burning birds or windmills hacking them to pieces.
There are other methods for folks to get medical and other care, but this small, 10 mile road would be a lifeline for these citizens. I’m all for wildlife refuges, protecting the majesty and beauty of nature. One road won’t hurt.
Read: Team Obama Refuses To Allow Small Road Through Wildlife Refuge »
Why? Because it’s “in the public interest” to follow the Constitution
(Daily Caller) A federal district court judge in Houston ruled Friday in favor of two Baptist universities seeking relief from the Obamacare contraception mandate.
“The religious organization plaintiffs have shown a sincerely held religious belief that the court cannot second-guess,†reads the decision handed down in favor of East Texas Baptist University and Houston Baptist University by Lee H. Rosenthal.
“The plaintiffs have also shown that if they do not comply with a certain requirement that they believe offends that belief, they will face onerous fines.â€
“The public interest weighs in favor of granting the injunction. Protecting constitutional rights and the rights under RFRA [Religious Freedom Restoration Act] are in the public’s interest,†continued Rosenthal, who was appointed to the U.S. District Court of Southern Texas by George H. W. Bush.
Let’s not forget, the mandate to provide free contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients was not in the “Affordable” Care Act, but something that was added by Obama’s far left Department of Health and Human Services. It’s a mandate that could be cancelled in a heartbeat, without legislation. But, that would annoy Obama’s moonbat liberal base. The only thing about anything “reproductive”, other than maternity coverage (which is mandatory, and has been mandatory before the ACA), are mentions of education programs.
According to the Beckett Fund For Religious Freedom, which litigated the case, there are 89 cases pending suing over the unconstitutionality of the Obama contraception decree, two of which are heading to the Supreme Court.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Obamacare Contraception Mandate Loses In Federal Court »
…is a Bad Weather causing plastic bottle of water, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Jawa Report, with a post on the knockout game.
Read: If All You See… »
We’ve seen some websites, such as the LA Times and Reddit science, ban any discourse that disagrees with the cult talking points. Warmists have been agitating for other papers to do the same. They do the same in the public sphere, where they freak out on the BBC, MSNBC, and other outlets for daring to allow skeptics to show their faces. They especially hate it when they participate in debates, because Warmists get beaten like a rented mule every time. They don’t like it when any skeptic is allowed to speak in public
(Santa Barbara Independent) In a meeting that left everyone a bit confused, the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) heard a 20-minute speech Thursday from Bob Hinnrichs, a Santa Ynez Valley resident whose resume impressed the board but made some members question the credibility — and purpose — of his presentation topic: climate change.
Hinnrichs, an engineer who helped design rocket engines for NASA and said he began studying climate change data in 2000 after he retired, was asked to give his presentation by the board’s outgoing chair, Solvang Mayor Jim Richardson. Ahead of the meeting, environmental groups, including the Community Environmental Council, expressed concern both with Hinnrichs’s speech — which cast aspersions on the scientific community’s consensus that climate change is not only happening but happening because of humans — and that a climate scientist was not also asked to speak.
It further worried environmental groups that the APCD — a group composed of the five county supervisors, plus elected representatives from each of the county’s eight incorporated cities, that is in charge of looking out for the county’s air quality — was hearing from a climate change denier in the first place.
“I think it is outrageous and embarrassing that the chair of the organization tasked with regulating emissions in the county would invite a denier to come present demonstrably wrong and deliberately misleading information about climate change to the board,†Katie Davis, a representative of 350sb.org who worked for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, wrote in an email. “He did this despite warnings that the information was incorrect, objections from many board members, the fact that climate change poses a direct and urgent threat, and the fact that we have many actual scientists and experts in the field living and working in Santa Barbara.â€
The cult doesn’t want anyone to hear any divergent views and data. At their hearts, progressives hate free speech that isn’t Approved. They’re always attempting to shut down any viewpoint that they do not agree with, and not just with “climate change”. They’re fascists.
A gentleman in Helena has some thoughts on free speech and climate change
It is absolutely frightening the number of people in Helena who are against free speech. I speak of those who are against the policy of the Helena IR to print letters of those that question manmade “Global Warming†or is it “Climate Change†this week? They wish to hide all of the lies, manipulated data and intimidation of scientists. They ignore scientists who discredit manmade global warming and want the Helena IR to be their proxy to continue this one sided policy.
They call those that disagree science deniers, liars and fools of corporate propaganda. While they idolatrize a failed seminary student who stated the North Pole would be completely free of ice today, while snow falls on the Sphinx in Egypt. They fail to notice that nearly all of the dire predictions have failed to mature. They fail to listen to scientists that have discovered that it was warmer 2000 years ago then today.
Their one sided approach to free speech rivals any totalitarian government. Making me question what they are trying to hide.
Liberals/Warmists can attempt to rationalize their fascistic ways all they want, but the very fact is that they hate free speech.
Read: Warmists Really Hate Allowing “Skeptics” To Give Their Views »
I think we can all agree that Greenwald is a confirmed Liberal, but this is some funny stuff
(Daily Caller) MSNBC anchor Kristen Welker spoke with Greenwald Thursday about the NSA leaks, asking him to respond to critics who claim he’s become “more of a spokesman for Edward Snowden.†Greenwald’s response? Pot, meet kettle:
GREENWALD: I think that’s ludicrous, is what I say to that. Every journalist has an agenda. We’re on MSNBC now, where close to 24 hours a day the agenda of President Obama and the Democratic Party are promoted, defended, glorified. The agenda of the Republican Party is undermined. That doesn’t mean the people on MSNBC aren’t journalists, they are. I think every journalist has a viewpoint. (snip)
A clearly flustered Welker tried to backtrack, declaring “â€the point is not so much about MSNBC,†but that Greenwald’s defense of Snowden’s actions may “cross a line.â€
“Sure, I do defend him,†Greenwald snarked back, “just like people on MSNBC defend President Obama and his officials and Democratic Party leaders 24 hours a day.â€
The only time one sees criticism of Obama and Democrats on MSNBC is when we’re told that they haven’t moved far enough to the hyper-left.
Video comes from the Politico article on the subject.
The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff highlights the supposed “sign-ups” on the last day or something
The evidence we have so far — albeit limited — suggests that lots of Obamacare shoppers made it in just under the wire.
California estimates that 27,000 people picked insurance plans this past Monday and 29,000 the Friday prior. Just last week, the state was averaging 15,000 sign-ups per day. Washington state had 10,000 people enroll Monday, and a total of 20,000 from Dec. 20-23. That accounts for one in 10 Washingtonians picking private health insurance plans. And New York had about 20,000 sign-ups come in that same day.
Of course, these are only the three states we know about. The 36 states on HealthCare.gov do not release data on their own schedule but rather rely on the federal government’s monthly data sets. We won’t know December enrollment numbers until sometime in the middle of January.
Of course, those numbers are simply people who picked plans. We have no idea how many have done something crazy like pay for them. I’d be surprised if we learn the actual numbers of people who’ve paid for the plans before the end of March. Or, perhaps, the day after the mid-terms in November. Anyhow, this is what really caught my attention
Charles Gaba has been going to painstaking efforts to show the trajectory of health law sign-ups over the past three months. His graph (which is better viewed here, on his Web site) gives a helpful visual sense of what the last month has looked like for health-care enrollment. This uses all available data, including the monthly, federal reports and more up-to-date state data, too.
Here’s what the graph looks like

So, 3.93 million moved into Medicaid/SCHIP, aka, government programs, versus 1.82 million into private plans, which are currently running at 26% enrollment. This is the definition of “success”, putting most signups, many who had private insurance previously, directly under the banner of government programs.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Good News: Estimates Show Double The Obamacare Enrollments Into Medicaid/SCHIP »