Sigh: Yet Another “Hotcoldwetdry Causes Violence” Fable

By William Teach August 1, 2013 – 6:26 pm

Because, remember, there were no wars or fights or violence before CO2 was at 350ppm

(Bloomberg) Climate change will probably trigger more human conflict, according to an article in the journal Science.

An examination of 60 separate studies, including one stretching back to 10,000 B.C., found that individuals, groups and nations are “substantially” more likely to become involved in physical conflict in hot weather and heavy rain.

Climate change is expected to drive up temperatures in many regions, which will “systematically increase the risk of many types of conflict” ranging from barroom brawls and rape to civil wars and international disputes, according to the article.

“The strongest evidence is that high temperatures really matter,” said Solomon Hsiang, one of the study’s authors. “A few degrees warmer is always worse.”

Wait, wait, wait, you mean that there have been warm periods over than the current one previously? Weird.

But, yeah, so many cultures in the past 10K years tended to leave the wars till it was warm. No one wanted to fight in the cold and snow. Look back at ancient Greece during the time of the Spartans: for much of the year everything was calm, but, then came fighting season, almost like how baseball is played mostly in the summer.

Of course, the whole point of the article is supposed to say that things are going to get really bad unless Other People are forced to adhere to Warmist doctrine and there needs to be lots and lots of carbon taxes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 1, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will rise up and swamp the land with 1000 feet of water, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Public Secrets, with a post on how Obama’s statist economy hurts jobs.

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NC DHHS Suspends Asheville Abortion Clinic’s License

By William Teach August 1, 2013 – 11:34 am

Obviously, this has “pro-choice” folks freaking out

(News And Observer) As abortion politics continue to roil North Carolina, state health officials Wednesday suspended the license of an Asheville abortion clinic.

The third sanction against a North Carolina abortion clinic since April came two days after Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed a controversial abortion bill while protesters held vigil outside the governor’s Executive Mansion.

Obviously, that’s more important than

In a 49-page report, the Department of Health and Human Services found “egregious violations … that revealed an imminent threat to the health and safety of patients” at the clinic.

Violations included failure to maintain anesthesia delivery systems and ensure regular checks of emergency equipment.

In fact, that’s about all we get in the story. The rest revolves around the current legislation passed and signed by Gov. McCrory. WRAL did slightly better

DHHS director of health service regulation Drexdal Pratt said inspectors found FEMCARE Inc., failed to comply with 23 separate rules. Among the violations, the agency said FEMCARE failed to maintain anesthesia delivery systems in good working condition, with torn masks and tubing held together with tape. The inspection further revealed that the clinic didn’t have an agreement or contract with an anesthetist or anesthesiologist.

Inspectors also found the clinic failed to ensure emergency equipment had weekly checks to ensure the equipment was suitable for use in patient care and failed to ensure that emergency medicine wasn’t expired.

The ultra-far left hysterics at The Raw Story say that the clinic was shut down (it wasn’t, just license suspended until they fix the issues), and that the law literally just signed is to blame (it’s not: these are long standing laws).

The HuffPo is concerned that FemCare might have been the only abortion mill left standing after the passage of the abortion safety law. Is this the kind of clinic they want open? From the NC DHHS press release

In addition to other findings, the survey found the facility:

  • Failed to maintain anesthesia (nitrous oxide gas) delivery systems in good working condition, with torn masks and tubing held together with tape.This could lead to patients not receiving the intended dosage and risk patients not being fully sedated during surgical procedures, leading to pain and physical harm.
  • Failed to ensure emergency equipment had weekly checks to ensure the equipment was suitable for use in patient care and failed to ensure that emergency medicine wasn’t expired.
  • Failed to have a resuscitator available.
  • Failed to sweep and mop the operating room floor and failed to properly clean operating room beds.
  • Failed to have a director of nursing responsible and accountable for all nursing services.
  • Failed to have an agreement/contract with an anesthetist or anesthesiologist.
  • Failed to have an agreement/contract with a registered pharmacist to assure appropriate methods, procedures and controls for obtaining, dispensing, and administering drugs.

FEMCARE, Inc.’s last inspection was on January 16, 2007, a follow up inspection of a previous survey, which found the clinic in violation of personnel and quality assurance rules.

A follow up inspection 6 years from when they previously had lots of problems. Furthermore, if one looks at the full PDF, we find that “the facility failed to follow standard infection control practices as recommended by the CDC.” Proper sterilization procedures were not being followed. Would you be OK with your personal doctor or dentist failing to follow standard practices? But, abortion supporters prefer to put their political position above safety for women.

Safety meetings were not being held and documented. Abortion supporters may think this is silly, but it is The Law, and is required at most medical facilities, and even private companies (they have to do it at my current company).

There was a think layer of dust on the top of a crash cart, on suction machines, and on nitrous oxide machines in multiple ORs. The floors were not mopped in-between patients. The facility is only cleaned a few days a week.

A physician had no idea if a “big clean” was being done in the operating rooms. A non-licensed person was responsible for (supposedly) sterilizing instruments. With little training. And was filling in for another person on vacation. Very few personnel files, mostly incomplete per the law, missing things like training and certifications.

It keeps going and going and going. Some violations were statutory (such as failure to hold a quarterly fire drill since March 2011), some medical (like large amounts of dust in operating rooms). They failed to do weekly checks to make sure that the medical equipment worked and that medicine wasn’t expired.

And this was an abortion clinic the abortionistas held up as a model clinic. What they’ll focus on is not that this medical clinic is a disaster, but that women might not be able to get (medically unsafe) abortions.

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Interior Department Head: No “Climate Change” Deniers Allowed

By William Teach August 1, 2013 – 9:39 am

The Department of the Interior has joined the Ministry Of Truth (via Junk Science)

(E&E News) Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today challenged her employees to take an active role in the “moral imperative” to address climate change.

“I hope there are no climate change deniers in the Department of Interior,” she said.

If there are any, she invited them to visit public lands managed by the agency — be it the melting permafrost in Alaska or shrinking snowpacks in the Sierra Mountains — as proof. “If you don’t believe in it, come out into the resources,” she said.

Interior will be following through on President Obama’s climate change plan, including achieving 20 gigawatts of renewable power on public lands by 2020, she said.

“You and I can actually do something about it,” she said several times. “That’s a privilege, and I would argue it’s a moral imperative.”

Let’s first note that it is despicable for an appointed head of a major federal agency, one of the first to be established back in 1789, to use a phrase likening people who do not buy into man-induced global warming to those who do not believe in the Holocaust. Second, “climate change” is an un-scientific term when used in this context. Third, the idiocy of comparing climate to morality is astounding. Not surprising, coming from these left wing loons, but still astounding.

Fourth, when the leader of an agency talks like this, it’s not an off the cuff remark between friends, it is an admonishment at best, a threat at worst, designed to tell the employees of Interior that they best damned well toe the line in believing in Hotcoldwetdry, because dissent will not be tolerated.

As for “going out in the resources” (which seems to be telling employees to waste taxpayer money on trips), well, 71% of the US is below average so far this year. July cold records outpaced warm ones. July was pretty cool across the US. I know that here in North Carolina we’ve yet to have a 100F day. We’ve barely even seen days where the heat index breaks 100.

Oh, and aren’t you super excited to have our public lands used for “green” energy?

But, let’s not forget that Interior Department employees have been put on notice that their jobs depend upon Believing.

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White House Won’t Comment On Weiner, Filner

By William Teach August 1, 2013 – 9:00 am

Spokesweasel Jay Carney refuses to take a stand on the Democrat War On Women, because, you know, the White House and the President never comment on local issues, and their too busy to be distracted from issues not regarding the economy or something

(Daily Caller) White House spokesman Jay Carney Wednesday ducked, dodged and dived to escape questions about two top Democrats embroiled in sex scandals.

The simultaneous scandals have been caused by a Democratic candidate for New York mayor, Anthony Weiner, and the Democratic mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner. Their sexting and harassment of women have humiliated many Democrats, including those who have happily spent the last few years charging the GOP with waging a “war on women.”

Obama is flying into the Filner scandal because he has announced an Aug. 7 visit to a U.S. Marine Corps base outside San Diego, Calif.

“The president is traveling to Camp Pendleton which is not in San Diego, which is outside,” Carney said July Wednesday. “I don’t have anything on that.”

“He’s commander in chief. He doesn’t oversee municipalities. … I don’t have any comment on that,” he said.

And regarding Carlos Danger, er, Anthony Weiner, Carney also refused to comment.

“The president is focused on what we can do here in Washington to help the middle class,” Carney insisted July 31.

“I understand the allure of issues like this in the media,” Carney said. “But I’m saying that the president believes his job is not to comment on those issues, but to do what we can do to get the economy moving.”

Right. Because he would never comment on things like the Boston PD arresting someone, or the Zimmerman/Martin issue. He would never say that the Boston PD “acted stupidly”, and then put together a beer summit. He would never say that “Trayvon could have been me 35 years ago”. Obama would never get involved in, say, a lawsuit against Arizona and Florida. Obama was sure loose with his tongue when it came to sexual assaults in the military, which is being used to attempt to get cases thrown out due to “undue command influence”. I guess that these are “local issues”, because Obama refused to support Gillibrand’s sexual assault in the military bill.

But, of course neither Carney nor Obama will comment on these, because Weiner and Fillner are Democrats. No one should be surprised. Just like we won’t be surprised that Obama’s wilting economic pivot will produce nothing but talking points.

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North Carolina On The Hook For $75,000 In Possum Drop Fees

By William Teach July 31, 2013 – 9:29 pm

Thanks, PETA!

(WRAL) A Superior Court judge has ordered the state Wildlife Resources Commission to pay almost $75,000 in attorney fees to PETA in the legal challenge to the annual New Year’s Eve Possum Drop in Brasstown.

OK, it’s not all PETA’s fault: all the NC General Assembly had to do was pass a law making the permits required to put a possum in a basket and drop it on New Year’s Eve all nice a legal like. Instead, the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, under Democrat Gov. Bev Perdue, fought the original ruling. Let’s not forget that as part of the original ruling, the judge stated that the possum should have either been let go or killed. That’s right. Killed.

State lawmakers passed legislation allowing the Possum Drop to continue in February, and Gov. Pat McCrory signed it into law.

Let’s consider: people actually need a permit to put a freaking possum in a basket and drop it on New Year’s Eve. A. Permit. For a possum drop. I could understand if it was an endangered animal or wildlife, or something that was very dangerous. But, this is a possum, which is probably asleep during the entire thing. So, because of stupid regulations in the first place, there were court precedings, and the NC taxpayer is on the hook for $75K, and then the GA and Governor have to waste time passing more legislation. Just so some folks can put a possum in a basket. We’re being dinked and dunked to death with Government. Bless their hearts.

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Paper: Lunar-Tidal Cycles Influences Climate

By William Teach July 31, 2013 – 2:14 pm

Obviously, this must all be caused by carbon pollution from you, dear reader, refusing to turn your thermostat to 78 during the height of the summer

(The Hockey Schtick) A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology finds the 18.6 year lunar-tide cycle influences rainfall and climate over adjacent land areas. According to the authors, in years of strong tides, tide-induced ocean mixing decreases sea surface temperatures and lowers air pressures, which in turn affects rainfall variability over the plains east of the subtropical Andes, South America. The opposite pattern is observed in years of weak tides. The paper adds to other peer-reviewed publications finding a lunar influence on ocean and atmospheric oscillations, which in turn have large scale effects upon climate. The IPCC ignores lunar, solar, and other planetary harmonics, which alone can explain climate change of the past century. 

That paper is here.

Didn’t I briefly mention something about gravity having an influence on climate in a post yesterday? Believe it or not, that was before I saw the Hockey Schtick link via Climate Depot. There are so many natural processes at work that it is foolish to think that any changes in climate are mostly or solely caused by Mankind.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 31, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled plane which should only be used to go to climate change conferences, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on the racial divide getting worst.

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The Lonely Conservative On Regionalism

By William Teach July 31, 2013 – 11:42 am

From the Lonely Conservative: “Regionalism – Coming Soon To A Town Near You, Or Maybe Your Town”

Normally this would be something I’d write extensively on, linked in to “climate change”, but slammed at work, so head over and read the whole thing.

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Appeals Court Rules Nanny Bloomberg’s Big Sugary Drink Ban Unconstitutional

By William Teach July 31, 2013 – 7:03 am

Could this be the first domino in rolling back Nanny State laws and regulations thanks to judicial precedent, or is that a bit of wishful thinking?

(Reuters) New York City’s plan to ban large sugary drinks from restaurants and other eateries was an illegal overreach of executive power, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday, upholding a lower court decision in March that struck down the law.

The law, which would have prohibited those businesses from selling sodas and other sugary beverages larger than 16 ounces, “violated the state principle of separation of powers,” the First Department of the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division said in a unanimous decision.

Well, I was hoping more for a “what the hell were you thinking, trying to control the lives of citizens in such a manner!”, but, this is good enough. Not that I plan on rushing into NYC to buy a big sugary drink anytime soon. Or, really, ever. But, it’s nice that the choice is mine, not some government hack acting as a parent or caregiver to the citizens. The ruling is mostly about something like the ban having to go through the legislative process, not the “Mayor gets a burr under his bumm and decides he’ll do something” process.

Mary Katherine Hamm notes

In other words, when the elected legislature is “unwilling to act” in a way an executive or administrative board wishes it would, it’s not all right to “take whatever administrative steps that I can in order to do right by the American people.”

Hmm, that debate sounds familiar….

Obviously, Bloomberg is a bit pissy over this

Since New York City’s ground-breaking limit on the portion size of sugary beverages was prevented from going into effect on March 12th, more than 2,000 New Yorkers have died from the effects of diabetes. Also during that time, the American Medical Association determined that obesity is a disease and the New England Journal of Medicine released a study showing the deadly, and irreversible, health impacts of obesity and Type 2 diabetes – both of which are disproportionately linked to sugary drink consumption. Today’s decision is a temporary setback, and we plan to appeal this decision as we continue the fight against the obesity epidemic.”

Perhaps Mike should be more concerned with crime, pollution, alcoholism, and drugs, but, Big Gulps are obviously more dangerous in his mind.

Neither the NYC city council nor NY State General Assembly was able to pass any sort of law regarding the big sugary drinks, so expect Mike to whine about this for a while. And remember that Obama does the same thing.

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