If All You See…

By William Teach June 25, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled limo, which no one else should be allowed to use except President Obama, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Director Blue, with a post on the ammo shortage by the numbers.

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Primal Scream: Warmists Declare That “Climate Change” Isn’t About Air Temperature

By William Teach June 25, 2013 – 12:04 pm

The 15+ year pause in statistically significant warming has had Warmists scrambling for ways to protect their cult. Here’s Dana Nuccitelli at the UK Goreball Guardian

When you hear the term “global warming,” do you think of the warming of air temperatures at the Earth’s surface, or the warming of the planet as a whole?

Only about 2 percent of the planet’s overall warming heats the atmosphere, so if we focus only on surface air temperatures, we miss 98 percent of the overall warming of the globe. About 90 percent of the warming of the planet is absorbed in heating the oceans. However, until the past few years, our measurements of ocean temperatures (especially of the deep oceans) were somewhat lacking. Our measurements of surface air temperatures were much more accurate, and so when people spoke of “global warming,” they tended to focus on air temperatures.(snip)

The key take-home point is that we now have better measurements of ocean and global heat accumulation. We no longer have to settle for focusing on the 2 percent of global warming represented by surface air temperatures….

The key take-home is that Warmists will say anything to protect their un-scientific cult. The article positions that all that heat is in the oceans (we’ve already heard the “it’s hiding in the deep oceans” malarkey), and uses far left studies to attempt to “prove” this. Yet, if oceans were heating up, we’d see more atmospheric warming. We aren’t. We have no long term data to compare to, which is what Warmists really love.  The Guardian even claims that the overall warming of the Earth’s climate has sped up. Despite a lackluster increase of .14F since 1997, one of the coldest springs in decades around the northern hemisphere, bitter cold during the winter across much of the northern hemisphere, and a cold summer in the southern hemisphere.

(IBD) “The science of climate change is screaming at us for action,” Secretary of State John Kerry said over the weekend. Yes, we hear screams, but not from science. They’re from the alarmist movement dying.

Warmists continue to hold out and fight like Japanese soldiers hiding in jungles across the Pacific post-WWII, clueless that they’ve lost. They’re losers sitting alone at bars getting drunk and finding ways to Blamestorm everyone but themselves for their pathetic condition. They’re ideologues scared that their money train will dry up, watching reality take away their ways to push their far left agenda of fascism.

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Fifteen Republicans Duped By Shumer-Corker-Hoeven Border Amnesty Bill

By William Teach June 25, 2013 – 9:36 am

Does anyone else think that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is going to have a really tough time getting donations for 2014?

(The Hill) The Senate voted 67-27 Monday to advance a border security amendment to bipartisan immigration legislation, building momentum for a final vote later this week.

Fifteen of the “yes” votes were Republicans, suggesting supporters could hit the 70-vote threshold they hope to reach in the final vote. It is thought a big, bipartisan vote could put pressure in the GOP-held House, where immigration reform faces dimmer prospects.

The Republicans who voted “yes” were Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) — the four authors of the legislation — and Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Jeff Chiesa (N.J.), Susan Collins (Maine), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Dean Heller (Nev.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John Hoeven (N.D.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Roger Wicker (Miss.).

Paul Ryan, who’s gone completely squish on this subject after losing the election as Romney’s running mate, thinks that the toothless and soon to be blown off border security measures makes it more likely for it to be passed in the House. But, will it? We know that 100% of Democrats will vote for it, since it’s a wet dream for them: they know that border control will be a joke, that those getting legal status will receive federal benefits, regardless, and that they will start agitating for the post-illegals be given voting rights, if not outright citizenship. As David Weigel points out, there is no pressure on House Republicans to pass this turd of a bill. In fact, there will be enormous pressure to not pass it, and to craft legislation that is all about security.

(Michelle Malkin) These cynical pols insist that the rest of law-abiding Americans and law-abiding permanent residents must support Washington’s push to “do something” because “11 million people are living in the shadows.”

To which I say: So? There are 23 million Americans out of work. Why aren’t they Washington’s top priority anymore? Didn’t both parties once pledge that j-o-b-s for unemployed and underemployed Americans was Job No. 1? Why is the very first major legislative push of 2013 another mass amnesty/voter drive/entitlement expansion?

See those 15 Republicans above? Primary them. Do not donate to them. They are liars, Democrats in Republican clothes, and are destroying the Republicans. I’ll give Democrats this: they picked a perfect method to destroy the GOP. I’m just surprised they didn’t wait till 2014 to pull this, thereby giving them a better shot at picking up more Senate seats.

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Big Carbon Footprint Obama To Give His Deflection To Climate Change Speech Today

By William Teach June 25, 2013 – 9:16 am

The big question is, will he forgo either traveling in a huge fossil fueled motorcade or taking fossil fueled Marine 1 to Georgetown and instead slapping on the Mom Jeans and ride his bicycle? Yeah, we know which mode of transportation he’ll choose

(CBS) With little to no hope on Capitol Hill for action on climate change, President Obama on Tuesday plans to bypass Congress and move forward with executive actions designed to reduce carbon emissions.

There is a good reason Congress hasn’t taken this up: no one really cares except a small subsection of unhinged Obama voters, who themselves refuse to practice what they preach. Dealing with global warming is dead last in a Pew poll, and generally comes in last or close to last among concerns for Americans, with things like the economy, jobs, deficit reduction, and pretty much everything else being more important than dealing with Hotcoldwetdry. But, the Man with a 41,000 metric ton “carbon footprint” wants to Do Something (that effects everyone else).

In a speech at Georgetown University, the president will lay out what the administration is billing as a comprehensive plan built on three pillars: cutting the nation’s carbon pollution, leading global efforts to reduce carbon emissions and preparing the United States for the impacts of climate change. As part of that effort, Mr. Obama on Tuesday will sign a presidential memorandum directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to start engaging with states, the private sector and other stakeholders to set carbon pollution standards for both new and existing carbon power plants.

I guess he wants all you Americans to die, because your body, dear reader, is 18% carbon by mass. But, we aren’t talking about carbon, but carbon dioxide. If we want to talk science, we have to be specific. Calling CO2 carbon is like caller H20 “hydrogen”.

Nor is it pollution: it is a clear, colorless, odorless trace gas necessary for life on Earth, which tends to lag behind temperature, not precede it. If it makes the temperature go up, then why has the Earth seen a 15+ year pause in statistically significant warming? Oh, sorry, I forgot, Warmists are desperately peering into their crystal balls to find ways to blame other things, like that the heat is hiding in the deep ocean. It’s “the dog ate my warming” defense.

(USA Today) President Obama will announce new rules Tuesday to restrict carbon pollution at new and existing power plants, part of a comprehensive plan to combat climate change that he can put in place through executive action.

In a speech at Georgetown University, Obama will also direct the Interior Department to permit new wind, solar, and other renewable energy projects on public lands, enough to power more than 6 million homes by 2020.

New energy-efficiency projects are also part of the climate change plan, according to a blueprint provided by the White House.

So, he plans to hose middle and lower class Americans who are already suffering during the extended economic malaise during Obama’s presidency with artificially higher energy prices, leading to higher prices of everything else.

Then he will ruin our parks and open spaces with wind, solar, and other projects (ask the Brits how much they like their plan to do this in the UK), hooking up his campaign contributors, and all those homes will still need old school power plants because solar and wind are very inefficient. And these projects will be surely protested and blocked from actual construction by his enviroweenie base, like they often do.

Oh, and remember just how well all those “energy efficiency projects” worked with the Stimulus? Utter failure. And now he wants to do it again.

He’ll apparently use most of the speech attempting to scare Americans about “climate change”, using scientifically illiterate notions. He’ll blame all weather on Other People having carbon footprints. Yet, there has only been 1 actual hurricane strike during his entire time in office (and one could debate whether Isaac was a hurricane at landfall). Fire activity is down. Drought is switching to wet. The US had a very cool spring. Climate models are being shown to fail, and fail spectacularly.

It’s less than 4 miles from the White House to Georgetown U. He should bike it.

More: Anthony Watts has a copy of the plan, which he embargoed till this morning, and he breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly. I won’t steal his thunder by excerpting, go read the whole, but, will note

I’m not impressed at all with the Obama plan. It lacks real vision, and seems written mainly to appease activist groups. While there are some glimmers of positive things in it, the lack of a real way forward (solar, biofuels, and wind aren’t it) combined with new restrictions can only mean higher energy prices in our future, most of it due to government meddling in the free market.

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NY Times Op-Ed Really Psyched For Far Left Greek Party Syriza

By William Teach June 24, 2013 – 3:29 pm

Anyone surprised that they think that only Syriza can save Greece?

(NY Times) Indeed, right now, Syriza may be Europe’s best hope. Greeks neither want to leave the euro nor see the euro zone disintegrate, an eventuality likely to bring down the European Union. They also know that Europe’s approach to the crisis, involving increasingly harsh austerity and larger loans, has failed miserably.

So, the best plan is to elect or install a party that is super far left, quadrupling down on failed leftist policies?

Syriza plans to fight both rising hunger and a xenophobic neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, with school lunches and food stamps. A Syriza government would seek these reforms and the salvation of the European project. And this can be only a good thing for the United States.

Golden Dawn also holds Progressive views, just not as much as Syriza.

Lord knows I’m no expert on Syriza, so let’s check with the Socialists. For one thing, it’s known as the Coalition of the Radical Left. That should be the first clue.

The other characteristic is the relationship of the organizations involved in the alliance. A number of different currents–revolutionary and reformist, Trotskyists, Maoists and Euro-communists–coexist in SYRIZA and manage to work together on the urgent tasks that face us. This clearly has a big appeal to many people and helps explain the depth of support for SYRIZA.

Syriza is the political wet dream of American Progressives. A super hard left Party made up with all the far left.

What do they want? Nationalization of all financial institutions, massive taxation of the wealthy, forcible repatriation of all overseas money, nationalization if many other business sectors, free everything, majorly decreasing their military (such as it is), forgiving much of loans, and, of course, hating on Israel and taking the side of the Palestinians and going back to pre-1967 borders. Because nothing says leftist like Israel bashing.

And this is what people at the NY Times thinks is great.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 24, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible CO2 infused beer and soda containers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Fire Andrea Mitchell, which isn’t happy that State Dept resources were used to bring James Gandolfini back to the States.

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Flashback: How Big Is Obama’s “Carbon Footprint”?

By William Teach June 24, 2013 – 11:19 am

As Obama gets set to announce all sorts of executive actions regarding, more specifically, existing coal power plants, which will artificially increase the cost of energy and cost of living for Americans, with middle and lower class citizens hit the hardest, let’s jump back to 2009 where Red, Green, and Blue calculated Obama’s carbon footprint

Due to the difficulty in obtaining specific data about the White House and the President’s travel detail, certain assumptions have been made which are documented after the main body of the article. These assumptions were kept conservative, yet realistic, and documented facts (such as airplane specifications and carbon emission factors) were used wherever possible.

An important consideration of a carbon footprint assessment is the boundaries – in other words ‘What is included?’ We have included the following items in the carbon footprint calculation:

  1. Airplane Travel (all flights associated with a Presidential trip, including official Air Force 1 and alternate Air Force 1, military cargo planes, and advance security missions)
  2. Helicopter Travel
  3. Automobile Travel
  4. White House electricity and natural gas use

We have not included the emissions related to: the Inauguration ceremony, maintenance of Camp David, maintenance of other personal property owned by the President, maintenance of the approximately 18 acres of White House grounds.

As RGandB points out, this could apply to all presidents. Yet, none of them are pushed all this “climate change” silliness like Obama. None made it a big deal during their campaigns. Anyhow, what’s the conclusion?

Using our set of assumptions*, the carbon footprint of the President is about 41,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. This is the equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of about 2200 American households. This also far exceeds the carbon footprint of any of the European leaders, largely due to the number of additional airplane trips that accompany the President when he travels to provide the necessary security for the Commander in Chief.

The average CF for Americans is 19.78 metric tons (no one has really done a big study since 2006, so that number might have dropped, especially with the recession that Obama has kept going). The world average was just under 4 tons. And here’s Obama with 41,000 tons.

Now, people will say “hey, he’s the POTUS, he has Stuff To Do!” Like taking long fossil fueled flights with all the limos and SUVs in order to give 30 minute campaign speeches. He’s made no attempt to reduce his own footprint, and has seemingly increased it tremendously.

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Rich SecState Takes Fossil Fueled Flight To India To Complain About Fossil Fuels

By William Teach June 24, 2013 – 7:35 am

If Obama wanted a Secretary of State whose primary focus was “Climate change”, he picked the right one in John Kerry, a true disciple of Gore and Mann, who cares little for science, and ignores the 15+ year pause in warming, ignores that most climate models fail, and is an utter climahypocrite

(NY Times) Secretary of State John Kerry urged India on Sunday to begin to address climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases even as it attempts to bring electricity to tens of millions of its citizens now living without it.

“I do understand and fully sympathize with the notion that India’s paramount commitment to development and eradicating poverty is essential,” Mr. Kerry said in a speech at the start of a two-day visit. “But we have to recognize that a collective failure to meet our collective climate challenge would inhibit all countries’ dreams of growth and development.”

Um, wait, what? Did he just say that fighting Hotcoldwetdry is more important than lifting people out of poverty? Yes. Yes he did.

In an effort to prod the Indians to act, Mr. Kerry warned that climate change could cause India to endure excessive heat waves, prolonged droughts, intense flooding and shortages of food and water.

India, because of their geography, has been putting up with those pretty much since the Indian plate slammed into the Asian plate.

“The worst consequences of the climate crisis will confront people who are the least able to be able to cope with them,” he said.

But, if they build a few solar farms, wind turbine farms, and crops for ethanol (all which require massive amounts of land and defoliation), poor, starving people in India might get enough power to….well, they don’t actually have any appliances to need power, because they’re really poor. But, these kinds of 1st World measures will make people like John Kerry Feel Good about themselves.

Experts said at the time that such an effort would not be successful without the participation of India, where the use of refrigeration and air-conditioning is growing rapidly.

Well, some do have AC and refrigeration, which tend to be Good Things, especially that refrigeration, which allows food to be kept longer instead of spoiling. 1st Worlders like Kerry, who already have plenty of homes with AC and fridges, aren’t happy that 2nd/3rd worlders would like the same.

Flashback: Five luxury homes, 76-foot yacht, SUV, and a private jet: John Kerry models the lifestyle of a liberal who allegedly believed James Hansen’s 1988 carbon dioxide warning

Plus all his fossil fueled vehicles.

His full speech is here. I particularly like this part

I know that India is well aware of the grave threat that this global crisis poses. Yours is already one of the most severely affected nations. And unfortunately, the worst consequences of the climate crisis will confront people who are the least able to be able to cope with them. And I emphasize the imperative for us is to act forcefully and cooperatively on climate change, not because it’s about ideology, but because it is about science. And here in India, the home of so much of the history of science, we must recognize that today the science of climate change is screaming at us for action.

Yet, he still took a long fossil fueled flight to India. A standard economy flight from DC to India puts out a bit over 2 metric tons of CO2. Anyone think Kerry flew economy class? The average “carbon footprint” in India is 1.16 metric tons. Anyone else see the hypocrisy?

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Support For Amnesty Bill Supposedly Snowballs Ahead Of Today’s Scheduled Vote

By William Teach June 24, 2013 – 7:07 am

This should really brighten up your Monday

(The Hill) Immigration reform has gotten a new burst of life as a growing number of Senate Republicans have embraced the 1,000-page-plus legislation, setting up President Obama for a big victory this week. [WATCH VIDEO]

The sudden surge in Republican support has been a pleasant surprise for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who urged the bill’s authors to focus on winning 60 votes — the minimum for passing it.

Instead, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), the leaders of the Gang of Eight, are marching toward 70 votes, a target intended to put maximum pressure on the House to act.

We know that, no matter what reservations any Democrats have, they will vote in lockstep for this bill (the original was 844 pages. The Corker-Hoeven amendment is 1187 pages. Think any, other than those opposed, read them?). They know that the legalization will begin immediately, that all the border control measures will be ignored (or discarded during the next Congress after the GOP loses the House and more Senate seats if this thing becomes law), that the illegals will surely get federal benefits no matter what the bill says, and that the Dems will agitate for voting rights for those with provisional legal status, if not for 2014, then 2016.

The question is “how many Republicans vote for this bill?”, a bill that would effectively kill the GOP. Will Rubio vote for his own turdburger? He’s already destroyed his brand with Conservatives, who, regardless of his vote, will not vote or support Rubio if he runs in 2016.

Sessions said Republican support for the Corker-Hoeven amendment could wane as senators learn more of its details.

He noted the legislation would not require the full deployment of 20,000 additional border patrol agents until 2021 and would let Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano dispense with the fence-building requirement if she judges it unnecessary.

“If people find out this amendment does not accomplish what the sponsors believe it does, I think the bill could be back in trouble again,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

It will pass, but what happens in the House afterwards? Does it even get a vote? Does it go to Committee to die? Does the House take it and seriously strengthen it? We’ll seen soon.

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Watcha Reading?

By William Teach June 23, 2013 – 6:23 pm

Finished up Lycan Fallout: Rise of the Werewolf by one of my favorite authors, Mark Tufo. Super awesome, as usual. Now I’m jonesing for the sequel. Want now!!!!!

I also mentioned I wanted to read Casino Infernale by Simon Green but wouldn’t pay $12.99 for it. Managed to get it from the library (Wake County has an incredible library system. Hey, government does do some things well). Not as good as his usual ones, but, then, his books are so good that it can be tough to keep it kicked up to 10. It was a quick read, but glad I didn’t spend the money on it. Still worth the read if you’re a Simon Green fan.

Ah, but if you think that’s the end of reading during the week (I was mostly done with Lycan Fallout at time of posting last Sunday), no! I also read Dead Drunk: Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse….One Beer At A Time by Richard Johnson. I picked it up when it was free, it’s now $4.99. It would be worth it if you like zombie books. Fun characters with lots of flaws and lots of alcohol. Fart and poop jokes. Think about what would happen if you were stuck with a bunch of friends during the zombie apocalypse. And it would be worse with a bunch of guys stuck together. With alcohol. Little food but tins of cat food. Hopefully there will be a follow up.

Aaaaaaand, yes, another book: Zombie Maelstrom by Bryan Cassiday. The 3rd book in the series, Sanctuary in Steel was free, but had to get the 1st to get it all going. So far so good. I like the way it progresses and though the character development is light, it has that “this can happen feel”.

Also, as I’ve mentioned for the past few weeks, I’ve also been slowly reading The Mad, Mad, Mad World Of Climatism. I finally finished it, and will provide a longer review/synopsis on my next day off, so as not to rush it, but, let me say that this should be the one book that every Warmist, and those on the fences, should read. Heck, even if you do not buy into “climate change”, you should read it. The facts and figures, along with the history, of “climate change” is put in an excellent format that anyone can easily understand. I should finish it this week, not that much left. You should buy it.

Unfortunately, didn’t find time to do a good review of it, off Thursday and Friday, spent the days at the beach. Hence, one of the reasons I read so much.

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