Warmist Worries About Coral Which Apparently Thrives In Cold Water

By William Teach January 22, 2013 – 11:08 am

We’re all doomed if temps rise a simple 2 degrees Celsius, says Thomas Lovejoy, who’s apparently never read anything about coral

(NY Times) It is abundantly clear that the target of a 2-degree Celsius limit to climate change was mostly derived from what seemed convenient and doable without any reference to what it really means environmentally. Two degrees is actually too much for ecosystems. Tropical coral reefs are extremely vulnerable to even brief periods of warming. The elevated atmospheric CO2 also has raised the acidity of the oceans, which affects the ability of coral and mollusks such as oysters to build shells and skeletons. A 2-degree world will be one without coral reefs (on which millions of human beings depend for their well-being).

The acidity alarmist has been debunked. And corals and mollusks thrive in warm water, particularly the coral. They are a warm water species which evolved when the Earth and the oceans were much, much warmer. How do these Warmists think many coral based islands were formed? The sea levels where much higher and the water much warmer…why do I bother? These climate astrologers are bat shit insane with no knowledge of science nor history.

At current global warming of 0.8-0.9 degrees, the fingerprints of climate change can be seen virtually everywhere in nature. The coniferous forests of western North America are currently experiencing massive tree mortality because climate change has tipped the balance in favor of native bark beetles. The Amazon seems to be edging close to dieback in the southern and southeastern portions of the great forest.

The bark beetles have been debunked, as well. And nature changes. It did during all the previous cool and warm periods during this inter-glacial. I wonder how the forests did during the last ice age? And the hot periods beforehand? This is alarmism for alarmism sake, with no mention that perhaps Warmists should practice what they preach.

Unsurprisingly, the Times refused to allow comments on the op-ed, probably because Warmists get beaten like rented mules when comments are allowed.

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Strange: Most Gun Violence Occurs In Liberal Hotbeds

By William Teach January 22, 2013 – 9:22 am

Starting off with a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, providing an uncomfortable truth

The fact that President Obama’s second inauguration was held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is ripe with symbolism. But our nation’s first black president has done too little to champion the social equality at the core of King’s message. We remain a wealthy nation marred by poverty and violence, which disproportionately affect the black community. Mr. Obama’s recent gun proposals, hailed by many as a bold move, once again skirt the real problems we face. The president was galvanized into action by a massacre in a white, middle-class, suburban community. In reality, more than half of gun homicide victims in 2010 were black, while blacks compose just 13 percent of our population. Four U.S. cities rank among the top 50 worldwide in murder rates.

And just how bad are the big cities, which tend to be liberal? Here’s the Atlantic, with a spiffy map that compares the rate of gun murders to foreign countries and finds

  • If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
  • Detroit’s gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
  • Baltimore’s rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
  • Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
  • Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
  • Atlanta’s rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
  • Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).
  • Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).
  • Houston’s rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador’s (12.7).
  • Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).
  • Phoenix’s rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).
  • Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).
  • Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).
  • New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).
  • Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia respectively.

Strange. All those places tend to be hives of Progressive ideals. Even big cities like Houston and Phoenix tend to lean left. Perhaps we should simply restrict those who vote Democrat from owning guns. Oh, wait, in most of those areas they are restricted, along with everyone else. Except criminals.

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Obama Goes Climate Astrologist During Coronation

By William Teach January 22, 2013 – 9:02 am

Many Progressives and Warmists (who are primarily one and the same) were thrilled by the mention of “climate change”, an unscientific term for an unscientific crowd. As Grist notes

His second inaugural address was strong in its embrace of progressive values — gay rights, addressing poverty, opposing gun violence, stopping voting restrictions.

Plus saying we shouldn’t insult other people with different values right before insulting people with different values.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries — we must claim its promise. That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure — our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

Interesting. Obligations. Like increasing the national debt by well over 6 trillion in 4 years? Spending beyond belief, polarizing the country, starting the country down the path to national healthcare, which the majority are against.

The mention of “overwhelming judgement of science” is cute. Too bad for the Warmists that consensus is not science. And Obama’s sustainable power push was a miserable failure of political payback. Preserving our planet? It’ll still be here, just like it was through much of history when the temperatures were much warmer. Then there’s the mention of God. Cute.

James Delingpole fisks the comment, starting with the part that goes “We will respond…”

The first sentence is a blatant untruth. Concerted global action so far to deal with the threat of climate change has resulted in: higher energy prices; more deaths from fuel poverty; more intrusive regulation; the destruction of rainforests and the squandering of agricultural land on biofuels; higher food prices; famine and food riots – as a result partly of the drive for biofuels; the entrenchment of corporatism and rent-seeking to the detriment of free markets; the ravaging of the countryside with ugly solar farms and even uglier wind turbines; the deaths of millions of birds and bats; the great recession. How any of this has in any way benefited either our children (who are going to find it far harder to find a job) or future generations is a complete mystery.

He continues on, discussing what he calls “Obama’s declaration of war on reality”.

Amy Ridenour points out that the “deny” part is simply an insult aimed at those who do not buy into hotcoldwetdry. Considering that the 2nd inauguration had a massive “carbon footprint”, she’s right. And Obama supporters left trash everywhere, including planet killing water bottles.

Let’s end this by heading back to Grist

Two different messages at two not-very-different moments. Which fight we see, only time will tell — and could hinge on who shows up for the fight.

Philip Bump is referring to what Obama said in November, which was about not bothering with “climate change”. Even Warmists aren’t buying what Obama is selling.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Gore Highlights Cold In China And Russia To Push “Dirty Weather”

By William Teach January 21, 2013 – 3:04 pm

Shameless

That link goes to his own blog

Extreme weather is the new norm:

“Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace.

Especially lately. China is enduring its coldest winter in nearly 30 years. Brazil is in the grip of a dreadful heat spell. Eastern Russia is so freezing — minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting — that the traffic lights recently stopped working in the city of Yakutsk.”

I like this response

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 21, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a flooded drought world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Joshuapundit, with a debate on the state of today’s race relations.

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Why, No, Democrats Haven’t Given Up On Raising Taxes

By William Teach January 21, 2013 – 11:00 am

They’re intent on further destroying America’s economy

(Washington Post) Senate Democrats plan to draft a budget blueprint that calls for significantly higher taxes on the wealthy, oil and gas companies and corporations doing business overseas, reopening a battle over taxes Republicans had hoped to lay to rest with the “fiscal cliff.”

Raise taxes on corporations and those companies will pass the costs on to the consumers. It’ll also drive corporations and wealthy out of the country, removing more wealth from the nation. Democrats do not care, as they want money to continue being Big Daddy Government.

For nearly four years, Senate leaders have ducked their legal duty to craft a comprehensive budget framework. Now, however, Democrats see the budget process as “a great opportunity” to pursue additional tax increases — and to create a fast-track process to push them through the Senate, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

On the bright side, there really is little chance there will actually be a budget brought forth. While it could be passed without Republican votes, Harry Reid has never had enough Democrat votes to pass one previously, so hasn’t bothered bringing a budget to the floor.

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Bummer: Researchers Puzzled Why Globull Warming At A Standstill

By William Teach January 21, 2013 – 9:03 am

Der Spiegel is breaking the silence about the reality of global warming. Perhaps they are confused about warming considering that 4 of the last 5 winters have been very harsh. The Global Warming Policy Foundation provides a translation

Flowers are blooming earlier, sea level is rising – no doubt the climate is changing. The last year, as reported by NASA, was the ninth warmest since measurements began 132 years ago. The past decade was the warmest in this period.

But it has become common knowledge for some time that the climate has recently developed differently than predicted. The warming has stalled for 15 years; the upward trend in the average global temperature has not continued since 1998 (sic). “The standstill has led to the suggestion that global warming has stopped,” NASA admit.

The British Met Office has recently forecast that the warming standstill could continue until the end of 2017 – despite the rapid increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Then global warming would have stalled for 20 years. How many years – goes a now common question – has the temperature standstill to last until climate scientists start to reconsider their forecasts of future warming?

Scientists previously thought 14 years without further warming could be brought into line with their forecasts – but not “15 years or more,” as NASA scientists stated four years ago in the journal “Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society”. In an email to colleagues a renowned scientist wrote on 7 May 2009, at a time when the warming standstill had already lasted for eleven years: “the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.”

Now, 15 years without warming has happened. The warming standstill of the global surface temperature shows that the uncertainties of climate predictions are surprisingly large. The interested public anxiously awaits whether the IPCC’s new Assessment Report, which is due in September, will address the warming pause – the discussions are ongoing in Australia’s Hobart. The researchers are discussing several cogent reasons that might have slowed the upward trend of temperatures.

The climate astrologers are desperately searching for a reason behind the standstill, things like the ocean magically absorbing the missing heat, a dry stratosphere, exhaust gases in Asia, and cold water flood in the Pacific, anything to find a way to continue blaming Mankind’s output of CO2, instead of actually investigating the reality, namely that the primary driver of climate is the Sun, along with other natural forces. Though Warmists do, humorously, attempt now and then to say that natural processes are causing the standstill which masks the anthropogenic causes. The thought that the warming since the Little Ice Age could be mostly or solely natural never crosses their minds.

Of course, since Warmists call it “climate change” they are set up to blame this standstill on Mankind, just like they blame snow and cold on greenhouse gases.

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School Brands 5 Year Old Terrorist Over Bubble Blower

By William Teach January 21, 2013 – 8:30 am

We’ve already witnessed two 6 year olds suspended for playing cops and robbers, making gun hands (fortunately they weren’t playing cowboys and Indians, they would have been branded raaaaacists, too). Now we have this hysteria

(ABC) A 5-year-old girl was suspended from school earlier this week after she made what the school called a “terrorist threat.”

Her weapon of choice? A small, Hello Kitty automatic bubble blower.

The kindergartner, who attends Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in Pennsylvania, caught administrators’ attention after suggesting she and a classmate should shoot each other with bubbles.

I wonder if Piers Morgan will go on an epic rant telling us of the danger from bubble blowers?

The parents are having a tough time find the snowflake another school because of how she was suspended. Think this will mess with her self esteem?

The Mount Carmel Area School District told ABC News, “We are confident that much of the information supplied to the media may not be consistent with the facts… The Mount Carmel Area School District takes the well-being and safety of students and staff very seriously.”

Obviously we wouldn’t want to harm someone with a bubble from a scary looking bubble shooter!

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 20, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful planet healing bike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Just One Minute, with a post about the NY Times catching up on the Arab Spring reality

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 20, 2013 – 10:42 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. Not a clue who did this pinup, which I added a wee bit to. If anyone knows, drop me a line.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Legal Insurrection recommends banning rock concerts to save just one life
  2. Soopermexican discusses gun appreciation day
  3. Phineas (Sister Toldjah) says media bias? What media bias?
  4. The Looking Spoon wonders what letters from Conservative kids would look like
  5. Steven Goddard highlights the latest Al Qaeda weapon
  6. Over at Watts Up With That? we see that Al Gore is losing his climate bet
  7. Zilla has the Zilla Awards, Part 2
  8. Right Newz has Biden’s latest gaffe
  9. The People’s Cube wants you to celebrate Obama’s coronation
  10. The Other McCain notes that gun grabbers are now targeting Blue Dogs
  11. The Lonely Conservative has Newsweek’s latest Obama worship cover
  12. Allergic To Bull discusses Time Warner no longer showing ads with guns
  13. Bookworm Room discusses leftist indoctrination of children
  14. Gay Patriot covers Obama’s soaring rhetoric
  15. And last, but not least, Jammie Wearing Fools notices that a company is firing Obama supporters to save for ObamaCare
  16. And one to grow on: Victory Girls discusses the value of a conspiracy theory

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

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