Skynet, Er, Artificial Intelligence, Could Now Be The Savior For Climate Doom

By William Teach December 18, 2023 – 3:43 pm

We’ve gone from AI being Bad for ‘climate change’ to being a savior

AI could be humanity’s last chance to meet climate goals. Here’s why

The world must dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to meet Paris Agreement goals. Yet based on current trajectories, emissions are set to rise by 10% over the next eight years. This will only accelerate widespread droughts, flooding, extreme heat, and other devastating impacts across the globe.

Against this challenging backdrop, it is clear that acceleration is needed across all fronts of climate action. One of those opportunities lies in artificial intelligence (AI). Research shows that by scaling currently proven applications and technology, AI could mitigate 5 to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030–the equivalent of the total annual emissions of the European Union. For the first time, AI was highlighted at COP28 as one of the key potential solutions to tackle climate change, with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announcing the AI Innovation Grand Challenge at the conference to identify and support the development of AI-powered solutions for climate action in developing countries.

Reversing the emissions trajectory will take everyone involved–government officials, business leaders, and technologists–all rowing the boat in the same direction. Policymakers have a central role to play, with three critical priority areas that will allow AI to contribute to its full potential.

Here’s a suggestion: all the Believers should make their own lives carbon neutral and leave the rest out of their cult games.

First, policies must enable AI innovation and adoption for climate-positive applications. Data sharing frameworks, investment in research, affordable technology access, and education initiatives are needed to drive development and deployment. Government has a key role to play as an end-user. In the absence of clear community, national, or sector-specific objectives for climate action, AI-driven innovation could go off in disjointed directions. Resource allocation would be inefficient. Establishing priority innovation domains where AI could most immediately and effectively advance climate action–such as leveraging AI for flood-resilient farming, climate change adaptation, and accelerating the energy transition–can unlock resources and focus minds.

Second, policymakers should accelerate AI’s climate impact by prioritizing high-potential use cases and embedding efficiency and optimization requirements into industrial regulation. Existing processes and legacy infrastructure in high-emission sectors like aviation, manufacturing, electricity production, and construction, could be more immediately optimized with AI, not just with wholesale reconstruction, which could be costly and take too much time. Long-term transformative investments still need to be made, but more immediate impact should be encouraged.

Is anyone else getting a creepy “put the computers in charge” vibe?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 18, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible high energy usage ferris wheel, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on the difference between Florida and DC on auto theft.

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Even Though There’s No Migrant Crisis, Biden Regime Closes Two Bridges

By William Teach December 18, 2023 – 10:30 am

It’s strange, because we’ve been told that there is no crisis

US closes two rail bridges to Mexico amid migrant surge

U.S. border officials on Sunday closed two rail bridges that move freight between Texas and Mexico after detecting a surge in the smuggling of migrants through Mexico by train.

The move by U.S. Customs and Border Protection was the latest in a series of similar closures along the border in order to redeploy enforcement resources elsewhere in response to large numbers of migrants.

The international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso were closed “in order to redirect personnel to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody,” CBP said in a statement.

“After observing a recent resurgence of smuggling organizations moving migrants through Mexico via freight trains, CBP is taking additional actions to surge personnel and address this concerning development, including in partnership with Mexican authorities,” the statement said.

CBP has imposed similar temporary closures in recent weeks, shutting the Lukeville port of entry in Arizona, a pedestrian entrance in San Diego, and a vehicle crossing in Eagle Pass.

One big problem here is “what did they do with the illegals? Did they put them back across the border, or put them in detainment, which will result in them being released into the U.S. while awaiting their hearing?”

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Climate Cultists Hold Nativity Themed Protest In London

By William Teach December 18, 2023 – 7:00 am

These supposed Christians really should check out the 1st Commandment

Nativity-themed climate protest in National Gallery

Five Christian women held a Nativity-themed climate change protest inside the National Gallery in London on Friday. The members of Christian Climate Action stood in front of a 15th-century Filippino Lippi painting of the Virgin and Child which depicts Mary seated in a landscape feeding Jesus. They held a poster of the painting altered to show a climate-ravaged landscape and handed out postcards with this image and some facts about the impact of the climate crisis on the world’s children.

The women, all members of Christian Climate Action, began their protest by singing Silent Night with altered words. They then spoke for the world’s children as victims of war and climate injustice and held a silent, prayerful presence. They didn’t touch the actual painting.

Sue Hampton, 67, a Quaker, writer, mother and grandmother, said: “As Christians we celebrate the birth of Jesus, born in poverty as a refugee, to show us the way of love and peace, and justice which is love in action. Christmas is still for the children. But today, world leaders are failing them. Babies born in the Global South still waiting for climate reparations and most at risk of unliveable heat, hunger, drought, flooding and displacement. The altered image we held beside Lippi’s painting shows the terrifying reality children face. Sentiment, tradition and festivity won’t save us. The science is clear that new gas, oil or coal will accelerate climate breakdown. We can’t serve God unless we serve that truth, unless we work for life, justice and peace – with love.”

Funny how they always call for Government to force citizens to live a certain way, but, never call for all their fellow cultists to practice what they preach

Petroleum based clothes, phones, eyeglasses, shoes, the banner itself.

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Majority Of American Youts Think Israel Should Be Handed To Hamas

By William Teach December 18, 2023 – 6:45 am

You know how the Credentialed Media tells us that “from the river to the sea” doesn’t mean ending Israel and replacing it with a Palestinian Islamist caliphate? Yeah, about that

Majority of Americans 18-24 think Israel should ‘be ended and given to Hamas’

A majority of young Americans said they believe Israel should “be ended and given to Hamas,” according to a shocking poll.

The survey, conducted THIS WEEK by Harvard-Harris polling, found 51% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 said they believed the long-term answer to the Israel-Palestinian conflict was for “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.”

Only 32% said they believed in a two-state solution, and just 17% said other Arab states should be asked to absorb Palestinian populations.

The figure was in stark contrast to other age groups, which all dramatically preferred a two-state solution. Just 4% of Americans 65 and over said they felt Israel should be ended.

“These individuals siding with evil over democracy should be a wake-up call,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) told The Post. “Ideological rot among young Americans, driven by woke values and victim culture, has gotten so bad they’ve convinced themselves to sympathize with actual terrorists who hate America,”

And where did they learn this? Primarily the Democratic Party run schools, followed by leftist parents and social media.

A full 60% of the same demographic said Hamas’ Oct 7 terrorist attack could be “justified by the grievance of Palestinians” — a position held by just 27% of Americans overall.

A full 67% of 18-24 year olds said they believed Jews “should be treated as oppressors” — a position which 73% of Americans disagreed with and called a “false ideology.”

And older Democrats wonder just how all those young folks came to be marching in support of Hamas and assaulting Jews on campus. The media wonders why there is so much Jew hatred. They try and tell us that condemnation of Israel doesn’t equate to Jew hatred. The plan of the Muslim Brotherhood to turn the West against Israel and Jews (as well as submitting to the needs of the Islamists) is working just fine.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 17, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a river which will soon flood its banks due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The OK Corral, with a post on a dummy shooting her friend jokingly.

It’s short shorts week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinp

By William Teach December 17, 2023 – 9:32 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. Getting some much needed rain again, the NJ Devils are doing well, and Christmas is fast approaching. Not quite sure who did this pinup, someone named Dillon, maybe?

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Irons In the Fire discusses what feminism has become
  2. IOTW Report covers fatties flying free on Southwest
  3. Geller Report notes a student arrested for stoning a Jewish student
  4. Flag And Cross features a gingerbread man wandering around town
  5. Da Techguy’s Blog says we no longer have common decency
  6. Cold Fury notes they are desperately trying to get Trump locked up
  7. Chicks On The Right covers DeSantis accusing Trump of flip-flopping on abortion
  8. Bustednuckles discusses Trump being an extinction level event
  9. Watts Up With That? goes down memory lane with all the COPs since 2007
  10. Not A Lot Of People Know That covers how much will be wasted on hydrogen factories
  11. Greenie Watch notes Himalayan glaciers cooling down
  12. Victory Girls Blog covers the gay sex in the Senate incident
  13. This ain’t Hell... discusses a Navy vet toppling and beheading a statue
  14. The Right Scoop notes NBC News’ horrible piece on the Dem staffer caught having sex in the Senate
  15. And last, but, not least, The Other McCain notes the death of John Hoge, who I always feature in the below part of the pinup posts

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). 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 and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Trump: Illegals Are “poisoning the blood of our country”

By William Teach December 17, 2023 – 7:00 am

I mean, he’s not entirely wrong, but, this is the kind of incendiary language that turns middle ground voters off and even drives them into the arms of Let’s Go Brandon

Trump reiterates anti-immigrant rhetoric at New Hampshire rally

Former President Donald Trump doubled down on language condemned for its ties to White supremacist rhetoric, saying at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Saturday that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Obviously, CNN won’t say that Trump was specifically talking about illegal aliens, not legal aliens. Though, some of them are issues, such as all the Islamists up in Minnesota

The comments mark another instance of Trump using increasingly violent rhetoric in his campaign messaging. At his most recent campaign event in New Hampshire prior to his appearance Saturday, Trump used the word “vermin” to describe his political rivals, drawing broad condemnation, including from President Joe Biden, who likened his comments to “language you heard in Nazi Germany.”

What’s violent about calling them “vermin”? These are journalists, people who know words. Nothing violent

Trump told a crowd gathered in Durham, New Hampshire, on Saturday that immigrants “from all over the world” are “pouring into the country,” reiterating a phrase he used previously that sparked outcry from the Anti-Defamation League.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done,” Trump said. “They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America … but all over the world. They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”

Again, he’s not wrong. There are people coming illegally from all over the world, crossing the border, people who demand everything from America but give nothing and refuse to assimilate.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of the former president’s GOP rivals, said later Saturday that he hadn’t heard Trump’s comments in New Hampshire about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” instead reiterating the “huge risk” that people who cross the border illegally pose to Americans, especially “military-aged males.”

“We have to be smart about what we’re doing in this country,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Corydon, Iowa, when asked whether he believes this type of rhetoric should be used by someone who wants to lead the United States.

That’s a much better way of putting it, but, unfortunately, Ron’s going nowhere. Trump learned nothing from the 2020 loss nor anything since that loss. All it takes is losing a couple states that he should win and Biden is president again. Which would most likely mean losing the House and having no shot at the Senate.

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Brandon Regime Takes Action To Force Federal Workers To Take Trains And EVs

By William Teach December 16, 2023 – 4:36 pm

Of course, this only applies to the rank and file workers, not people like Joe, Kamala, his chief of staff, KJP, heads of federal agencies

White House takes action to force government workers to travel via electric vehicle, rail

The White House issued new guidance requiring federal government employees to prioritize using electric vehicles (EV), trains and public transportation options when conducting official business.

The actions, which the White House said fulfilled President Biden’s promise to “lead by example” on tackling climate change, seek to take advantage of the federal government’s annual business travel purchasing power of $2.8 billion and status as the nation’s largest employer. Overall, government employees on official business took more than 2.8 million flights, made 2.3 million vehicle rentals and took 33,000 rail trips last year.

Well, Amtrak is certainly available when Joe goes to Delaware, right? Or take an EV? No need for jumbo jets, fighter protection, helicopters. Well any freaking reporter ask him (no point in asking KJP, she answers zero questions) why he doesn’t travel by rail or EV?

Under the guidance, government employees must rent an EV on official travel when the cost of the EV is less than or equal to the most affordable comparable gas-powered vehicle available. Additionally, employees must opt for EVs when using taxis and ride-share platforms when they are cost-competitive.

Sure seems like federal employees are taking a whole lot of unnecessary travel on the taxpayer dime, eh?

In addition, employees must only use rail on trips that require less than 250 miles of travel instead of driving or flying. For local travel, employees will be required to use public transportation, a rule that includes travel upon arriving at an offsite location.

It’s 123 miles to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Will Joe be taking an EV? Or is practicing what you demand only for the Little People?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 16, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a right supremacist symbol, used by people who deny ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Sir Isaac Newton now being an Indian.

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